Gabriel Ivanovich Golovkin

Gabriel Ivanovich Golovkin

Count Gabriel Iwanowitsch Golowkin ( Russian Гавриил Иванович Головкин ; * 1660 ; † 1734 ) was Russian Chancellor.

Gabriel Iwanowitsch Golowkin was born in 1660 and knew the future Tsar Peter I from his youth. So he took part in its war games in Preobrazhenskoye and in the drinking parties of the so-called Most Drunk Council. He accompanied the Tsar on his first trip to Europe and became Vice Chancellor. After Golovin's death in 1706 he was promoted to Chancellor and in this capacity was President of the College for Foreign Affairs under Peter and his successors. In 1707 he was given the dignity of the Holy Roman Empire and in 1710 of the Russian Empire . In 1726, under the government of Empress Catherine I, he became a member of the highest state power, the Supreme Privy Council ( Verchovnyj Tajnyj Sovet ).

Golovkin was a thin and reserved person who is said to have been so stingy that he is said to have hung his wig when entering his house so as not to waste money unnecessarily.

literature

• Henry Vallotton : Peter the Great. Russia's rise to great power . 2nd, revised edition. Callwey, Munich 1978, ISBN 978-3-7667-0430-6 (Original title: Pierre le Grand . Paris 1958. Translated by Eleonore Seitz and Hermann Rinn).