Vladislavich-Raguzinsky Sawa Lukic

his father, oppressed by the Turks at home, moved with his family in Ragusa, and took a double surname. Young Vladislavich-Raguzinsky engaged in trade and soon came to Constantinople, where he became a secret agent of Russian diplomats, Prince Golitsyn and Ukraintseva. Perform two things at once, he came with the goods in Azov in 1702, as if studying a trade route across the Black Sea, and a year later found himself in Moscow, where he was treated kindly by Peter I. Russian supply of goods, . Vladislavich-Raguzinsky back in 1705 in Constantinople to the Envoy to Tolstoi, . three years later again came to Moscow, . received the right to free trade and the courtyard on Pokrovka, . and in 1710 the rank of the court counselor and malorossiyskoe estate; received from the Government of Ragusa diploma at the title of Count,
. In 1716 he went to Italy, where he spent six years negotiating with the Roman kurieyu and senates of Venice and Ragusa, and watched the Russian had been sent for education. The death of Pope Clement XI prevented the conclusion of the concordat with Russia, and Vladislavich-Raguzinsky returned to St. Petersburg. Catherine I sent Vladislavicha-Raguzinskogo extraordinary envoy to China, resourcefulness and duplicity of the emperor mandarin dashed by the energy and resilience Ambassador, making April 3, 1728, Mr.. signed lucrative for Russia peace treaty. He died in 1738.