The works of Voltaire : a contemporary version with notes . PTER IX. TRAVELS OF PETER THE GREAT. Having determined to visit the several countriesand courts above mentioned, he put himself into theretinue of three ambassadors, in the same manner ashe had before mingled in the train of his generalsat his triumphal entry into Moscow. The three ambassadors were General Lefort, theboyar Alexis Golovin, commissary-general of warand governor of Siberia, the same who signed theperpetual treaty of peace with the plenipotentiariesof China on the frontiers of that empire; and Vos-nitzin, secretary of sta
The works of Voltaire : a contemporary version with notes . PTER IX. TRAVELS OF PETER THE GREAT. Having determined to visit the several countriesand courts above mentioned, he put himself into theretinue of three ambassadors, in the same manner ashe had before mingled in the train of his generalsat his triumphal entry into Moscow. The three ambassadors were General Lefort, theboyar Alexis Golovin, commissary-general of warand governor of Siberia, the same who signed theperpetual treaty of peace with the plenipotentiariesof China on the frontiers of that empire; and Vos-nitzin, secretary of state, who had been long em-ployed in foreign courts. Four principal secretaries,twelve gentlemen, two pages for each ambassador, acompany of fifty guards, with their officers, all ofthe regiment of Preobrazinski, composed the chiefretinue of this embassy, which consisted of two hun-dred persons; and the czar, reserving to himselfonly one valet de chambre, a servant in livery, and PETER THE GREAT THE ORf GINAt- Eng. by PAINTING BY l_. CARAVAQUEP. G. UANGLOIS. Russian Empire. 109 a dwarf, mingled with the crowd. It was a thingunparalleled in history, for a king of twenty-fiveyears of age, to quit his dominions in order to learnthe art of governing. His victory over the Turksand Tartars, the splendor of his triumphant entryinto Moscow, the number of foreign troops attachedto his service, the death of his brother John, his co-partner in the empire, and the confinement of thePrincess Sophia to a cloister, and, above all, the uni-versal respect shown to his person, seemed to assurehim the tranquillity of his kingdom during his ab-sence. He intrusted the regency to the boyarStrechnef and Prince Romadonowski, who were todeliberate with the rest of the boyars in cases of im-portance. Two troops raised by General Gordon remainedbehind in Moscow to keep everything quiet in thatcapital. Those strelitzes who were thought likelyto create a disturbance were distributed in the fron-tiers of Grim
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