This morning we went to see the fortress of Sweaborg. Dined with the General Posse. Prince
Galitzin1 arrived here this evening.
1. Possibly a brother or son of Prince Dmitri A. Gallitzin (1734–1803),
a man of letters and Russian ambassador at Paris, 1763–1768, and at The Hague, 1770–1782
(Repertorium der
diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder description begins Ludwig Bittner and others, eds., Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder seit dem Westfälischen Frieden (1648), Oldenburg, 1936–1965; 3 vols. description ends , p. 354, 359; JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, Mass., 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 3:3, 15,
29; Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markoff, “Benjamin
Franklin, the American Philosophical Society, and the Russian Academy of Science,” Amer. Philos. Soc., Procs., description begins American Philosophical Society, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Philadelphia, 1838– . description ends 91 [1947]:252–253).
