Prince Grigory Petrovich Shakhovskoy (mentioned in 1587–1612) is a Russian governor, political adventurer of the beginning of the 17th century .
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Before the Pretenders
In 1587 he returned from Polish captivity. At the beginning of the XVII centuries. served in the southern fortresses of Russia. The governor in Tula in 1596, the governor of the guard regiment in Krapivna in 1596, in the New Monastery of Ostrog ( Chernihiv region ) in 1597, in Novosil in 1601 the governor of the advanced regiment, in Belgorod in 1603 the first governor. [one]
In the service of impostors
He moved into the front ranks of politicians in the Time of Troubles after his father, Prince Peter Mikhailovich Shakhovskaya - went over to the side of the impostor False Dmitry I and arrived in Moscow with False Dmitry.
After the murder of the impostor, he was appointed governor of Putivl by Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky . There he raised a rebellion, which grew into an uprising of Ivan Bolotnikov . On June 5, 1607, in a battle on the Vosma River with the troops of Shuisky, the rebels were defeated and fled to Kaluga with the army of Ileika Muromets . From there, at the beginning of 1607, they moved to Tula, where, under the pressure of the tsarist troops, they were soon forced to surrender. After the capture of Tula by the troops of the king, Shakhovsky was exiled to Lake Kubensky in the Spaso-Kamenny monastery .
At the end of 1608, after the occupation of northern Russian cities by Polish-Russian detachments of False Dmitri II, he left the monastery and was introduced to the Boyar Duma of False Dmitri II, in which he took one of the leading places. In the army of False Dmitry II, he received command of the Russians in the detachment of the Polish governor Zborowski . It was defeated by Prince Skopin-Shuisky , after which he fled with False Dmitry II to Kaluga.
After the death of the impostor, in 1611, he joined the Second Militia at the head of the detachment of his Cossacks. In 1612 he tried to quarrel the militias of Pozharsky and Trubetskoy . In the Second Militia, according to the letter of Prince Pozharsky that had reached us, he caused confusion, prompting his fighters to plunder the cities liberated from power in the Semiboyarshchyna.
Family Relations
The second son of Peter Andreevich founder of the third branch of the Shakhovsky princes. He had two sons Peter and Athanasius
Notes
- ↑ Noble clans of the Russian Empire / Compiled by: P. Grebelsky, S. Dumin, A. Mirvis, A. Shumkov, M. Katin-Yartsev. - IPK "News". - SPb. , 1993. - T. 1. - S. 262. - 343 p. - 25,260 copies. - ISBN 5-86153-004-1 .
Literature
- Shakhovskoy, Grigory Petrovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Noble families of the Russian Empire / Compiled by: P. Grebelsky, S. Dumin, A. Mirvis, A. Shumkov, M. Katin-Yartsev. - IPK "News". - SPb. , 1993. - T. 1. - S. 262. - 343 p. - 25,260 copies. - ISBN 5-86153-004-1 .