monarch death_date predecessor successor office birth_date term image article_title birth_name
empress anna emperor ivan vi grand duchess anna leopoldovna 31 may 1747 gavriil golovkin alexey cherkassky minister of foreign affairs -lrb- russia -rrb- 9 june 1686 1734-1740 ostermann.jpg andrey osterman
 heinrich johann friedrich ostermann
andrey osterman

count andrey ivanovich osterman -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 9 june 1686 -- 31 may 1747 -rrb- was a german-born russian statesman who came to prominence under tsar peter i of russia -lrb- peter the great -rrb- and served until the accession of the tsesarevna elizabeth .
his foreign policy was based upon the austrian alliance .
general admiral -lrb- 1740 ; dismissed 1741 -rrb- .
