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About Russia - the homeland of elephants is not even funny. But about the homeland of crocodiles, everything is not so simple. Quite reliable written sources allow us to assert that almost until the end of the 19th century, crocodiles were found in the west of our country. Not to say that everywhere, but still, as they say, they were noticed
We read the famous notes of the Englishman Jerome Horsey, dating from the end of the 16th century. In 1589 he once again went to Russia. It should be borne in mind that 100% of foreigners visiting Russia, and Russia later, were not only merchants or ambassadors according to documents, but also foreign agents.
Spies, to put it simply. Either the papal see, or some European monarch. And their notes are a kind of reports to the center. So this is what this Horsey writes. (I quote from: Jerome Horsey. Notes on Russia. 16th - early 17th century. M.: Moscow State University Publishing House, 1990.)
There are still a lot of idolaters there, who feed at home, as it were, Penates, some kind of snake with four short legs, like lizards with a black and fat body …
Reptiles tore with spears
“I left Warsaw in the evening, crossed the river, where a poisonous dead crocodile, crocodileserpent, lay on the bank, and my men tore its belly with spears. At the same time, such a stench spread that I was poisoned by it and lay sick in the nearest village, where I received such sympathy and Christian help for me, a foreigner, that I recovered miraculously."
That is, in the area of modern Belarus, in western Russia, this experienced agent, a high-ranking employee of an English trading company, who has traveled to Russia more than once and knew the area well, discovers an unknown animal.
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