One page, folio, St. Petersburg, October 21, 1784.

Writing to her lover, Catherine says ‘Fifteen thousand roubles are needed to give the carpenters the money earned for [ship construction] November of this year at Kherson Admiralty. We have commanded to release to you this amount in banknotes from the treasury. You are entrusted in their usage.’ In Catherine’s neat hand in brown ink, she signs below with a flourish.

Condition: Well preserved and very fine