Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin

Pyotr Potjomkin ; Painting by Juan Carreño de Miranda (1681/82)

Pyotr Ivanovich Potjomkin ( Russian Пётр Иванович Потёмкин ; * 1617; † 1700) was a Russian diplomat, voivode and Namestnik from Borowsk in the reign of Alexei I and Fyodor III. He was a distant relative of the famous statesman Grigory Potyomkin .

Potjomkin's person can be traced for the first time during the Russo-Polish War , when he took the city of Lublin as a military leader in 1655 and the Swedish fortress Nyenschanz the following year .

He then received important diplomatic missions in Western Europe from Tsar Alexei Michailowitsch in 1667/68 . About this he wrote one of the first Russian travel reports, the so-called »статейный список«. In February 1668 Potjomkin arrived in Madrid , where he addressed the mutual trade relations and joint action of the Christian states against the Ottoman Empire . After a stay of almost three months, the Russian delegation traveled on to the French royal court in June 1668 and from there back to Moscow .

In 1674 Potjomkin was again entrusted with a diplomatic mission to Vienna , where he was supposed to coordinate the imperial Austrian policy towards the Kingdom of Poland with that of Russia. The following year he continued his journey to Denmark and England . One last trip on behalf of the Russian Tsar took him again to Spain, England and France in 1681/82. He then made a career in the Russian state from 1688/89.

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• Михаил Российский: Портрет русского посла , in: Комсомольская правда в Испании , 2006 (German: Michail Rossijskij: Portrait of a Russian Ambassador ) ( online version )