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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40372	An account of Muscovy, as it was in the year 1689 In which the troubles that happen'd in that empire from the present czar Peter's election to the throne, to his being firmly settled in it, are particularly related. With a character of him, and his people. By Monsieur de La Neuville, then residing at Moscow.; Relation curieuse et nouvelle de Moscovie. English.	Foy de la Neuville.; Baillet, Adrien, 1649-1706, attributed name.	1699 (1699)	Wing F2046A; ESTC R201277	48,599	138

of Novogrod mov'd on the right the Hettman on the left on the Hettman's left was Cherremitau and Dolga Kourka and Romanorrick made up the Rear The Tartars charg'd the Vanguard of Schein from thence after some Skirmishes they wheel'd on a sudden from right to left and fell upon Cherremitau's Forces who being over-power'd were quickly put to the rout The Horse took to their Heels the Enemy ran to the Baggage which had like to have been carried off but Prince Galischin presently sending Succours to Cherremitau the Tartars were forc'd to retire and leave the Russians a free passage till they got to Thorna d'Oliva where they encamp'd for the convenience of Water the place being Marshy and five Leagues distant from Precop A small Body of Tartars under Sultan Garka advanced to discover their Enemies march and being desirous to know wherein the Weakness and Strength of the Army lay took several Prisoners from whom they drew such Information as they wanted Then they carried them to the Cham who lay but three Leagues off encamp'd at Kalantechek a little River two Leagues from Precop which rising in the Desart runs into the Palus Meotides or Black-Sea For the Cham hearing the Muscovites had invaded the Crim was come from Budziac with 4000 Horse to defend his Territories he got to Katanschek two days before the Muscovites and pass'd the Boristhenes at Assenan Kirman a Town seated on that River belonging to the Turks The 16th the Army decamp'd and mov'd to Zelona Dolina a League from Tharn here the Cham came to meet the Muscovites with all his Forces which by what we are able to conjecture might amount to thirty or forty thousand Horse marching in several little Divisions The Russians found themselves insensibly surrounded by the Tartars and were oblig'd to halt They star'd upon one another without attempting any thing though one would have thought the Muscovites should have begun the fight but they were glad to keep themselves out of harm fenc'd in with strong Palisades which were brought in the Waggons The Foot and Artillery defended the Camp so strenuously that the Tartars could not break into it The Horse were not entrench'd which invited three or four Detachments of Tartars of 1000 Horse each to Charge them they were no sooner attack'd but they fell into disorder and the Baggage was very serviceable to them for from thence the Cannon and small Shot gall'd the Tartars and laid three or four hundred of them upon the Ground and with them several of the Muscovites Mean time on the other side Sultan Naradin with his Troops charg'd the Cossacks of Sont and Akrerko who were commanded by Emilian Everecunau Dominidiak or Secretary of State he knew little what belong'd to War and like a true Muscovite was so frighted that he could not stand before the Tartars who broke in among the Baggage and killing the Horses prevented the Muscovites from drawing off their Waggons the Enemy pierc'd as far as the Center of those Waggons and carried off twenty Pieces of Cannon which they found mounted upon Carriages and Horses harness'd to them In short if the Boyar Rouka had not advanc'd with his Troops the Cossacks had been entirely cut off Cherremitau was attack'd at the same time by another Body of Tartars who broke in as far as his Baggage but it must be own'd he defended himself much better than Emilian and forc'd the Tartars to retire He behav'd himself very handsomely on this occasion having a stock of personal Courage and being a Man of Merit but a mortal Enemy to Galischin who would gladly have been rid of him and he had certainly been lost but that he was seasonably succour'd In these Skirmishes the Tartars being repuls'd though the Advantage and some Plunder fell to them the Muscovites mov'd forwards to get to some fresh Water so the next day they march'd to Kalentchek and forasmuch as they had found it inconvenient for the Cavalry to keep at a distance from the Baggage they were order'd to mingle with the Waggons and Carriages and all the Army which till then had been divided joyn'd into one Body with 200000 Waggons and made a square Figure the Baggage as we said before was surrounded with the Cannon and Infantry who carried their Pallisades upon their Shoulders to be the readier in planting them As they march'd in this order the Tartars appear'd again and having view'd the Army on all sides and found the Horse had secured themselves they forbore Action and were content to keep the Muscovites in fear of them but they soon withdrew and went to defend Precop which they thought would be attempted by the numerous Army of the Muscovites The same day the last encamped at Kalansehck and next day pass'd the River and saw no Tartars which encourag'd several Muscovites to leave the Baggage and ascend the Hills to discover Precop which appear'd in Flames for the Tartars had set Fire to the Suburbs lest the Muscovites should have possess'd themselves thereof The 16th they march'd strait on to Prerop and sat down within Cannon-shot of the Town having the Black-Sea on their right and the Desart on the left They made no Shot from the Town because 't was too far to do Execution but they fir'd incessantly from a Tower that stands on the Shore of the Black-Sea 'T was about Ten or Eleven a Clock when the Muscovites arriv'd here and they thought of attacking Precop in the Night but in the Evening when the Officers came for Orders they wonder'd to hear that they were to return next day This retreat being somewhat extraordinary 't is worth while to give the Causes of it The Army being encamp'd pretty nèar the Town the Nogays and Kalmouchs Tartars Subjects to the Muscovites skirmishing often with the Precopians a Nogay who serv'd the Cham saw by chance a Muscovite of his Acquaintance and call'd out to him What do we contend for said he What occasion is there for us to fight together Why don't you advise your Boyar to make Peace with our Cham The Muscovite replied That if the Boyar believ'd the Cham was that way inclin'd he might be dispos'd to it likewise but if the Cham had an earnest desire for Peace he should send and treat about it Very well says the Precopian Nogay do you break it to your Boyar or General and assure him the Cham is willing to come to terms The Muscovite Nogay goes presently to Galischin and acquaints him with what the Tartar had said and found the General lik'd the motion and was very ready to return without coming to blows Accordingly Galischin caus'd a Letter to be written in the Name of this Muscovite to the Tartar Nogay to this purpose I have related to the Boyar Galischin what pass'd between us he is content to come to an Accommodation it lies upon you to get some Person to be sent to him with the Cham 's Proposals This Letter being deliver'd to the first Tartar that appear'd was

Nephew that his Favourite must needs have been concerned with the Great Galischin as might be judged from the zealous Endeavours he had made to save his Life but the Czar representing to him how hard it was for him to suspect a Man that had saved his Life three times Naraskin accompani'd by his Daughter and Sons with Tears in their Eyes declared to Peter That if he did not remove that Favourite he might even as well recal the Great Galischin A Prince of more understanding than he would have been shock'd at least with this but he readily promised to confine his Favourite to live upon his own Lands whither that Prince being advertised of the matter was already gone without staying for Orders As soon as the Czar heard of it he sent to him Courier after Courier to ask the Cause of his Retirement To whom he gave no other Answer Than that seeing his past Conduct could not convince His Majesty of his Fidelity he would never more come to Court The Czar Peter was so sensibly affected with this that he sent two Boyars to visit him and some days after impatient to see him he sent two others to desire him to return which he presently did The Czar Peter carest him extreamly upon his return which so alarm'd the Naraskins and their Party that they resolved to endeavour to be Friends with him for a little while he made a great Figure by the Favours that he conferr'd upon his Friends but at last this Prince who had nothing of the Merit of his Cousin in him began to follow his Maxims in causing the Grandees to be disgrac'd and their Places given to such Drunkards as himself but he soon fell into Disgrace himself for his Opponents making as if they would restore the Princess partly wrought so far upon Peter that in the end he resolved to give the Place of the Great Galischin which his Cousin expected and which till then had been managed by Commissioners to Naraskin his Mother's Father This Action at a time when 't was least expected determin'd all People to follow the Party of the Naraskins whose Sons were soon put into Places of the greatest Trust among the rest his Eldest Son was made Great Chamberlain and Young Galischin turn'd out of that place which so incensed him that he could not forbear expressing his Resentment by charging the Czar with Weakness His Enemies made their advantage of this Conduct and determin'd the Czar who has no other Merit than Cruelty to Banish this Favourite ignominiously and he has since given Orders to put both the exil'd Galischins to Death Those that rejoyc'd most at the fall of the Great Galischin are now sensible of the loss of him for the Naraskins that Govern now are Ignorant and Bruitish and begin to destroy contrary to all Policy and good Sense all that that Great Man had done with so much prudence for the Glory and Advantage of the Nation and would gladly recommend themselves by reviving their ancient barbarous Customs These Brutes have already forbid Strangers to come into their Country and have forbid the Exercise of the Catholick Religion The Envoy of Poland is allowed a Chappel indeed but he obtain'd it with a great deal of difficulty Nay it is thought that ere long they will oblige the Muscovites to learn only to Read and Write as formerly that in that as well as in other things their Government may be absolutely Tyrannical which will make the loss of Galischin the more lamented For he built a very noble College of Stone and put into it twenty Grecian Doctors and a great many Books he advised the Noblemen to give their Children learning obtained leave for them to send some of their Sons to the Latin Colleges in Poland and to send for Polish Tutors to those they would Educate at home and permitted Strangers to come into or go out of the Kingdom which before his time was never allow'd ' He would also have the Nobility travel abroad and learn the Art of War in Foreign Countries his design being to lay aside those Legions of Peasants whose Lands were left uncultivated when they went to the Wars and instead of that useless Charge upon the People to lay a reasonable Tax upon every House He advised that Ministers should be sent to reside in all the chief Courts of Europe and to give a Liberty of Conscienc●●hroughout the Country He had already receiv'd the Jesuits into Moscow with whom he very often converst but the next day after his Disgrace they were all sent away with a Declaration from the Czars to the Emperor and King of Poland who had sent them that they would never again let any come into the Country Accordingly in March 1690. they refused to let the King of Poland's Envoy who requested it in his Master's Name to pass through their Dominions and likewise Father Grimaldi from the Emperor who is now in Poland for the Emperor of China If I should set down all that I have learnt concerning this Prince I should never have done 'T is sufficient to say That he design'd to people Desarts to enrich Beggars to make Men of Brutes good Soldiers of Cowards and Palaces of Cottages all which advantages Muscovy has lost by the fall of that Prince His own Palace is one of the most Magnificent in Europe 't is cover'd with Copper and hung within with rich Tapestries and noble Paintings and during his Ministry three th●●●●nd Houses were built of Stone in Moscow which will not be thought strange by those that know there are five hundred thousand Inhabitants in that City and that it is composed of three Towns one within another each surrounded by a great Wall and a Ditch full of Water to defend them from the Incursions of the Tartars the first is call'd Kzim the second Bialogrod or the White Town and the third Novogrod or the New Town The greatest Curiosity in it to a Stranger is to see in December two thousand Wooden-houses set up for the Eastern and European Merchants Prince Galischin also built upon the River Moscow which runs into the Occa a Stone-bridge of twelve Arches and of a prodigious height because of the Floods 't is the only Stone-bridge in all Muscovy and was contriv'd by a Polish Monk The Manners and Religion of the Muscovites THE Muscovites to speak properly are Barbarians Suspicious and Mistrustful Cruel Sodomites Gluttons Covetous Beggars and Cowards all Slaves except three Families of Foreigners Prince Sirkache formerly Lord of the Country of that Name who is vastly rich Galischin and Harthemonerrich Besides they are so dull and brutish that were it not for the Germans who are very numerous in Moscow they could do nothing well They are very nasty though they often Bathe themselves in places built on purpose and made so excessive hot that no body but they could support it Men and Women mingle together in those Bagnio's which usually stand upon the Water-side that those who