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RUSSIA - TSAR ALEXEI MIKHAILOVICH
Printed gramota with manuscript additions, Moscow, 17 January 1668

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RUSSIA - TSAR ALEXEI MIKHAILOVICH

Printed gramota with manuscript additions, being a grant in favour of Mikhail Musorgskii of lands in the Zhizhetsk parish in Slutsk district, including the villages of Maksimovsk and Semenovsk and surrounding uninhabited lands, with details of borders, rivers etc., the reverse with scribal inscription, 1 page, with protective backing leaf and original red and gold damask guard, red wax seal with double-headed eagle and St George, held by twisted silver thread rope, some tears and losses at folds and edges, rebacked, 655 x 470mm., Moscow, 17 January 1668

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A FINE EXAMPLE OF A PRINTED GRAMOTA FROM THE REIGN OF TSAR ALEKSEI MIKHAILOVICH (1645-76) during the campaigns against the incursion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the largest and most powerful country in eastern Europe at the period. These were granted to soldiers, administrators and allies of Muscovite Russia in the large sparsely-inhabited border regions in the west.

The recipient of this grant is most likely Mikhail Ivanovich Musorgskii (d.1691), the son of Ivan Petrovich Musorgskii (d.1656) and Irina Ivanovna Vorontsova-Vel'iaminova (d.1686). The wife of Mikhail Ivanovich is not recorded, but their two sons were Bogdan and Filipp, the latter being the great-great-great grandfather of the famous composer Modest Musorgskii.

Slutsk lies some 100km south of Minsk in present-day Belorus, but the parish of Zhizhetsk and the two mentioned villages are no longer recorded.

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The date of the document should read 13th January 1670.

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