Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin
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Count Alexey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin was a Russian diplomat and chancellor. He was one of the most influential and successful diplomats in 18th-century Europe. As the chancellor of the Russian Empi
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Portrait by Louis Tocqué
Bestuzhev's silver snuffbox with impressions of portrait medallions minted to his order.
Elizabeth of Russia
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Elizabeth or Elizaveta Petrovna was Empress of Russia from 1741 until her death in 1762. She remains one of the most popular Russian monarchs because of her decision not to execute a single person dur
Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin
…diplomats in 18th-century Europe. As the chancellor of the Russian Empire, was chiefly responsible for Russian foreign policy during the reign of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. Alexey was born at Moscow to an old noble family of Novgorod descent. His father, Pyotr Bestuzhev-Ryumin, was Novgorod governor and a confidant of…
Portrait by Vigilius Eriksen, 1757
Young Elizabeth in the 1720s, painted by Ivan Nikitich Nikitin.
Portrait of her fiancé, Charles Augustus of Holstein-Gottorp (1706-1727), Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, ca. 1725.
Peter II and Princess Elizabeth Petrovna Riding to Hound by Valentin Serov