Even earlier (9 July 1706), an island on the Yauza River near German Settlement was received from Peter I into eternal possession.

A year later, he took part in the Åland Congress,[6] then in 1720–21 he represented the interests of Russia at the Viennese court of the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire,[7] where he found a troupe of comedians for the king.

Loving the fun, festive life, Yaguzhinsky led it on a grand scale, spending on furnishings, servants, trips, and other things.

"Having established the obligatory assemblies, Peter laid them under the supervision of Yaguzhinsky, and in this position he showed the same zeal, diligence and speed with which he carried out all the orders of his sovereign".

[6] The marriage of Yaguzhinsky with a rich and well-born heiress, which took place with the live participation of Peter the Great, Anna Feodorovna Khitrovo (1701–1733), was unsuccessful.

His wife, separated from her children, lived mainly in Moscow, where she could not boast of exemplary behavior: ...running away from home and spending the night god knows where, once, by the way, in her gardener's hut, she met many obscene and suspicious ladies, wandered out of the house naked, galloped "forty", broke into the church, insulted the priest and threw on the floor sacred objects.

[6]In 1721, at the wedding of Yuri Trubetskoy, there was a public quarrel between Yaguzhinsky and his wife, according to the ceremony she had to dance with her husband, but refused.

[9] Soon, Anna Feodorovna was placed in one of the Moscow monasteries, and Yaguzhinsky, partly due to the insistence of Peter I, addressed the Synod with a request for divorce "so that I would not continue in such a disastrous and otherwise life, but my poor little children would not have suffered from such an indecent mother".

Yaguzhinskaya justified her, saying that "she did these indecent acts in her unconsciousness and melancholy, which happened in Petersburg in 1721, and in grief and sorrow from separation from her roommate and children, from boredom and loneliness".

Valishevsky argues that even before the beginning of the divorce, Yaguzhinsky had found a prominent bride — one of the daughters of the great Chancellor Golovkin named Anna.

[10] At the request of Yaguzhinsky, his first wife, by the decree of Empress Catherine I, was imprisoned in the Theodore Monastery "until the end of her days", from where she tried to escape twice, but was caught.

[11] His duties included the fight against embezzlement: And, as a matter of fact, this is our only eye and a contentious of state affairs, that it is necessary to act faithfully for the sake of it, because the first will be charged on it.According to the characteristics of the Soviet historical encyclopedia, the first prosecutor general "was distinguished by directness, honesty and integrity, tirelessness in the work".

Finally, the almighty prosecutor general Pavel Yaguzhinsky, an honest and charming alcoholic, answered the king that then Peter would not have a single citizen, because "we all steal, who are more, who are less".

In 1720, a three-storey stone house was built for Yaguzhinsky under the project of Georg Mattarnovi and Nikolai Gerbel on the Neva Embankment.

[6] After Catherine I assumed the throne, the procurator general began to quarrel openly with Menshikov, who had strengthened his position, still did not miss a single court drinking party, and during the vigil in Peter and Paul Cathedral appealed for protection to the coffin of the late emperor, so they feared that he might "in a fit of despair, lay hands on himself".

On the day when Osterman celebrated the receipt of the title of count, Yaguzhinsky drank too much and began to shower his enemy in a foul language, for which the empress only slightly scolded him.

[6] The vice-chancellor, who did not forget the offense, soon achieved the establishment of the Cabinet of Ministers and the transfer of basic governmental functions to this body.

[15] However, two years later, Biron, having no means to overcome Osterman's influence, began to bother about Yaguzhinsky's return to Russia.

In notes, the Spanish ambassador, the Duke of Lyria, reports about him: He was a Pole of very low descent, came to Russia in the very young years, he accepted the Russian faith and Peter I liked him so much that his sovereign loved him dearly until his death.

But if he happened to drink an extra glass of wine, then he could do a lot of stupid things; however, after leaving this bad habit, he became completely different.