Avramij Lopukhina

- Russian diplomat who lived in the ei ghteenth century. In 1712 he was a minister in the Tsarist Consta ntinople. In November 1712, the Grand Vizier Yusuf Pasha Turkish Aga received from the Sultan Ahmed III wsadzenia Members of the R ussian command, Avramija Lopukhina Andrejewicza Tolstoy and Peter, along with sapphires and hostage Peter Sheremetev put on donkeys and drive to the Seven Towers Fortress, which amounted to a declaration of war czar Russia, Peter I. To save the embarrassment to the Russians vizier gave them horses instead of donkeys, which ended tragically for him, as Ahmed IIIs death he was punished for insubordination.