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GOLOVIN, FEDOR ALEKSYEEVICH, See also:COUNT (d. 1706) , See also:Russian statesman, learnt, like so many of his countrymen in later times, the business of a ruler in the Far See also:East. During the regency of See also:Sophia, See also:sister of See also:Peter the See also:Great, he was sent to the See also:Amur to defend the new See also:Muscovite fortress of Albazin against the See also:Chinese. In 1689 he concluded with the See also:Celestial See also:empire the treaty of See also:Nerchinsk, by which the See also:line of the Amur, as far as its tributary the Gorbitsa, was retroceded to See also:China because of the impossibility of seriously defending it. In Peter's See also:grand See also:embassy to the See also:West in 1697 Golovin occupied the second See also:place immediately after Lefort. It was his See also:chief See also:duty to hire See also:foreign sailors and obtain everything necessary for the construction and See also:complete equipment of a See also:fleet. On Lefort's See also:death, in See also:March 1699, he succeeded him as See also:admiral-See also:general. The same See also:year he was created the first Russian count, and was also the first to be decorated with the newly-instituted Russian See also:order of St See also:Andrew. The conduct of foreign affairs was at the same See also:time entrusted to him, and from 1699 to his death he was "the premier See also:minister of the See also:tsar." Golovin's first achievement as foreign minister was to supplement the treaty of Carlowitz, by which See also:peace with See also:Turkey had only been secured for three years, by concluding with the See also:Porte anew treaty at See also:Constantinople (See also:June 13, 1700), by which the See also:term of the peace was extended to See also:thirty years and,besides other concessions, the See also:Azov See also:district and a See also:strip of territory extending thence to See also:Kuban were ceded to See also:Russia. He also controlled, with consummate ability, the operations of the See also:brand-new Russian diplomatists at the various foreign courts. His superiority over all his Muscovite contemporaries was due to the fact that he was already a statesman, in the See also:modern sense, while they were still learning the elements of statesmanship. His death was an irreparable loss to the tsar, who wrote upon the despatch announcing it, the words " Peter filled with grief." See R.

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Bain, The First Romanovs (See also:London, 1905). (R. N.

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