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Boris Kurakin

1676 - 1727

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Prince Boris Ivanovich Kurakin (Russian: Князь Бори́с Ива́нович Кура́кин; 30 July [O.S. 20 July] 1676 – 28 October [O.S. 17 October] 1727) was the third permanent Russian ambassador abroad, succeeding Andrey Matveyev in The Hague and one of the closest associates of Peter the Great. He was also the brother-in-law of the tsar, being married to Xenia Feodorovna Lopukhina, daughter of Feodor Abramovich Lopukhin and sister of Eudoxia Lopukhina. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Kurakin is the 15,372nd most popular politician (down from 14,183rd in 2024), the 1,934th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,755th in 2019) and the 418th most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Boris Kurakin ranks 15,372 out of 19,576. Before him are Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Letizia Moratti, Pandurang Vaman Kane, Liese Prokop, and Juan Rafael Mora Porras. After him are Aulus Atilius Serranus, Hilda Cameron, Dumuzid the Fisherman, Iah, Nicolas Alfonsi, and Sahiba Gafarova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1676, Boris Kurakin ranks 21. Before him are Stanisław Poniatowski, Anthony Collins, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Maria Clara Eimmart.  Among people deceased in 1727, Boris Kurakin ranks 13. Before him are Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma, Aert de Gelder, August Hermann Francke, Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti, Cornelis de Bruijn, and Jakob Abbadie.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Kurakin ranks 1,934 out of 3,761. Before him are Tatyana Baramzina (1919), Max Jakobson (1923), Nikolai Menshutkin (1842), Nestor Kukolnik (1809), Victor Chizhikov (1935), and Natalya Krachkovskaya (1938). After him are Otto von Böhtlingk (1815), Oscar Grégoire (1877), Vikenty Veresaev (1867), Abdulla Aliş (1908), Vladimir Naumov (1927), and Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (1805).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Boris Kurakin ranks 418. Before him are Magomedali Magomedov (1930), Augusts Voss (1919), Viktor Khristenko (1957), Ramazan Abdulatipov (1946), Natalia Molchanova (1962), and Nikolay Milyutin (1818). After him are Alexander Maltsev (1949), Dmitry Rogozin (1963), Pyotr Durnovo (1842), Isaak Zelensky (1890), Sergey Tereshchenko (1951), and Lyudmila Pakhomova (1946).

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