Доклады Международного конгресса ИИСАА. Т. 1

II. Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia / Ближний Восток, Кавказ и Центральная Азия Доклады Международного конгресса по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки. Т. 1. 2020 287 year four hunting dogs (‘dogs that follow the hawks and track quails’) and three small lap-dogs (lit.: ‘small bed dogs’) as well as three falcons and four gyrfalcons were requested to be brought fromAstrakhan for the eldest son of Nādir Shāh, Ri z̤ ā Qulī Mirzā. 1 Protocols of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna’s meetings with the executives of the Collegium of Foreign affairs record that after a decree signed by Elizabeth in April 1745, hunting birds and gyrfalconers were to be dispatched to the shah with the return embassy to Iran. 2 Sent with the embassy of Mikhail Golitsyn were twenty-two gyrfalcons, twelve hobbies and twelve falcons. 3 The first mention of an elephant sent to Russia fromArabia refers to the time of Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible) (1533–1584). 4 According to archival data, an elephant 1 AVPRI. Fond 77. Snosheniya Rossii s Persiei. Opis’ 77/1. 1740 g. Delo 9. Chast’ II. Fol. 889r–889v; 1741 g. Delo 11. Fol. 136r–136v. Kutepov mentions three gyrfalcons and two falcons brought to Iran in 1740, see Кутепов Н. И. Великокняжеская, царская и императорская охота на Руси. Т. III: Царская и императорская охота на Руси. Конец XVII и XVIII век. СПб.: Экспедиция заготовления государственных бумаг, 1902 / Kutepov N. I. Velikoknyazheskaya, tsarskaya i imperatorskaya okhota na Rusi [Grand Ducal, Tsarist and Imperial hunting in Russia]. St Petersburg: Ekspeditsiya zagotovleniya gosudarstvennykh bumag, 1902. Vol. III: Tsarskaya i imperatorskaya okhota na Rusi. Konets XVII i XVIII vek [Tsarist and Imperial hunting in Russia. Late 17th and 18th century]. (In Russian). Endnote 24. 2 AVPRI. Fond 2. Vnutrennie kollezhskie dela [Internal affairs of the Collegium]. Opis’ 2/6. 1745 g. Delo 814. Fols. 76v, 79v; Российский Архив: История Отечества в свидетельствах и документах XVIII–XX вв. М.: Российский фонд культуры; Студия «ТриТэ»; Российский Архив, 2007. [Вып. XVI] / Rossiyskiy arkhiv: Istoriya Otechestva v svidetel’stvakh i dokumentakh XVIII–XX vv. [Russian archive: History of Motherland in testimonies and documents of the 18 th –20 th centuries]. Moscow: Rossiyskiy fond kul’tury, Studiya ‘TriTe’, ‘Rossiyskiy Arkhiv’, 2000. [Issue XVI]. (In Russian). P. 111, 112. 3 Kutepov N. Velikoknyazheskaya, tsarskaya i imperatorskaya okhota na Rusi. P. 21–22, endnote 24. 4 Shtaden states that the animal was brought ‘fromArabia’ with a keeper, see Штаден Г. Записки о Московии. М.: Древлехранилище, 2008. Т. 1: Публикация / Shtaden G. (Staden Heinrich von). Zapiski o Moskovii [Notes on Muscovite affairs]. Moscow: Drevlekhranilish- che, 2008. Vol. 1: Text. (In Russian). P. 124–127, 170–171. See also Петрей де Ерлезунда, П. История о Великом княжестве Московском, происхождении великих русских князей, недавних смутах, произведенных там тремя Лжедмитриями, и о московских законах, нравах, правлении, вере и обрядах, которую собрал, описал и обнародовал Петр Петрей де Ерлезунда в Лейпциге 1620 года. М.: Университетская типография (Катков и К), 1867 / Petrei de Erlezunda P. Istoriya o Velikom knyazhestve Moskovskom, proiskhozhdenii velikikh russkikh knyazei, nedavnikh smutakh, proizvedennykh tam tremya Lzhedmitriyami, i o moskovskikh zakonakh, nravakh, pravlenii, vere i obryadakh, kotoruyu sobral, opisal i obnarodoval Petr Petrei de Erlezunda v Leiptsige 1620 goda [The history of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the origin of the Great Russian Princes, the recent turmoil organised there by three False Dmitrys, and Moscow laws, customs, government, faith and ceremonies gathered, described and made public by Petr de Erlezunda in Leipzig in 1620].