Russia, Asia

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 20th November 1663. After dinner I took him and my wife, and setting her in Covent Garden [Map] at her mother's, he and I to my Lord's, and thence I with Mr. Moore to White Hall, there the King [aged 33] and Council being close, and I thinking it an improper place to meet my Lord first upon the business; I took coach, and calling my wife went home, setting Mr. Moore down by the way, and having been late at the office alone looking over some plates of the Northern seas, the White seas, and Archangell river, I went home, and, after supper, to bed. My wife tells me that she and her brother have had a great falling out to-night, he taking upon him to challenge great obligation upon her, and taxing her for not being so as she ought to be to her friends, and that she can do more with me than she pretends, and I know not what, but God be thanked she cannot. A great talke there is today of a crush between some of the Fanatiques up in arms, and the King's men in the North; but whether true I know not yet.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 23rd November 1663. Lord's Day. Up and to Alderman Backwell's [aged 45], where Sir W. Rider, by appointment, met us to consult about the insuring of our hempe ship from Archangell, in which we are all much concerned, by my Lord Treasurer's [aged 56] command.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 16th September 1664. So home with it and to dinner; after dinner I forth with my boy to buy severall things, stools and andirons and candlesticks, &c., household stuff, and walked to the mathematical instrument maker in Moorefields [Map] and bought a large pair of compasses, and there met Mr. Pargiter, and he would needs have me drink a cup of horse-radish ale, which he and a friend of his troubled with the stone have been drinking of, which we did and then walked into the fields as far almost as Sir G. Whitmore's, all the way talking of Russia, which, he says, is a sad place; and, though Moscow is a very great city, yet it is from the distance between house and house, and few people compared with this, and poor, sorry houses, the Emperor himself living in a wooden house, his exercise only flying a hawk at pigeons and carrying pigeons ten or twelve miles off and then laying wagers which pigeon shall come soonest home to her house. All the winter within doors, some few playing at chesse, but most drinking their time away. Women live very slavishly there, and it seems in the Emperor's court no room hath above two or three windows, and those the greatest not a yard wide or high, for warmth in winter time; and that the general cure for all diseases there is their sweating houses, or people that are poor they get into their ovens, being heated, and there lie. Little learning among things of any sort. Not a man that speaks Latin, unless the Secretary of State by chance. Mr. Pargiter and I walked to the 'Change [Map] together and there parted, and so I to buy more things and then home, and after a little at my office, home to supper and to bed. This day old Hardwicke came and redeemed a watch he had left with me in pawne for 40s. seven years ago, and I let him gave it. Great talk that the Dutch will certainly be out this week, and will sail directly to Guinny, being convoyed out of the Channel with 42 sail of ships.

On 17th October 1772 Ivan Ivanowitch Bariatinsky was born at Smolensk.

At the end of July 1728 Thomas Ward Consul General Russia and Jane Goodwin [aged 29] arrived at the court of St Petersburg.

On 24th October 1784 Yekaterina Semyonovna Vorontsova Countess Pembroke and Montgomery was born to Semyon Romanovich Vorontsova [aged 40] at St Petersburg. She married 25th January 1808 George Augustus Herbert 11th Earl Pembroke 8th Earl Montgomery, son of Henry Herbert 10th Earl Pembroke 7th Earl Montgomery and Elizabeth Spencer Countess Pembroke and Montgomery, and had issue.

On 18th September 1799 Frederic Leighton was born to James Bonifcae Leighton [aged 30] and Frances l'Anson [aged 29] at St Petersburg where his father was serving as physician to the Tsar. His middle name was Septimus. He married 24th June 1826 Augusta Susan Nash and had issue.

On 10th October 1803 Bishop George Moberly was born in St Petersburg.

On 13th June 1825 Ivan Ivanowitch Bariatinsky [aged 52] died at St Petersburg.

On 28th January 1844 Friedrich Wilhelm Hesse-Kassel [aged 23] and Alexandra Nikolaevna Holstein Gottorp Romanov [aged 18] were married at St Petersburg. She died in childbirth seven months later. They were fourth cousin once removed. He a great x 2 grandson of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.