PERIOD OF PETER THE GREAT Excerpt from a handwritten letter addressed to Peter I. [1700s].

1 p.; 20.5 x 16 cm The author reports that on 2 April he received a letter from the Tsar concerning uniforms and money for a battalion arriving in St Petersburg. He asks the Tsar to grant him the inheritance of his uncle’s villages, which his grandfather had received for his service, so as not to lose them.