Nikita Yurievich Trubetskoy was a Russian statesman and Field Marshal (1756), minister of defense of Russia 1760.
Background
Nikita Yurievich Trubetskoy was born on March 26, 1699. His parents were general-poruchik and senator Prince Yuri Yurievich Troubetzkoy (1668–1739), who was governor of Belgorod, and Princess Elena Grigorievna Tcherkassky (b. before 1696).
Education
In 1715-1717, Nikita Yurievich was educated abroad.
Career
Nikita Yurievich started his military career as the batman of Peter I. In 1722 he joined the Preobrazhensky Regiment in the rank of sergeant and promoted to ensign in 1722. In 1730, he was one of the staunch opponents of the Supreme Privy Council and supported the empress Anna Ivanovna. Nikita Yurievich had taken part in all of the Russian wars until 1740, then he presided the Voiennaia Kolleguia (minister of the army). He was appointed General-Prosecutor of the Governing Senate. He remained on this post until 1760. He headed the investigation and trial of Andrei Osterman (1741), Aleksei Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1758), and others. In 1760, Nikita Yurievich became a senator and president of the Military Board. He retired in 1763. He died Marechal of Russia, senator, and actual private counselor.
Personality
Nikita Trubetskoy is known to have been a very enlightened man and connoisseur of art.