Anton de Vieira

António Manuel de Vieira, known in Russia as Count Anton Manuilovich Devier (also spelled Divier;^[1] Russian: Антон Мануилович Девиер – c. 1682 – 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1745), was one of Peter I's foreign associates, who proved to be an efficient administrator in St Petersburg and Siberia. He was St. Petersburg's first chief of police^[2] and was identified as a main rival of Alexander Danilovich Menshikov at Catherine I's court.^[3] De Vieira was the father of Peter Devier.

^ Beizer, Mikhail (1989). The Jews of St. Petersburg: Excursions Through a Noble Past. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society. p. 6. ISBN 0-8276-0321-5.
^ Nathans, Benjamin (2002). Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-93129-9.
^ Kamenskii, Aleksandr; Griffiths, David (2015). The Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Tradition and Modernization: Tradition and Modernization. Oxon: Routledge. p. 132. ISBN 1-56324-574-4.

[:0-1] Beizer, Mikhail (1989). The Jews of St. Petersburg: Excursions Through a Noble Past. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society. p. 6. ISBN 0-8276-0321-5.

[:1-2] Nathans, Benjamin (2002). Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-93129-9.

[3] Kamenskii, Aleksandr; Griffiths, David (2015). The Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Tradition and Modernization: Tradition and Modernization. Oxon: Routledge. p. 132. ISBN 1-56324-574-4.

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