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Aleksandr Menshikov's response to the demands of the Lviv magistrate regarding the protection of the city

Aleksandr Menshikov (signature: князь Александр Меншиковъ) City of Lviv / Magistrate of the city of Lviv
15 Nov[embris] s[tylo] v[eteri] 1706 · Zhovkva

Aleksandr Menshikov exempts Lviv's estates from levies and winter military quarters, promising to assign protective guards and ordering officers to stop abuses. At the same time, he obliges the city authorities to hold markets and orders the residents to unconditionally accept Russian kopecks from the Tsar's soldiers.

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Translation / modern text

[P. 2] Response to the demands of the city of Lviv, submitted to His Highness Prince Menshikov, Governor-General of Ingria and Estonia, General of Cavalry. His Highness the Prince exempts the villages belonging to the city from winter quartering and from providing bread and provisions that a passing soldier might demand. To point 2. In order for the promise of His Highness the Prince to have a real effect, His Highness the Prince promises to assign to the city and the villages as numerous a protective guard as the city requests. To point 3. His Highness the Prince has already issued an order to Colonel Mikhail Ostafievich Rybin not to demand anything from the city and its dependencies, but to withdraw immediately. To point 4. Our people's transport wagons passing through Lviv are to live at their own expense, for which the assigned guards are to keep a close [...]. To point 5. His Highness the Prince is not writing to His Highness the Commandant of Lviv for the reason that our people will not obey him, but such an order will be issued to the officer appointed to protect the whole that he shall protect both the city and what belongs to the city from all inconveniences, and send those who commit arbitrary acts and excesses here for trial by His Highness the Prince. As for the rest, His Highness the Prince demands that ordinary markets be held in the city and that food rations be sold. And since our soldiers do not have thalers or tymfs, therefore [P. 3] His Highness the Prince strongly demands that no one dare to reject kopecks, refuse to accept them, or refuse to sell goods when someone does not have a thaler. And so that this will of His Highness the Prince be known to all, the magistrate of the city of Lviv should announce it to the sound of trumpets, according to local custom. Given in Zhovkva on the 15th of November, old style, 1706. [Signature in Cyrillic:] Prince Aleksandr Menshikov [Below, a black wax seal under paper] [P. 4] [Blank reverse side, archival notes at the bottom:] 616 [...] 1706

Original wording — transcription

[S. 2] Respons Na desideria Miasta Lwowa podany Xi[ę]ciu Jm[oś]ci Menszikowi Generalnemu Gubernatorowi Ingryi y Estonyi, Generalowi od Kawaleryi. Uwalnia Xiąże Jm[ość] Wioski do Miasta należące od Consi- stencyi Zymowey y Chlebow y Prowiantow, ktore zołnierz przechodzący mogł pretendowac; Ad 2. Aby tedy obietnica Xięcia Jm[oś]ci w samym skutku była, Xią- ze Jm[ość] obiecuie do Miasta y wiosek tak wiele Załogow dac, iak wiele Miasto affectuie. Ad 3. Do Pułkownika Michayła Ostafiowicza Rybina iuż Xiąże Jm[ość] ordinans dał, aby nic z Miasta et attinentiarum praeten- dował, ale ex nunc ustąpił. Ad 4. Podwody naszy ludzi, a p[r]zez Lwow iącey, za swoy grosz maią żyć, na co Załogowie dany, maią pilną miec [pieczą?]. Ad 5. Do Jm[oś]ci P[an]a Commendanta Lwowskiego nie pisze Xiąże Jm[ość] z tych miar, poniewaz naszy Ludzy mu parierowac nie będą, ale offi- cerowi na Całostwo Commenderowanemu taki dany będzie Ordynans, żeby od wszelkich aggrawaciach ochronił tak Miasto, iako y co do Miasta Należy, a swawolnych y exor- bitancie robiących tu d[o] Sądu Xięcia Jm[oś]ci odesłał. De caetero praetenduię Xiąze Jm[ość], żeby Targi zwyczayny w Miei- scie były odprawiony y Rassyon przedany. A gdy u na- szych zołnierzow Talarow y Tymfow niemasz, tedy [S. 3] Xiąże Jm[ość] usilnie rząda, żeby nikt nie ważył się Kopiyky brakowac, nie wziąść, albo Towary nie przedać, kiedy Ta- larz kto nie będzie miał. Aby zaś ta wola Xięcia Jm[oś]ci była wszy[st]kim wiadoma, tedy Maiestrat Miasta Lwowa powinien ma być przez trąbą, według zwycziu oney divulgować. Dato w Żółkwi d[nia] 15 Nov[embris] s[tylo] v[eteri] 1706. [Podpis cyrylicą:] князь Александр Меншиковъ [Poniżej czarna pieczęć lakowa pod papierem] [S. 4] [Czysta strona grzbietowa, na dole notatki archiwalne:] 616 [?] 1706

Reading notes

The document is an official response (respons) of Prince Aleksandr Menshikov to the requests (desideria) of the Lviv authorities. Dated according to the old style (s. v. = stylo veteri, November 15, 1706, which corresponds to November 26, 1706, in the new style). The original wax seal and Menshikov's handwritten signature in Cyrillic are preserved. P. 4 is the blank verso of the quire.

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