About the book: 2018 / Andrei Ivanovich Osterman is one of the famous Russian statesmen of German origin in the 18th century. Hardworking, cautious, vain, insidious, he was in the power structures of the Russian Empire for almost 40 years during the reigns of Peter I, Catherine I, Peter II, Anna Ioannovna and the reign of the young Ivan Antonovich. Biography of A. I. Osterman - the last work of Nikolai Ivanovich Pavlenko.