Mint, Russian: Volume 2: Estimates, Proposals, Contracts, and Legal Documents; Birmingham...

The documents in these files relate to the intended construction of a new Mint in Russia, including correspondence, estimates, proposals, contracts, and legal documents. Many of the documents relate to the Act of Parliament authorising the exportation of machinery parts by Matthew Boulton to St Petersburg for the Mint, including resolutions and correspondence of the Birmingham Memorialists, a group of merchants and manufacturers who raised concerns over the authorisation of Boulton to export parts to Russia.

Correspondents include: Matthew Boulton; Matthew Robinson Boulton; James Smirnove; Count S C Woronzow; Baron Aleksey Vasilyev [spelt varying ways, including: Alexis Vasilieff; Vassilieff; Vassillieff; Wassilieff; Wasilieff; Wassillioff]; W D Brown [Mr Brown]; Alexis Olenin [sometimes spelt Ollenien]; Fermin de Tastet & Co.; A Deriabin; Baron Nicolay; George Hammond; Sir John Scott Attorney General; John Southern; Benjamin Stokes; John Startin; Humphrey Vale; Wallis Mason; Jonathon Grundy; George Simcox; William Smith; The Merchants of Birmingham Memorial; Samuel Garbett; Ambrose Weston; Lord Grenville; Heneage Legge; Edward Simpson; John Woodward; Southern, Pearson, & Co.; Harman & Co.; Mr Swistimoff; James Duncan; Zaccheus Walker Jr.; General Theodore de Goloubzsoff; James Fusch; and J Hurt.