Nikolay Nikolayevich Novosiltsev

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Count Nikolay Nikolayevich Novosiltsev (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Новоси́льцев) (1761–1836) was a Russian statesman and a close aide to Alexander I of Russia.

He was a natural son of a wealthy nobleman, married to the aunt of Count Pavel Stroganov. This relation secured for him a place in the Privy Committee that outlined the Government reform of Alexander I. He drafted a constitution for the Russian empire that mirrored the constitution suggested by Speransky, unlike Speransky's, Novosiltsev's constitutional suggestion had been accepted by Alexander but the plan was abandoned after Alexander's death in 1825.

For many years - from 1815 to 1830 he served in the government of the Kingdom of Poland (from 1813 to 1815 he governed the finances of the occupied Duchy of Warsaw). In Kingdom of Poland, he was the tsar's commissar at Council of State; he organized and led the Russian secret police there (ochrana)[1]. From 1824 curator of Vilna Governorate's education and science. Supporter of Russification policies, persecuted many pro-Polish organizations and activists, detested by contemporary Polish society[2].

He concluded his career as the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers. Nicholas I made him count in 1835.