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II. Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia / Ближний Восток, Кавказ и Центральная Азия 296 Proceedings of the International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa.Vol. I. 2020 In early summer of 1741 preparatory arrangements were started in St Petersburg to meet and house the foreign guests. The Elephant Yard (‘Slonoviy dvor’) constructed near the Fontanka river close to the Summer Palace (Letniy dvorets) for the elephant sent from Iran with the previous embassy was to be enlarged. Following the instructions given to the Chancellery of Buildings by the Senate in accordance with the notification from the Cabinet of Ministers 2 , architects Zemtsov and 1 Внутренний быт русского государства с 17-го октября 1740 года по 25-е ноября 1741 года по документам, хранящимся в Московском Архиве Министерства Юстиции. М.: Типография Л. Ф. Снегирева, 1886. Книга 2: Высшие государственные учреждения / Vnutrenniy byt russkogo gosudarstva s 17-go oktyabrya 1740 goda po 25-e noyabrya 1741 goda po dokumentam, khranyashchimsya v MoskovskomArkhive MinisterstvaYustitsii [The inner life of the Russian State from October 17, 1740 to November 25, 1741, according to the documents stored in the Moscow Archives of the Ministry of Justice]. Book 2: Vysshie gosudarstvenniye uchrezhdeniya. Moscow: Tipografiya L. F. Snegireva, 1886. (In Russian). P. 432, pl. 2 Сенатский архив. СПб.: Типография Правительствующего Сената, 1890. Т. III: Журналы и определения Правительствующего Сената за март, апрель и май 1741 г. / Senatskiy arkhiv [The Senate archive]. St Petersburg: Tipografiya Pravitel’stvuyushchego Senata, 1890. Vol. III: Zhurnaly i opredeleniya Pravitel’stvuyushchego Senata za mart, aprel’ i mai 1741 g. (In Russian). P. 159; Vnutrenniy byt russkogo gosudarstva. Book 1. Р. 330. Fig. 4. Plan of the Imperial capital city of St Petersburg, composed in 1737 (detail). 1 No. 31. Elephant Yard The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Inv. no. 105769