Austrian Councillor of Commerce Karl von Zinzendorf’s Stay in Moscow (Based on His Diary of 1774)
Journal: Historia provinciae – the journal of regional history(rus )
Year: 2019

After a number of longer European journeys, Count Karl von Zinzendorf, the councillor of commerce of the Vienna court, visited Moscow in 1774. He was accompanied by the Portuguese Duke Don Juan de Braganza. Between August 6 and 11, 1774, they stayed in German Quarter (Nemetskaya Sloboda), at the place of a wine merchant called Louis. In Moscow the travellers met the leading politicians of the Russian Empire: Prince Mikhail Volkonsky, Count Fedor Ostermann, and Count Petr Sheremetev. They witness