Education
Teplov was educated at Feofan Prokopovich"s school in Saint St. Petersburg and in Germany.
Teplov was educated at Feofan Prokopovich"s school in Saint St. Petersburg and in Germany.
He was also an amateur musician and printed in 1751 the collection of his songs entitled Idle Hours Away from Work. After Kirill turned 18, he was appointed President of the Academy of Sciences. lieutenant was Teplov who ran the institution on his behalf.
He published a Russian translation of Christian Wolff"s writings, quarrelled with Mikhail Lomonosov, persecuted Gerhardt Friedrich Müller for his Normanist theories, and publicly berated Vasily Trediakovsky.
He developed a keen interest in the history of Ukraine, amassing many documents on the subject. Peter III of Russia had Teplov arrested for some obscure reasons but he was released shortly.
The event pushed him towards the party of Empress Catherine and the Orlov brothers. Teplov contributed to the downfall of the emperor and was present at his murder in the Ropsha Palace.
lieutenant was Teplov who drafted Catherine"s first ukases and persuaded her to abolish the Cossack Hetmanate.
Mindful of Chancellor Bestuzhev"s advices, Catherine bestowed upon him the title of senator but effectively removed him from power. Giacomo Casanova describes him as the man "whose vice was that he loved boys, and his virtue that he had strangled Peter III".
Russian Academy of Sciences.