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A69607	The Present condition of the Muscovite empire till the year 1699 in two letters : the first from a gentleman who was conversant with the Muscovite ambassadour in Holland, the second from a person of quality at Vienna, concerning the late Muscovite embassy, his present czarish majesty, the Russian empire and Great-Tartary : with the life of the present emperour of China, by Father J. Bouvet, missionary / by the author of The antient and present state of Muscovy.	Crull, J. (Jodocus), d. 1713?; Bouvet, Joachim, 1656-1730.	1699 (1699)	Wing B3862; ESTC R19507	51,096	122

other places upon the Wolga the Country betwixt the Ocea and Wolga is better stor'd with Villages and Inhabitants than many of the most Fertile Provinces of Europe The Czar Peter Alexiovitz was as well before as in his late Journey sufficiently convinced that all these Advantages were but imperfect in respect of what might be hoped for if by opening his way into the Black Sea he could settle a Communication with Italy and some other provinces of Europe by which means the Riches of China of the Indies and Persia might be conveyed this way to the no small Benefit of the Muscovites The Conquest of Asoph had opened him the way to attain this end without any great difficulty considering the present declining State of the Ottoman Empire and the flourishing Condition of Muscovy if he could prevail with his Imperial Majesty to continue the War a few years longer against the Infidels It is agreed on all sides That his Imperial Majesty shew'd as much inclination towards continuing the War with the Turks than the Czar himself and would have been as forward as any of the Confederates to second the laudable Zeal of His Czarish Majesty if the present conjuncture had not obliged him to prefer the Interest of his Country before his Inclinations at a time when the Infidels made such considerable Offers to the Confederates for the obtaining a Truce or Peace For besides that by the Animosities Reigning in Poland that King was not in a Condition to give any considerable diversion to the Turks the Subjects of the Hereditary Counries of his Imperial Majesty being exhausted by the heavy Taxes requisite for the carrying on so chargeable a War stood in absolute need of some Respite to take breath and the tottering State of the King of Spain's health was a sufficient warning to the Imperial Court to be upon their Guard against France where vast Preparations were made to back their claim to that Crown by Force These were the true reasons that induced his Imperial Majesty to consent some Months after to a Truce of 25 years with the Ottoman Port wherein the Czar of Muscovy included but chose to accept of the same only for two years for certain Reasons of 〈…〉 I shall have occasion to mention to you anon On the 29th day of June his Czarish Majesty had a private Audience from the Emperour and desiring to be Incognito he was conducted by a pair of Back-stairs to the Emperour's Antichamber where he was received by his Imperial Majesty in Person at the door no body was admitted to be present at this Audience besides the Count Wallenstein Lord High Chamberlain and the Count of Dieterichstein Master of the Horse to the Emperour the Czar was accompanied up Stairs only by the General Le Fort his first Ambassadour who supplied the place of an Interpreter betwixt these two Illustrious Personages at this Interview After the first Complements were pass'd the Emperour put on his Hat but finding that the Czar remain'd uncovered he also took off his Hat again and remained thus till the Interview which lasted about half an Hour was pass'd Some-days after the Czar took an exact View of the Imperial Armory Library and other Rarities belonging to the Imperial Pallace and the Emperour being sensible of the Czar's Inclinations towards the Mathematicks sent him a Present of the choicest Mathematical Instruments that could be found He likewise invited the Czar to a very splendid Entertainment which began with a most Admirable Consort of Musick and after a Magnificent Collation ended with a certain kind of Masquerade call'd in Germany a Wirthshaft frequently to be seen in the Courts of the German Princes where the Master of the Feast always represents the Person of a Host no body but persons of the first Rank of both Sexes being admitted to this Diversion In this each Masker was clad after the Fashion of some different Nation with a Lady in an Habit answerable to the same Nation so that the most remarkable Nations of the World being represented by this illustrious Company adorn'd with the Richest Stuffs and a prodigious quantity of precious Stones it afforded a most unusual but at the same time most Magnificent and agreeable Spectacle to the Czar To be short this Court to shew their utmost Respect to so Extraordinary a Guest strove to out-vye all the rest which His Majesty had visited before There was nothing but Jollity and Feasting to be seen during his Stay at Vienna and among others the Count of Starenbergh General of the Emperour's Armies signaliz'd himself on this Occasion having invited the Czar and his Ambassadours with all the Persons of Quality of both Sexes then at Vienna to a most splendid Feast The Czar in his Turn took the opportunity of St. Peter's Day to Entertain the Principal Lords and Ladies of the Court at the Pallace of Guntersdorff where the Muscovite Ambassadours were lodg'd the Emperour solemniz'd the same by an Artificial Fire-Work and a fine Consort of Musick Towards the latter end of July the Muscovite Ambassadours had their publick Audience of His Imperial Majesty which was very splendid especially in respect of the rich Presents design'd for the Emperour which consisted in the most precious Ermines and Sables and Cloths of Gold and Silver born by fifty Persons Clad all in black Velvet They were receiv'd at their Entrance into the outward Court by the Guards in Arms and after being admitted to the Audience of the Emperour with the usual Ceremonies were most splendidly Treated at Court and reconducted to their own Pallace It was but a few days after when the Czar having taken a Resolution to go to Venice in order as it was supposed to concert Matters with that Republick how best to annoy the Turks at Sea he sent some of his Train and Equippage before The Venetians were no sooner inform'd of His Majesty's Resolution but they appointed four Procurators of St. Mark to receive and attend him They ordered the necessary Carriages to the Frontiers and the Pallace of Toscari in the Arsenal was to be fitted up for his Receiption But when every body expected to hear of the Czar's Departure for Venice great was their Surprize when they understood that he had taken his Leave on a sudden of the Emperour and was return'd with only thirty of his most Trusty Servants among whom were General Le Fort and Feder Alexiovitz Gallowin his two Ambassadours by the Way of Polond into Muscovy leaving Procofet Bog danovitz Wolnitzin his third Ambassadour at Vienna as his Plenipotentiary to manage his Interest at the approaching Treaty betwixt the Confederates and Turks You may easily suppose that the whole Court was not a little amazed at this unexpected Change of the Czar's former Resolution every one judging of the Matter according to his Opinion but the Generality attributing it to some great Commotion in Muscovy the Truth of which was not confirm'd to us till some time after I told you before that

THE Present CONDITION OF THE Muscovite EMPIRE Till the YEAR 1699. IN TWO LETTERS The First from a Gentleman who was Conversant WITH THE Muscovite Ambassadour in Holland The Second from a Person of Quality at VIENNA Concerning the late Muscovite EMBASSY His present Czarish Majesty THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE AND GREAT-TARTARY WITH THE LIFE Of the Present Emperour of CHINA By Father J. BOUVET Missionary By the Author of the Antient and Present State of Muscovy LONDON Printed for F. Coggan in the Inner-Temple-Lane MDCXCIX THE PREFACE THE Two following Letters which I have here presented to the Reader being lately come to my hands and containing a short but most exact and authentick Account of the present Condition of the Muscovite Empire I thought I could scarce do more acceptable piece of Service to the Publick at this Juncture than to communicate them to the Curious The first Letter was written by a Gentleman who being at Amsteldam at the time of that Solemn Muscovite Embassy and whilst the Czar was there present had the Honour to be intimately acquainted with some of the Musvites of the first Rank there which gave him the opportunity to be inform'd concerning these Matters which hitherto either are not at all or at least but very confusedly come to our Knowledge Those who will seriously reflect upon what this Gentleman has been pleased to tell us concerning the two Sieges of Asoph its true Situation Advantage and Strength concerning the present State of the Muscovite Navy and their Maritim Affairs with several other most Curious Observations relateing to his Czarish Majesty's Person especially since his departure out of England I suppose agree with me in Opinion that this Account is the most exact and perhaps also the mos t authentick we have had of this kind for many Years before The second being an Abstract of several Letters written by a Person of Quality then Residing at the Imperial Court at Vienna gives us a faithful Account both of his own Sentiments and of the whole Imperial Court concerning the present State of Affairs in Muscovy with very Curious Observations upon several remarkable Subjects relating to the last Peace with the Turks and the Way by Land through the Great-Tartary into China Any one that will be at the pains to compare the Maps the Geographers have been pleased to put upon the World formerly of the North Eastern Parts of Asia with this Account will soon be convinced of their Ignorance when they have represented this Part of the World which is Stock'd with vast Numbers of Inhabitants and Water'd by so many great and fair Rivers as inhabitable Forrests and Desarts In the whole these two Letters may well be consider'd as a Supplement of the Antient and Present State of Muscovy published at the time of His Czarish Majesty's being in England many things of Moment which have happened since being inserted here and related upon the Credit of those Persons who had the opportunity of taking the best Information that can be expected of this kind I will not pretend to enlarge much upon the Historical Portraicture given us by Father Bouvet of the present Emperour of China supposing that his being an Eye-witness of what he relates and his offering it to the most Christian King will be a sufficient Plea both for his Authority and Veracity to the unbyass'd Reader ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER WHen I consider the Genius of the Age we live in which is so much inclined to call in question every thing that comes from far Remote Places I have all the Reason in the World to fear that these Memories will undergo the same Fate and will not meet with that favourable interpretation the faithfulness and exactness wherewith they are written might justly Challenge from unqualified Persons But as I have not inserted the least thing of which I have not either been an Eye-witness my self or else have received it my self from unquestionable hands so I am apt to flatter my self that the Reader will look upon this Relation with another Eye than is commonly done upon ordinary accounts I hope no body will think me so Impudent as to dare to Present to the most quick-sighted and greatest Monarch of the World any thing which is not in all its circumstances agreeable to Truth which must heeds bring upon me the just Indignation of His Majesty and at the same time be a means to forfeit the Good Opinion of the Greatest Emperour of the Orient But whatever the Spirit of Contradiction may be able to invent to render these Memoirs suspected to the World I don't question but that Truth which is represented here without Contradiction in its Genuine Shape will protect me both here and in China against all gainsayers the only thing which I have to relent at being that I have not been able to represent in their full Lustre all such Matters as must needs be infinitely pleasing to all who are truly Zealous for the propagation of the Faith BOVVET TO THE Most Christian King May it please your Majesty THE Portraicture which I am taking the Liberty to present at this time to Your Majesty is certainly the One of the rarest and most curious that has been brought from the East All the Memoirs both of time past and even of this Country can furnish us but with very few Subjects which If I dare presume to say so are more worth Your Attention and Cnriosity I need not say any thing more than that it is the Portraicture of a Monarch who having the good Fortune to Resemble Your Majesty in most Respects enjoys the same Advantages in reference to his great Station among the Pagan Princes which Your Majesty is possess'd of in the Christian World The Jesuits which by Your Majesty have been Employed as Missionaries into China some years ago were not a little surprised to meet at the utmost corner of the Earth with what they had never seen before but in France that is to say a Prince who like Your self has improved his sublime Genius by that Greatness of Soul which alone renders hint worthy of the greatest Empire of the Vniverse who bas the same uncontrouled Power over his Passions at over his Subjects equally Adored by his People and Esteemed by his Neihgbours who as his Glorious Enterprizes have been Crowned with Success so stands more indebted for it to his own Valour and Conduct than Fortune In short a Prince in whom are center'd most of these great Qualifications requisite to makes an accomplish'd Hero and who would without question be accounted the most Glorious Monarch upon Earth if his Reign had not been coincident with that of Your Majesty It must be confess'd that hitherto be is so unhappy as to be a Pagan which makes him uncapable of these most Eminent Prerogatives without which all the other Royal Qualities want the most solid Foundation yet it may be truly said of him that he has made a considerable step towards it by the