François Le Fort (admiral)

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François Le Fort

François Jacques Le Fort also spelled Lefort (

Peter the Great
.

François Le Fort, born in

Archangelsk in the company of the Prussian Colonel Jacob van Frosten[1]
in order to find employment with the
General Patrick Gordon. Upon his return to Moscow from a short trip to Geneva in 1683, Le Fort carried out various diplomatic
assignments until the fall of 1685.

Le Fort's house gradually turned into a main attraction of the Nemetskaya sloboda, attended not only by locals, but by Russian noblemen, such as the

Golitsyns. It appears that Le Fort utilized his connections with the latter and received rapid promotion.[citation needed
]

François Le Fort

In 1687 and 1689 he took part in two unsuccessful

mock religions, The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters, which earned notable criticism from both the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as the Roman Catholic Church for its routine mockery of their proceedings.[2]

In 1691 Le Fort was put in charge of a

Yauza River. Peter ordered the construction of a sloboda for this purpose, which would later be called Lefortovskaya sloboda (the Lefort quarter, present-day Lefortovo in Moscow's South-Eastern Administrative Okrug). In 1693–1694 Lefort accompanied Peter on his trip to Arkhangelsk. In 1694 he participated in Peter's "play" Kozhukhov campaign [ru] (a military game in the village of Kozhukhovo, between Moscow and Kolomenskoye
).

During the

uyezds
.

In 1696 Le Fort together with

Streltsy rebels. That same year he moved to a custom-built palace, later known as the Lefortovsky Palace [ru
], on the Yauza River. The palace would soon become a center of Russian political and royal life in 1698–1699. Peter the Great used to hold all his important meetings and numerous celebrations in Le Fort's palace.

Lefortovo Palace on the Yauza River in Moscow

François Le Fort died in Moscow in early March 1699. Upon hearing the news of his death, Tsar Peter lamented "Now I am alone without one trusty man. He alone was faithful to me. Whom can I confide in now?" On March 21 Peter held Lefort's state funeral, a ceremony second only to the funerals of Tsars or Patriarchs.[3] Le Fort lies buried in the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Lefortovo.

The Russian 84-gun ship-of-the-line

Lefort (launched 1835, shipwrecked 1857) was named in honor of Lefort, as was Lefortovo Prison and Lefortovo District
.

References

  1. ^ Posselt, Moritz (1866). Der General und Admiral Franz Lefort: Sein Leben und seine Zeit. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte Peter's des Grossen [General and Admiral Franz Lefort: his life and times. A contribution to the history of Peter the Great] (in German). Vol. 1. Frankfurt am Main: Joseph Baer. p. 194. Retrieved 2017-01-24. Oberst Jacob van Frosten, ein Preusse, in der Stadt Danzig geboren; er hat anfangs in Schweden, dann in Spanien und endlich in Holland als Oberst gedient.
  2. ISBN 0-345-29806-3
    .
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-345-29806-3
    .

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