Alexei Ivanovich Dashkov

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Alexei Ivanovich Daschkow ( Russian Алексей Иванович Дашков ; † March 31st July / April 11th  1733 greg. ) Was a Russian diplomat .

Life

Daschkow was a descendant of Daniel Daschkow, who came to Moscow from the Great Horde on the Lower Volga at the beginning of the 16th century and was baptized. In his youth, Alexei Dashkov was the seneschal of Tsarina Praskovia Fyodorovna (around 1682). In 1699 he took part in the embassy of Andrei Artamonowitsch Matveev to the Netherlands . With his knowledge of Latin and German , he was sent to the Polish-Saxon court in 1704 for further training with the envoy Johann Reinhold von Patkul . The following year he was appointed overseer at the English ambassador . Finally he was envoy to the Grand Hetman of the Polish Crown Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski from 1708–1712 and 1715–1716 and to the King of Saxony-Poland August II from 1712–1715 . He was in constant contact with Alexander Danilowitsch Menshikov , Dmitri Michailowitsch Golitsyn and Peter Pavlovich Schafirow .

From 1718 to 1723 Daschkow was ambassador to the Ottoman court as successor to Pyotr Andreevich Tolstoy . In 1723, after the Russo-Persian War, he signed the Treaty of Perpetual Peace with the Ottoman government to define the borders between the Russian Empire , the Ottoman Empire and Persia . His successor as ambassador to Constantinople was Ivan Ivanovich Nepljujew .

Back in St. Petersburg , Dashkov was general post director until 1727 . In 1730, on the day of Anna Ioannovna's coronation , he was appointed to the Privy Council (3rd class ). He participated in the movement to limit the power of Anna Ioannovna and signed the petition by Alexei Mikhailovich Cherkassky .

Daschkov was married to Praskovia Danilovna Menshikova, the sister Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, while according to data from the file books of Moscow he was married to Praskovja Danilovna Tatishchev, sister Alexei Danilovich Tatishchev and daughter Danijil Mikhailovich Tatishchev. whose house was eventually inherited by Pyotr Ivanovich Panin .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Дипломаты Российской империи: Алексей Иванович Дашков (accessed November 10, 2017).
  2. ↑ Большая биографическая энциклопедия: Дашков, Алексей Иванович (accessed November 10, 2017).
  3. ↑ Османская империя (резиденция в Стамбуле) (accessed November 10, 2017).
  4. ↑ Брикнер А. Г .: История Петра Великого . Direkt-Media, Moscow 2014, ISBN 978-5-4460-9784-5 , p. 375 .
personal data
SURNAME Daschkow, Alexei Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Дашков, Алексей Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1733