Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 1318
Title	Part encoded letter from Charles Whitworth [later Baron Whitworth of Galway], Mosco[w], Russia, to Robert Harley [later 1st Earl of Oxford]; 11/22 Sep. 1706
Date	22 September 1706
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Comments on the movements of the Czar; has no news of the Russian army or whether Field Marshall Sheremetoff has yet taken the command conferred upon him; reports that General Ogilvy is to enter the service of the King of Poland in the same capacity; reports the instructions to Monsieur Ismaelhoff that he should wait on the King of Prussia 'without any charter'. [This section of document written in cypher has been decoded at some stage]; discusses briefly the dispute regarding the King of Prussia's 'design of owning Stanislaus'.
Term	diplomacy, with Russia
	armies, Russian, command
	appointments, diplomatic, by Russia
	armies, Polish, command
	foreign policy, Prussian, towards Stanislaus
	intelligence, cypher

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6169	Peter I (1672-1725); Emperor of Russia; ( succeeded 1682)	1672-1725
NA30008	Sheremetoff; - (fl 1706); Field Marshall; commander of the Russian army	fl 1706
NA30009	Ogilvy; - (fl 1706); General; head of the army of the King of Poland	fl 1706
NA29940	Augustus Frederick I (1670-1733); King of Poland and Elector of Saxony; ('The Strong'; elected 1697; deposed 1706; restored 1709; Elector of Saxony as Frederick August I from 1694)	1670-1733
NA29458	Frederick I (1657-1713 ); King of Prussia; ( acc. 1701; styled Frederick III Elector of Brandenberg until 1701)	1657-1713
NA30010	Ismaelhoff; - (fl 1706); Monsieur; captain; Muscovite envoy to King of Prussia; brother of Muscovite ambassador to Denmark	fl 1706
NA30006	Whitworth; Charles (1675-1725); Baron Whitworth of Galway; envoy-extraordinary to Russia 1704-10; cr. 1721	1675-1725
NA893	Harley; Robert (1661-1724); 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; M.P.; speaker 1701-1705; P.M. 1711-1714	1661-1724