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Doc. 205.] 11
SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1733 ,
silver ornaments, marches at the head of the rifle corps to
take part in the new games, and to contest the honours afresh.
The country abounds with the very best hops, equal to those
of Brunswick, the greater part of which used to be exported
to Sweden; but, as this is now forbidden, they scarcely com
mand any price.
May 30. Old Strelitz was reached. New Strelitz is being
built by the present duke at the distance of half a Swedish mile
from it; a new palace is in the process of erection, which will
be the duke’s residence. This with respect to the duchy of
Mecklenburg, and the duke’s family : the country was formerly
divided into three duchies [Mecklenburg, Warle, and Star
gard], which by succession became united under one heredi
tary duke,* who now resides at Schwerin. There he married
his first wife, who was related to the imperial family and to
that of Brandenburg. His second wife, a relative of the
Russian Czar,† lives at present with her daughter at St. Peters
burg, her sistert being the reigning Empress of Russia. Her
daughters is so much beloved by her Imperial Majesty, that
she has been appointed heiress to the Russian throne. Both
the mother and daughter refuse to return to their husband
and father, who is now living at Schwerin as a duke with
scarcely any dominion, and as a husband without a wife. It
is even thought that an administrator will be appointed in his
place by the Emperor. The nobles have been the cause of
* Duke Charles Leopold, who reigned from 1713 to 1746. Aided by
his relative, Peter the Great of Russia, he endeavoured to break down the
constitutional government of Mecklenburg, but he was resisted by the
neighbouring German princes and the German Emperor Charles VI, who
took the part of the constituent houses. The feud between the reigning
duke and the constituent assemblies did not terminate, until 1755, when a
compromise was made by his successor Duke Christian Louis.
+ Catharina, daughter of Ivan III, step-brother of Peter the Great.
Anna Ivanowna, second daughter of Ivan III, and Duchess of Cour
land, was elected Empress of Russia in 1730. She died in 1740.
§ Anna Carlowna, daughter of Duke Charles Leopold of Mecklenburg
and Catharina, was born in 1718. She married Anton Ulric, Duke of
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Her son, Ivan IV, was declared heir-apparent to
the Russian throne by the Empress Anna Ivanowna. After the death of
the Empress in 1740, she became regent in the place of her son ; but was
soon displaced by Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great.
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