Alexander Shuvalov

Alexander Ivanovich Shuvalov (Russian Александр Иванович Шувалов; * 1710, † 1770) was Chief of the Secret Chancellery ( State Security ) under Elizabeth Petrovna.

Biography

Alexander Ivanovich Shuvalov was the son of General Ivan Shuvalov Maximowitsch the Elder, who commanded the fortress of Vyborg and Archangel. Shuvalov was among the small circle, which in their exile in Izmailovo (now Moscow) accompanied the future Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. He was a member of the Guard and the coup d'état that Elisabeth raised to the throne, actively involved. This secured him the lifelong gratitude of the monarch, who in 1741 elevated him to Chamberlain and 1746 to the Count.

Shuvalov headed for many years the Secret Chancellery, a kind of state security police. In this position, he eliminated all political enemies of Elizabeth and even his own family. As the health of the empress wore off, Alexander Shuvalov openly sympathized with the political views of the heir and later Emperor Peter III. , Of him after his accession to the throne (5 January 1762) for field marshal appointed. With the accession of Catherine II (July 9, 1762) Shuvalov's career took an abrupt end. He was accused of having initiated a conspiracy against the monarch. Shuvalov thereupon brought down all the offices and retired to his estates, where he died in 1770.

Contemporaries portray Alexander Shuvalov be extremely unpleasant man, who also had a nervous twitching of the facial muscles.

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• The history of the Russian Empire
• The Romanovs
• Biography of Peter the third
• Orenburgische topography

• Intelligence Services Person (Russian Empire )
• Marshal (Russian Empire )
• Support of the White Eagle Order
• Graf ( Russian Empire )
• Russian
• Born in 1710
• Died in 1770
• Man