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Folio 93: MacKenzie to Townshend. On Saturday the Czar used the Bagnio as per usual...

Catalogue reference: SP 91/8/93

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This record is about the Folio 93: MacKenzie to Townshend. On Saturday the Czar used the Bagnio as per usual... dating from 1714 Dec 20 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Russia. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 91/8/93
Date
1714 Dec 20
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Folio 93: MacKenzie to Townshend. On Saturday the Czar used the Bagnio as per usual and was relieved, we hear, of the colic. On Sunday he dined with the Czarina and Prince Menshikoff, their Admiral and many others at the house of Count Golovin. To-day very early the Czar assisted at Council after which he visited Admiral Ehrenshield imprisoned in the Fortress. It is said the Czar will leave here for Revel at the beginning of January, to see progress at Bulwark there for better security of the fleet. Length of his stay dependant on dispatching guards and other Regiments to join Prince Repinin at Riga. Said to amount to approximately 18,000 in all. Czar may stay with that corps on the frontier of Poland until able to move his fleet. Rumours of Menshikoff commanding army in Livonia altered as his health will not permit and he is to remain here. Messrs. Kyken and Zinavin being sent into exile today to Kazan. Dated St Petersburg, 20 Dec 1714.

Second half of letter repetition in French.

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