Yemelyan Ukraintsev

Yemelyan Ignatievich Ukraintsev (; September 12 or 23, 1641–1708) was a

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and

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. Ukraintsev started his career in

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in 1660 as a ''

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'' (; ''hypodiakonos'' from

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means "assistant servant") in the ''

Posolsky Prikaz A prikaz (russian: прика́з, ''prikaz''; , plural: ) was an administrative, judicial, territorial, or executive office functioning on behalf of palace, civil, military, or church authorities in Muscovy and in Russia from the 15th to the 1 ...

'' (Diplomacy Department). He served under the supervision of

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, which whom he would go on a

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in 1662-1663. Ukraintsev took part in signing the

Treaty of Andrusovo The Truce of Andrusovo ( pl, Rozejm w Andruszowie, russian: Андрусовское перемирие, ''Andrusovskoye Pieriemiriye'', also sometimes known as Treaty of Andrusovo) established a thirteen-and-a-half year truce, signed in 1667 bet ...

with

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in 1667. In 1672-1673, he was sent as an

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, and the

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, where Ukraintsev conducted

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regarding these countries' participation in military campaigns against

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. When

Artamon Matveev Artamon Sergeyevich Matveyev (Артамон Сергеевич Матвеев in Russian) (1625–1682) was a Russian statesman, diplomat and reformer. Biography Because his father - Sergey Matveyev - was a notable diplomat, Artamon Matveye ...

fell into disgrace in 1676, Ukraintsev unofficially took charge of the ''Posolsky Prikaz''. In 1677, he was sent to Warsaw as a second

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. In 1679, Ukraintsev met with

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Ivan Samoylovych Ivan Samoylovych (, , ; died 1690) was the Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine from 1672 to 1687. His term in office was marked by further incorporation of the Cossack Hetmanate into the Tsardom of Russia and by attempts to win Right-bank Ukraine from ...

to negotiate joint military action against the

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. Ironically, he also participated in Samoylovych's deposition during the Crimean campaigns in 1687. In 1686, Ukraintsev took part in signing the

Eternal Peace Treaty A Treaty of Perpetual Peace (also "Treaty of Eternal Peace" or simply Perpetual Peace, russian: Вечный мир, , pl, Pokój wieczysty, in Polish tradition Grzymułtowski Peace, pl, Pokój Grzymułtowskiego) between the Tsardom of Russia ...

with Poland. In 1689, Ukraintsev and

Vasily Galitzine Prince Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn (russian: Василий Васильевич Голицын, tr. ; 1643–1714) was a Russian aristocrat and statesman of the 17th century. He belonged to the Golitsyn as well as Romodanovsky Muscovite noble ...

(then head of the Posolsky Prikaz) had to flee from the

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. After Galitzine's deposition, Yemelyan Ukraintsev joined his opponents and officially took charge of the ''Posolsky Prikaz'', keeping this post for ensuing ten years. In 1699, he was appointed ambassador to

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, where he would manage to sign a 30-year peace treaty with the

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on favorable conditions on July 3, 1700 ( Treaty of Constantinople). Upon his return from Turkey, Ukraintsev was appointed head of the '' Proviantsky Prikaz'' (Provisions Department). He kept this post until 1706, when he was accused of misuse, subjected to corporal punishment, and fined. Another historical account claims that Ukraintsev was also forced to make mantles and 1400

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s for the Preobrazhensky and

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s. Despite this incident, his diplomatic career continued. In 1707-1708, Ukraintsev was appointed ambassador to Poland together with

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Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov Prince Vasiliy Lukich Dolgorukov (russian: Князь Василий Лукич Долгоруков; 16728 November 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. ...

. Ukraintsev died in 1708 while on a mission to

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to reconcile

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with the

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