Nikita Trubetskoy

His parents were general-poruchik and senator Prince Yuri Yurievich Troubetzkoy (20 April 1668 – 8 September 1739), who was governor of Belgorod, and Princess Elena Grigorievna Tcherkassky (b. before 1696).

In 1722 he joined the Preobrazhensky Regiment in the rank of sergeant and promoted to ensign in 1722.

[1] In 1730, Trubetskoy was one of staunch opponents of the Supreme Privy Council and supported the empress Anna Ivanovna.

He had taken part in all of the Russian wars until 1740, then he presided the Voiennaia Kolleguia (ministere of army).

He was a friend of prince Antioch Kantemir and writer Mikhail Kheraskov, and a patron of Yakov Shakhovsky.