Prince Ivan Semenovich Kurakin (d. 1632 ) - a prominent statesman of the Time of Troubles , nobleman since 1605 , in 1606 - governor and governor Smolensky , in 1616 - 1620 years the governor of Tobolsky .
Great-grandson of Prince Andrei Ivanovich from the Bulgakov clan, who was nicknamed Kurak and the ancestor of the Kurakin . He was a member of the circle of boyars who made the overthrow from the throne of the named Dmitry and elevated Prince Vasily Shuisky to the throne.
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Archival data
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
Biography
In 1606, he was governor and governor of Smolensk. In 1607 and at the beginning of 1608, Prince Ivan Semenovich Kurakin acted against the impostor False Dmitry II , participating in the organization of the defense of Bryansk from the troops of False Dmitry . He led the guard regiment in the battle of Bolkhov . In June 1608, Prince I.S. Kurakin defeated the forces of Alexander Lisovsky , who was advancing with considerable force from Kolomna to Moscow after the success gained over Prokopy Lyapunov, in the battle of Bear Bear . Ivan Kurakin, scattered detachment of Alexander Lisovsky and recaptured Kolomna . In 1609-1610, he participated, under the leadership of Prince Mikhail Vasilyevich Skopin-Shuisky , in the destruction of the robber gangs of the Moscow region. He was, together with Prince F.I. Mstislavsky , after the overthrow of Vasily Shuisky, the initiator of the election of the king of the kingdom of any European royal family to the throne of the Russian kingdom . He was an ardent supporter of the idea of electing Polish king Vladislav to the kingdom, and after the boyar government (" seven- boyars"), not finding it possible to agree to the conditions proposed by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Sigismund , refused the idea of electing Vladislav, Prince Ivan Kurakin sided with Sigismund III, after which he gained a reputation as a traitor from his compatriots. In 1615 he was removed from the yard to serve in Tobolsk , where he stayed for 5 years.
Archived data
About the " old patrimonial and purchased estates " in the Lakhotsky camp of Rostov district Ivan Semenovich Kurakin from the Scribe book of local and patrimonial lands of the Rostov district letters and measures of Prince Andrei Nikitich Zvenigorodsky and clerk Mikhail Bukharov (1629-1631):
“ And in total behind the boyar for Prince Ivan Semenovich Kurakin in the ancient estates two villages and thirty two villages, yes, the repair people, yes forty one wasteland, five wastelands let into the arable land. [...] And sovereigns granted patrimonial patrimony and no patrimonial fortresses of the village of Pruzhinina people and peasants did not put the boyar of Prince Ivan Semenovich Kurakin before the scribes. [...] But they didn’t know the genuine fortresses, because according to the sovereign’s decree, the boyars, de, were in Galich, and their servants and peasants were not allowed to see him in letters either, de, no exile was ordered with him, and no fortresses, de, they have nowhere to take . ” [1]
Notes
- ↑ Kadik V.A. Scribe materials of the Rostov district of the 17th century, 1629-1631, pp. 374-379. - M .: "Drevoshilishche", 2012. - 856 p. - 500 copies.
Literature
- Kurakin, Prince Ivan Semenovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : In 25 volumes / under the supervision of A. A. Polovtsov. 1896-1918.