Tikhon Streshnev

Tikhon Nikitich Streshnev (1644?–1719) was a Russian boyar and one of Peter the Great's most trusted statesmen. With his uncle Rodion he mentored the young Peter, becoming a boyar in 1688 and head of the military chancellery in 1690.

During the Grand Embassy of 1697 he governed Russia jointly with Prince Romodanovsky. In 1709 he became Moscow's first governor and in 1711 a founding senator, signing Tsarevich Alexei's death sentence in 1718. His exceptional height later fed rumours that he was Peter's real father.