ABSTRACT
The Georgian King Alexander's ambassadors, the monk Kiril (377) and the under-dyak Savva were received on the 18th of F ebruary by the gentleman of the Privy Council and Master of the Horse [yaselnichi] Mikhail Ignatyevich Tatishchevz and dyak Grigori Klobukov3 at the Posolski Prikaz, at the command
of the Sovereign Tsar and great Prince Boris Fedorovich of all Russia. The attendant officers Grigori Elizarov and Misyur Solovtsev had been sent to fetch the Georgian ambassadors. Horses from the royal stables and a sledge from the Chudov monastery were sent for the Archimandrite, and a sledge-horse and a sledge from the royal stables for the underdyak. There were forty town gentry in clean mourning attire in the ante-chamber of the Posolskaya Palata, while streltsy in ordinary uniforms were placed in the square in front of the
(378) Posolskaya Palata. When King Alexander's ambassadors drove into the walled town, they were taken past the Razryadny Seni,I and they alighted from the sledges in front of the Posolskaya Palata. When they entered the chamber the gentleman of the Privy Council and Master of the Horse Mikhail Ignatyevich and dyak Grigori Klobukov got up and asked the monk whether he was a priest; he replied that he was an Archimandrite. So they asked for his blessing and went back to their seats, and they bade the Archimandrite and under-dyak Savva sit down, too.
