1791, against the will of Bezborodko, he made a trip to Paris, where he listened to lectures by Jean-Francois de La Harpe and watched the events of the revolution. In the same year he participated in the signing of the Yas peace. In 1792 he became close to the Great Prince Alexander Pavlovich. From October 11, 1792, to 1797, he was an extraordinary envoy to Constantinople. The accession to the throne of Paul I did not entail the opals of Bezborodko (as happened with the majority of people who used the location of the late Empress) and therefore, in October 1798, his protege and nephew became vice-chancellor and vice-president of the College of Foreign Affairs. At the age of thirty he was made into active secret advisers, and on April 4, 1799 he was elevated to the counties dignity of the Russian Empire. As a diplomat, Kochubey held on to a 'national system based on Russia's good,' wanted 'all powers to cherish its friendship' and fear territorial increments. He was a supporter of strengthening relations with the Ottoman Empire. In September 1799, immediately after the death of his uncle, Kochubey became disunity and he was exiled to the village: the emperor wanted to marry himself in favor to Anna Lopukhina, but married Maria Vasilchikova instead. In the spring of 1800 he went abroad, but after receiving the news of the death of Paul I in Dresden, he returned to St. Petersburg in April 1801. Upon his accession to the throne, Alexander I was appointed as president of the College of Foreign Affairs and a senator in June 1801. Much more important was the fact he became one of the closest advisers to the emperor and joined the Unspoken Committee, designed to prepare the transformation of the state system of Russia. On December 12, 1801, Count Kochubey was appointed a member of the Essential Council, and on September 8, 1802, he became the first Minister of the Interior of Russia. When discussing the peasant issue, he opposed the liberation of peasants without land and the practice of transferring them to the yard; the same position was defended in the Committee on the Arrangement of The Aesthetic and Lifland Peasants, of which Kochubei had been chairman since 1803. In the area of political transformation, Kochubey advocated the separation of powers while maintaining the inviolability of autocracy. In the early 19th century, the