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Fragmentary 18th Century Dispatches from Europe and Asia
A garbled 1700s letter batch reports Privy Council orders to Russian generals, Czarist travels to Moscow, and religious policy pivots in the Ottoman Divan. It cites Peterburg fire damage, Mogul courier activity, Berlin-Brussels shipping, and a soldier’s justice tale of a thief hanged and revived by a farmer. Abbott and nobles in Warsaw, Constantinople, and Derbent are named along with ships sailing to Lisbon and Cadiz.
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Petersburg
Privy Council
Astracan
Derbent
Menzikoffid
Goa
Thateligion
Czeremethoff
Constantinople
Moscow
East-India Company
Brussels
Nivelle
Jin