Romodanovsky, Grigory Grigoryevich

Prince Grigory Grigoryevich was born into the family of the boyar Prince Grigory Petrovich Romodanovsky . Brothers of Princes Andrei , Vasily the Great , Ivan the Great Silence , Peter , Vasily the Lesser , Fedor and Ivan the Lesser Grigoryevich Romodanovsky.

War on the Commonwealth

As part of the embassy, Vasily Buturlin participated in the Pereyaslav Rada in 1654 with the rank of steward . In 1654-1659, one of the governors in the Russian army in the war against Poland . In 1654, he was appointed the head of the tenants in the Sovereign regiment of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich during the campaign to Smolensk . In August 1654, Prince Grigory Grigorievich from Smolensk was sent near Dubrovna as part of the detachment of the steward of Prince Fyodor Kurakin of seven hundred residents.

At the beginning of 1655, Prince Grigory Grigorievich was in Moscow, where on February 12 (22) he took part in the meeting of the Patriarch of Macarius of Antioch . On March 1 (11), with the boyar Vasily Buturlin, he was appointed to the White Church to command the troops acting together with the hetman of the Zaporizhzhya Army Bogdan Khmelnitsky . In July, the governors and the hetman went on a campaign in Lviv . On September 15 (25), the governors informed Sovereign Alexei Mikhailovich of the capture of the city of Chertkov and a number of other cities, and that the brother of the crown hetman, Stanislav Pototsky, Pavel Pototsky surrendered and “finished off the brow” to the sovereign. When the Russian-Cossack army approached Lviv, the hetman Stanislav Pototsky did not dare to give battle and retreated from Lviv to Pine Town , where he took up defensive positions. Khmelnitsky and Buturlin sent troops against the hetman under the command of Prince Romodanovsky and Mirgorodsky Colonel Grigory Lesnitsky. On September 20 (30), a battle took place near Gorodok , as a result of which Polish troops were defeated. Soon, the Crimean khan invaded Ukraine and the Russian-Cossack troops had to abandon the siege of Lviv and oppose the khan. In November 1655, Prince Grigory Grigoryevich fought in the battle of Ozernaya .

In 1656, the prince was again in Moscow. April 29 ( May 9 ), Prince Romodanovsky was granted a roundabout and invited to the sovereign's table. For service, the prince was bestowed with a golden satin fur coat, cup and money. After this, the roundabout prince Romodanovsky was appointed governor "to the service of the Sovereign in Belgorod and to be in Belgorod from the coming of the Crimean king and the Crimean people . "

In 1657 , when the rebellion of Barabash and Pushkar broke out against the new hetman Ivan Vygovsky , the prince stood with troops in Pereyaslav . October 25 ( November 4 ) in Pereyaslav to the governor arrived hetman Vygovsky. Prince Grigory Grigoryevich reproached the hetman for the fact that he had "no stocks and horse feed given to his troops " and "many people ran away from the feedless, horses fell . " The hetman cited difficulties due to the uprising and asked the prince not to withdraw his troops until the hetman crushed the resistance. In February 1658, a meeting was held in Pereyaslav where the hetman Vygovsky was publicly approved in hetman on behalf of the tsar. After that, the envoy of the king Bogdan Khitrovo managed to persuade Colonel Martyn Pushkar to disband the troops, and Prince Grigory Grigoryevich received orders to return to Belgorod, but the uprising flared up again.

After the suppression of the uprising by the troops of the hetman and the Crimean Khan, Prince Grigory Grigoryevich arrested the active participants in the uprising of the clerk of the Poltava regiment Stepan Lyakh and Mirgorod colonel Stepan Dovgal. On June 5 (15), 1658, Yakov Barabash appeared in the prince’s location with a detachment of his supporters. Presenting to the governor, Barabash and his entourage said that it was better for them to die by order of the tsar than at the hands of the "filthy" (Crimean Tatars). Prince Romodanovsky did not arrest the chieftain and wrote to the tsar that "Yakov, sovereign, Barabash, is now with me ... in the regiment . " Soon the prince received orders to arrest Barabash and send him to a military court in Kiev , but on the way the convoy was attacked by supporters of Vygovsky and recaptured Barabash.

Soon Vygovsky attacked Kiev and Russian cities abroad. In the years 1658-1659, at the head of the Belgorod regiment, Prince Grigory Grigorievich led the military operations against Vygovsky , who went over to the side of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in November 1658 he besieged the troops of Grigory Gulyanitsky in Varva . During the military operations against Vygovsky, he tried to restrain the anger of the pro-Moscow Cossacks, who avenged the brutality of the hetman, robbed and burned the cities of Vygovsky’s supporters. He was one of the military leaders in the Battle of Konotop . At the head of the Belgorod table of the Rank Order, Prince Romodanovsky played an outstanding role in organizing military affairs on the southern border of Russia. He led the Sevsky and Novgorod tables of the Rank Order .

In 1660, after the battle of Slobodische, a new hetman, Yuri Khmelnitsky, sided with Poland and a civil war broke out in Ukraine again. Prince Romodanovsky took part in hostilities against the Polish troops and Cossacks Yuri Khmelnitsky. In June 1662, the prince liberated Pereyaslav from the siege, where hetman Yakim Samko was held , and allied with the hetman, attacked the troops of Yuri Khmelnitsky near Kanev . The battle was started by the Cossacks of Samko, who attacked Khmelnitsky for two hours, until Prince Romodanovsky came with his cavalry. Khmelnitsky’s troops were defeated and fled. Having captured the enemy’s camp, Prince Romodanovsky went up to Kanev and occupied it. Future hetman Ivan Bryukhovetsky wrote that "we would all be gone if it were not for Romodanovsky . " Romodanovsky’s troops failed to advance on the Right Bank: a large Crimean army defeated part of Romodanovsky’s troops, led by Mikhail Prylonsky in the battle of Buzhin, and Romodanovsky moved to winter apartments in Belgorod.

At the end of 1663, the last major campaign of the Russian-Polish war of 1654-1667 began . King Jan II Casimir began a large campaign on the Left-Bank Ukraine. Moving north along the Desna River, Polish troops captured Voronkov , Boryspil , Gogolev , Oster , Kremenchug , Lokhvitsa , Lubny , Romny , Priluki and several other small cities. The army of the king went around large fortresses with numerous Russian garrisons (Kiev, Pereyaslav, Chernihiv, Nizhyn). Having managed to take 13 cities at first, the royal army then faced fierce resistance and lingered in the prolonged siege of Glukhov . To repulse the offensive, the Belgorod discharge regiment, headed by Prince Romodanovsky, went to Baturin and, having joined forces with the Cossacks of the hetman Ivan Bryukhovetsky, advanced to Glukhov. The king lifted the siege from the city and tried to stop the enemy army in open battle, but the Polish troops were defeated. On the withdrawal of the Polish army from the king of Glukhov, the troops of the prince near Novgorod-Seversky caused the Polish army one of the most serious defeats for the entire period of the war.

In 1665, Prince Grigory Grigoryevich and Hetman Bryukhovetsky were granted the boyar.

Rise of the Razin

In 1670, during the uprising of Stepan Razin , Frol Razin, Stepan's brother, marched on Sloboda Ukraine and besieged the city of Korotoyak . Prince Grigory Grigoryevich at that time was standing in Ostrogozhsk . Having received the news of the siege from the Korotoyak governor and connecting with the thousandth detachment of Cossacks sent by the hetman Demian Mnogogreshny , the prince went to the city. In the battle of Korotoyak, the Razin troops were defeated and fled down the Don . For this victory, the prince was awarded a "gracious word" from Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and the stolnik Mikhail Vasilievich Priklonsky sent to Grigory Grigorievich told the prince that the sovereign ordered "to ask you about your health, he praises you for your service and praises you . "

War with Turkey

He commanded troops during the Chigirin campaigns in the Russian-Turkish war of 1672–81 ; then served in the court. In 1682, Prince Grigory Grigoryevich participated in the Council, convened by Tsar Fedor Alekseevich on the issue of parochialism, and subscribed to the "conciliar act" on the destruction of parochialism.

Doom

Prince Grigory Grigoryevich was killed during the Moscow uprising of 1682 . Sagittarius captured the prince between the patriarchal court and the Miracle Monastery in the Kremlin, opposite the Ambassadorial Order . Sagittarius grabbed the prince by the beard and dragged him to the rank. According to the contemporary’s description, “he is leading him for hair and brad, he was terribly abusive and bruised in the face” , and after that they lifted him to the spears, and then, lowering him to the ground, they cut him down.

Prince Boyar Grigory Grigoryevich Romodanovsky was married to Anastasia Ivanovna, whose origin is not known. In marriage, he had two sons: Princes Andrei and Michael .

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