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GOLITSUIN, VASILY VASILEVICH (1643-1714)
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See also:GOLITSUIN, VASILY VASILEVICH (1643-1714) , See also:Russian statesman, spent his See also:early days at the See also:court of See also:Tsar Alexius where he gradually See also:rose to the See also:rank of See also:boyar. In 1676 he was sent to the See also:Ukraine to keep in See also:order the See also:Crimean See also:Tatars and took See also:part in the Chigirin See also:campaign. See also:Personal experience of the inconveniences and dangers of the prevailing See also:system of preferment; the so-called myestnichestvo, or rank priority, which had paralysed the Russian armies for centuries, induced him to See also:pro-pose its abolition, which was accomplished by Tsar See also:Theodore III. (1678). The May revolution of 1682 placed Golitsuin at the See also:head of the Posolsky Prikaz, or See also:ministry of See also:foreign affairs, and during the regency of See also:Sophia, See also:sister of See also:Peter the See also:Great, whose See also:lover he became, he was the See also:principal See also:minister of See also:state (1682–1689) and " keeper of the great See also:seal," a See also:title bestowed upon only two Russians before him, Athonasy See also:Orduin-Nashchokin and Artamon See also:Matvyeev. In See also:home affairs his See also:influence was insignificant, but his foreign policy was distinguished by the See also:peace with See also:Poland in 1683, whereby See also:Russia at last recovered See also:Kiev. By the terms of the same treaty, he acceded to the See also:grand See also:league against the See also:Porte, but his two expeditions against the See also:Crimea (1687 and 1689), " the First Crimean See also:War," were unsuccessful and made him extremely unpopular. Only with the utmost difficulty could Sophia get the See also:young tsar Peter to decorate the defeated See also:commander-in-See also:chief as if he had returned a See also:victor. In the See also:civil war between Sophia and Peter (See also:August–See also:September 1689), Golitsuin See also:half-heartedly supported his See also:mistress and shared her ruin. His See also:life was spared owing to the supplications of his See also:cousin Boris, but he was deprived of his boyardom, his estates were confiscated and he was banished successively to Kargopol, Mezen and Kologora, where he died on the 21St of See also:April 1714. Golitsuin was unusually well educated. He under-stood See also:German and See also:Greek as well as his See also:mother-See also:tongue, and could See also:express himself fluently in Latin. He was a great friend of foreigners, who generally alluded to him as "the great Golitsuin."
His See also:brother MIKHAIL (1674–1730) was a celebrated soldier, who is best known for his governorship of See also:Finland (1714-1721), where his admirable qualities earned the remembrance of the See also:people whom he had conquered. And Mikhail's son See also: Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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