CATHERINE II THE GREAT: (1729-1796) The Empress approves the digging of ponds at the estate of Tsarkoe Selo

CATHERINE II THE GREAT: (1729-1796) The Empress approves the digging of ponds at the estate of Tsarkoe Selo

CATHERINE II THE GREAT: (1729-1796) Empress of Russia 1762-96, Catherine the Great. An excellent and very attractive D.S., `Ekaterina´, in Cyrillic, folio, Tsarkoe Selo (Royal village), 11th October 1762, to the administrator Udalov, in Cyrillic. A very early letter signed by Catherine the Great as the present document is signed by the Empress only three months after having been crowned The manuscript document is a release of three thousand roubles given to the administrator of Tsarkoe Selo, Udalov, for the digging of ponds, and stating that if the said revenues were not sufficient, then they will have to be taken from the Main court Chancery funds, and for which he can issue a receipt to be given to the Chancery itself. A very clean document. Paper with attractive watermark. VG to EX

A young Catherine the Great approves the digging of ponds at the estate of of Tsarkoe Selo, not far from the center of Saint Petersburg, which Peter the Great offered to his wife Catherine I, who would later and in turn give it to her daughter Empress Elizabeth. Empress Elizabeth died only two months after the present letter was signed. Later, Catherine the Great extended the palace builing and enhanced the park with additions such as the French and the English gardens, a creaking pagoda, a column, an obelisk and a marble bridge.