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Khilkov Family
Khilkov is a surname of Russian origin. Notable members * Andrey Khilkov (1676–1716), Prince, Russian diplomat and ambassador * Dmitry Khilkov (1858–1914), Prince, military and later a peace activist * Mikhail Khilkov (1834–1909), Prince, Russian railroad executive * Stepan Khilkov (1785–1854), Prince, eldest son of Prince Alexander Jacobovich Khilkoff and military commander {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Khilkov
Prince Andrey Yakovlevich Khilkoff (1676–1716) was the Russian ambassador to Sweden. Biography In 1697 Prince Khilkov, in the capacity of a stolnik was sent with a number of others to Italy to study navigation and shipbuilding. Soon after his return to Russia he was sent as ambassador to Sweden (June 1700), and instructed to inform Charles XII of the imminent arrival of great envoys (boyar Prince Yakov Dolgrukiy and okolnichiy Prince Fyodor Shakhovsky) for the solemn confirmation of the peace agreements with Sweden. Peter the Great sent an ambassador to Stockholm exclusively in order to lull the Swedish Government into a false sense of security, and to conceal from it his preparations for war with Sweden, which he decided to begin as soon as peace was concluded with Turkey. Not finding the King in Stockholm, Prince Khilkov followed the king to the shores of Denmark, and here, on 19 August 1700, on the royal yacht, he gave Charles XII a scroll and according to orders, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Khilkov
Prince Dmitry Aleksandrovich Khilkoff (most often spelled Khilkov, sometimes also Hilkov or Hilkoff) (1858–1914) went from being an officer in the Czar's Army to a Tolstoyan preaching Pacifism to a Socialist-Revolutionary Party, Socialist Revolutionary. Prince Dmitry Khilkov was an aristocratic disciple of Leo Tolstoy who was exiled by the government and had his children taken away from him for following Tolstoy's teachings. Like Tolstoy, Khilkov became involved with emigration of the Spiritual Christian Doukhobors in Russia to Canada, and he was part of an 1898 settlement exploratory delegation to Canada. In July 1899 Khilkov returned to Europe, and to Switzerland where his family were then living. Initially working closely with Biriukov and the Tolstoyans, Dmitrii was soon to renounce his former pacifism and by 1902 was advocating mass terrorism in Russia to overthrow the Tsarist regime. He became acquainted with leaders of the revolutionary movement, finally joining the Social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
