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INDEX OF PERSONS. 223 Coventry, Sir William, secretary to tlie Admiralty,
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Passages from the diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries : A.D. 1635-A.D. 1699"
INDEX OF PERSONS. 223
Coventry, Sir William, secretary to tlie
Admiralty, 89, 93, 95.
Cooke, Mr.; 88, 89, 154, 163.
Cooke, Mr. James, merchant in Mosko,
94, 110.
Craig of Rosecraig, Mr. Alexander, 206.
Cranstoun, Lord, 23.
Crawfuird, Colonel, 39, 40, 41, 42, 46,
50, 51.
Crawfuiid, Madame, 122, 154.
Crawford, the Earl of, 140.
Crawfurd, Captain Daniel, 170 ; Major,
177.
Crimea, the Khan of the, 105.
Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector, 20,
27, 59.
Cross, Mrs., 127.
Cruden (Crochdan, Crowdan), school-
masters of, 4, 5.
Cruickshank, Walter, gardener at
Wastertoune, 21 1.
Cruikshank, Gawn, 176, 208, 209, 211.
CuUen, the Laird of, 4, 192.
Cuming of Auchry, William, 147.
Cuming, James, notary public, 211, 214.
Cumming, Robert, skipper, 152.
Cuthbert, St., 140.
Daltell of Binns, Sir Thomas, 144.
Dalyell of Binns, General Thomas, 78,
79, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 89, 99, 144.
Daniell, Mr. Richard, 113.
Dartmouth, Lord, 129.
Davidson, Dr. William, physician to the
King of Poland, 30^ 32', 88, 99, 102,
103.
Davidson, Major, 35.
Davidow, Iwan, the Dyak, 55,
Davidson, Sir William, Conservator of
the Scots Privileges in the Nether-
lands, 86, 96, 102, 103.
Denmark, the King of, 6, 69, 123.
Dcnniark, Prince George of, husband of
the Princess Anne, 127, 134, 135, 136,
138.
Denmark, Anna Sophia, the Princess
of, 138.
Dempster, Master John, advocate, 204.
Deskow, Vasily Yek. (Wassily Jakow-
lewitsch Daschow), Russian envoy
to England, 57, 59, 60.
Despauter, John, the Grammarian, 4.
Dick, John, apprentice to Robert
Sleich, 14.
Dietriechstein, Anna Francisca, Prin-
cess of, 26, 27.
Divee, Mr.. 96, 98, 103.
Dolgoruky, Boris T'eodorowitsch, a
Boyar, 164.
Donaldsone, John, in Dantzic, 7.
Douglas, Robert, General, (afterwards
Field-marshal), 21, 22, 23, 25, 26,
27,41.
Douglas, of Standingstane, Patrick, 21.
Douglas, of Whittingliame, William,
21.
Douglas, William, 21, 22.
Douglas, Archibald, 22.
Douglas, Richard, 22.
Douglas, Sir Robert, the peerage writer,
128.
Douglas, Jacobus, 199.
Dowgall, Major, 133, 143.
Downy, Finlay, 66, 103.
Drummond, Lieutenant-Colonel, 25.
Drummond of Cromlix, Lieutenant-
General William, (first Viscount of
Strathallan), 78, 79, 83, 84, 85, 89,
94, 99, 110, 126, 127, 128, 144.
Drummond, Margareta, relicta quondam
Johannis Gordun de Petlurg, 203.
Dunbar, Father William, 142.
Dunbar, de Berwick, Dominus Alex-
ander, 142.
Duncan, Rittmaster, 22.
Duncane, Georgius, notarius publicus,
204.
Duncansone, Patricius, 199.
Dundee, Viscount, 145.
Dunfermline, James, fourth Earl of, 141,
142, 145.
Dunfermline, Lady Jean Gordon, count-
ess of, 145.
Dunluce, Randal, Lord, afterwards
Marquis of Antrim, 143.
Durham, the Bishop of, 138.
Gordon was brought up and remained a lifelong Roman Catholic, at a time when the Church was being persecuted in Scotland. At age of fifteen, he entered the Jesuit college at Braunsberg, East Prussia, then part of Poland. In 1661, after many years experiences as a soldier of fortune, he joined the Russian army under Tsar Aleksei I, and in 1665 was sent on a special mission to England. After his return, he distinguished himself in several wars against the Turks and Tatars in southern Russia. In recognition of his service he was promoted to major-general in 1678, was appointed to the high command at Kiev in 1679, and in 1683 was made lieutenant-general. In 1687 and 1689 he took part in expeditions against the Tatars in the Crimea, being made a full general. Later in 1689, a revolution broke out in Moscow, and with the troops under his command, Gordon virtually decided events in favor of Peter the Great against the Regent, Tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna. Consequently, he was for the remainder of his life in high favor with the Tsar, who confided to him the command of his capital during his absence from Russia. In 1696, Gordon's design of a "moveable rampart" played a key role in helping the Russians take Azov. One of Gordon's convinced the Tsars to establish the first Roman Catholic church and school in Muscovy, of which he remained the main benefactor and headed the Catholic community in Russia until his death. For his services his second son James, brigadier of the Russian army, was created Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1701. At the end of his life the Tsar, who had visited Gordon frequently during his illness, was with him when he died, and with his own hands closed his eyes. General Gordon left behind him a uniquely detailed diary of his life and times, written in English. This is preserved in manuscript in the Russian State Military Archive in Moscow. Passages from the Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries (1635–1699) was printed, under the editorship of Joseph Robertson, for the Spalding Club, at Aberdeen, Scotland, 1859.
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