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HOUSE OF GORDON.
Iwanowitsch [Tagehiich, ii. 202). 1688, spent the year in Moscow. 1689,
planned a campaign against the Crimea Tartars and conducted it to Pere-
kop, May 14, where it was abandoned {ibid., 11. 257); Aug. 7-1 1, suppressed
the mutiny of the Strelitzes against Peter. 1690, in the expedition to the
monastery of the Holy Trinity of Serge (Diary, 172). 1695, Mar.-Aug., in-
vested Azov ; Gordon opposed the Czar's scheme for attacking the town
and it proved, as he foresaw, a failure (Gordon's Peter the Great, i. loi, 107 ;
Tagehuch, 11. 528-588.) 1696, Mar., set out for Azov, with 15,000 men ; Jun.
28, Azov captured, largely owing to Gordon's strategy (Gordon's Peter the
Great, i. 107) ; Oct. 9, returned to Moscow. 1697, the Czar, going to western
Europe, left Gordon as general-in-chief ; marched to Azov to strengthen the
fortifications. 1698, suppressed another Strelitz revolt ; Dec. 31, diary ends.
Son of John, of Auchleuchries, Cruden (who was son of Patrick, of
Nethermuir) and Mary Ogilvie of the Blerack family; b. 1635, Mar. 31, at
Easter Auchleuchries ; educated at the
Jesuit College of Braunsberg; tn. 1665,
Jan., Katherine, dau. of Col. Philip
Albrecht van Bockhoven, by whom he
had three sons, including James, 1736,
John, 1762, Theodore Ignatius, 1814,
and two daus. Katherine (;;;. Col. Stras-
burg and then Alexander Gordon, of
Auchintoul, 1658) : and Marie (m. Major
Daniel Crawford and then Col. Carl
Snivius) ; m. (2) before 1686, Elizabeth
Barnoe, dau. of Col. Roonaer (her sister
VI. Henry, 1728), by whom he had two
sons and a dau. Gordon d. 1699, Nov.
29, and was htir. in the Roman Catholic
Church, Moscow, in a vault before the
high altar, where a Latin inscription
calls him " Patricius Leopold Gordon "
(Diary, 193). No Gordon officer, with
" Patrick Gordon, \ . . ,,„,• « r^ j
„. r A^ Tu- ^ A T rj- i" . K,, the exccption of " Chmese Gordon,
"1 [and] ego [his] dnevnik [diary] ; by ^ ^
Alexander Brueckner, published at has had SO much written about him,
St. Petersburg, 1878, pp. 182. notably in Tagebitch des Generals
Patr.ck Gordon, translated into German by Dr. Maurice Posselt, 3 vols.,
Moscow and St. Petersburg, 1849, 1851, 1852, totalling 2050 pp., of which
117 are devoted to a very elaborate index; contains portraits of Gordon and
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