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Died no earlier than 1540. Russian statesman and diplomat. Son of F. V. Kuritsyn.Kuritsyn became a d’iak. (high-ranking secretary) in 1520 and was a close associate of Vasilii III. He frequently participated in diplomatic negotiations with the Polish-Lithuanian state and Kazan Khanate, heading embassies to Kazan in 1525 and 1531. In 1533, Kuritsyn was among those present at the deathbed of ...

Died no earlier than 1540. Russian statesman and diplomat. Son of F. V. Kuritsyn.Kuritsyn became a d’iak. (high-ranking secretary) in 1520 and was a close associate of Vasilii III. He frequently participated in diplomatic negotiations with the Polish-Lithuanian state and Kazan Khanate, heading embassies to Kazan in 1525 and 1531. In 1533, Kuritsyn was among those present at the deathbed of ...

Died no earlier than 1540. Russian statesman and diplomat. Son of F. V. Kuritsyn.Kuritsyn became a d’iak. (high-ranking secretary) in 1520 and was a close associate of Vasilii III. He frequently participated in diplomatic negotiations with the Polish-Lithuanian state and Kazan Khanate, heading embassies to Kazan in 1525 and 1531. In 1533, Kuritsyn was among those present at the deathbed of ...

Died no earlier than 1540. Russian statesman and diplomat. Son of F. V. Kuritsyn.Kuritsyn became a d’iak. (high-ranking secretary) in 1520 and was a close associate of Vasilii III. He frequently participated in diplomatic negotiations with the Polish-Lithuanian state and Kazan Khanate, heading embassies to Kazan in 1525 and 1531. In 1533, Kuritsyn was among those present at the deathbed of ...

Born 1480; died 1539. Italian engineer and scientist.Biringuccio studied mining and metallurgy in Italy, Bohemia, and Austria for many years. His work On Pyrotechnics, devoted to mining, metallurgy, pottery, and other technological problems, was published in Venice in 1540. It was the technical encyclopedia of its time.REFERENCETobler, A. “Vanoccio Biringuccios Pirotechnia von 1540 und Georg ...