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3 unusual facts about Jerome Bowes


Bogdan Belsky

The tsar would entrust him his intimate affairs, such as inquiries about his potential fiancée Mary Hastings (1581), and negotiations with Jerome Bowes, the English ambassador, about the tsar's possible marriage with this lady (1583–1584).

Feodor I of Russia

Feodor declared his kingdom open to all foreigners, and dismissed the English ambassador Sir Jerome Bowes, whose pomposity had been tolerated by Feodor's father.

Jerome Bowes

Alfred Nicolas Rambaud, in his History of Russia, blamed Bowes for clumsiness and lack of tact.



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