[Zhalovannai͡a︡ gramota] 1685 Apr. 13, granting land to Kharlam Semenovich Ōfrōsimōv in payment for long service to the tsars.
Contributors: Ōfrōsimōv, Kharlam Semenovich.; Russia Sovereign (1682-1725 : Peter I)
Published: 1685
Language: rus
Subjects: Russia -- Charters, grants, privileges.; Russia -- Economic conditions -- To 1861 -- Sources.
Other titles: Bozhiei͡u︡ Milostii͡u︡, my velikīe Gosudari T͡S︡ari, i velikīe Kni͡a︡zi
Description: Printed charter with ms. interpolations granting payment in the form of lands in Russia from Peter the Great (Petr Alekseevich) and his brother Ivan Alekseevich to landowner Kharlam Ōfrōsimōv for his long and very good service to Aleksei Mikhailovich, Fedor Alekseevich, Peter and Ivan, which began in 1654.
Notes: Acquired by LC from Serge Cheremeteff, Washington, D.C.
Seventeenth-century Muscovite printed charter. Cf. A.V. Lavrentʹev. "Propavshai͡a︡ gramota" 1682 goda. In Arkhiv russkoĭ istorii, v. 6 (1995): p. 206-225.
Signed and approved by the official (dʹi͡a︡k) Avtonom Ivanov; signed at end by the scribe (podʹi͡a︡chiĭ) Efreemka Sukmanov.
Issued in Moscow by Pomestnyĭ prikaz (the State land grant office) and printed in the late 17th-century font of Moskovskai͡a︡ tipografii͡a︡.
Baroque printer's devices at top and sides of text include the Russian state coat of arms with the double-headed eagle. First word of text printed in a monogram: Bozhiei͡u︡. Black ink on cream-colored paper; scribe's signature in brown ink. Paper, probably French, has the watermark WR under a fleur-de-lis under a crown, and the countermark HSPB under a cross. Paper shows some foxing and 18th-century repairs.
Attached at bottom with an embroidered silk fastener to a second, blank leaf of paper at back and a cover of 17th-century silk brocade cloth. A twisted cord threaded through the fastener has remnants of a wax seal.