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Updated: July 16, 2025
The great establishment at Colpenha consisted of a foundry, a machine manufactory, and a mint where the copper money of the empire was coined. General Wilson was the directing chief officer of all these establishments. Through him I had the happiness of being introduced to General Greg, son of the great admiral who shed such honour on the Russian flag during the reign of the Empress Catherine.
She had been married to the Emperor Paul's physician, who was also a Scotsman, and was able to narrate many terrible events in relation to Russian Court affairs. The General had worked his way upwards, like the rest of us. During the principal part of his life he had superintended the great mechanical establishments at Alexandrosky and Colpenha, where about 3000 operatives were employed.
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