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ERSKINE PAPERS
and silver, to families who may be in a necessitous condition.
So be it. wishing by these means to be of assistance to them.
To the Most Gracious Lady the Tsaritsa Ekaterina Aleksi-
evna such of my linen as has not been used and the lace which
is still entire and not torn, and all my porcelain ware.
To my valet Johann Kroning, all such clothes as I have
worn, my bed-furniture and linen, all my kitchen utensils,
whether tin, copper, or iron: also all my horses, carriages,
sledges, and the harness belonging to them, are to be sold and
the money to be given to the Apothecary Mr. Behr,1 Mr.
Ravenel, Secretary S chum acker,2 and my valet Kroning, for
the trouble which they have taken and their trusty services.
My library is to be sold and the money received for it to be
given to my nearest heirs : all my curiosities and medals and
all other surgical instruments are to be offered to his Imperial
Majesty only, in case he might graciously wish to purchase
them for himself, and the money for them to be given to
Orphanages, Hospitals, and Alms-houses, in Scotland.
My house in St. Petersburg, with all the furniture, that is,
chairs, wardrobes, tables, beds, looking glasses, clocks and
paintings, is to be sold, and the money to be given to my
mother, or in case she be dead, to the nearest heirs.
The country seat Gastel (now called Gostilitzi), I transfer
to the most gracious pleasure of his Imperial Majesty, in case
he should wish to give it to Her Highness the eldest Princess.3
Finally, I bequeath the country seat Pakola to Dr. Blumen-
trost the younger.4
Done at the Petrovski Factories, in the house of His
Imperial Majesty, November 29, 1718.
1 A curious story about this man and his complicity in the fictitious poisoning
of the Czarewitz Alexis, in 1718, will be found in the Memoirs of Peter Henry
Bruce, A Military Officer in the Services of Prussia, Russia, and Great
Britain, 1782.
8 He was librarian to the Czar, and in February 1721 was sent by him to the
Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, with a chart of the Caspian Sea recently
constructed by a party of geographers sent by Peter to survey it. An account of
his visit to the academy and a copy of the chart is given in Mottley, iii.
214-15.
3 Elizabeth Petrovna, born 1709. Became empress in 1741.
4 After the death of Erskine he succeeded him as chief physician to the Czar.
ERSKINE PAPERS
and silver, to families who may be in a necessitous condition.
So be it. wishing by these means to be of assistance to them.
To the Most Gracious Lady the Tsaritsa Ekaterina Aleksi-
evna such of my linen as has not been used and the lace which
is still entire and not torn, and all my porcelain ware.
To my valet Johann Kroning, all such clothes as I have
worn, my bed-furniture and linen, all my kitchen utensils,
whether tin, copper, or iron: also all my horses, carriages,
sledges, and the harness belonging to them, are to be sold and
the money to be given to the Apothecary Mr. Behr,1 Mr.
Ravenel, Secretary S chum acker,2 and my valet Kroning, for
the trouble which they have taken and their trusty services.
My library is to be sold and the money received for it to be
given to my nearest heirs : all my curiosities and medals and
all other surgical instruments are to be offered to his Imperial
Majesty only, in case he might graciously wish to purchase
them for himself, and the money for them to be given to
Orphanages, Hospitals, and Alms-houses, in Scotland.
My house in St. Petersburg, with all the furniture, that is,
chairs, wardrobes, tables, beds, looking glasses, clocks and
paintings, is to be sold, and the money to be given to my
mother, or in case she be dead, to the nearest heirs.
The country seat Gastel (now called Gostilitzi), I transfer
to the most gracious pleasure of his Imperial Majesty, in case
he should wish to give it to Her Highness the eldest Princess.3
Finally, I bequeath the country seat Pakola to Dr. Blumen-
trost the younger.4
Done at the Petrovski Factories, in the house of His
Imperial Majesty, November 29, 1718.
1 A curious story about this man and his complicity in the fictitious poisoning
of the Czarewitz Alexis, in 1718, will be found in the Memoirs of Peter Henry
Bruce, A Military Officer in the Services of Prussia, Russia, and Great
Britain, 1782.
8 He was librarian to the Czar, and in February 1721 was sent by him to the
Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, with a chart of the Caspian Sea recently
constructed by a party of geographers sent by Peter to survey it. An account of
his visit to the academy and a copy of the chart is given in Mottley, iii.
214-15.
3 Elizabeth Petrovna, born 1709. Became empress in 1741.
4 After the death of Erskine he succeeded him as chief physician to the Czar.
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| Description | Contents: The Scottish king's household and other fragments from a 14th century manuscript / Mary Bateson -- The Scottish nation in the University of Orleans, 1336-1538 / John Kirkpatrick -- Muster-roll of the French garrison at Dunbar, 1553 / Robert S. Rait -- The antiquity of the Christian religion among the Scots, 1594 / Henry D.G. Law -- The apology for William Maitland of Lethington, 1610 / Andrew Lang -- Some letters and correspondence of George Graeme / L.G. Graeme -- A Scottish journie, being an account in verse of a tour from Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1641, by P.J. / C.H. Firth -- Narratives illustrating the Duke of Hamilton's expedition to England in 1648 / C.H. Firth -- Certain papers of Robert Burnet ... Gilbert Burnet ... and Robert Leighton / H.C. Foxcroft -- Letters and documents relating to Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great, 1677-1720 / Robert Paul -- The will of Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, 1789 / Francis Steuart -- Index. |
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