Trubetskoy, Ivan Y.

Ivan Trubetskoy was born in the family of boyar Yuri Petrovich Trubetskoy and Princess Irina Vasilyevna Golitsyna (d. 1679), the sister of the favorite of Princess Sophia . Due to the high position of his relatives, Ivan already at seventeen became a stolnik , one of the first to join the Preobrazhensky regiment and by 1693 he was already a captain , and a year later - a lieutenant colonel . In addition, still a very young man, Trubetskoy became a boyar , connecting the old ranks of the Moscow State and the new ranks and titles of Peter the Great's time. It was Ivan Yuryevich who was entrusted with the protection of Tsarevna Sophia, imprisoned in the Novodevichy Convent, guarding which the prince miraculously survived the attack of the archers on the monastery. After giving Trubetskoy the rank of major general , the king appointed him in 1698 Novgorod governor.

In the Northern War , which began an unsuccessful battle for Narva for the Russian army, the prince commanded a division and was captured in which he stayed for eighteen years. Karl XII allowed Trubetskoy's wife to come to her husband and live with him in Sweden. Later, Ivan Yuryevich was even adopted at the Swedish court. In 1718, the king traded him and General Avtonom Golovin for a captured Swedish field marshal Renschild .

Returning to Russia, the prince was awarded the rank of lieutenant general on the first day of 1719, and three months later he was appointed commander of all cavalry regiments in Ukraine. January 28, 1722 , when the conclusion of the Peace of Nystadt with Sweden was celebrated, the prince received the rank of chief general and became a member of the Military Collegium. In February, he was appointed Kiev Governor-General and was in this position until December of the following year.

With Peter II's ascension to the throne, Trubetskoy returned to the service and on February 25, 1728, was awarded the rank of Field Marshal, without special military merit.

Upon assuming the throne, Anna Ioannovna Trubetskoy acted as an ardent opponent of the “leaders” who tried to limit autocratic power. Here family relations played a significant role. Ivan Yuryevich's niece, Praskovya Yuryevna, who married Count Saltykov, who was closely related to Anna Ioannovna , whose mother came from this family, was a supporter of the empress and managed to convince to speak out against the “leaders” and her uncle. For these merits, the prince was granted to the senators and was awarded the Order of St. Andrew and St. Alexander Nevsky.

Being already in old age, Trubetskoy only occasionally appeared at meetings of the Military Collegium, of which he was a member. However, on May 23, 1739, by the decree of Anna Ioannovna in Moscow, the position of Governor General was reaffirmed, to which Ivan Yuryevich was appointed. He was in this position for only seven months and, on his own request, on December 23 of that year he was dismissed from military and civil service.

With Elizabeth Petrovna's accession to the throne, Prince Trubetskoy was one of the first to take her oath and support the new empress. Returning to St. Petersburg, by the decree of the Empress, he was again appointed a senator, but almost did not participate in the meetings of the Senate. I. Yu. Trubetskoy was buried in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery , in the church of Sts. Lazarus.

Prince Ivan Yuryevich was first married to a wealthy heiress, Princess Anastasia Stepanovna Tateva (d. 1690), the last representative of this family .

The second wife (since 1691) was Irina Naryshkina (1669-1749), the daughter of the boyar GF Naryshkin , later a stats lady. She and her husband shared Swedish captivity. Two daughters were born in this marriage:

• Ekaterina Ivanovna (1692-17 ..), married to the gentry Anthony Dunin-Skrzhinsky, regent of the office of the Great Seal of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , with whom he settled in the Commonwealth . King August III by decree of 03/01/1739 granted her many lands in Lithuania, which once belonged to the Trubetskoy family. Being childless, bequeathed the village of Spasskoe-Prokhorovo and some other patrimonies to her cousin D. Yu. Trubetskoy .
• Anastasia Ivanovna (1700-1755), in the first marriage married to Dmitry Kantemir , in the second - to the prince of Hesse-Homburgsky Ludwig .

In Swedish captivity from Baroness Wrede ^{[2] he} had a son, Ivan Ivanovich Betsky (1704-1795), a famous leader of the Russian Enlightenment .

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