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Fyodor Alekseyevich, Count Golovin
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Fyodor Alekseyevich, Count Golovin

Russian statesman
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1650, Russia
Died:
July 30 [Aug. 10, New Style], 1706 (aged 56)

Fyodor Alekseyevich, Count Golovin (born 1650, Russia—died July 30 [Aug. 10, New Style], 1706) was a Russian statesman and diplomat who served prominently during the reign (1682–1725) of Peter I the Great of Russia. Despite Golovin’s loyalty to Peter, the regent Sophia Alekseyevna (reigned 1682–89)—Peter’s half sister and political rival—promoted Golovin to the rank of okolnichi (court official) in 1685. Sent on a diplomatic mission to the Amur River region, he entered into negotiations with China which resulted in the Treaty of Nerchinsk (ratified 1689). When Golovin returned to Moscow, he was rewarded with the rank of boyar (next in ...(100 of 235 words)

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