Copy of a Letter from the Russian Chargé d’Affaires to the Ottoman Empire, Minciacky, in Constantinople, to HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning
Copy of a Letter from the Russian Chargé d’Affaires to the Ottoman Empire, Minciacky, in Constantinople, to HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning
Copy of a Letter from the Russian Chargé d’Affaires to the Ottoman Empire, Minciacky, in Constantinople, to HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning
Date:
1827/1827
Description:
Abstract: A copy of a letter from the Russian Chargé d’Affaires to the Ottoman Empire, Minciacky [Matvey Yakovlevich Minchaki], in Constantinople [Istanbul], to HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning, of 7 January 1827 [Old Style]/ 19 January 1827 [New Style]. The letter transmits a gift of a diamond snuffbox from the Emperor of Russia [Tsar Alexander II] to Major William Monteith, along with a letter of thanks from the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs [Count Karl Robert Nesselrode] in recognition of the assistance Monteith provided to Prince Menchikoff [Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov] during the latter’s imprisonment in Persia [Iran] (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/208).This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2 in No. 42, in the letter of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 23 March 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/192).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)