Excerpt from the book...The first relations between England and Russia were established inQueen Elizabeth's reign, in the manner here set forth, by theexpedition undertaken by Sir Hugh Willoughby and completed byRichard Chanceler or Chancellor, captain of the Edward Bonaventure.Chanceler went on after Willoughby and the crew of his ship, TheAdmiral, with the crew of another vessel in the expedition, had beenparted from Chanceler in a storm in the North Sea, and Willoughby'smen were all frozen to death. A few men belonging to the other shipwere believed to have found their way back to England. The story ofChanceler's voyage and the following endeavours to open Muscovy toEnglish trade is here given, as it was told in Hakluyt's collectionof "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries made by theEnglish Nation," the folio published in 1589.