Kikin biography

Alexander Vasilievich Kikin Alexander Vasilievich Kikin ... The leader of the Peter's time, one of the associates of Peter I, the Admiralty-Equalian execution in the case of Tsarevich Alexei on March 17 G. Kikin, became known to Peter the Great: in the city of Azov, Kikin accompanied the sovereign with the rank of royal day. In the city, upon returning to Russia, he was determined, with the rank of Mach-Macker, to the structure of the ships and worked first on Voronezh, then in and GG.

Kikin participated in the Northern War: in January, he stood in Mitava with a separate corps and was supposed to interfere with the union of the army of Charles XII with the Levengaupt corps; In March, blowing up the Mitavsky castle, he retreated to Minsk. At the beginning of next year, at the order of Peter, he arrived in St. Petersburg from Moscow and, after the death of commandant Yakovlev, joined the Office of the St.

Petersburg Admiralty. In December, G. Kikin traveled to Baturin with some assignment of Peter to Mazepa. In St. Petersburg, in addition to the Admiralty Affairs, the structure of ships and sometimes the command of them at sea, Kikin watched the construction of the fortress and the palace, the planting of an oak grove, made drawings of marine signals and performed different small instructions of Peter.

In subsequent years, his activity concentrated exclusively near the Admiralty. Kikin lived for the most part in St. Petersburg, watched the structure of the vessels, equipped the fleet with guns and food for the campaign, went on business trips to inspect the shipyards, or to Shlisselburg for the wires. At this time, Kikin married Kikin was very close to the sovereign.

This is evidenced by his personal correspondence with him, in which Peter calls Kikin “Grotvader, grandfather, Dida”, notifies his own most important affairs, through him he sends his spouse. Vitvet only through Kikin managed to exhaust the audience with the king. Noble faces, Prince. Kurakin and Prince. Cherkassky, healed in front of him. Kikin was a chaff on the marriage of the sovereign.

At the end of G. Kikin noticed the coldness in the relationship of Peter in himself and attributed it to the sea in the sea of ​​several briganthins. The following year he was arrested for abuse of service. In a letter to the sovereign, Kikin repented of a crime and, not daring to ask for mercy, asked for permission to live in the village; He paid a fine and, in the form of a link, he was sent to Moscow.

But in the same year, Peter finally forgave him and allowed him to come to Petersburg. From G. Alexander Kikin again began to use the meaning, as can be seen from his collision with Menshikov. In January, Dolgorukova, who bothering them very much. In May of next year, Kikin again had a clash with Menshikovs: he argued about the lane between the courtyards belonging to them and the case demanded the personal decision of Peter.

In this enmity to Menshikov and in a low official position, apparently, it is necessary to look for the reason for the betrayal of Kikin to the case of Peter; This betrayal did not have the nature of fundamental enmity to reform. Back in the city of Kikin, he corresponded with Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, in G. then, when the prince returned, he persuaded him to get a haircut, waiting for his father’s death, noting that "the cloud would not be nailed to his head with a nail." In the spring, G.

Kikin accompanied Princess Marya Alekseevna, also secret adviser Alexei Petrovich to Karlsbad; He took advantage of this trip abroad and one went to Vienna to find out how the prince would meet. In Libava, in October, after returning to St. Petersburg, a cautious Kikin, preparing an excuse for the future, told Ivan Afanasyev about hostile relations between him and the prince.

According to Golikov’s story, Kikin also bribed the tsarist day of Konstantin Baklanovsky, so that he would let him know about the danger in advance. In early February, Kikin was arrested; They say that when arrested with him, a blow came. On torture on February 11 and 18, Kikin confirmed everything, confirming the testimony of the prince; On February 22, he wrote to Peter a letter in which he tried to justify himself, but on a new torture on March 5, he confirmed his confession.

The ministers awarded him a “cruel” death penalty. According to Mekenzie’s testimony, the queen, at the insistence of Count Apraksin, asked for the mitigation of punishment Kikin. Despite this, Kikin was wheeled on March 17 and the next day was beheaded by order of the king. His house 5 in St. Petersburg and 3 in Moscow and the estate, to the tithes of the lands, were unsubscribed to the treasury.

In one of the houses near the Smolny Monastery - the Kikin chambers - in the city of Shafirov’s wife ....