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See also:DOLGOHUKI, VASJLY LUKICH, See also:COUNT (1672–1739) , See also:Russian diplomatist and See also:minister, was one of the first batch of See also:young Russians whom See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter the See also:Great sent abroad to be educated. From 1687 to 1700 he resided at See also:Paris, where he learned thoroughly the See also:principal See also:European See also:languages, acquired the superficial elegance of the See also:court of See also:Versailles, and associated with the See also:Jesuits, whose moral See also:system he is said to have appropriated. On his return See also:home he entered the See also:diplomatic service. From 1706 to 1707 he represented See also:Russia in See also:Poland; and from 1707 to 1720 he was her minister at See also:Copenhagen, where he succeeded in persuading See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Frederick IV. to join the second See also:coalition against See also:Charles XII. At the end of 1720 he was transferred to Versailles, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to seek the See also:mediation of See also:France in the projected negotiations with See also:Sweden and obtain the recognition of Peter's imperial See also:title by the See also:French court. In 1724 he represented Russia at See also:Warsaw and in 1726 at See also:Stockholm, the See also:object of the latter See also:mission being to detach Sweden from the Hanoverian See also:alliance, in which he did not succeed. During the reign of Peter II. (1727–1730) Dolgoruki was appointed a member of the supreme privy See also:council, and after procuring the banishment of See also:Menshikov he appropriated the See also:person of the young See also:emperor, whom he would have forced to marry his niece See also:Catherine but for Peter's untimely See also:death. He then See also:drew up a See also:letter purporting to be the last will of the emperor, appointing Catherine Dolgoruki his successor, but shortly afterwards abandoned the nefarious See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme as impracticable, and was one of the first to support the See also:election of See also:Anne of See also:Courland to the See also:throne on See also:condition that she first signed nine " articles of See also:limitation," which See also:left the supreme See also:power in the hands of the Russian council. Anne, who repudiated the " articles " on the first opportunity, never forgave Dolgoruki for this. He was deprived of all his offices and dignities on the 17th of See also:April 1730, and banished first to his See also:country seat and then to the Solovetsky monastery. Nine years later the See also:charge of See also:forging the will of Peter II. was revived against him, and he was tortured and then beheaded at See also:Novgorod on the 8th of See also:November 1739.
See See also:Robert Nisbet See also:Bain, The Pupils of Peter the Great (See also:London, 1895). (R. N.
End of Article: DOLGOHUKI, VASJLY LUKICH, COUNT (1672–1739)
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