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II. Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia / Ближний Восток, Кавказ и Центральная Азия 290 Proceedings of the International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa.Vol. I. 2020 as lions 1 and other animals, among them both monkeys and dappled horses’, to the Russian tsar. 2 Next time an elephant was brought from Iran only five years later. A young male elephant in its seventh year was shipped to St Petersburg via Shlis- selburg on 30 October 1723. 3 According to Kutepov, on 29 July 1725, Catherine I (1725–1727), accompanied by Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, took a close look at the mammal that was brought to the meadow in front of the Summer Palace. 4 The next mammal that reached St Petersburg in 1737 (though in a number of publications the year of 1736 is mentioned) is said to have come from India and was accompanied by two Indian keepers. 5 This time brought to St Petersburg was 1 Delivered from Iran throughout the 17 th —first half of the 18 th century, leopards and—occa- sionally— lions were not uncommon as diplomatic presents in Russia. On lions, see, for instance, Kutepov N. Velikoknyazheskaya, tsarskaya i imperatorskaya okhota na Rusi. Endnote 22. 2 Бушев П. П. Посольство Артемия Волынского в Иран в 1715–1718 гг. (по рус- ским архивам). М.: Наука, 1978 / Bushev P. P. Posol’stvo Artemiya Volynskogo v Iran v 1715–1718 gg. (po russkim arkhivam) [The embassy of Artemiy Volynskiy to Iran in 1715–1718 (based on Russian archives)]. Moscow: Nauka, 1978. (In Russian). Р. 152. On the elephant that has never reached the Russian capital, see Алиев Ф. М. Миссия посланника русского государства А. П. Волынского в Азербайджане (1716–1718 гг.) / АН АзССР, Институт истории. Баку: Элм, 1979. / Aliev F. M. Missiya poslannika russkogo gosudarstva A. P. Volynskogo vAzerbaidzhane (1716–1718 gg.) [The mission of the envoy of the Russian State A. P. Volynskiy in Azerbaijan (1716–1718)]. Baku: Elm, 1979. P. 117. 3 Дневник камер-юнкера Берхгольца, веденный им в России в царствование Петра Великого с 1721-го по 1725-й год. М.: Типография Лазаревского института восточных языков, 1860. Ч. 3: 1723-й год. / Dnevnik kamer-yunkera Berkhgol’tsa, vedenniy im v Rossii v tsarstvovanie Petra Velikogo s 1721-go po 1725-i god [Kamer-Junker Berhgolz’s diaries, kept in Russia during the reign of Peter the Great, from 1721 to 1725]. Moscow: Tipografiya Lazarevskogo instituta vostochnykh yazykov, 1860. Part 3: 1723 AD. (In Russian). P. 247, 248; Походный журнал 1723 года. СПб.: [Изд. 2-м Отд-нием Собственной его имп. величества канцелярии], 1855 / Pokhodniy zhurnal 1723 goda [The campaign journal for 1723]. St Petersburg, 1855. (In Russian) P. 40. See also Столпянский П. Н. Петербург: Как возник, основался и рос Санкт-Питербурх. Пг.: Издательское Товарищество «Колос», 1918 / Stolpyanskiy P. N. Peterburg: Kak voznik, osnovalsya i ros Sankt-Piterburkh. [St Peters- burg: The way Sankt-Piterburkh appeared, was founded and grew. Petrograd: Izdatel’skoe Tovarishchestvo “Kolos”, 1918. (In Russian). P. 264; Столпянский П. Старый Петербург: В зверином и птичьем мире // Человек и природа . Популярный естественно-научный журнал . М.–Л.: Государственное издательство, 1926. № 2. Стб. 81–82 / Stolpyanskiy P. Stariy Peterburg: V zverinom i ptichyem mire [Old Petersburg: In the animal and bird king- dom] // Chelovek i priroda. Populyarniy estestvenno-nauchniy zhurnal . Moscow–Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1926. No. 2. (In Russian). Columns 81–82. 4 However, the reference cited by Kutepov appears to be either incomplete or misleading. See Kutepov N. Velikoknyazheskaya, tsarskaya i imperatorskaya okhota na Rusi. P. 194; endnote 236. 5 Kutepov N. Velikoknyazheskaya, tsarskaya i imperatorskaya okhota na Rusi. End- note 251. Stored in AVPRI are documents related to the dispatching of this animal to Russia.