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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.
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. It was the first English joint-stock company in which the capital remained.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
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.
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.
Learn about the first major English joint-stock trading company that explored a possible northeast passage to Asia and traded with Russia. Find out its history, monopoly, expeditions, and demise.
Learn about the Muscovy Company, the first English company to trade with Russia, and its seal with the motto 'God gives us our reward'. See the image of the seal-die from the British Museum and the story of its founder Richard Chancellor.
