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DOLGOHUKI, VASJLY LUKICH, COUNT (16721739) , Russian diplomatist and minister, was one of the first batch of young
Great
Versailles
Jesuits
home he entered the diplomatic service. From 1706 to 1707 he represented Russia in Poland; and from 1707 to 1720 he was her minister at Copenhagen, where he succeeded in persuading King Frederick IV. to join the second coalition against Charles XII. At the end of 1720 he was transferred to Versailles
young
letter purporting to be the last will of the emperor, appointing Catherine Dolgoruki his successor, but shortly afterwards abandoned the nefarious scheme as impracticable, and was one of the first to support the election of Anne of Courland to the throne on condition that she first signed nine " articles of limitation," which left the supreme power in the hands of the Russian council. Anne, who repudiated the " articles " on the first opportunity, never forgave Dolgoruki for this. He was deprived of all his offices and dignities on the 17th of April 1730, and banished first to his country seat and then to the Solovetsky monastery. Nine years later the charge of forging the will of Peter II. was revived against him, and he was tortured and then beheaded at Novgorod on the 8th of November 1739.See Robert Nisbet Bain, The Pupils of Peter the Great (London, 1895). (R. N. B.) End of Article: DOLGOHUKI, VASJLY LUKICH, COUNT (16721739) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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