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Yakov Fyodorovich Turgenev ( Russian: Яков Фёдорович Тургенев) was a court jester ^[1] to Peter I of Russia, and a Kiev colonel. ^[2]

Yakov Turgenev was born in the 17th century in the Russian Empire. ^[1] His father was Fyodor Vasilievich Turgenev. He had seven grandfathers:

• Peter Nikitich Turgenev ^[3]

• Gregory Nikitich Turgenev
• Boris Nikitich Turgenev
• Vasily Nikitich Turgenev
• Osip Fedorovich Turgenev
• Vasily Fedorovich Turgenev
• Andrey F. Turgenev

• Logwin Turgenev - his only son ^{[4] [3]}

In 1671 he joined the service of the Reitarska system. In 1683, he was invited to the estate in Vorotynsky County. In 1694, he commanded a company in the Kozhuhovskaya campaign. ^[5]

In 1700 Peter I ordered Turgenev to hold a wedding parody ^[1] that was a parody of traditional customs. Ivan Fedorovich Romodanovsky portrayed the king and the queen was played by Ivan Buturlin. ^[3] At the wedding Turgenev lampooned the boyars, following Peter's speech about cutting the boyars' beards..

Yakov Turgenev died at age 45 during a cruel joke of The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters. ^[3]

• Transfiguration series. Portraits jesters. author unknown. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

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