Pyotr Potemkin

Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin (Russian Пётр Иванович Потёмкин; * 1617, † 1700) was a Russian diplomat and voivod Namestnik of Borovsk in the reign of Alexis I and Feodor III.

For the first time the person Potjomkins is detectable during the Russo - Polish war, in which he the city of Lublin and the following year took as a military leader in 1655, the Swedish fortress Nyenschanz.

After that he received from the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich 1667/68 important diplomatic missions in Western Europe. About this he wrote one of the first Russian travel reports, the so-called " статейный список ". In February 1668 Potemkin arrived in Madrid, where he addressed the mutual trade relations and common action among the Christian states against the Ottoman Empire. After nearly three months of stay, the Russian delegation traveled in June 1668 further to the French royal court and from there back to Moscow.

In 1674 Potemkin was entrusted again with a diplomatic mission to Vienna, where he should vote the Imperial Austrian policy towards the Kingdom of Poland with that of Russia. The following year, he continued his journey to Denmark and England. One last trip on behalf of the Russian Tsar took him 1681/82 again to Spain, England and France. Then he made from 1688/89 a career in the Russian political system.