Feasting and Fasting in Moscow: Peace Negotiation Between Poland-Lithuania and Muscovy as Seen Th rough Eating and Drinking Customs
Author(s)
Ewelina Sikora
Date Issued
2021
Type
article
Volume
4
Start Page
157
End Page
169
Journal
Abstract
In 1678, a grand embassy headed by voivode of Wołyń (Volhynia) Michał Jerzy Czartoryski and voivode of Połock (Polatsk) Kazimierz Jan Sapieha set out to negotiate with Feodor III. At that time, the relations between Poland-Lithuania and Muscovy were tense. The thirteen-year truce was about to end, talks dragged on, and friendship declarations were punctuated with threats.
By following the Polish-Lithuanian grand embassy of 1678 to Muscovy, as described in Legatio Polono-Lithuanica by Bernard Tanner, the article examines practices of diplomacy, paying attention to one particular aspect of embassies’ material surrounding, that is food and drink. The goal is not to simply join the feast of the protagonists but to explore a wide range of problems – including those that would otherwise go unnoticed while focusing solely on high politics – to sketch a more detailed image of Polish-Lithuanian diplomacy in the seventeenth century.
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