Abstract
The 4 of January [sic], which was Twelftide with them, the Emperour [Ivan Groznyi] with his brother and all his nobles, all most richly apparelled with gold, pearls, precious stones and costly furres, with a crown upon his head of Tartarian fashion, went to the Church in procession with the Metropolitan [Makarii], and divers bishops and priests . .. then he came out of the church, and went with the procession upon the river, being all frozen, and there standing bareheaded, with all his nobles; there was a hole in the ice, and the Metropolitan hallowed the waters with great solemnitie and service, and did cast of the said water upon the Emperour's sonne and the Nobilitie.
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