Weasel date October 2009 File .jpg thumb 250px AfanasyOrdinNashchokinAfanasy Lavrentievich Ordin Naschokin lang ru 1605 1680 was one of the greatest Muscovy Russia n statesmen of the 17th century. His career is quite unprecedented in Russian history, as he was the first petty Nobility noble to attain the boyar title and highest offices of state owing not to family connections but due to his personal ability and worth. In many things he anticipated Peter I of Russia Peter the Great . He was absolutely incorruptible, thus standing, morally as well as intellectually, far above the level of his age. Early life and career He was the son of a poor official at Pskov , who saw to it that his son was taught Latin language Latin , German language German and mathematics . Ordin began his public career in 1642 as one of the delineators of the new Russo Sweden Swedish frontier after the Treaty of Stolbova peace of Stolbovo . Even then he had a great reputation in Russia as one who thoroughly understood German ways and things . He was one of the first Russians who diligently collected foreign books, and we hear of as many as sixty nine Latin works being sent to him at one time from abroad. He attracted the attention of the young Alexis I of Russia ... Union Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME OrdinNashchokin, Afanasy ALTERNATIVE ... DEFAULTSORT OrdinNashchokin, Afanasy Category Foreign Ministers of Russia Category Russian diplomats Category 1605 births Category 1680 deaths et Afanassi Ordin Na t okin es Anafasi Ord n Nashchokin fr Afanassi Ordine Nachtchokine pl Atanazy Ordin Naszczokin ru , sv Afanasij Ordin Nasjtjokin tr Afanasi Lavrentyevi Ordin Na okin ... by personal influence. At the beginning of the Russo Swedish War 1656 1658 , Ordin was appointed ... life and achievements It was Ordin who first abolished the onerous system of tolls on exports ... more details
Afanasy lang ru is the Russian language Russian form of Athanasios disambiguation Athanasios , a Greek name meaning immortality immortal . It may refer to People Afanasy Nikitin d. 1472 , Russian merchant and traveler Afanasy Shchapov 1830 1876 , Russian historian The surname Afanasyev lang ru is derived from the name. The surname Afonin lang ru is derived from Afonya , the short form of the name. given name Category Slavic masculine given names Category Russian masculine given names ru ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 File K. F. Ordin.jpg thumb 190px Kesar Ordin Kesar Filippovich Ordin 1835 1892 was a 19th century Russians Russian mathematician and historian. He was a graduate in mathematics of St. Petersburg University and author of a number of articles on Finland, opposing Finnish separatism. Ordin is perhaps most known of his work in which he tried to disprove the claims published by Finland Finnish also part of Russia at that time Leo Mechelin about the 1809 Diet of Porvoo . Whereas Mechelin thought that Finland and Russia had made a treaty which resulted the two countries to form a so called permanent Political union union , Ordin s version was that Finland had simply been merged to the motherland. References Heikkonen, Ojakoski, V is nen, Muutosten maailma 4 Suomen historian k nnekohtia WSOY, 2003 , ISBN 951 0 27645 6. Pages 59 and 202. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ordin, Kesar Filippovich ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1835 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1892 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ordin, Kesar Filippovich Category 1892 deaths Category Saint Petersburg State University alumni Category Russian historians Category 1835 births Russia historian stub no Kesar Ordin ru , fi K. F. Ordin ... more details
Infobox architect name Afanasy Grigorievich Grigoriev image Afanasy Grigorev.jpg caption Afanasy Grigoriev, portrait c. 1800 nationality Russia birth date January 21, 1782 birth place Vasilievskaya, Tambov Guberniya Governorate , br Russian Empire death date May 13, 1868 death place Moscow practice Domenico Giliardi Giliardi Family and independent own practice significant buildings Khrushyov House now Alexander Pushkin museum significant projects Ershovo Estate near Zvenigorod awards File Prechistenka pushkin museum corner.jpg thumb right 350px Khrushyov House, now Alexander Pushkin Museum Afanasy Grigorievich Grigoriev lang ru January 21, 1782 May 13, 1868 was a Russia n neoclassical architecture Neoclassical architect , who worked in Moscow and its suburbs. Grigoriev is remembered for his refined Empire style Empire style mansions, completion of Great Ascension Church which, unfinished, housed the wedding of Alexander Pushkin in 1831 and assistance to Domenico Giliardi in rebuilding Moscow after the Fire of Moscow 1812 Great Fire of 1812 . Biography Grigoriev was born a serf , owned by the Kretov family, and acquired freedom at the age of 22. By this time, he was a long time apprentice to Moscow based Giliardi family of Switzerland Swiss architects. Giovanni Giliardi was the chief architect of continuously expanding Moscow Orphanage, Widow s House public almshouse and Catherine s Institute his son, Domenico Giliardi , inherited the family practice and managed rebuilding of these and other public structures after the devastating Fire of Moscow 1812 Fire of 1812 . Grigoriev, like Domenico, studied architecture and crafts in Francesco Camporesi ... Commons Afanasy Grigoriev reflist Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Grigoriev, Afanasy Grigorievich ALTERNATIVE NAMES , Russian SHORT DESCRIPTION Russia ... Moscow , Russia DEFAULTSORT Grigoriev, Afanasy Category 1782 births Category 1868 deaths Category ... more details
Image AfNikitin.JPG thumb 340px Statue of Afanasy Nikitin in Tver Afanasy Nikitin in Russian language Russian died 1472 was a Russia n merchant and one of the first Europe ans after Niccol de Conti to travel to and document his visit to India . He described his trip in a narrative known as A Journey Beyond the Three Seas The Journey Beyond Three Seas Khozheniye za tri morya . The voyage In 1466, Nikitin left his hometown of Tver on a commerce commercial trip to India. He travelled down the Volga River , reached Derbent , then Baku and later Persian Empire Persia by crossing the Caspian Sea , where he would live for one year. In the spring of 1469, Nikitin arrived at the city of Ormus and then, crossing the Arabian Sea , reached the sultanate of Bahmani , where he would live for 3 years. On his way back, Nikitin visited Muscat, Oman Muscat , the Arabian Peninsula Arabian sultanate of de.wikipedia.org wiki Fartak Fartak , Somalia and Trabzon , and in 1472 arrived at Feodosiya by crossing the Black Sea . On his way to Tver, Nikitin died not far from Smolensk in the autumn of that year. During his trip, Nikitin studied the population of India, its social system, government , military he witnessed war games featuring war elephants , its Economic system economy , religion , lifestyles, and natural resources. The abundance and trustworthiness of Nikitin s factual material ... to return home and to the Christian faith I, Afanasy, a damned servant of Almighty God, Maker of heaven ... memory In 1955, the local authorities of Tver erected a bronze monument to Afanasy Nikitin on the bank ... entitled The Journey Beyond Three Seas with Oleg Strizhenov cast as Afanasy Nikitin. In 2000, a black ... band Aquarium composed a song Afanasy Nikitin Boogie . Power metal band Epidemia composed a song about Nikitin s writings. A mark of Tver beer Afanasy is named after Afanasy ... marginal notes on india sergei d serebriany References Reflist commons category Afanasy Nikitin http ... more details
Image Schapov.jpg thumb 150px left Afanasy P. Schapov Afanasiy Prokopievich Shchapov in Russian language Russian May 10 17 .1830 &ndash February 27 10.3 .1876 was a Russia n historian accused of Siberian nationalism and persecuted by tsarist authorities. Life Afanasiy Shchapov was born in the village of Anga some 210 miles from Irkutsk , into a family of a Russian Sexton office sexton and Buryats Buryat woman. Educated in Irkutsk , he moved to Kazan and became a student at Kazan Theological Academy 1852 1856 . Upon receiving his Bachelor s degree , Shchapov began to deliver lectures on Russian history at his alma mater 1856 1860 and later at Kazan University 1860 1861 . He also studied the Solovetsky Monastery library, which had been evacuated during the Crimean War to Kazan. Fascinated with the Solovetsky Uprising , Shchapov started writing articles about the Raskol and Old Believers . On April 16, 1861, he delivered a revolutionary speech dedicated to the victims of the Bezdna Unrest , after which he was arrested and escorted to St.Petersburg . After the investigation, Shchapov was dismissed as a teacher and appointed to the Ministry of the Interior as an official in charge of the sectarian affairs. In 1862, he was discharged and placed under police surveillance. Afanasiy Shchapov was a contributor for many Russian magazine s, such as Notes on Fatherland , Russian Word , Time , Century , and others. In 1864, he was exile d to his native village and then Irkutsk on suspicion of his connections with Alexander Hertzen and Nikolai Ogaryov . In the summer of 1865, Shchapov was arrested in connection with the so called Siberian oblastniks affair. After his release, he worked in a number of magazines, including ..., Afanasy ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1830 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1876 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Shchapov, Afanasy Category Russian historians Category Russian anthropologists ... more details
Signature of Afanasy Fet.jpg Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet Foeth , lang ru ... literature . ref name tarkhov 1988 ref name blagoi Biography Early life The circumstances of Afanasy ... landlord from Mtsensk , Afanasy Neofitovich Shenshin, described as a follower of Jean Jacques Rousseau ... who was christened Afanasy Afansyevich Shenshin and registered in the local metrics as Shenshin ... on Johann and Charlotta s marriage, making Afanasy Fet none other than the cousin of Maria Alexandrovna ... ... publisher www.sudarushka.su accessdate 2011 10 10 ref When Afanasy Fet was 14 years old, an official ... a traumatic experience for Afanasy who by this time completely identified himself with Shenshin ... he indeed could not possibly be Afanasy s biological father, Johann Foeth back in Darmstadt refused ... was finally given the true Landgraviate of Hesse Darmstadt Hesse Darmstadt citizen name of Afanasy ... and literary debut File 1860 .jpg thumb right 180px Afanasy Fet, 1860 At the age of 14 Afanasy was sent to the Livonia n town of V ru Werro , where ref name blagoi cite web author ... 1988 Once, on a trip in the countryside at Werro, close to the Russian border, young Afanasy got ... much for the better. Fet s stepfather Afanasy Shenshin took the boy from the Krummer s institution ... years File Afanasy fet army years.jpg thumb left Afanasy Fet as a Russian army officer In 1844 ... . Early next year Afanasy Fet left Novosyolky estate forever he went to the Kherson gubernia and on April ... Sovremennik . ref name tarkhov 1988 Retirement In 1857 Afanasy Fet married in Paris Maria Botkina ... s wife replied Afanasy Afanasyevich recognizes none of such rituals and told the doctor that she was ready ... was held on November 22, 1892, in the Moscow University church. Afanasy Fet was buried on November ... ref name sadovskoy 1916 Legacy File .jpg thumb right 190px Afanasy Fet Afanasy ... structured short poem. source? date September 2011 Sample File Afanasy Fet 7.jpg thumb right 180px ... more details
File Rahumajake.jpg thumb right Small house near the K rde Manor, where according to the folklore the treaty was signed. The Treaty of Cardis was a peace settlement made in 1661 between Tsardom of Russia and the Swedish Empire . This particular agreement ended the Russo Swedish War 1656 1658 . It took place in Cardis Manor nowadays K rde in Estonia. Based on the terms of the treaty, Russia surrendered to Sweden all captured territories. Moreover, all vessels constructed at Koknese Tsarevich Dmitriev were destroyed the vessels were constructed in a shipyard founded by a boyar named Afanasy Ordin Nashchokin . Overall, the Peace of Cardis maintained the territorial accords of the Treaty of Stolbovo . See also List of treaties External links http www.neva.ru EXPO96 book chap1 3.html Under the Romanovs Sweden hist stub Russia hist stub Second Northern War treaties Category Second Northern War Category Northern Wars Category Peace treaties of Russia Cardis Category Peace treaties of Sweden Cardis Category History of Sweden Category 17th century in Sweden Category 1661 treaties Category Treaties of the Tsardom of Russia Category Treaties of the Swedish Empire de Friede von Kardis et K rde rahu eo Traktato de Kardis fr Trait de Kardis nl Vrede van Kardis pl Pok j w Kardis ru fi Kardisin rauha sv Freden i Kardis ... more details
File .JPG thumb 300px Krypetsky Monastery Krypetsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery situated 23 km from Pskov . The monastery was founded in 1485 by St. Savva Krypetsky, a Serbian monk from Mount Athos , in what was then described as an impracticable mire. Two years later, the Pskov veche supported his establishment by granting a large plot of land to the monks. Prince Obolensky had a road for pilgrims built through the mire to the monastery. St. Savva died on 28 August 1495 and was interred in the then timber cathedral, which was rebuilt in stone in 1547 and still stands. Famous monks of the Krypetsky Monastery included Basil, who described the life of St. Savva in the 1540s St. Nilus, who founded the Nilov Monastery on Stolbnyi Island and the former chancellor Afanasy Ordin Nashchokin , who had the monastery grounds greatly expanded and improved. In the 18th century, the abbey fell into disrepair, but was restored by Evgeny Bolkhovitinov , a bishop best known for his friendship with Derzhavin and the latter s poems dedicated to him. In 1918, the monastery was disbanded by the Bolsheviks who plundered more than five pood s 2,600 troy ounce s of gold in the monastery sacristy and had its Neoclassical architecture Neoclassical belltower disfigured. The abbey was briefly revived during the German occupation of the area in World War II and was finally restituted to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1991. External links http www.sobory.ru photo index.html?photo 17140 Views of the monastery coord display title 57 59 24 N 28 29 31 E Category Monasteries in Russia Category Russian Orthodox monasteries Category 1485 establishments Category Pskov Oblast fr Monast re de Krypetsko e pl Monastyr Krypecki ru ... more details
Refimprove date October 2008 Infobox military conflict conflict Battle of Kushliki partof Russo Polish War 1654 1667 date 4 November 1661 place Kushliki result Polish victory combatant1 Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth combatant2 Russian Tsardom commander1 Stefan Czarniecki br John II Casimir of Poland John II Casimir br Kazimierz eromski commander2 Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky Taratui Ivan Khovansky br Afanasy Ordin Nashchokin strength1 24,000 strength2 12,000 ref name babulinAB . . , 2004, 3 ref casualties1 casualties2 campaignbox Russo Polish War 1654 1667 The Battle of Kushliki or battle of Kuszliki on 4 November 1661 between a Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth Polish Lithuanian force and a Russian Tsardom force was one of the battle of the Russo Polish War 1654 1667 . Lithuanian force of about 14,000 under pu kownik Kazimierz eromski made a fortified camp on the right bank of Daugava River near the village of Kushliki Kuszliki in Polotsk Voivodeship and defeated the first assault of Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky Taratui Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky on 24 September. Khovansky would retreat, only to return on 16 October with a larger army 12,000 people, 18 artillery pieces . On 3 November a Polish relief force of about 14,000 under king John II Casimir of Poland and regimentarz Stefan Czarniecki arrived and on 4 November surprised the Russian forces by assaulting their camp. Russian army was defeated, and Poles captured all of their artillery. References references Coord missing Use dmy dates date August 2010 DEFAULTSORT Battle Of Kushliki Category Conflicts in 1661 Category 1661 in Europe Category Battles of the Russo Polish War 1654 1667 Kushliki Poland battle stub Russia battle stub be , 1661 pl Bitwa pod Kuszlikami ru ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Yemelyan Ignatievich Ukraintsev Lang ru September 12 or 23, 1641 1708 was a Russians Russian diplomat and politician statesman . Ukraintsev started his career in civil service in 1660 as a podyachy Lang ru hypodiakonos from Greek language Greek means assistant servant in the Posolsky Prikaz Diplomacy Department . He served under the supervision of Afanasy Ordin Nashchokin , which whom he would go on a diplomatic mission to Warsaw in 1662 1663. Ukraintsev took part in signing the Treaty of Andrusovo with Poland in 1667. In 1672 1673, he was sent as an envoy title envoy to Sweden , Denmark , and the Netherlands , where Ukraintsev conducted negotiations regarding these countries participation in military campaigns against Turkey . When Artamon Matveev fell into disgrace in 1676, Ukraintsev unofficially took charge of the Posolsky Prikaz . In 1677, he was sent to Warsaw as a second ambassador . In 1679, Ukraintsev met with Hetman Ivan Samoylovych to negotiate joint military action against the Ottoman Empire Turks . Ironically, he also participated in Samoylovych s deposition during the Crimean campaigns in 1687. In 1686, Ukraintsev took part in signing the Eternal Peace Treaty with Poland. In 1689, Ukraintsev and Vasily Galitzine then head of the Posolsky Prikaz had to flee from the Crimean Tatars . After Galitzine s deposition, Yemelyan Ukraintsev joined his opponents and officially took charge of the Posolsky Prikaz , keeping this post for ensuing ten years. In 1699, he was appointed ambassador to Constantinople , where he would manage to sign a 30 year peace treaty with the Ottoman Porte Porte on favorable conditions on July 3, 1700 Treaty of Constantinople 1700 Treaty of Constantinople . Upon his return from Turkey, Ukraintsev was appointed head of the Proviantsky Prikaz Provisions Department . He kept this post until 1706, when he was accused of misuse, subjected to corporal punishment , and f ... more details
citations missing date April 2012 File grand galitzine.jpg thumb Prince Vasily Galitzine File Golytsin GIM.jpg thumb Vasily Galitzine Prince Vasily Vasilyevich 1643 1714 was a Russian statesman of the 17th century. He belonged to the Galitzine family and his main political opponent was his cousin Boris Alexeyevich Galitzine . Life He spent his early days at the court of Aleksey I of Russia Tsar Alexius where he gradually rose to the rank of boyar . In 1676 he was sent to Ukraine to keep in order the Crimean Tatars and took part in the Chigirin campaign. Personal experience of the inconveniences and dangers of the prevailing system of preferment the so called mestnichestvo , or rank priority, which had paralysed the Russian armies for centuries, induced him to propose its abolition, which was accomplished by Tsar Feodor III of Russia Feodor III in 1678. The May revolution of 1682 placed Vasily at the head of the Posolsky Prikaz , or ministry of foreign affairs , and during the regency of Sophia Alekseyevna Sophia , sister of Peter I of Russia Peter the Great , whose intimate friend he became, he was the principal minister of state 1682 1689 and keeper of the great seal, a title bestowed upon only two Russians before him, Afanasy Ordin Nashchokin and Artamon Matveev . In home affairs his influence was insignificant, but his foreign policy was distinguished by the Treaty of Nerchinsk 1689 , which set the Russo Chinese border north of the Amur River , and by the peace with Poland 1683 , whereby Russia at last recovered Kiev . By the terms of the same treaty, he acceded to the grand league against the Ottoman Porte Porte , but his two expeditions against the Crimea Crimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689 were unsuccessful and made him extremely unpopular. Only with the utmost difficulty could Sophia get the young tsar Peter to decorate the defeated commander in chief as if he had returned a victor. In the civil war between Sophia and Peter August September 1689 , Galitzine ha ... more details
, AfanasyOrdinNashchokin who led Russian diplomacy at the time decided it was an opportune time ..., it was necessary to bring the Swedish adventure to a speedy end. On 20 December OrdinNashchokin negotiated with Sweden the Treaty of Valiesar Vallisaare , whereby Russia was allowed to keep ... more details
Infobox writer for more information see Template Infobox writer doc image Vasily Klyuchevsky 1893.jpg imagesize 220px caption birth date birth date 1841 1 28 birth place Penza Governorate , Russia death date death date and age 1911 5 25 1841 1 28 death place Moscow , Russia Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky lang ru OldStyleDate January 28 1841 January 16 in Voskresnskoye Village, Penza Governorate , Russia OldStyleDate May 25 1911 12 May , Moscow dominated Russian historiography at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is still regarded as one of three most reputable Russia n historians, alongside Nikolay Karamzin and Sergey Solovyov . Biography Early life A village priest s son, Klyuchevsky, of Mordvinian ethnicity, studied in the Moscow University under Sergey Solovyov , to whose chair he succeeded in 1879. His first important publications were an article on economic activities of the Solovetsky Monastery near the old Russian town of Belozersk 1867 and a thesis on medieval Russian hagiography 1871 . Career Kluchevsky was one of the first Russian historians to shift attention away from political and social issues to geographical and economical forces. He was particularly interested in the process of Russian peaceful colonisation of Siberia and the Far East . In 1882, he published his landmark study of the Boyar Duma , whereby he asserted his view of a state as a result of collaboration of diverse classes of society. In 1889, Klyuchevsky was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences . Although his lectures were highly popular, he published but a handful of biographies of representative men , including Andrei Kurbsky , Afanasy Ordin Nashchokin , Feodor Rtishchev , Vasily Galitzine , and Nikolay Novikov . Later life The last decade of his life was spent preparing the printed version of his lectures. He also became interested in politics, and joined the Constitutional Democratic party . Notes English Translations A History of Russia , 4 Vo ... more details
File Truce of Andrusovo 1667.PNG thumb 266px Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1667, dark green indicates areas that were ceded to Tsardom of Russia in Andrusovo The Truce of Andrusovo lang pl Rozejm w Andruszowie , lang ru , lang ua , Andrusivs ke Peremyr ya , also sometimes known as Treaty of Andrusovo was a thirteen and a half year truce , signed in 1667 between Tsardom of Russia and the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth , which were Russo Polish War 1654 1667 at war since 1654 over the territories of modern day Ukraine and Belarus . It was signed on 20 30 January 1667 by Afanasy Ordin Nashchokin Russia and Jerzy Chlebowicz Commonwealth in a village of Andrusovo not far from Smolensk . Representatives of the Cossack Hetmanate were not allowed. Terms The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia Tsardom of Russia Muscovy agreed on the following terms A truce was signed for 13.5 years during which both states were obligated to prepare the conditions for the eternal peace. Russia secured the territories of the Left bank Ukraine , Siever lands, and Smolensk . Poland Lithuania was left with the Right bank Ukraine , and the Russian occupied Belarus with Vitebsk , Polotsk , and Daugavpils Dzwinsk . The city of Kiev , though situated on the right bank of the Dnieper River , was handed over to Russia for two years under series of conditions. The transfer, though phrased as temporary, was in fact a permanent one, cemented in 1686 in exchange for 146,000 rubles. The Zaporizhian Sich was recognized as a Condominium international law condominium of both states. Both states agreed to provide a common defense against the Ottoman Empire . The right of a free trade was granted. A compensation from Russia to Poland Lithuania of 1,000,000 zloty or 200,000 rubles was agreed on for the lands of Left bank Ukraine. Consequences The transfer of Kiev to the Russian tsardom had far reaching consequences. Kiev, situated in the Greek ... more details
File Matveyev Artamon portrait.jpg thumb Artamon Matveev Artamon Sergeyevich Matveyev in Russian language Russian 1625 1682 was a Muscovy Russia n politician statesman , diplomat and reform movement reformer . Because his father Sergey Matveyev was a notable diplomat, Artamon Matveyev was brought up at the royal court since the age of thirteen, where he would become close friends with Aleksey I of Russia Alexius I . Matveyev started his career as a government official, who worked in Zaporozhian Host Ukraine and took part in some of Russia s wars with Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth Poland . He was a member of the Russian delegation at the conclusion of the Treaty of Pereyaslav in 1654 and Russian diplomatic mission to Poland in 1656 1657. As the head of the Streltsy Department , Matveyev participated in suppression of the Copper Riot in 1662. Seven years later, he was put in charge of the Malorossiysky Prikaz , i.e. Ministry of the Ukrainian Affairs, and in 1671 head of the Posolsky Prikaz foreign affairs office and other ministries. Matveyev was known to have considered unification of Ukraine and Russia as the most important issue of the Russian foreign policy . He once said that it was even possible to temporarily forget about the struggle with the Sweden Swedes for the Baltic Sea for the sake of unification with Ukraine. In 1672, Matveyev managed to secure Kiev for Russia during the talks with Poland. In 1671, the tsar Alexius I and Artamon were already on intimate terms, and, on the retirement of Afanasy Ordin Nashchokin , Matveyev became the tsar s chief counselor. It was at his house that Alexius, after the death of his first consort Maria Miloslavskaya , met Matveyev s ward and favorite student, who was strictly speaking under the tutelage of Matveyev s wife s niece also a Hamilton , ref Peter the Great Emperor of Russia, 2 vols., vol. I, A Study of Historical Biography, Eugene Schuyler, New York, Charles Scribner s Sons, 1884, pp. 43 ... more details
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