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During his career, Ordin-Nashchokin had to constantly struggle with narrow routine and personal jealousy on the part of many of the boyars and clerks of the council. He was last employed in the negotiations for confirming the Truce of Andrusovo (September 1669 – March 1670). In January
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It was Ordin-Nashchokin who first abolished the onerous system of tolls on exports and imports, and brought together Russian merchants with the aim of promoting direct commercial relations between Sweden and Russia. He also initiated a
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was invited to mediate a northern peace. Finally he laid stress upon the importance of Livonia for the development of Russian trade. On being overruled he retired from the negotiations that led to the
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In 1660, Ordin-Nashchokin was sent as plenipotentiary to a second congress, to convert the truce of 1658 into a permanent peace. He advised that the truce with Sweden should be prolonged and
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because of his resourcefulness during the Pskov rebellion of 1650, which he succeeded in bringing under control through his personal efforts. At the beginning of the
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title and highest offices of state not as a result of family connections but due to his personal capabilities and achievements.
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and bills of exchange into Russia. He is also associated with the building of the first Russian merchant-vessels on the
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under the name of Antony, and occupied himself with charity until his death in 1680. According to an assessment in the
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Ordin-Nashchokin was the chief plenipotentiary at the abortive congress of Durovicha, which met in 1664, to end the
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on the occasion of his second marriage; but in February 1671 he was dismissed, and withdrew to the
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Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin sets a postal system in Russia. The stamp of Russia, 2011
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whereby the Russians were left in possession of all their conquests in
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Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin was the son of a poor official from
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and through his efforts Russia succeeded in concluding with
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Ordin-Nashchokin attracted the attention of the young Tsar
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near his native Pskov. There Ordin-Nashchokin took the
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Eastern Slavic naming customs
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diak
posolsky prikaz
boyar
Pskov
Latin
German
mathematics
Treaty of Stolbovo
Alexis
Russo-Swedish War (1656–1658)
plenipotentiary
Narva River
Baltic seaboard
Lithuania
Treaty of Valiesari
Livonia
Charles II of England
Treaty of Kardis
Russo-Polish War (1654-1667)
Truce of Niemieża
Poland
Truce of Andrusovo
Foreign Office
chancellor

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