Jacob Bruce
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| Noble family | Clan Bruce |
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| President of the Collegium of Mining and Manufacturing | |
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| Monarch | Peter I |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Office distestablished |
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| Monarch | Peter I Catherine I |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Alexey Zybin |
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Count James or Jacob Daniel Bruce (Template:Langx; 11 May 1669 – 30 April 1735) was a Russian general, statesman, diplomat and scientist of Scottish descent (Clan Bruce), one of the chief associates of Peter the Great; Bruce was president of the Collegium of Mining and Manufacturing from 1717 to 1722, and president of the Collegium of Mining from 1722 to 1726.[1] He was the younger brother of Robert Bruce, the first High Commandant of Saint Petersburg.
He participated in the Crimean (1687, 1689) and Azov campaigns (1695–1696) of Peter the Great against the Ottoman Empire during the Russo-Turkish War. During the Great Northern War Bruce was appointed major-general of artillery. He was involved in the revival of Russian artillery, which had been lost to the Swedish forces along with its commander, Prince Alexander of Imereti at Narva in 1700.[2] He was commander of artillery in the Battle of Poltava (1709), for which he was made a knight of the Order of St Andrew. In 1721, he became one of the first Russian counts.
Bruce was one of the best educated people in Russia at the time, a naturalist and astronomer. In 1701 he founded the first Russian observatory; it was located in Moscow in the upper story of the Sukharev Tower. Bruce's scientific library of more than 1,500 volumes became a substantial part of the Russian Academy of Sciences library.
Among Muscovites, Bruce gained fame as an alchemist and magician, due in part to the innovative design of the Sukharev Tower, which was very unusual in 18th century Moscow. It was rumored that the greatest black magic grimoires of his collection had been bricked up into the walls of the Sukharev Tower.[3]
Memory
- Brusov Lane in Moscow
- Brusov Street in Saint Petersburg
- Brusov Gymnasium in Saint Petersburg
Honours
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."БРЮС ЯКОВ ВИЛИМОВИЧ • Great Russian Encyclopedia – Electronic version". old.bigenc.ru. 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Simpson, Grant G. (1992). The Scottish Soldier Abroad, 1247-1967. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 59. ISBN 0859763412.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Collis, Robert (9 December 2011). The Petrine Instauration: Religion, Esotericism and Science at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689-1725. BRILL. p. 53. ISBN 978-90-04-21567-2.
Sources
External links
- Photograph of a page of the Calendar of Bruce, 1710 (etching) from the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
- About the Jacob Bruce book collection at the Russian Academy of Sciences Library, St. Petersburg
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