“The earliest illustrated Livonian War pamphlet – “Sehr grewliche, erschröckliche, vor unerhörte, warhafftige Newe Zeitung was für grausame Tyrannei der Moscoviter …” which translates into English as‘Very gruesome, shocking, unheard-of true new tidings of the cruel tyranny of the Muscovites committed against the Christian prisoners abducted from Livonia, both men and women, virgins, and small … Continue reading German leaflet of 1561 depicting Russian/Muscovite war atrocities in the area of present-day Latvia and Estonia