Peter Iâs niece, Anna Ioannovna, ascended the throne and, two years later, noticed that the imperial couple were still in a side chapel of the cathedral, unburied. The Empress was far removed from Masonic trends, and even more so from science. She made a swift decision: halt the construction of the mausoleum and bury Peter and Catherine according to the Orthodox rite. That is what was done: the Emperor and Empress were buried in the cathedral by the southern wall, directly opposite the altar.
23 November â Alexander Danilovich Menshikov died in exile, the Most Serene Prince and an associate of Peter I. In the autumn of 1727, Menshikov was exiled to the Siberian town of Berezov. Soon an outbreak of smallpox began there, which claimed Alexander Menshikovâs life. He died at the age of 56 and was buried by the altar of a small church built with his own hands. Years later, Menshikovâs grave was washed away by the river.
21 April â Catherine II was born.
24 November â Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov was born, Generalissimo, a great Russian commander.
31 January â the first printed book in Arabic script was published in Istanbul: al-Jawhariâs explanatory dictionary translated into Turkish. This dictionary is considered one of the most popular, and for more than a thousand years it did not relinquish its leading position. The dictionary appeared in the second half of the 8th century and was called âThe Crown of Speech and the Correctness of the Arabic Language.â Its author, Abu Nasr Ismail ibn HammÄd al-FÄrÄbÄ« al-JawharÄ«, included forty thousand entries giving the standard forms of pure Arabic, recording precise pronunciation and correct spelling in proper usage forms. The Turkish translation was made by the outstanding cultural figure Ibrahim Muteferrika, a Transylvanian Hungarian who converted to Islam.