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François Jacques Le Fort also spelled Lefort (Russian: Франц Яковлевич Лефорт, tr. Frants Yakovlevich Lefort; January 2(12), 1656 – March 2(12), 1699) was a Genevan-born Russian military figure of Huguenot origin, general admiral (1695), and close associate of Tsar Peter the Great.
- James Bruce
- Georg Wilhelm de Gennin
- Patrick Gordon
- Franz Lefort
- Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann
“A most honest and learned man,” Sir Charles Whitworth, British ambassador to Russia, said of James Bruce (known as Yakov Bryus in Russia), one of Tsar Peter the Great’s closest associates. A representative of an ancient Scottish family, which had numbered Scottish kings among its members, Bruce distinguished himself as a mathematician, astronomer,...
Like James Bruce, German engineer Georg de Gennin, who arrived in Russia in 1697, served the “god of war” - artillery. During the hostilities which shortly began against the Swedes, he taught artillery skills and also personally participated in the capture of Vyborg and several other Swedish forts. Having discerned outstanding organizational skills...
In 1661, when Patrick Gordon entered the service of Peter the Great’s father, Tsar Aleksey Mikhaylovich (Alexis of Russia), he was already an experienced military man. The Scottish “soldier of fortune” had participated in several military campaigns under the Polish and Swedish banners. During the struggle for power between Tsarevna Sophia and Tsare...
The son of a Geneva merchant, Franz Lefort was one of the closest associates and friends of Tsar Peter the Great. He fully shared the tsar’s belief in the necessity of Europeanizing Russia as rapidly as possible and afforded him active assistance in the process. Lefort would look for the best military and civil specialists in Europe and entice them...
A native of the town of Bochum, Heinrich Johann Friedrich (Andrey Ivanovich) Ostermann was a truly unique individual. He had an impeccable command of German, Dutch, Latin, French and Italian and just as easily learned Russian when, in 1704, he was invited into the service of Tsar Peter. From an ordinary translator for the Ambassadorial Office [Russ...
- Boris Egorov
François Lefort, el ginebrino amigo y mentor de Pedro I el Grande. François Jacques Lefort, más tarde conocido como Franz Iakovlevitch Lefort (Франц Яковлевич Лефорт), nació en Ginebra el 2 de enero de 1656, hijo de un comerciante que deseaba que siguiera sus mismos pasos.
Franz Lefort, along with the Scottish General Patrick Gordon, became the first and best friends of the young tsar, who often visited the German Quarter – Peter inherited from his father a love...
January 2, 1656 – March 12, 1699. Franz Lefort was a General Admiral originally from Switzerland in the Russian navy. A close friend and advisor to Peter the Great, Lefort participated in campaigns in the Crimea and Azov, and it is possible that Lefort himself was behind the idea of Peter the Great’s “Grand Embassy” to Europe.
Peter the Great loved to attend funerals of noble Russians and foreigners. In 1699, his friend and aide, Franz Lefort, died. Peter mourned his friend very much, but not in the old Moscow...
La mayoría del barrio se llama Lefórtovo (derivado de Franz Lefort). Pero el cementerio Vvedénskoie que se ubica allí popularmente se sigue llamando Nemétskoie o Alemán. Categoría: Geografía de Moscú.
