KHERSON. Capital of the government of the same name in Russia, situated on the right bank of the Dnieper, about 20 miles above its mouth (Map: Russia, D 5). The river is here about 10 miles wide and cctitains numerous islets. The town is poorly built, consisting largely of mud huts. In the suburbs are situated the old fortifi cations, and a church containing the remains of Prince Potemkin. Kherson is an important sta tion on the Dnieper, and its trade with Odessa is extensive, although the foreign trade is now almost entirely concentrated at Odessa and Nikolayev. The chief industries are milling, wool washing, and the manufacturing of tobacco prod ucts. Kherson. founded by Prince Potemkin in 1778. was intended for a naval port, and was strongly fortified. In 1787, however, the naval port was removed to Nikolayev, and the fortifica tions have since been abandoned. Population, in
1897, 69,219.
IIHEVENHtLLER, kalven-hurle'r, FRANZ elIRISTOPR VON (1588-1650). An Austrian states man and diplomat, born at Klagenfurt. After a university education and extensive travel, be be came a prominent figure at the Imperial Court, where he was a protege of Chancellor Khlesl. (See KHLESL, MEscutoa.) In IGIG he obtained the important appointment of Ambassador to Madrid, and there was successful in enlisting Spanish influence on behalf of Ferdinand 11. Other diplomatic commissions were subsequently intrusted to him. He wrote, in German, an im portant work on contemporaneous history, the Annales Ferdinandci (printed entire at. Leipzig, in 12 vols., in 1716-26). Consult Wolf, Geschicht liche Biller aus Oesterreich, vol. L (Vienna, 1878).