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1. Page 21. In The Book of Genealogies of the Nobility of the Moscow Government, Vol. I. page 122, it is said of S. A. T.'s father: "Andrei Evstafevich, son of a chemist, born April 9, 1808, a physician on the staff of the Moscow Palace Control, collegiate assessor 1842, State Councillor 1864."

2. Page 21. This was the former name of the Commandant's Board.

3. Page 21. Alexander Alexandrovich Bers, first cousin of S. A. T.

4. Page 22. Born December 3, 1789, died March 25, 1855. Buried in Petersburg in the Volkov Lutheran Cemetery. Peterburgskii Necropol, Petersburg, 1912, Vol. I. page 104.

5. Page 22. In The Book of Genealogies of the Nobility of the Moscow Government, Vol. I, page 122, the Bers are included under Section III., i.e. among those families which were promoted to the title of nobility through the Civil Service. The year of their promotion was 1843. The right to the coat-of-arms was granted by Supreme Order to the father of S. A. T. in 1847. See