Count Gavrila (Gavriil) Ivanovich Golovkin (Russian: Гаври́ла (Гаврии́л) Ива́нович Голо́вкин) (1660 – 20 January 1734) was a Russian statesman who formally presided over foreign affairs of the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 1706 until his death. The real control over Russian diplomacy during his lengthy term in office was exercised by Boris Kurakin until 1727 and by Andrey Osterman after his death.
In 1677, while still a young man, Gavrila Golovkin was attached to the court of the tsarevich Peter, with whose mother Nataliya he was connected, and vigilantly guarded him during the disquieting period of the regency of Sophia. He accompanied the young tsar abroad on his first foreign tour, and worked by his side in the dockyards of Zaandam. In 1706, he succeeded Golovin in the direction of foreign policy, and was created the first Russian grand-chancellor on the field of Poltava (1709). Golovkin held this office for twenty-five years.[1]
In the reign of Catherine I, he became a member of the Supreme Privy Council, which had the 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 death of Peter II in 1730, he declared openly in favour of Anna, duchess of Courland, in opposition to the aristocratic Dolgorukovs and Galitzines, and his determined attitude on behalf of autocracy was the chief cause of the failure of the proposed constitution, which would have converted Russia into a limited monarchy. Under Anna, he was a member of the first cabinet formed in Russia, but had less influence in affairs than Osterman and Munnich.[1]
In 1707, Golovkin was created a count of the Holy Roman Empire, and in 1710 a count of the Russian Empire. He was one of the wealthiest, and at the same time one of the stingiest, magnates of his day. His ignorance of any language but his own made his intercourse with foreign ministers very inconvenient.[1] For the ultimate disgrace of his relatives, see the Lopukhina Affair. Yury Golovkin, Russia's first ambassador to China, was his great-grandson.
of the King of Heaven (1552) Ivan Nikitin, Portrait of Chancellor GavriilGolovkin (c. 1720) Georg Christoph Grooth, The Empress Elizabeth of Russia on...
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Protestant. His father was a grandson of Peter the Great's chancellor, GavriilGolovkin. On his death Wilhelmina-Justina remarried Jean-Louis-Paul-François...
council comprised six members—Alexander Menshikov, Fyodor Apraksin, GavriilGolovkin, Andrey Osterman, Peter Tolstoy, and Dmitry Mikhaylovich Golitsyn....
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the grandson of his namesake, the count and founder of the family, GavriilGolovkin. On 14 October, 1750, their wedding took place in the court church...
Louis Caravaque. From 1755 to 1757 he worked in Moscow frescoing the Golovkin palace. Here he met prince Ivan Shuvalov who supported Antropov's work...
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