Travels in India (Tavernier) 136.2.10

136.2.10

As I have just spoken of the Moscovites, I remember that in my journeys, and particularly on the road from Tabriz to Ispahan, where you generally meet Moscovite merchants, several of them have assured me that in the year 1654, in one of the towns of Moscovie, a woman aged eighty-two gave birth to a male child, which was taken to the Grand Duke, who wished to see it, and had it brought up at his own court.