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Ambassadors of Persia Arrive in Astrakhan Return to Moscow
From Pétersourg the dispatch notes the Persian ambassadors with a retinue of over 50 arriving with goods to sell for Ispahan merchants. They plan to travel up the Volga to Moscow by late November, while the czarina funds their expenses. Other items cover shifts of officers, proclamations, and political moves across Europe and the Middle East.
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Pétersourg
Astracan
Sophi
Persia
Ispahan
Volga
Moscow
Baron de Schaffirof
Pertia
Count de Finck of
Firckenstein
Courland
Republick
Poland
Mittau
Czarina
Count de Wiesbach
Ukraine
Sumit
Bender
Malf
Qur
Derbent
Bagdad
Schaffhausen
N.S
Giaris
Wasil
Zirich
France
Coire
Tantz
Count de Wolkenstein
Viernes
Birla
Spain
Lintz
Don Carlos
Prince Alexander of
Wirtemberg
Empire
Vienna
Ritishen
Saltzburg
Hungary
Transylvania
Rome Catholi¢k
Clausemburg
Archbishoprick
Westphalia
Guildhall
Robert Alsop
Henry Hankey
City of London
Middlesex
Kespers
Newgate
Kensington
England
William Thompson Knight
John Bernard Efg
Haberdathers Hall
Cradwick
Guy’s Hospital
Cooper
Bundy
St. Bridget
St. Bride’s
Evang de
Admiral Mites
Woolwich
Pearl
Lee
West-Indies
MTA
Lord Lewisham
Cofton