Compare: March, G. Patrick (1996). "3: Ivan IV and the Muscovite Drang nach Osten". Eastern Destiny: Russia in Asia and the North Pacific. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers. p. 26. ISBN9780275956486. Retrieved 2017-02-08. It was in pursuit of a northeast passage that the English under the leadership of Richard Chancellor arrived in Kholmogory in 1553.