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Learn about the first English trading company chartered in 1555, which monopolized trade between England and Russia until 1698. Discover its history, seal, founders, and current status as a charity.
Muscovy Company, body of English merchants trading with Russia. The company was formed in 1555 by the navigator and explorer Sebastian Cabot and various London merchants and was granted a monopoly of Anglo-Russian trade.
Jul 25, 2021 · The Company of Merchant Adventurers, later became known as the Muscovy Company, was the first major chartered joint-stock company in history, paving the way for companies such as the East India Company to emerge.
The Muscovy Company (also called the Russia Company or the Muscovy Trading Company; Russian: Московская компания, romanized: Moskovskaya kompaniya) was an English trading company chartered in 1555.
May 8, 2018 · Learn about the Russia Company, also known as the Muscovy Company, the first joint-stock company in England. Find out how it traded with Russia, introduced a new water route, and faced Dutch competition and tsarist hostility.
May 18, 2018 · Muscovy Company (mŭs´kəvē) or Russia Company [1], first major English joint-stock trading company. It began in 1553 as a group supporting exploration of a possible northeast passage to Asia.
The Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands was an early joint stock association, which began with private exploration and enterprise, and was to have been incorporated by King Edward VI in 1553, but received its full royal charter in 1555.
