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Folio 318: Report from [?]. The Czarina leaves conduct of state affairs to her husband...

Catalogue reference: SP 78/219/103

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SP 78/219/103
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1738 Sept 30
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Folio 318: Report from [?]. The Czarina leaves conduct of state affairs to her husband the Duke of Courland who relies on the advice of Liebman a Jew; the army generally supports Elizabeth, daughter of Peter I; families opposed to the Czarina, have been purged. [Turks and Tartans] have destroyed half the Russian force and the Russian Black Sea fleet is ruined; `money is as rare in Russia as honesty, wisdom or courtesy'.

Date and place: 1738 Sept 30 St Petersburg.

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