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Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Prince Vasiliy Lukich Dolgorukov (Василий Лукич Долгоруков in Russian) (1672-November 8, 1739) was a Russian diplomat and minister who was the most powerful man in the country in the later years of Peter II's reign. |
 | | A male-line descendant of the legendary prince Rurik, Dolgorukov was one of the first batch of young Russians whom Peter the Great sent abroad to be educated. |
 | | During the reign of Peter II, Dolgorukov was appointed a member of the Supreme Privy Council, and after procuring the banishment of Menshikov he appropriated the person of the young emperor, whom he would have forced to marry his niece Catherine Dolgorukova but for Peter's untimely death. |
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