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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

were thought to be the Spoils of the Hettman Jean Sameuelewick four hundred Vessels of Silver weighing forty Pounds each and some Money The Wife of this Prince and his Son's Wife were banish'd with them but they were not admitted to take any thing with them thirty Roubles was all that these four Persons were allow'd Galischin being dispos'd of the Boyar Romanorrich Woywode of Serene was brought to the foot of the Stairs and condemn'd to go to Postozora a Town further North than Karga Poka there to spend the rest of his Days his Estate was confiscated likewise Wedenik Andrewik Esmeyan was charg'd to confine himself at home till further Order Kassantau was turn'd out of all his Places and confin'd to his own House and Lands Talachanau was made for his Life Woywode of Prziacelavaka a Town not far from Kiau upon the Nieper and the Great Treasurer was made Woywode of Novogrod upon the River Samare as long as he liv'd Next day Fiska had his Head cut off upon a Block and two Estreles that were to have been the Assassins suffered the same Punishment The Colonel that commanded the Detachment was whipp'd had his Tongue cut out and was sent to end his Days in Ziberia with an allowance of a Penny a day the five other Estreles had their Tongues cut out likewise and were sent into Ziberia to kill Sables All these Executions being over the Czar Peter acquainted the Princess with what he had done and desir'd her to leave the Palace and retire into a Monastry which she had built out of Town but she refus'd to comply with his request not being able to prevail with her self to enter into a place for Life from whence she had cunningly deliver'd her self contrary to Custom she lik'd better to retreat into Poland of which the Czar being inform'd he sent Order to the Commander of the Estreles to Conduct her either willingly or by force to the Monastry and set Guards upon all the Avenues and suffer no Person to come to her which was accordingly done And two days after the Czar Peter return'd to Moscow and made his Entry on Horseback there was nothing remarkable in it but 18000 Estreles of his Guards arm'd A quarter of an Hour after his Wife and Mother came in a Coach and all together alighted at the Palace The Czar John stood to receive his Brother at the top of the Steps they embrac'd Peter ask'd John to be Friends and he that answer'd for him having assur'd him he was so each retir'd to his Apartment and since that time no mention has been made of John but at the beginning of their Acts. Thus ended the Regency of the Princess Sophia who had been Mistress of the Great Empire of Russia for some Years but for endeavouring through a boundless Ambition to get all the Power into her hands which she held in the Name of her Brothers and to be absolute and independent was confin'd and shut up for the rest of her Life with eight hundred Religious Women whom she had caus'd to come from Kiovia with design to make her self the more Creatures through their assistance for they have nothing of Religion in them but the Name and not doubting but they would be more in her Interest than in her Brother Peter's whose Subjects they were made in 1666. when the Palatinate and City of Kiovia were yielded by the Poles to the Muscovites The Causes of the Troubles in Moscow AFTER having given an ample Relation of the Conspiracy against the Czar Peter it may be proper to shew That the Troubles that Court has been embroil'd in and those that may hereafter happen were and will be owing to the Intrigues of the Princess Sophia whose Wit and Merit is of another Stamp than her Person for she is very ugly being of a monstrous Size with a Head as big as a Bushel she has Hair upon her Chin Tumours upon her Legs and is at least forty Years old But though her Shape be deform'd her Judgment is regular and piercing and though she never read Machiavel she has by Nature all his Maxims and especially this That they may attempt any thing and stick at no Crime who are resolved to Reign And had she contented her self with the Administration of the Government and had not attempted to rid her self of her Brother Peter no body durst have form'd a Party in Favour of the Czar Peter against her Towards the end of the Czar Theodore's Reign the Princess Sophia having those Qualifications we have mention'd and foreseeing that Prince could not live long in his infirm State of Body she contriv'd how to get out of her Convent notwithstanding the settled Custom which obliges the Female Issue of the Czarian House to pass their Lives in that Confinement unmarried To which end she pretended an extraordinary kindness for her Brother and complained of her unhappiness that she could not visit a Person whom she loved so tenderly and attend him in his Sickness when he was in the Fits of his Distemper she sent every moment to ask how he did and at other times she let slip no occasion of testifying her Love for him and the Grief she felt in being oblig'd to be absent from him At length by these Methods having prepared a way for her intended Design she left the Convent under pretence of serving her Brother and administring to him in his Sickness which she did not suffering any body to come near him nor give him Medicines but her self for she wisely considere'd that the more she did for him the more she should be belov'd both by the Czar himself and every body else Thus she insinuated her self into the good Opinion of the Grandees to whom she carried her self very obligingly and won the Peoples hearts by her affable Behaviour studying to make all approve her Conduct and excuse her leaving the Convent One would have thought she should have been satisfied with being at liberty but being determin'd never to return to her Confinement she thought her best way would be to make her self absolute Mistress which Design being not to be carried on without a considerable number of Friends she pitch'd upon Prince Galischin as the fittest Person to be the chief of her Party He was a Man of great Quality descended from the last Duke of Lithuania of the House of Jagelon The Courtiers at first seem'd well enough pleas'd with this Choice imagining he would only have the Name of Chief Minister and they should share the Power with him but the Prince having more cunning than all the Muscovites put together easily managed them during the Reign of Theodore who dying suddenly Couvanski a bold Man and a declar'd Enemy of Galischin's made an Insurrection and cut off all the great Men that he thought would oppose his Design of making himself Czar under pretence of revenging his Master's Death upon those who as he gave out poyson'd him When thinking himself sure of the Crown and fearing

to a House that was appointed for me where the Pristave Spatarus quickly came to Compliment me in the name of the Prime Minister who commanded him to continue with me and likewise according to custom an Officer and six Soldiers were appointed for my Guard who were strictly charged to admit no person into my House for eight days at length Prince Galischin sent for me to the Prerarche which is a spacious Building in form of a square there are several Halls in it in each of which particular Councils are held which before Galischin came into the Ministry us'd to meet in Barns I found him seated at the upper end of a great Table with many Boyars on each side he caus'd a Chair to be set for me and then an Interpreter ask'd me in Latin for my Letters I presented him those which the Grand Chancellor of Lithuania directed to him wherein he inform'd him that the King had sent me into Muscovy about his Majesty's Business and had given me a Letter to the Czars he answer'd that he wou'd acquaint the Czar John who was then at Moscow with it and that he hoped I shou'd have Audience very speedily after which he enquir'd as the custom is whether the Chancellor was in good health forbearing out of respect to ask how the King did Then I rise up to retire he rose up too and wish'd me the happiness of seeing the Czar in a short time Some days after I sent in Civility to desire Audience of him at his House where I was receiv'd as handsomely as if I had been at the Court of some Prince of Italy During the conversation in Latin upon the Affairs of Europe and my thoughts of the War betwixt France and the Confederates and especially concerning the Revolution in England He presented me with all sorts of Strong waters and Wine advising me at the same time with a great deal of Complaisance not to taste of them He promis'd to get me my Audience in a few days which he certainly would have done had he not fallen into disgrace which produced such a great change of Affairs that every moment there was an out-cry of Fire and Murder and if the Czar Peter had not had the courage to seize the leading men of the Princesse's Party his Life and Crown had been lost Such was the face of Affairs for six Weeks together that one cou'd not tell who to address one's self to which made me resolve to write a Letter to the Young Galischin the Czar Peter's Favourite signifying my surprize that no Answer was given me in relation to my Audience and the Letters which I had to deliver he excus'd the matter to me on account of the late Troubles and assur'd me that the Czar would soon come to Lastolitz as indeed he did the first day of November As soon as I heard of his arrival I went to see his Favourite and demanded Audience he did not carry himself like his Kinsman but treated me with Brandy and all the Conversation pass'd in drinking all that I cou'd gather from this Drunkard was that I should have Audience in three days after which I might depart when I thought fit but before that time came about he fell into disgrace and I was oblig'd to take other measures The Office of Dommith Diak or Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was at that juncture given to one Emilian this Name which in the Sclavonian Tongue signifies a Claw or Talon befits him well for he is very covetous and lets nothing slip that comes within the reach of his Talons Though this man was one of the great Galischin's Creatures and owed his Fortune to him being originally but a mean Notary yet he was one of the first to traduce the memory of his Benefactor and taking a pique against me for not addressing my self to him for leave to depart but always to Galischin the Czar Peter's Favourite as soon as he saw him in disgrace he refus'd to execute the Command which Galischin had persuaded the Czar to give him concerning me viz. to tell me That either I must stay for my Audience till Twelfth-day or following the King of Poland's Orders who apprehended the consequence of these Troubles might be gone when I pleas'd Nay he took occasion to excuse himself to the Czar Peter by persuading him that I ought to be detain'd for a while insinuating that the King of Poland had sent me to Moscow only to negotiate with the Prime Minister and to assure the Princess and Galischin of his Protection and as a ground for such a Suspicion he urg'd that contrary to the usual custom in this Country and the honour of my Character I had made several private Visits to that Prince Being inform'd of all that pass'd I bethought my self of an Expedient viz. To offer some Money under-hand to Emilian for leave to depart which he having promis'd to give me for 100 Ducats instead of sending them to him as had been agreed betwixt him and the Person I had employ'd I went under pretence of paying him a visit to carry the Money my self now my Friend Harthemonerrich to whom I disclos'd the matter popp'd in upon him just at the time this Secretary had appointed me to come and I had the pleasure to tell him my mind very roundly in this young Lord's presence for I knew what mettle the Moscovites are made of that they understand nothing of Civility or Honesty and therefore 't is in vain to deal with 'em upon those Terms much less to beg a favour of 'em because that makes 'em despise one but they must be handled roughly when a man designs to bring 'em to reason I told him the Law of Nations was violated in my Person that I perceiv'd the King of Poland was misinform'd when upon giving me my Commission he assur'd me that the Muscovites were no longer Barbarians That I was so weary of living among 'em that I could wish I were allow'd to buy a permission to return but forasmuch as I had the honour to be the Minister of a great King a Neighbour and Ally to the Czars I could do no otherwise than give him advice that I was hindred from obeying the Orders he had sent me No longer to sollicit an Audience but with all expedition to leave the Country After I had deliver'd my self to this purpose in Latin which my Friend Harthemonerrick interpreted to him and had taken off several Cups of Brandy and Sack to the Czar's Health I took my leave of him ordering a Polish Gentleman to give him the 100 Ducats which I intimated were for his under Secretary but he never durst touch ' em Upon which I reported abroad how generous he was being given to understand there was no other means of obtaining my Congé Mean time the Czar Peter having recall'd his Favorite Galischin to Court I went to visit him and congratulate his return He told me he was much surpriz'd to hear that Emilian