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See also:KURAKIN, BORIS IVANOVICH, See also:PRINCE (1676–r727) , See also:Russian diplomatist, was the See also:brother-in-See also:law of 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, their wives being sisters. He was one of the earliest of Peter's pupils. In 1697 he was sent to See also:Italy to learn See also:navigation. His See also:long and See also:honourable See also:diplomatic career began in 1707, when he was sent to See also:Rome to induce the See also:pope not to recognize See also:Charles XII.'s See also:candidate, See also:Stanislaus Leszczynski, as 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 of See also:Poland. From 1708 to 1712 he represented See also:Russia at See also:London, See also:Hanover, and the See also:Hague successively, and, in 1713, was the See also:principal Russian plenipotentiary at the See also:peace See also:congress of See also:Utrecht. From 1716 to 1722 he held the See also:post of See also:ambassador at See also:Paris, and when, in 1724, Peter set forth on his See also:Persian See also:campaign, Kurakin was appointed the supervisor of all the Russian ambassadors ac-credited to the various See also:European courts. " The See also:father of Russian See also:diplomacy," as he has justly been called, was remarkable throughout his career for See also:infinite tact and insight, and a wonder-fully correct appreciation of men and events. He was most useful to Russia perhaps when the Great See also:Northern See also:war (see See also:SWEDEN, See also:History) was See also:drawing to a See also:close. Notably he prevented Great See also:Britain from declaring war against Peter's close ally, See also:Denmark, at the crisis of the struggle. Kurakin was one of the best-educated Russians of his See also:day, and his autobiography, carried down to 1709, is an See also:historical document of the first importance. He intended to write a history of his own times with Peter the Great as the central figure, but got no further than the See also:summary, entitled History of See also:Tsar Peter Aleksievich and the See also:People Nearest to Him (1682–1694) (Rua.).
See Archives of Prince A. Th. Kurakin (Rus.) (St See also:Petersburg, 189o) ; A. See also:Bruckner, A Russian Tourist in Western See also:Europe in the beginning of t"e X VIIIth See also:Century (Rus.) (St Petersburg, 1892). (R. N.
End of Article: KURAKIN, BORIS IVANOVICH, PRINCE (1676–r727)
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