text:  The Tsar "called them to his table to receive each a cup from his hand to drinke and took into his hand Master George Killingworthe's beard which reached over the table and pleasantly delivered it to the metropolitan who seeming to bless it said in Russ 'This is God's gift;' as indeed at that time it was not only thicke broad and yellow coulered but in length five foot and two inches of a size