Note 107 — THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER I. AND V. N. KARAZIN[79]
Constance Garnett translation
Yeropkin was a general who put down the mutiny in Moscow during the plague in 1776, when the people rose in revolt against the sanitary measures imposed by the Government. Catherine rewarded him with the ribbon of Saint Andrew and four thousand peasants. He accepted the ribbon but refused the peasants.—(Translator’s Note.)