BEREZOV  , a

town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Tobolsk, 700 M . N. of the city of that name, situated on three hills on the left bank of the Sosva, 26 m. above its mouth in the Oki, in 63° 55' N. lat. and 65° 7' E. long . It has more than once suffered from conflagrations—for example, in 1719 and 18o8 . Prince Menshikov, the favourite of Peter the Great and Catherine I., died here an exile, in 1729 . In 1730 his enemy and rival, Prince Dolgoruki, was interned here with his family; and in 1742 General Ostermann was sent to Berezov with his wife and died there in 1747 . The yearly mean temperature is 25° Fahr., the maximum cold being 4.7° . It has a cathedral, near which lie buried Mary Menshikov, once betrothed to the tsar Peter II., and some of the Dolgorukis . There is some trade in furs, mammoth bones, dried and salted fish . Pop . (1897) 1073 .