Sava Vladislavich

Sava Vladislavich

Count Savva Lukich Vladislavich-Raguzinsky (Russian: Савва Лукич Владиславич-Рагузинский; Serbian: Сава Владиславић Рагузински; 1669 in Jasenik, Herzegovina – 17 June 1738 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Serbian merchant-adventurer in the employ of Peter the Great who conducted important diplomatic negotiations in Constantinople, Rome and Beijing. His most lasting achievement was the Treaty of Kiakhta, which regulated relations between the Russian Empire and the Qing Empire until the mid-19th century. Also, he was an author of a whole number of pamphlets, monographs, treaties and letters concerned with liberating the lands of the Slavs, then occupied by the Ottoman Empire and the forces of Leopold I.