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





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