letter gave a detailed description of a deformed kid. The 

 copy of this letter was received from the office of the main 

 board of Siberian and Kazan factories, and was sent from 

 Samara to the Empress Anna Ivanovna. 



On December 10, of this year in the house of the 

 foreman Fedor Elkin,a goat gave birth to a monster 

 kid.... It was certified by the office of the main 

 factory board and also of the pharmacist Krestyan 

 Menders as a monster. It had two heads, white 

 wool, a goatlike body, two separate faces, four 

 eyes , two under the ears , two in the middle of 

 the face, two mouths, four nostrils, two strange 

 ears,.... the lower lip was divided on the right 

 side, the left side of the mouth was like that of 

 the natural goat, the lips were curved, and the 

 above mentioned were connected at the sides — left 

 to right and right to left; thus they stood sepa- 

 rately and were not connected together. The first 

 side of the face looked to the right, the second 

 to the left; in each mouth the tongue was similar 

 to that of the natural animals . Its nourishment 

 from the mother was not seen but when the pharmacist 

 gave milk in one mouth from a feeding-bottle, it 

 took more in the right mouth than in the left 

 one. But both mouths reacted when one mouth was 

 given food that passed to only one belly. Both 

 mouths could cry, and therefore it seemed as if 

 it had two throats; when one kept silent, the other 

 cried, but if they were free, they cried together... 

 A drawing is given of this kid. In the original the 

 following is written: Major Leontei Ugrimov. Nikifor 

 Kleopin. Timofei Burtsov. 



The drawing of the monster-kid is followed by the 

 inscription: "This figure in toto resembles the kid which 

 was born from a goat with white wool, in Ekaterin time, 

 on December 10, 1738. Miron Avramov drew and shaded it. "10 



The reorganizing activity of Peter I was expressed, in 

 particular, by sending young people abroad to receive general 



10. Ibid ., v. IV, No. 1, pp. 1 - 2. 

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