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144: 604: 36: 460:, reported to his court that "it is not too much to say that he is tsar of all Russia" Ostermann's foreign policy was based upon the Austrian alliance. He had, therefore, guaranteed the Pragmatic Sanction with the deliberate intention of defending it. Hence the determination of France to remove him at any cost. Russia, as the natural ally of 143: 435:
All the useful reforms introduced between 1730 and 1740 are to be attributed to his initiative. He improved the state of trade, lowered taxation, encouraged industry and promoted education, ameliorated the judicature and materially raised the credit of Russia. As foreign minister he was cautious and
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It now became evident to La Chetardie that only a revolution would overthrow Osterman, and this he proposed to promote by elevating to the throne the tsesarevna Elizabeth, who hated the vice-chancellor because, though he owed everything to her father, he had systematically neglected her. Ostermann
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was by implicating Russia in hostilities with her ancient rival, Sweden, and this was brought about, by French influence and French money, when in August 1741 the Swedish government, on the most frivolous pretexts, declared war against Russia. The dispositions previously made by Ostermann enabled
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was therefore the first and the most illustrious victim of the coup d'état of 6 December 1741. Accused, among other things, of contributing to the elevation of the empress Anne by his cabals and of suppressing a supposed will of Catherine I made in favour of her daughter
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with Sweden, and was created a baron for his services. In 1723, he was made vice-president of the ministry of foreign affairs for bringing about a very advantageous commercial treaty with
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circumspect, but when war was necessary he prosecuted it vigorously and left nothing to chance. The successful conclusions of the
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and then beheaded; but, reprieved on the scaffold, his sentence was commuted to lifelong banishment, with his whole family, to
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Ostermann was appointed governor to the young emperor, and on his death (1730) he refused to participate in the attempt of
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and absolute ruin. The most obvious method of rendering the Russian alliance unserviceable to the queen of
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him, however, to counter the blow, and all danger from Sweden was over when, early in September,
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pastor, his original name was Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann. He studied languages at the
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routed the Swedish general von Wrangel under the walls of the frontier-fortress of
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to pick up promising young men, and soon thereafter entered the
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Ostermann's children returned to the court during the reign of
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in 1741. He based his foreign policy on the Austrian alliance.
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Russian statesman, vice-chancellor of Russian Empire (d. 1747)
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Count A. I. Ostermann and the proposed Partition of Turkey
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From the Lives of Russian Statesmen of the XVIIIth Century
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in Siberia, where he died six years later, in 1747.
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