Mikhail Golovkin

Count Mikhail Gavrilovich Golovkin (; 1699 – 1754, Yarmong in Kolyma) was a Russian diplomat, the Chancellor's son, married to the cousin of Empress Anna Ioannovna. He was Vice–Chancellor, Head of the Monetary Office, a Cabinet Minister in 1740–1741, then in exile until the end of his life.

Life at court In 1712, he was sent abroad for training. Ten years later, he served as ambassador at the Prussian court in Berlin. Under Anna Ioannovna he was a senator and supervised the Mint and the Chancellery. "The favorite of his father, very handsome and well–mannered, Mikhail had a quick and brilliant success", Fyodor Golovkin recalled of his uncle. However, after the death of his father, he did not get into the Cabinet of Ministers, which made him very offended and caused him to withdraw from running affairs.

Under Anna Leopoldovna he was Vice–Chancellor for Internal Affairs, one of the most powerful people in the state. He had conflicts with Burkhard Christoph von Münnich and Andrey Osterman, during the overthrow of Ernst Johann von Biron, he said he was sick, so as not to appear in the palace. He enjoyed the great confidence of the ruler and advised her to declare herself empress, and to cloister Elizaveta Petrovna in a monastery immediately after her coronation. According to Fyodor Golovkin

He outlined his project in writing and sent it with a confidant, a certain Grunstein, to the palace. But this man was bribed and began by giving the package to Elizabeth, who, having read and sealed it carefully again, sent it to the ruler.

Mikhail Gavrilovich died in 1754. Pavel Karabanov claimed that Golovkin was strangled by his own servants, who were tired of moldering at the end of the world. His wife buried him in the vestibule of the house in which they lived, turning it into a chapel. A year later, she was allowed to return to Moscow. Ekaterina Ivanovna brought her husband's body with her and buried it in the Saint George Monastery. Mistress Golovkina often told me later how they first ate wild roots and little–known drugs that were delivered to them by shamans, or priests of aliens wandering in these vast and desert countries; her husband died soon after, but with the help of her devoted servants, she managed to embalm his corpse and keep it in the dugout they dug. At the same time, according to the characteristics of Mikhail Pylyaev