Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin
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Chancellor of the Russian Empire. He was also a field marshal, and general admiral (1700).
Biography
Golovin descended from a family of Russian treasurers of Byzantine Greek descent.
Military career
During the regency of
Albazin against the Chinese Qing Empire. In 1689, he was the Tsardom of Russia's signatory to the Treaty of Nerchinsk between the Tsardom and the Qing Empire, by which the line of the Amur, as far as its tributary the Gorbitsa, was retroceded to China because of the impossibility of seriously defending it.[1]
In Peter the Great's
Field Marshal, and during that same year he was granted the title as the first Russian Count and was also the first to be decorated with the newly instituted Russian Order of St. Andrew.[1]
Foreign affairs
The conduct of foreign affairs was at the same time entrusted to him, and from 1699 to his death he was the
foreign minister was to supplement the Treaty of Karlowitz, by which peace with the Ottoman Empire had only been secured for three years, by concluding with the Porte a new treaty at Constantinople (June 13, 1700), by which the term of the peace was extended to thirty years and, besides other concessions, the Azov district and a strip of territory extending into Kuban and surrendering to Russia. He also controlled, with consummate ability, the operations of the brand new Russian diplomats at the various foreign courts.[1]
It is of the opinion of historian R. N. Bain that he was superior to his Moscow contemporaries because of his previous knowledge of statesmanship, something his contemporaries lacked. Bain also claims his death was an irreparable loss to the Tsar who wrote the words upon his death: "Peter filled with grief".[1]
References
Sources
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Golovin, Fedor Aleksyeevich". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 226.
- Bushkovitch, Paul, A Concise History of Russia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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