Christian Lorenzen Rothgiesser (? -1659), German engraver in Husum. The Moscow Kremlin, illustration from Adam Olearius' famous ''Muscovite and Persian Journey'' (Schleswig 1647). One of the oldest and possibly the first authentic representation of Moscow's center. In front of the Kremlin, look at the Holstein-Gottorf embassy, ??which from 1634-1639 tried in vain to divert trade with the Orient, avoiding the Mediterranean route via Russia and the Baltic Sea to Northern Germany, a procession that leaves the Kremlin under the leadership of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich. The Husum copper engraver Rothgießer was a member of the legation. Cracks on the lower edge backed with an old backing, approx. 18 x 32.5 cm, behind glass u. Pp. Ger. 36 x 46 cm