In addition to his political roles, he also held the positions of field marshal and general admiral, mostly holding the titles nominally and acting more in the capacity of a military administrator.

[3] During the regency of Sophia Alekseyevna, Golovin was sent on a diplomatic mission to the Amur River region and entered into negotiations with the Qing dynasty over border disputes with the Tsardom of Russia.

[4] In 1697, Golovin was appointed as one of three diplomats to head Peter's Grand Embassy to Western Europe, along with Franz Lefort, the chief ambassador, and Prokopii Voznitsyn.

[6] Upon Lefort's death in March 1699, Golovin succeeded him as de facto foreign minister until he was officially appointed as the head of the Ambassadorial Chancellery in February 1700.

[4] The treaty extended Russian-Turkish peace for thirty years, and the Ottomans seceded the Azov region and additional territory in Kuban to the Tsardom.