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J*- Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) https://archive.org/details/SSEES0016 SSEES Occasional Papers No. 38 Britain and Russia in the Age of Peter the Great: Historical Documents In memory of our colleague David Brown BRITAIN AND RUSSIA in the age of PETER THE GREAT Historical Documents TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY Simon Dixon (editor), A. G. Cross (chairman), W. G. Jones (secretary), M. S. Anderson, R. P. Bartlett, Paul Dukes, Janet M. Hartley, Lindsey Hughes, L. R. Lewitter, Isabel de Madariaga, W. F. Ryan SCHOOL OF SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES LONDON 1998 BRITAIN AND RUSSIA IN THE AGE OF PETER THE GREAT: HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS Translated and edited by Simon Dixon (editor), A. G. Cross, (chairman),W. G. Jones (secretary), M. S. Anderson, R. P. Bartlett, Paul Dukes, Janet M. Hartley, Lindsey Hughes, L. R. Lewitter, Isabel de Madariaga, W. F. Ryan Britain and Russia in the Age of Peter the Great: Historical Documents © School of Slavonic and East European Studies 1998 Occasional Papers No. 38 ISBN: 0-903425 61-0 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any other form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Copies of this publication and others in the School’s refereed series of Occasional Papers can be obtained from the Publications and Conferences Office, SSEES, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Printed in Great Britain by Henry Ling, The Dorset Press, Dorchester, Dorset Contents Acknowledgements vi Abbreviations vi List of historical documents vii List of plates xv Select bibliography xvi Preface to the English edition xix Editorial note to the English edition xxi Introduction xxiii Historical documents 1 Index 243 Plates 257 Acknowledgements The editors wish to thank the following for permission to publish materials: Department of Manuscripts, British Library; the Guildhall Library, Corporation of London; Mr W. Drummond- Moray (the Abercairny collection); the National Maritime Museum; the University ofNottingham Library; the Public Record Office, Kew (crown copyright material is reproduced by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office); the Scottish Record Office; the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; the Russia Company; Sotheby’s; the Trustees of the Duke of Portland; Arkhiv vneshnei politiki Rossii, Moscow; Gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii muzei, Moscow; Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Arkhangel’skoi oblasti, Archangel; Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Voronezhskoi oblasti, Voronezh; Russkii Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv drevnikh aktov, Moscow; Russkii Gosudastvennyi arkhiv Voenno-Morskogo Flota, St Petersburg; Russkii gosudarstvennyi voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv, Moscow; Russkii Gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv, St Petersburg. Abbreviations AVPR Arkhiv vneshnei politiki Rossii, Moscow BL British Library, London GAAO Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Arkhangel’skoi oblasti, Archangel GAVO Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Voronezhskoi oblasti, Voronezh GIM Gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii muzei, Moscow PRO Public Record Office, Kew RGADA Russkii Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv drevnikh aktov, Moscow RGAMF Russkii Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Voenno-Morskogo Flota, St Petersburg RGIA Russkii Gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv, St Petersburg RGVIA Russkii Gosudarstvennyi voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv, Moscow SPCK Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London SRO Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh List of Historical Documents 1. 25 February 1697: Letter of credence from Peter I to William III given to the Russian envoys F. Ia. Lefort, F. A. Golovin and P. B. Voznitsyn. 2. 4 August 1697: Letter from William Blathwayt, secretary to William III, to Sir William Trumbull, Secretary of State. 3. 4 August 1697: From the minute of a meeting of H. M. Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. 4. 10 August 1697: Letter from the Board for Trade and Plantations to the Lords Justices. 5. 16 August 1697: Letter from William Blathwayt to Sir William Trumbull. 6. 1 September 1697: Entry in the ambassadorial record of the Grand Embassy. 7. 2 September 1697: From William Blathwayt’s journal. 8. 3 September 1697: From a letter from John Ellis, Under-Secretary of State, to Sir William Trumbull. 9. 4 October 1697: Memorial from the English envoys to the Russian envoys at the Hague. 10. 9 November 1697: Letter from Admiral Lord Carmarthen to Peter I. 11. 26 November 1698: Memorial from several British merchants to the Lords Commissioners of the Council of Trade. 12. 28 November 1697: Letter from F. Ia. Lefort to Lord Carmarthen. 13. January 1698: A congratulatory poem to the high and mighty Czar of Muscovy. 14. January-February 1698: Printed broadside presented to the Board for Trade and Plantations by Micajah Perry and other Virginia merchants. 15. 4 March 1698: Agreement concluded with Lord Carmarthen by command of Peter I. 16. 9 March 1698: From a letter from Bishop Gilbert Burnet to Dr Fall. 17. March 1698: An account of Peter I’s meeting with the British physician, Moses Stringer. 18. 1698: From a letter to John Evelyn from his servant. 19. January-April 1698: Account at the Armoury, dated 17 January 1700, of money disbursed to the British merchant Andrew Stiles. 20. 18 June 1698: Case concerning the petition of General Patrick Gordon to admit to Moscow his son James. 21. 25 July 1698: Memorandum from the Vladimir Judicial Chancellery to the Chancellery of Military Affairs. 22. 28 July 1698: Deposition by two British master cannon-founders. 23. 20 August 1698: Report from the Ambassadorial Chancellery to the Vladimir Judicial Chancellery. 24. 1698: Entries in the Grand Embassy ‘Journal’ of Peter I’s stay in England. 25. 10 April 1699: Royal letter from Peter I to William III. 26. 9 July 1699: Royal letter from Peter I to William III. 27. 12 September 1699: Royal letter from William III to Peter I. 28. 10 October 1699: Minutes of a meeting of H. M. Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. 29. 20 October 1699: Royal letter from William III to Peter I. 30. 27 July 1700: From a letter from James Stanhope, English envoy at The Hague, to Secretary of State James Vernon. 31. 3 September 1700: From a letter from William Blathwayt to James Vernon. 32. 10 September 1700: From a letter from James Vernon to William Blathwayt. 33. 4 September 1700: Letter from William Blathwayt to James Vernon. 34. 23 October 1700: Royal letter from William III to Peter I. 35. 19 January 1701-17 August 1701: From a file in the Armoury concerning petitions from the British teachers at the Moscow School of Navigation and Mathematics, Henry BRITAIN AND RUSSIA IN THE AGE OF PETER THE GREAT Vlll Farquharson, Steven Gwyn and Richard Grice. 36. 12 May 1701: Royal letter from Peter I to William III. 37. 29 May 1701: Royal letter from William III to Peter I. 38. 6 June 1701: From a letter from James Stanhope to Secretary of State Sir Charles Hedges. 39. 25 August 1701: Letter from James Stanhope to William Blathwayt. 40. 2 April 1702: Petition to Peter I from Charles Goodfellow, English Consul in Russia. 41. 19 December 1702: Draft of a congratulatory letter from Peter I to Queen Anne. 42. 1702: Provision of classrooms in the Sukharev Tower for the Moscow School of Navigation and Mathematics. 43. 13 January 1703: Proposal from the Ambassadorial Chancellery to representatives of the Russia Company. 44. February 1703: Petition from the British merchants to Peter I. 45. 10 March 1703: Letter from William Lloyd and Robert Mainwaring, British merchants in Moscow, to the London merchant Ralph Harwood. 46. April-August 1703: Letters from Andrew Stiles to Peter I. 47. 7 May 1703: Letter from the British merchants to the head of the Ambassadorial Chancellery, F. A. Golovin. 48. 22 June 1703: From a letter from Dr John Robinson, English envoy in Stockholm and Warsaw, to Sir Charles Hedges. 49. 21 November 1703: From a letter from Sir Charles Hedges to George Stepney, English envoy in Vienna. 50. 28 March 1704: Letter from the British merchant Stratford (Senior) to Charles Goodfellow. 51. 31 March 1704: Letter from Stratford (Senior) to Charles Goodfellow. 52. 1 June 1704: Letter from Charles Goodfellow to Stratford (Senior). 53. 7 July 1704: Letter from Erasmus Lewis, secretary to Robert Harley, Secretary of State, to Charles Whitworth. 54. 8 August 1704: Letter from Andrew Stiles to Peter I. 55. 20 September 1704: Letter of credence for Charles Whitworth from Queen Anne to Peter I. 56. 17 October 1704: Letter from Erasmus Lewis to Charles Whitworth. 57. 9 February 1705: A ‘ship’s passport’ issued by the Russian authorities to Charles Goodfellow. 58. 11 March 1705: Letter from Peter I to Andrew Stiles. 59. 11 March 1705: Memorial presented to F. A. Golovin by Charles Whitworth on behalf of the British merchants in Russia. 60. 21 March 1705: Letter from Charles Whitworth to the duke of Marlborough. 61. 7 June 1705: Letters from Peter I to Prince D. G. Cherkasskii, governor on the Dvina. 62. 28 October 1705: From a letter from Charles Whitworth to George Stepney. 63. 1705. From Daniel Defoe s The Consolidator/ or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. 64. 12 January 1706: Letter from the British engineer John Perry to the head of the Naval Chancellery, F. M. Apraksin. 65. 20 February 1706: Letter from Charles Whitworth to Lord Raby, English envoy in Berlin. 66. March 1706: A list of the pupils from the Moscow School of Navigation and Mathematics chosen to study in Britain. 67. 14 May 1706: Letter from Peter I to Andrew Stiles. 68. 1 August 1706: From the minutes of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 69. 31 January 1707: Letter from Charles Whitworth to Secretary of State Robert Harley.