Nicolas Repnine

The prince Nicolas Vassiliévitch Repnine , in Russian НиколайВасильевичРепнин , (1734-1801) was a general and a Russian Statesman.

He was the son of the prince Repnine (1696-1748) which under Pierre Large the ordered an army corps against Charles XII, and nephew of the minister Panine.

He was sent in Poland to assist the election of Stanislas Poniatowski in 1764, and remained as ambassador in this country.

He was in 1768 Ambassadeur with Constantinople. he made conclude like mediator the Paix from Teschen between the Austria and the Prussia in 1779. He beat the Turks in 1789, formed the blockade of Izmail, and signed the preliminaries of Galaţi, which followed the peace of Iassy in 1792.

Recalled in the middle of its successes by the effect of the jealousy of Potemkine, it became the center of a company the dissatisfied ones, whose majority were banished in Siberia. It accepted nevertheless the government of the Livonie, then, after the second partition of Poland, the Lithuania, and later command of the Russian army directed on Poland, but it was replaced soon in this mission by Souvarov.

Envoy again in Poland as ambassador, it determined Poniatowski to abdicate. Paul Ier named it Feld-maréchal with his advent and in Prussia to propose to the king to enter the Second coalition against France sent it, but it failed and was disgraced.

Prince Repnine had adopted the mystical ideas of Martines de Pasqually.

Its name passed to the prince Nicolas Volkonsky, wire of his/her daughter, and its descendant bore the name of Repnine-Volkonsky .

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