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VOLUINSKY, ARTEMY PETROVICH (1689-1740)
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See also:VOLUINSKY, ARTEMY PETROVICH (1689-1740) , See also:Russian See also:general and statesman, son of See also:Peter Voluinsky, one of the dignitaries at the See also:court of See also:Theodore III., came of an See also:ancient See also:family. He entered a See also:dragoon See also:regiment in 1704 and See also:rose to the See also:rank of See also:captain; then, exchanging the military service for See also:diplomacy, he was attached to the See also:suite of See also:Vice-See also:Chancellor See also:Shafirov. He was See also:present during the See also:campaign of the Pruth, shared Shafirov's captivity in the Seven Towers and in 171.5 was sent by Peter the See also:Great to See also:Persia to promote Russian See also:influence there, and if possible to find an outlet to See also:India. In 1718 Peter made him one of his six See also:adjutant-generals, and See also:governor of See also:Astrakhan. In this See also:post Voluinsky displayed distinguished administrative and See also:financial talents. In 1723 he married Alexandra Naruishkina, Peter's See also:cousin. The same See also:year he was accused of peculation and other offences to the See also:emperor, who caned him severely and deprived him of his plenipotentiary See also:powers, despite his undeniable services in Persia, but for which Peter could never have emerged so triumphantly from the difficult See also:Persian See also:war of 1722-23. See also:Catherine I. made Voluinsky governor of Kazan for a See also:short See also:time, and he held the same post for two years (1728–30) under Peter II. But his incurable corruption and unbridled See also:temper so discredited the See also:government that he was deprived of the post shortly after the See also:accession of See also:Anne. From 1730 to 1736 Voluinsky served in the See also:army under Miinnich. In 1737 he was appointed the second Russian plenipotentiary at the abortive See also:congress of Nemirov held for the conclusion of See also:peace with the See also:Porte. In 1738 he was introduced into the Russian See also:cabinet by See also:Biren as a counterpoise against Andrei See also:Osterman. Voluinsky, however, now thought himself strong enough to See also:attempt to supersede Biren himself, and openly opposed the favourite in the See also:Council of See also:State in the debates as to the See also:indemnity due to See also:Poland for the violations of her territory during the war of the See also:Polish See also:Succession, Biren advising that a liberal indemnity should be given, whereas Voluinsky objected to any indemnity at all. Biren thereupon forced Anne to See also:order an inquiry into Voluinsky's past career, with the result that he was tried before a tribunal of Biren's creatures and condemned to be broken on the See also:wheel and then beheaded. On the See also:scaffold, " by the clemency of the empress," his See also:punishment was mitigated to the severing of his right See also:hand followed by decapitation. The whole business seems to have been purely a piece of vindictiveness on the See also:part of Biren. See R. N. See also:Bain, The Pupils of Peter the Great (See also:London, 1897); D. A. Korsakov, From the Lives of Russian Statesmen of the X VIIIth See also:Century (Rus.) (Kazan, 1891). (R. N. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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