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Artamon Sergeyevich Matveyev
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Artamon Sergeyevich Matveyev

Russian diplomat
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Matveyev also spelled:
Matveev
Born:
1625
Died:
May 15 [May 25, New Style], 1682, Moscow, Russia (aged 57)
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Artamon Sergeyevich Matveyev (born 1625—died May 15 [May 25, New Style], 1682, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian diplomat and statesman who was a friend and influential adviser of Tsar Alexis of Russia (ruled 1645–76) and did much to introduce western European culture into Russia. Son of an obscure government clerk, Matveyev rose through the ranks to become chief of the Moscow streltsy (household troops) in 1654. In that year he also was entrusted with the negotiations with the Poles that resulted in their surrender of Smolensk to Russia. In 1669 Matveyev became head of the department for Ukrainian affairs, and ...(100 of 349 words)

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