Adam Olearius (1633-35, 1635-39, 1643)

From the Silk Road site
(http://www.silk-road.com/artl/srtravelbib.html):

Primary sources:

Samuel H. Baron, tr. and ed., The Travels of Olearius in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Stanford, 1967). "Abridged but supersedes the 17th-century English edition for the Russian part of the journey. Does not include Persian section." (http://www.silk-road.com/artl/srtravelbib.html)

Adam Olearius, The voyages and Travels of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the Grand Duke of Muscovy and to the King of Persia. Tr. by John Davies (London, 1662). "Baron notes that while this translation 'did preserve the sense of most of the passages,' the translator took many liberties with the text, transposing material, adding things, and often introducing inaccuracies. The online excerpt taken from the English edition published in the 1660s is available." (http://www.silk-road.com/artl/srtravelbib.html)

Adam Olearius, Vermehrte Newe Beschreibung Der Muscowitischen und Persischen Reyse. Ed. by Dieter Lohmeier (Tübingen, 1971; facsimile of Schleswig, 1656, ed.)

Secondary sources:

Baron, The Travels, Preface and Introduction.

Charles J. Halperin, "In the Eye of the Beholder: Two Views of Seventeenth-Century Muscovy," Russian History, 24/4 (1997), 409-423. "Thoughtful comparison of Olearius' view of Muscovy with that by Deacon Paul of Aleppo, who accompanied the Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch to Moscow in the 1650s." (http://www.silk-road.com/artl/srtravelbib.html)