Nikita Ivanovich Panin

Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin ({{lang-ru|??????? ????????? ??????}}) (September 18 1718–March 31 1783) was an influential Russian statesman and political mentor to Catherine the Great for the first eighteen years of her reign. He advocated the Northern Alliance and closer ties with Frederick the Great of Prussia. His staunch opposition to the partitions of Poland led to his being replaced by the more compliant Prince Bezborodko.

Bibliography

• Anonymous Life of Count N. I. Panin (Rus.; St Petersburg, 1787)
• Political correspondence (Rus. and Fr.), Collections of Russian Histor. Society, vol. ix. (St Petersburg, 1872)
• V. A. Bilbasov, Geschichte Katharina II. (Berlin, 1891f 893)
• A. Bruckner, Materials for the Biography of Count Panin (Rus.; St Petersburg, 1888).