Footnotes
[1] Igov, the son of Rusic, afterwards made Kirow the capital of the country; but Novogorod was for a considerable time a place of importance, and the chief city of a republican state.
[2] The Empress Anne, the daughter of Ivan, who reigned soon after Peter’s death, presented a bell to the city of Moscow which weighs 432,000 pounds, and is the largest bell in the world.