Gavriil Golovkin
Count Gavrila (Gavriil) Ivanovich Golovkin (Russian: Гаври́ла (Гаврии́л) Ива́нович Голо́вкин) (1660 – 20 January 1734) was a Russian statesman who formally presided over foreign affairs of the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 1706 until his death. The real control over Russian diplomacy during his lengthy term in office was exercised by Boris Kurakin until 1727 and by Andrey Osterman after his death.
In 1677, while still a young man, Gavrila Golovkin was attached to the court of the
dockyards of Zaandam. In 1706, he succeeded Golovin in the direction of foreign policy, and was created the first Russian grand-chancellor on the field of Poltava (1709). Golovkin held this office for twenty-five years.[1]
In the reign of
Munnich.[1]
In 1707, Golovkin was created a count of the
Lopukhina Affair. Yury Golovkin, Russia's first ambassador to China
, was his great-grandson.
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Golovkin, Gavriil Ivanovich". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 226.
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