Ivan Trubetskoy

Prince Ivan Jurjewitsch Trubetskoy also Ivan Jurjevitsch Trubetskoi (Russian: Иван Юрьевич Трубецкой; * June 18, 1667; † January 16, 1750 in St. Petersburg) was a Russian Field Marshal since 1728. He belonged to the familiar circle of Tsar Peter I.

Life

Ivan Jurjewitsch Trubetskoy was the son of the nobleman Yuri Petrovich Trubetskoy (1643-1679) and Princess Irina Golizyna († 1679 ). Due to the high position of his family Ivan has already been nominated for seventeen Stolnik. As one of the first he served in the Life Guards regiment Preobraschensker to 1693 as captain. A year later he was appointed lieutenant colonel. In addition Trubetskoy in 1692 appointed boyars. This was a typical combination of old and new ranks and titles to Peter's reign. Trubetskoy received after the rank of major general. He commanded a part of the newly established Russian fleet during the Azov campaign in 1696. 1699 he was appointed governor of Novgorod.

During the Great Northern War, the prince commanded a division at the siege of Narva and was taken prisoner in the ensuing Battle of Narva by the victorious Sweden. In the next 18 years he remained in captivity. Charles XII. allowed Trubezkois wife, Irina Naryshkina (1671-1749) to come to her husband and live with him in Sweden. In 1718 he and General Avtonom Mikhailovich Golovin was released in exchange for the Swedish Marshal Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld from captivity. He had a legitimate daughter, Anastasia Trubezkaja, later Hereditary Princess of Hesse- Homburg, and an illegitimate son, Ivan Ivanovich Betskoi (1704-1795) with a Swedish mistress, probably the Baroness Wrede.

After his return to Russia, Trubetskoy received the rank of lieutenant general on 1 January 1719 and three months later he was appointed commander of all cavalry regiments in Ukraine. On January 28, 1722 after the conclusion of the Treaty of Nystad with Sweden, the Prince was promoted to General. In February, he was appointed governor-general of Kiev. He remained in this position until December of next year.

With the accession to the throne of Peter II in 1728 he received the rank of field marshal, however, to have done without special military merit.