FROM THE ENTRY IN THE CHAMBER-FURRIER'S JOURNAL ABOUT THE RECEPTION OF KYRGYZ ENVOYS BY EMPRESS CATHERINE II
March 15, 1786
On Sunday, that is, on the fortieth day after the successful delivery of Her Imperial Highness, the Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna, during which Her Imperial Highness had the fortieth-day prayer and listened to the liturgy in the small court church, where the exit was at 11 o'clock in the morning together with His Imperial Highness, the Tsarevich, and Their Imperial Highnesses, the Grand Dukes and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna from their chambers, and during the liturgy, Her Imperial Highness herself graciously presented the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna for communion of the holy mysteries of Christ.
After Her Imperial Highness had completed the fortieth-day prayer and the liturgy had begun, which was performed by the chaplain of Her Imperial Majesty, Her Imperial Highness and the Tsarevich, having been absent from the church, proceeded to the apartments of Her Imperial Majesty.
Then, at half-past 12, Her Imperial Majesty together with His Imperial Highness left the inner chambers through the dining room to go to the great court church for the divine liturgy.
After its conclusion in the church, Her Imperial Majesty and His Imperial Highness, having received congratulations from the members of the Synod and the distinguished clergy, and having graciously acknowledged them, returned from the church and walked through the ceremonial rooms, and in the room where the Cavalry Guards were stationed, Her Imperial Majesty graciously received congratulations from foreign ministers and acknowledged them, then in the same room, Her Imperial Majesty was presented by the Vice-Chancellor Count Ivan Andreyevich Osterman with the deputies of the Kyrgyz leadership sent to Her Imperial Majesty's court.
After that, upon arriving in the Cavalry room, Her Imperial Majesty graciously allowed Her Highness Princess of Württemberg to present distinguished Russian individuals and court knights, and then she retired to her inner apartments.
Then congratulations were presented to His Imperial Highness, the Tsarevich, from all the aforementioned distinguished Russian individuals and court knights, as well as from foreign ministers and distinguished nobility in the chambers of Their Imperial Highnesses.
Her Imperial Majesty dined in the room where diamond items were invited to the table:
1. Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova,
2. Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov,
3. Alexey Petrovich Megunov,
4. Prince Ivan Sergeyevich Baryatinsky,
5. Prince Fyodor Sergeyevich Baryatinsky.
In the evening, nothing special happened at the Court, and as usual, at 7 o'clock, the usual distinguished persons of both sexes and names were invited to the inner chambers of Her Imperial Majesty and stayed until 9 o'clock in the evening.
RGIA. F.516. OpL.D.68. L.103 ob—105. Original, manuscript.
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