Artamon Sergejewitsch Matvejew

Artamon Sergejewitsch Matvejew

Artamon Sergejewitsch Matvejew (* 1625 ; † May 15, 1682 ) was a Russian politician .

Matveev was a confidante of Tsar Alexei and during his reign the first of the embassy prikas . Thanks to his connections with foreigners, he was given the nickname The Westerner . It is characteristic of the close relationship with the tsar that he met his future wife Natalia Naryshkina , whose guardian Matveev became, in Matveev's house. At the death of the tsar, 1676, he was by her relatives with Fyodor III. influential Miloslawski familyaccused of murdering the tsar and using black magic. He spent the following years up to 1682 in exile. Only when the tsar died he was called back by the regent Naryshkina, mother of the new ruler Peter . When Matveyev arrived in Moscow on May 11, the tsar's sister, Sofia Alexejewna , and her uncle Ivan Miloslawski had stirred up unrest under the Strelitz . They claimed that the regent Iwan murdered the other son Alexeis. After he initially succeeded in calming the Strelitzen who stormed into the Kremlin on May 15, he was finally murdered and mutilated by them. His body pieces were collected by a servant and brought to his family. His granddaughter Marie Matveeva would later become the lover of Peter the Great.

literature

• Henry Vallotton : Peter the Great. Russia's rise to great power. Unabridged license edition. Diederichs, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-424-01315-3 .