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Encyclopedia Britannica



BEREZOV

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 771 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BEREZOV , a town of Asiatic
Russia
 , in the government of Tobolsk, 700 M. N. of the city of that name, situated on three hills on the left bank of the Sosva, 26 m. above its mouth in the Oki, in 63 55' N. lat. and 65 7' E.
long
 . It has more than once suffered from conflagrationsfor example, in 1719 and 18o8. Prince
Menshikov
 , the favourite of Peter the
Great
  and Catherine I., died here an
exile
 , in 1729. In 1730 his enemy and rival, Prince Dolgoruki, was interned here with his family; and in 1742 General Ostermann was sent to Berezov with his wife and died there in 1747. The yearly mean temperature is 25 Fahr., the maximum cold being 4.7. It has a
cathedral
 , near which lie buried
Mary
 
Menshikov
 , once betrothed to the tsar Peter II., and some of the Dolgorukis. There is some
trade
  in furs, mammoth bones, dried and salted fish. Pop. (1897) 1073.


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