1. For general and documentary information on these adjuncts, see P. Pekarskiy, Istoriya Imperatorskoy Akademii Nauk v Peterburge, I, St Petersburg, 1870;
2. Yu. Kh. Kopelevich, Osnovaniye Peterburgskoy Akademii Nauk, Leningrad, 1977; Materialy dlya istorii Imperatorskoy Akademii Nauk, 10 vols, St Petersburg, 1886–1900 (hereafter, Materialy); Protokoly zasedaniy konferentsii Imperatorskoy Akademii Nauk s 1725 po 1803 goda, vol. 1 (1725–43) St Petersburg, 1897.
3. For further information on Müller, see J. L. Black, G.-F. Müller and the Imperial Russian Academy, Toronto, 1986; for Müller and Euler,
4. see E. Winter and A. P. Yushkevich (eds), Der Briefwechsel L. Eulers mit G. F. Müller 1733–1767, vol. 1: Die Berliner und die Petersburger Akademie der Wissenschaften im Briefwechsel Leonhards Eulers, Berlin, 1959. Euler left Russia in 1741 for the academy in Berlin. But he remained an honorary member even during the Seven Years War when Russia and Prussia were on opposite sides. He returned to St Petersburg to stay in 1766. Müller left the capital to live in Moscow in 1765, where he continued to serve the Academy in a variety of capacities, including that of the Academy’s official delegate to Catherine II’s famous Legislative Assembly.
5. In 1716, G. W. Leibniz tried to persuade Peter I to explore Siberia, as had F. S. Saltykov, one of Peter’s more prominent diplomats, in 1714; see V. Ger’e, Sbornik pisem i memorialov Leibnitsa otnosyashchikhsya k Rossii i Petru Velikomu, St Petersburg, 1873, p. 360; and ‘Propozitsii Fedora Saltykova’, in Pamyatniki drevney pis’mennosti i iskusstva, 83:5 (Series 4), St Petersburg, 1891, pp. 22, 24.