Bm'K *n t^ie ^6th Year ° f his age. His remains were tranfported
— 4— > to that convent, and buried with all the ceremonies ufed at
the interment o f patriarchs * .
* For the Hiilory o f Nicon, I have fol- a fpirited and candid account o f this great
lowed Muller in his Nachricht von No« patriarch, to which I hold myfelf indebted
vogorod in S. R . G . V o l. V . p. 541 to 559. for a few reflections. Hift. de Ruffle, v. III.
L ’Evefque has drawn from this fame fource p. 391 to 3 9 4 ; alfo 417 to 430«
C HAP.
C H A P . V.
Ruffian archives. Unpfdh. Jlat e-paper s.— Commencement o f
the connection between the courts e/London and Mofcow.
— ■Correspondence between queen Elizabeth and the
tzar Ivan Vaffilievitch II.— His demand o f the lady Anne
Hafting* in marriage.— Account o f that negotiation.—
Other difpatches.— A letter from the emperor Maximilian I.
to Vaflili Ivanovitch.^-ifc/c o f the title, o f tza r.— Negotiation
between Peter the Great ancb the European courts
relative, to the title1 o f emperor.— Unmerjity.— Syllabus o f
the leElures.— Account o f Matthaei’s Catalogue o f the'
Greek manufcripts in the library e ft be lialy Synod. Hymn
to Geres attributed to, Homer, M c .& c .
TV/TR, Muller obligingly accompanied u s to the place i n c h a p .
; t-he Khita«g.orod> where the public archieves are d o v - *'
pofited ; which, is a ftrong brick building, containingffieverai:
vaulted apartments with iron floors. Thefe archives,, canfift-
ing of a numerous collection of ftate-papers, were crouded
into boxes, and thrown afide like common lumber, until
the prefer« emprefs ordered them « a be. reviled and’ arranged.
In conformity, to this mandate; Mr. Muller has dif-
P° ed them in chronological order, with fuch perfect regu-
anty, tlla,: any. Angle document may be infpe&ed with little
rouble. They are enclofted in feparate cabinets with glafs
m a t . thofe relative to,Ruffia are all claffed according» the
everai provinces which they concern; and over each cabinet
U l * *» «■ »