Nikita Trubetskoy

Prince Nikita Yurievich Trubetskoy (Никита Юрьевич Трубецкой in Russian) (May 26, 1699 – October 16, 1767) was a Russian statesman and Field Marshal (1756), minister of defense of Russia 1760.

In 1715-1717, Nikita Trubetskoy was educated abroad. He started his military career by joining the Preobrazhensky Regiment in 1719. In 1730, Trubetskoy was one of staunch opponents of the Supreme Privy Council and supported the empress Anna Ivanovna. He had taken part in all of the Russian wars up until 1740, when he was appointed prosecutor general of the Senate. Trubetskoy remained on this post until 1760. He headed the investigation and trial of Andrei Osterman (1741), Aleksei Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1758) and others. In 1760, Trubetskoy became a senator and president of the Military Board. He retired in 1763.

Nikita Trubetskoy is known to have been a very enlightened man and connoisseur of art. He was a friend of prince Antiokh Kantemir and writer Mikhail Kheraskov, and a patron of Yakov Shakhovsky.

Mother

Elena Grigorevna Tcherkassky before 1696

Father

Yuri Troubetzkoy (20 April 1668 – 8 September 1739), governor of Belgorod, general-poruchik, senator

Wives

Anastasia Gavrilovna Golovkin 11 April 1722 (? – 27 April 1735), Countess

Anna Drucka-Sokolinska 10 November 1735 (ca 1712 – before 1780), Princess

Brothers

Ivan Menshoy Troubetzkoy (1703 – 13 June 1744), minister of justice of Russia

Alexey Troubetzkoy (1700 – 1776)

Jakov Troubetzkoy

Dmitry Troubetzkoy (1724 – 9 December 1792)

Alexandre Troubetzkoy (1727 – 1750), chamberlain

Sisters

Maria Tcherkassky (27 March 1696 – 16 August 1747)

Praskovia Saltykov (1704 – 1767)

Sons

Alexandre Troubetzkoy 1723 (21 August 1723 – 26 October 1726)

Piotr Troubetzkoy (4 August 1724 – 9 May 1791)

Ivan Troubetzkoy (20 July 1725 – 1803)

Sergei Troubetzkoy (20 July 1731 – 12 August 1812), general-poruchik

Alexandre Troubetzkoy 1733 (28 May 1733 – 20 August 1737)

Yuri Troubetzkoy (21 November 1736 – 12 August 1811)

Nikolay Troubetzkoy 1737 ((1737 – 1742)

Nikolay Troubetzkoy (16 November 1744 – 1821)

Alexandre Troubetzkoy 1751 (8 June 1751 – 19 January 1778)

Vasily Troubetzkoy

Daughters

Anna Naryshkina (9 October 1737 – 7 April 1760)

Maria Troubetzkoy (6 April 1742 – 27 October 1742)

Elena Troubetzkoy (17 May 1744 – 7 July 1744)

Elena Vyazemsky (27 December 1745 – 14 October 1832)

Ekaterina Troubetzkoy (1747 – 24 December 1791 Smolny Convent)

See also

Troubetzkoy