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Nikita Yurievich Trubetskoy ( Russian: ''Никита Юрьевич Трубецкой'') (26 May 1699 – 16 October 1767) was a Russian

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and

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(1756), minister of

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1760. His parents were general-poruchik and

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Prince Yuri Yurievich Troubetzkoy (20 April 1668 – 8 September 1739), who was

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, and Princess Elena Grigorievna Tcherkassky (b. before 1696). In 1715-1717, Nikita Trubetskoy was educated abroad. He started his military career as the batman of

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. In 1722 he joined the

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in the rank of

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and promoted to

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in 1722.Journal of Kammer-junker Cercholz 11, 190 In 1730, Trubetskoy was one of staunch opponents of the

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and supported the

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Anna Ivanovna. He had taken part in all of the Russian wars until 1740, then he presided the Voiennaia Kolleguia (ministere of army). He was appointed General-Prosecutor of the

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. Trubetskoy remained on this post until 1760. He headed the investigation and

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Andrei Osterman Count Andrey Ivanovich Osterman (''Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann''; russian: Андрей Иванович Остерман) (9 June 1686 31 May 1747) was a German-born Russian statesman who came to prominence under Tsar Peter I of Russia ...

(1741), Aleksei Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1758) and others. In 1760, Trubetskoy became a senator and president of the Military Board. He retired in 1763. He died Marechal of Russia, senator and actual private counsellor. His memories are published in

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in 1870. Nikita Trubetskoy is known to have been a very enlightened man and connoisseur of art. He was a friend of prince Antioch Kantemir and writer Mikhail Kheraskov, and a

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of Yakov Shakhovsky.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Trubetskoy, Nikita Field marshals of Russia Nikita 1699 births 1767 deaths 18th-century military personnel from the Russian Empire