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 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.

[4]While Anna Leopoldovna was celebrating her daughter's name day in Saint Petersburg, the conspirators decided to act and on the night of November 24–25, 1741, Golovkin was arrested.

"Both spouses were deprived to such an extent that old Chernyshev, the father of three sons who later became famous, with difficulty and risking his own freedom, saw that they were given a sheepskin coat and twenty–two rubles in money".

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.

[7] At the same time, according to the characteristics of Mikhail Pylyaev Count Mikhail Golovkin was a true patriot and a skillful minister, he hated Biron and Osterman, had a good education, was distinguished by his directness, kind heart and great hospitality, but he loved to indulge in laziness and bliss and sometimes was not alien to pride, stubbornness, perseverance and anger.