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Nikita Panin

Gdańsk, 26 Nov 1718 – Saint Petersburg, 11 Apr 1783

10 facts3 sources

Facts and their sources

  • Born26 Nov 1718, Gdańskor 29 Sep 1718Records disagree1 source
  • TitlePresident of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs, 1763–1781not verified1 source
  • Died11 Apr 1783, Saint Petersburgnot verified1 source
  • MotherAgrafena Everlakovanot verified1 source
  • FatherIvan Vasilevich Paninnot verified1 source

A life in time

  1. 26 Nov 1718

    Born in Gdańsk

  2. 1750

    A son is born

  3. 1763–1781

    President of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs

  4. 11 Apr 1783

    Dies in Saint Petersburg, aged 64

Family

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Children · 1

During his lifetime

He lived through 8 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around Gdańsk.

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The 1710s · Nikita is born in Gdańsk

In the news1707–1710

Plague pandemic of 1707–1710

A devastating plague pandemic swept across Poland between 1707 and 1710, claiming 9,000 lives in Poznań alone and causing the local authorities in Lublin to execute grave robbers accused of spreading the disease.

What people wore

Prized festive headscarf knots

Peasant women wore delicate, thin, and richly decorated festive headscarves, which they carefully removed after church to avoid undoing their intricate, highly-prized knots.

Getting around

Travel Methods for Different Social Classes

Ordinary people typically traveled by foot or in simple carts called kolasa, while the wealthy used horses, private carriages, or, by the late 18th century, stagecoaches on main routes.

War of the Spanish Succession. Europe’s powers fought for thirteen years over who would inherit the Spanish throne; a Bourbon kept it, and Britain gained Gibraltar.In Europe · 1701–1714

War of the Spanish Succession. Europe’s powers fought for thirteen years over who would inherit the Spanish throne; a Bourbon kept it, and Britain gained Gibraltar.

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In the news1717

Silent Sejm of 1717

The 1717 Silent Sejm limited the Commonwealth's army to 24,000 troops, marking the formal beginning of long-term Russian political supremacy over the Polish-Lithuanian state.

Music

Carnival Sleigh Rides and Masquerade Balls

During the carnival season, noblemen organized sleigh rides from mansion to mansion, accompanied by musicians playing dance music; these festivities included balls where guests sometimes wore costumes of peasants, Jews, and Gypsies.

Daily life

Heating and housing of the poor

Most peasant homes were simple huts, sometimes lacking chimneys, where smoke escaped through roof openings, while wealthier households used tile stoves and fireplaces for heating. Many poorer people lived in houses where they shared space with their animals, or in primitive earthen dwellings after wartime destruction.