An old small carriage the two small carriages, one on wheels and the other on runners, depicted in the drawings and kept in the armoury chamber, were called toy carriages according to the census books — for riding the tsar’s children. According to legend, these two carriages belonged to tsarevich peter alekseevich. According to the inventory of 1706, they were not in the stable treasury, but were probably in the rooms, as, for example, is mentioned about the toy carriage brought into the rooms during the reign of tsar ivan alekseevich: “a small mica carriage, a toy carriage, on top of which are painted eagles and people on horseback and on foot and birds; doors with sliding doors on both sides; it is covered with gilded leather made from grass; two windows are missing, and it is broken at the top, four cupolas are broken; the bark is trimmed with red cloth, the runners are painted with red lead. According to the census of the year (200, i. E. 1692), that cart is not there, and according to the account of the treasurer fyodor seliverstov, dorofey mikulin: that cart was brought upstairs into the room of the great sovereign tsar and grand duke ivan alekseevich, autocrat of all great and little and white russia. But according to the current census of the year j`z (707), that cart did not appear in the treasury. " the inventory of 1706 also mentions the carriage on wheels of tsarevich alexei petrovich (sheet 456): “a carriage made of bedding, new, in the large stable of the great sovereign tsarevich and grand duke of all great and little and white russia alexei petrovich; behind and in front of that carriage there are eagles painted in gold on a blue ground; on the sides there are two cubes with herbs; the top is covered with worm-like leather, and on the leather there are herbs painted in different colors; covered with copper navel nails, and the edges with small nails; the frame and wheels are painted with red lead, and in it there is a stamed at the top with scarlet stamed with blue silk azure, copper nails, and the sides and doors are covered with worm-like leather. And in the current census of the year j`3 (707), treasurer fyodor seliverstov said: “that cart is still in the big stable. ”. Date: before 1853.
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