MUSCOVITE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Muscovite

... talked quite as much as the old man, giving me the history of their emigration from the Caucasus to escape the yoke of the accursed Muscovite, and enumerating all the troubles which attended ...

— Oriental Encounters - Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 • Marmaduke Pickthall

... relations with the various Western powers. She then realized that European art and science were indispensable to her, if only to strengthen her in warfare against these States. For this reason a number of European ideas began to come into Russia during the reigns of the last Muscovite sovereigns. But they assumed a somewhat sacerdotal character in passing through the filter of Polish society, and took on, so to speak, a dogmatic air. In general, European influence was not accepted in Russia except with extreme repugnance and restless circumspection, ...

— Contemporary Russian Novelists • Serge Persky