Artemy Volynsky
Politician, Deceased Person
1689 – 1740
Who was Artemy Volynsky?
Artemy Petrovich Volynsky was a Russian statesman and diplomat. His career started as a soldier but was rapidly upgraded to Governor of Astrakhan under Peter the Great. He was later accused of corruption and stripped of nearly all his powers, before Catherine I of Russia sent him to govern the vast Governorate of Kazan. Anna of Russia appointed Volynsky one of her three chief ministers in 1738. After beating the noted poet Vasily Trediakovsky, Volynsky was arrested on charges of conspiracy and misconduct. Volynsky's archenemy Ernst Johann von Biron had him sentenced to death and beheaded on June 27, 1740.
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- Born
- 1689
- Also known as
- Волынский, Артемий Петрович
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 8, 1740
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on July 23, 2013
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