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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 303 for storage to the Ober-Jägermeister Chancellery. 1 The last female elephant gifted by Nādir Shāh died the same year. 2 Catherine II (the Great) (1762–1796) ordered that the fourteen remaining keepers, Orthodox Christian converts, many of whom were well on in years and had suffered serious injuries, continue receiving full salaries, provisions, firewood and uniform dress for the rest of their lives. 3 Several decades later, in 1797 and 1815, elephants appeared in St Petersburg again with embassies sent from Bukhara and Iran. 1 Ibid. Р. 292. The caparisons were used to decorate the elephants on rare occasions, such as parades. Kutepov mentions the elephant parade that took place on 6 September 1758 and was observed by Elizabeth Petrovna and Prince Charles of Saxony . See Kutepov N. Velikok- nyazheskaya, tsarskaya i imperatorskaya okhota na Rusi. Р. 132. On 9 June 1759 Prince Charles of Saxony , Duke of Courland, visited the Elephant Yard in the company of Count Kirill Razumovsky, where he was shown the elephants and white bears. Ibid. Endnote 126. 2 Kutepov N. Velikoknyazheskaya, tsarskaya i imperatorskaya okhota na Rusi. Р. 146, 204; endnote 195; Khartanovich M. F., Khartanovich M. V. Letopis’ Kunstkamery. Р. 292. 3 Kutepov N. Velikoknyazheskaya, tsarskaya i imperatorskaya okhota na Rusi. Р. 146, 148; endnote 195. However, these expenses were not provided in the budget of the Chancellery in 1773 and the following year. Ibid. Endnote 188. Fig. 7. V. D. Saltykov. Persian procession marching along the Neva embankment on 20 December 1815. (Russia, 1816) The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Inv. no. ERR-965