Tales of foreigners - under this name in Russian historical literature are known notes, diaries, reports, notes, letters of a private and official nature, etc., of foreigners, compiled on the basis of their own observations or from the stories of other people who have visited Russia.As historical material, Tales of Foreigners occupy a prominent place in the database of sources about medieval and post-medieval Russia.Especially important are the evidence of foreigners relating to the early period of Russian history. The poverty of the content of Russian life of that time and the poor development of information culture were reflected in fragmentary, and sometimes in the absence of data to characterize this time.Until the second half of the XVII table. Almost no Russian work is known that would paint a general picture of the state of the then society. This gap is filled to a certain extent with notes of foreigners.Compiled by Victor Garmash.