“I lived there for more than 9 months, but I did not hear of a single criminal offense; no one acted contrary to the laws, no one made any denunciations or gossip to harm the enemy,” wrote the Polish ambassador to Crimea, Martin Broniowski, in 1578. Broniowski was one of the first Europeans to write about the Crimean Khanate firsthand. He went to the Crimean Khan Mehmed I Giray on the instructions of the Polish king Stefan Batory. Broniowski made a significant contribution to the conclusion of the peace treaty between the Crimean Khanate and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and compiled a detailed “Description of Tataria” (Tartariae descriptio) – an invaluable source of knowledge about the life of our ancestors in the 16th century.