John Quincy Adams Digital Diary

3. Took Charles out to walk before breakfast this morning, and again after dinner— It was ascension day by the Julian Calendar which is yet observed here— The Kazan Church being open we went in, and surveyed all the trophies of the present War, there deposited— There are ten or twelve French Imperial Eagles, forty or fifty standards of the French last year’s allies, Marshal Davoust’s truncheon which is preserved in a glass case fixed to the Wall, and the Keys of Dresden, Hamburg, Lubeck, Warsaw, Thorn and Czestochoff suspended by ribbons of the order of St: George over long square pasteboards notifying which place each of the sets of keys belong to— We saw the usual morning exercise of troops before the palace— Mr J. W. Smith called on me this forenoon— He still intends to go in a fortnight; but Mr Calhoun remains here some time longer— 486I received letters from Mr Beasley and Mr Fosdick, the first of which gave me the heart-ache. After dinner we walked in the Summer-Garden, where there was much Company. Mr Redwood passed the Evening with us— He told us Mr Fisher was to be married to Miss Gregorofsky to-morrow.