Avtonom Golovin

General Avtonom Mikhailovich Golovin (Russian: Автоном Михайлович Головин) (October 7, 1667 – July 3, 1720) was a Russian military leader and one of the associates of Peter the Great.

When tsar Peter I of Russia was a young boy, Avtonom Golovin served him as a room stolnik. Later in his life, Peter the Great made Golovin one of his military commanders for his loyalty, despite the fact that the latter had had almost no military experience. The tsar "promoted" Avtonom to the rank of colonel of the Leib Guard Preobrazhensky regiment and asked him to participate in his Azov campaigns.