Anton de Vieira

António Manuel de Vieira, known in Russia as Count Anton Manuilovich Devier (also spelled Divier;[1] Russian: Антон Мануилович Девиер – c. 1682 – 6 July [O.S.

[1][5] During the Grand Embassy of Peter the Great to Europe (1697), the tsar was allowed by the Dutch sailors to command a ship, where Vieira served as a cabin-boy.

During his term in office, Vieira gained renown for his strict attitude towards brigands and outlaws who had previously crowded to the newly built Russian capital.

As Vieira dared to oppose Menshikov's plan of marrying his daughter to the future Peter II of Russia, he was arrested and put to the torture.

In 1731, when Vitus Bering was commissioned to set a separate government for Okhotsk, he could not find anywhere in the Far East a more capable and experienced man than Vieira.