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Jacob von Sievers

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Jacob von Sievers
Portrait by Josef Grassi
Born30 August 1731
Wesenberg, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire (now Rakvere, Estonia)
Died23 July 1808(1808-07-23) (aged 76)
Bauenhof, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (near what is now Valmiera, Latvia)

Jacob Johann Graf[1] von Sievers (30 August 1731 – 23 July 1808) was a Baltic German statesman of the Russian Empire from the Sievers family.

Biography

After serving the Russian army during the Seven Years' War as quartermaster general, he was appointed governor of Novgorod in 1764 by Catherine II. He introduced the cultivation of potatoes to Russia, regulated the postal services, and was instrumental in the abolition of torture in 1767.

Based on Sievers' initiative, the provincial government reform was instituted; he was himself appointed general governor of Novgorod, Tver and Pskov. He was Russian ambassador to Poland and led the second and third partition of the kingdom. Emperor Paul I of Russia appointed him senator in 1796; in 1797 he became head of the new department for water communications. He was knighted in 1798.

In Sievers' honor, Alexander I named the channel that connects the outlet of the Msta River with the Volkhov river the Sievers Canal.

Notes and references

  1. ^ Regarding personal names: Until 1919, Graf was a title, translated as Count, not a first or middle name. The female form is Gräfin. In Germany, it has formed part of family names since 1919.

Sources

  • Blum, Karl Ludwig: Ein russischer Staatsmann, Denkwürdigkeiten des Grafen von Sievers, Leipzig 1857–58, 4 vols.
  • Blum, Karl Ludwig: Graf Jacob Johann von Sievers und Russland zu dessen Zeit. Leipzig; Heidelberg: Winter, 1864
  • Jones, Robert E: Provincial Development in Russia. Catherine II and Jacob Sievers. Rutgers University Press, 1984

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jacob Johann Sievers.
  • "Sievers, Jakob Johann" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
Preceded by Governor General of Pskov
1777–1781 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Position established
 Governor General of Novgorod and Tver
1776–1781 		Succeeded by
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