page_title: Zakhar Chernyshev
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: Zakhar Chernyshev / Politics
caption_attribution_description: Захар Чернышев. Бюст работы Ф. Шубина. 1774. ГТГ.
context_page_description: Zakhar Grigoryevich Chernyshev was a Russian noble, courtier to Catherine the Great, Imperial Russian Army officer, and Imperial Russian politician in the 18th century.
  After made a courtier to then-Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst in 1744, Chernyshev remained a favorite of the future Russian monarch into the 1770s. An Imperial Russian Army officer during the Seven Years' War, Chernyshev retired in 1764, and would be ultimately promoted to General Field Marshal by Catherine II. At her appointment, Chernyshev led the College of War from 1764–1774, served as her governor-general of the Pskov and Mogilev Governorates, and was the mayor of Moscow until his death.
context_section_description: In 1742, Kapitan Chernyshev was sent to the Holy Roman Empire city of Vienna, where he worked under the Russian ambassador there, Ludovic Lanczynski.  At his mother's urging, Empress Elizabeth next sent Chernyshev as her representative to the sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1745.
  On 4 March 1764, Catherine II appointed Chernyshev to the College of War's top post of vice-president.  He was a Governing Senator in March 1765 when he was awarded 30,000 Russian rubles by Catherine II for his governmental service.  When it first met on 4 November 1768, Chernyshev was on Catherine II's advisory council for the Russo-Turkish War, and in autumn 1773, he was appointed to the new position of War College president, along with a commiserate promotion to General Field Marshal, and advised Catherine II regarding Pugachev's Rebellion.  Having lost Catherine II's favor to Lieutenant-General Grigory Potemkin, Chernyshev resigned from the College of War in August 1774.
caption: Bust of General Field Marshal Chernyshev (1774) by Fedot Shubin
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