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261: 342: 67: 393:, and the efforts of the old statesman to prevent a matrimonial alliance between the Russian and Austrian courts catalyzed Catherine into getting rid of a counselor of whom, for some mysterious reason, she was secretly afraid. The circumstances of his disgrace are complicated and obscure. The final rupture seems to have arisen on the question of the declaration of the armed neutrality of the North, but it is known that Grigory Potemkin and the British ambassador, 503: 389:, whereas the empress was beginning to incline more and more towards Austria. Nevertheless, even after Paul's second marriage, Panin maintained all his old influence over his pupil, who, like himself, was now a warm admirer of the king of Prussia. Traditional tales exist from this period of an actual conspiracy of Panin and Paul against the empress. As the Austrian influence increased, Panin found a fresh enemy in 285:
power, rejected it after some hesitation. Nevertheless, Panin continued to be indispensable. His influence partly was because he was the governor of Paul, who was greatly attached to him, partly to the peculiar circumstances in which Catherine had mounted the throne, and partly to his knowledge of foreign affairs. Although acting as minister of foreign affairs, he was never made chancellor.
325:). Yet, the idea of the Northern Accord, though never quite realized, had important political consequences and influenced the policy of Russia for many years. It explains, too, Panin's strange tenderness toward Poland. For a long time, he could not endure the thought of destroying her, because he regarded her as an indispensable member of his accord, wherein she was to replace 329:, which circumstances had temporarily detached from the Russian alliance. All of the diplomatic questions concerning Russia from 1762 to 1783 are intimately associated with the name of Panin. His influence began to wane only when the impossibility of realizing the Northern Accord, his pet scheme over which Russia had fruitlessly sacrificed millions of 260: 413:
declared him to be the most amiable negotiator he had ever met. He was also of a most humane disposition and a friend of liberal institutions. As to his honesty and kindness of heart there were never two opinions. By nature a sybarite, he took care to have the best cook in the capital, and women had
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League. Such an attempt to bind together nations with such different aims and characters was doomed to failure. Great Britain, for instance, could never be persuaded it was as much in her interests as in the interests of Russia to subsidize the anti-French party in Sweden. Several other accords were
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only. To circumscribe the influence of the ruling favorites, he next suggested the formation of a cabinet council of six or eight ministers, through whom all the business of the state was to be transacted, but Catherine, suspecting in the skillfully presented novelty a subtle attempt to limit her
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on the throne, so Poland, undivided and as strong as circumstances would permit, might be drawn wholly within the orbit of Russia. He did not foresee, though, the complications which were likely to arise from Russia's interference in the domestic affairs of Poland. Thus, the
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upset Panin's plans in Sweden, Panin pursued a policy of the Russo-Prussian alliance. As to Poland, his views differed widely from the views of both Frederick and Catherine. He firmly guaranteed the integrity of Polish territory, after placing
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and his brothers seemed likely to obtain over the new empress predisposed him to favor the proclamation of his ward the grand duke Paul as emperor, with Catherine as
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suddenly turned Francophile instead of Francophobe, Panin's position became extremely difficult. However, he found a friend in Bestuzhev's supplanter,
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Panin further incensed Catherine by meddling with the marriage arrangements of the grand duke Paul and by advocating a closer
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Panin was one of the most learned, accomplished, and courteous Russians of his day. Catherine called him her
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1. Russians as Greeks: Catherine II's "Greek Project" and the Russian Ode of the 1760s–70s
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K. D. Bugrov, "Nikita Panin and Catherine II: Conceptual aspect of political relations."
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March 31] 1783) was an influential Russian statesman and political mentor to
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and the establishment of an advisory privy council. His staunch opposition to the
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for the first 18 years of her reign (1762–1780). In that role, he advocated the
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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John P. LeDonne, "Appointments to the Russian Senate, 1762-1769"
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Burials at the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra
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Panin supported Catherine when she overthrew her husband, Tsar
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as Russian minister, but a few months later was transferred to
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for him an irresistible attraction, though he never married.
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led to his being replaced by the more compliant Prince
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Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Eastern Slavic naming customs
patronymic
family name
Panin

Alexander Roslin
Gdansk
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Saint Petersburg
Russian Empire
Saint Petersburg
Russia
Russian Empire
Russian
O.S.
O.S.
Catherine the Great
Northern Alliance
Frederick the Great
Prussia
Partitions of Poland
Alexander Bezborodko
Danzig
Pärnu
Imperial Russian Army
Elizabeth
Copenhagen
Stockholm
French

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