Boris Pushkin
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Boris Pushkin (Russian: Борис Иванович Пушкин; ca. 1590–1659) was a Russian diplomat and government official.
Between 1610 and 1619 Boris Pushkin was in Polish captivity together with Patriarch Filaret and other members of the Russian embassy.[1] He was the head of the Great Embassy to Sweden in 1632–33, and in 1649 an envoy to Sweden. Pushkin was a deputy chief of the criminal police department ("Razboiny prikaz") under Yuri Suleshev (1630–34) and Yuri Sitsky (1641–42), and in 1646 became its chief. In 1635–39 he was a governor of Mangazeya.
Boris Pushkin was Aleksey Trubetskoy's brother-in-law.
