The Calls of Norfolk and Suffolk : their Paston connections and descendants . VIEWS OF BURIAL GROUND, GRAFSKOI SLAVAxNKA THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 65 Emperor Paul (the mad Emperor) employed Charles Manners andhis brother-in-law, Martin Miller Call, to lay out the Imperial Palacegardens at Tzarkoi Celo. Later Charles Manners and his wife andfamily removed to Peterhoff, where he laid out the gardens of thatImperial Palace, and took charge of the greenhouses and fruit cultiva-tion. Martin Miller Call worked independently of Charles Mannersabout this period, because Charles Manners fell in
The Calls of Norfolk and Suffolk : their Paston connections and descendants . VIEWS OF BURIAL GROUND, GRAFSKOI SLAVAxNKA THEIR CONNECTIONS AND DESCENDANTS 65 Emperor Paul (the mad Emperor) employed Charles Manners andhis brother-in-law, Martin Miller Call, to lay out the Imperial Palacegardens at Tzarkoi Celo. Later Charles Manners and his wife andfamily removed to Peterhoff, where he laid out the gardens of thatImperial Palace, and took charge of the greenhouses and fruit cultiva-tion. Martin Miller Call worked independently of Charles Mannersabout this period, because Charles Manners fell into disfavour wththe Emperor for supplying some choice fruit which the Emperor hadordered for one of his mistresses to the table of the Empress, andwhich had been recognised by the Emperor. Charles Manners seems to have been of a happy disposition andfull of humour. An anecdote is told of him when living within theprecincts of the Imperial palace of Peterhoff. When returning homeone night he was stopped at the entrance gate by one of the guard,who had received orders from t
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