linder, who was in charge of all moscow hospitals, convinced the governor-general of moscow, count pyotr saltykov flies, that this was not a plague at all, but a black fifth body, who died only a bedsore and he refused to diagnose this disease, as to what he just reproached for the fact that the reason was in unsanitary conditions, which was true, but it was a stone in the garden of chanson. there were more and more patients, the doctors demanded to declare a quarantine, but the governor reported to catherine that it would not be possible to close moscow in any way, this could not be done in such a great city. so many people eat imported food. by that time, the plague was already raging at the moscow cloth manufactory from january to march 1771 , 130 people died at the factory, the owners of the cloth court tried to hide it and secretly. plague corpses were buried at night. right under the fence , catherine orders to put up outposts at the entrance to the city to smoke all visitors with smoke , send them to quarantine, and keep letters over the fire in may, the state council, before sending and r