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vels into Ruffia, Vol. II.

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deficient in harmony; a defect, he adds, which the author, by retouching and correcting, is capable of removing. Mr. Kherafkof has not in the prefent reign failed of acquiring the rewards due to his extraordinary talents; having been fucceffively appointed vice-prefident of the college of mines, counsellor of state, and curator of the university of Mofcow.

KHILKOF (PRINCE), a Ruffian nobleman, defcended from a very antient family, had diftinguished himself as embaffador to feveral foreign courts, before he was fent in 1700 to Stockholm in that capacity. He accompanied Charles XII. in his descent upon the Ile of Zealand, and upon the enfuing truce of Travendal between Sweden and Denmark returned to Stockholm, Sept. 17, at the eve of the rupture which broke out between the Swedish and Ruffian monarchs. His character of embaflador, deemed facred by the law of nations, could not protect him from the refentment of Charles XII.; and, on the 20th of the fame month, he was arrested and imprifoned. As an amufement during his captivity, which was long and for fome time extremely rigorous, and at the request of his fellow-prifoner prince Trubetskoi, he began an abridgement of the "Ruffian Hiftory" from its carlieft period to his own time; which he completed before he was restored to liberty. Hitherto, though Ruffia abounded in chronicles and annals relative to detached periods, yet, excepting a dry detail of facts compiled for the ufe of Alexey Michaelovitch, it poffeffed no regular and connected history. The first attempt towards fuch a work was undertaken by prince Khilkof. After a confinement of 18 years, he expired in his prifon of Wefteras, in the moment when he was upon the point of being releafed. His work, called "The Kernel of the Ruffian Hiftory," is a mere abridgement, and was published in 1770 by Mr. Muller. It forms only one volume in 8vo, and contains feven books: the first commences with the creation of the world, and ends with the erection of the Ruffian empire under Ruric; the remaining fix carry down the hiftory from that period to the year 1713. During fome part of his confinement, he was permitted to receive from Mofcow books, extracts from chronicles, and a few ftate-papers; but as he could not obtain .the neceffary documents fo well as if he had been upon the spot, his performance unavoidably contains occafional errors, many of which the judicious editor has pointed out and corrected. About the time of Khilkof's death, another native commenced a fimilar work upon a much larger fcale, and

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who had more opportunities of obtaining information. This - perfon was Vaffili Tatifichef; of whom fome memoirs will be given in Vol. XII.

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1783.

KOENIG (DANIEL), by birth a Swifs, died at Rotter- Dictiondam, at the age of 22, in confequence of a fevere drubbing naire Hifto he had received at Franeker. The populace, overhearing him talk in French, took it into their head that he was a French spy, and would have demolished him on the spot, if the academicians had not rescued him from their fury: but the wounds which he received hurried him to the grave in a few months. He tranflated into Latin Dr. Arbuthnot's "Tables of Ancient Coins," which remained in MS. till 1756, when it was publifhed at Utrecht, with a curious. and useful preface, by profeffor Reitz.

KOENIG (SAMUEL), brother to the preceding, came Dictionearly into eminence by his mathematical abilities. He re- naire Hifto fided two years, at the caftle of Cirey, with the illuftrious rique, Cacn marchionefs du Chatelet, who profited highly by his inftructions. He afterwards became profeffor of philofophy and natural law at Franeker; when he went to the Hague as librarian to the Stadtholder and to the princess of Orange. The academy of Berlin enrolled him amongst her members, and afterwards expelled him on an occafion well known to the learned world, and which we have related in another Art. MAU place. All Europe was interefted in the quarrel which this PERTUIS. occafioned between Koenig and Maupertuis. Koenig appealed to the public; and his " Appeal," written with the animation of refentment, procured him many friends. He was author of fome other works; and died in 1757, with the character of being one of the beft mathematicians of the age. Voltaire, in a letter to Helvetius, fays, "Koenig "n'a de l'imagination en aucun fens, mais il eft ce qu'on "appelle grand metaphyficien.-Il eft très-bon géomètre, "&, ce qui vaut mieux, très-bon garçon.'

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