The paper offers the materials of Lazar Baranovych’s embassy to Moscow in
1684. This is the first publication of the documents. They include three letters of
Baranovych to tsars Ivan and Peter Alekseyevich, the regent Sophia Alekseyevna
and Prince Vasilii Vasil’evich Golitsyn; their replies; records of expenditures, and
the record of a court case about the robbery of the envoys. The letters mostly
concern themselves with books that Baranovych’s envoys brought to Moscow
and some favors that the archbishop expected in return. The material informs
us about the circulation of books in the early 1680, diplomatic gift-giving and
networking. The documents also serve as a fine example of office administration
concerning Moscow-Ukrainian relations.