Copy of a Letter from the Russian Chargé d’Affaires to the Ottoman Empire, Minciacky, in Constantinople, to HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning

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A copy of a letter from the Russian Chargé d’Affaires to the Ottoman Empire, Minciacky [Matvey Yakovlevich Minchaki], in Constantinople [Istanbul], to HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning, of 7 January 1827 [Old Style]/ 19 January 1827 [New Style]. The letter asks for the intervention of the British Mission in Tehran in the case of Honorary Consul Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov], a representative of the Saint Petersburg Imperial Glass Factory An East India Company trading post. , who has been imprisoned in Persia [Iran] along with his companions while transporting a gift to the Shah. In return Minciacky promises a reward from the Emperor of Russia [Tsar Alexander II].

This document was originally enclosed, numbered 3 in No. 42, in the letter of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. of the East India Company of 23 March 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/192).

Extent and format

1 item (2 folios)

Written in

French in Latin script

Type

Letter

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/9/70/207

History of this record

Date(s)

19 Jan 1827 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

GiftsDiplomacy

People & organisations

Russian Chargé d'Affaires to the Ottoman EmpireHM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire

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Copy of a Letter from the Russian Chargé d’Affaires to the Ottoman Empire, Minciacky, in Constantinople, to HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/9/70/207, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100038378586.0x00035e> [accessed 6 October 2024]

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