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Oct 07, 1586 Haarlem, County of Holland, Netherlands Died on 01 Jan 1643 (aged 56)
Dutch grain trader, traveller and diplomat
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About Isaac Massa
- Isaac Abrahamszoon Massa (baptized October 7, 1586, in Haarlem, died 1643) was a Dutch grain trader, traveller and diplomat, the envoy to Muscovy.
- He wrote memoirs related to the Time of Troubles and created some of the earliest maps of Eastern Europe and Siberia.
- Due to Massa's experience in and knowledge of Muscovy, he was valued by the Dutch States-General as a counterweight to growing English influence in Muscovy in the early seventeenth century.
- The Isaac Massa Foundation was established in his honor in Groningen.
- It aims to stimulate scientific and cultural contacts between the Russian Federation and the Netherlands.
