MUNICH, Count de, was the favourite of the czarina Ann, and was concerned in all the events of her reign. Being appointed general of her armies, he gained great advantages over the Crim Tartars, beat the Turks, A. D. 1739, in an engagement near Choczim, and took that city together with Jassi the capital of Moldavia. He was afterwards prime minister to the czar Ivan VI. but in a short time after he was accused of employing the power which his office conferred on him to gratify his own ambition and private resentment. The empress Elizabeth brought him to trial, and he was condemned to lose his life, A. D. 1742. This sentence was mitigated to banishment into Siberia, whither many of the victims of his power had been exiled. He was recalled by Peter III. A. D. 1762, and declared field marshal. Upon the death of this prince, the empress Catharine II. appointed him director general of the ports of the Baltic. He died on the 8th of October 1767, at the age of 84.