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See also:GOLOVKIN, GAVRIIL IVANOVICH, See also:COUNT (1660-1734) , See also:Russian statesman, was attached (1677), while still a lad, to the See also:court of the tsarevitch 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, afterwards Peter the See also:Great, with whose See also:mother Natalia he was connected, and vigilantly guarded him during the disquieting See also:period of the regency of See also:Sophia, See also:sister of Peter the Great (1682-1689). He accompanied the See also:young See also:tsar abroad on his first See also:foreign tour, and worked by his See also:side in the See also:dockyards of Saardam. In 1706 he succeeded See also:Golovin in the direction of foreign affairs, and was created the first Russian See also:grand-See also:chancellor on the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of See also:Poltava (1709). Golovkin held this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office for twenty-five years. In the reign of See also:Catherine I. he became a member of the supreme privy See also:council which had the See also:chief conduct of affairs during this and the succeeding reigns. The empress also entrusted him with her last will whereby she appointed the young Peter II. her successor and Golovkin one of his guardians. On the See also:death of Peter II. in 1730 he declared openly in favour of See also:Anne, duchess of See also:Courland, in opposition to the aristocratic Dolgorukis and Golitsuins, and his determined attitude on behalf of See also:autocracy was the chief cause of the failure of the proposed constitution, which would have converted See also:Russia into a limited See also:monarchy. Under Anne he was a member of the first See also:cabinet formed in Russia, but had less See also:influence in affairs than Ostermann and See also:Munnich. In 1707 he was created a count of the See also:Holy See also:Roman See also:empire, and in 1710 a count of the Russian empire. He was one of the wealthiest, and at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time one of the stingiest, magnates of his See also:day. His See also:ignorance of any See also:language but his own made his intercourse with foreign ministers very inconvenient.
See R. N. See also:Bain, The Pupils of Peter the Great (See also:London, 1897).
(R. N.
End of Article: GOLOVKIN, GAVRIIL IVANOVICH, COUNT (1660-1734)
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