Miloslavsky, Ivan Mikhailovich

The representative of the noble family Miloslavsky . Son of Mikhail Vasilyevich Miloslavsky (died 1655). The fourth cousin of the boyar and Tsar's father-in-law, Ilya Danilovich Miloslavsky .

On April 1, 1660, I. M. Miloslavsky was granted an ambush . In 1669 he led the Pharmaceutical Order . In February 1674, Ivan Mikhailovich Miloslavsky was appointed the first commander in Astrakhan . In 1677 he received the dignity of boyars .

Made a career shortly after the accession of Fedor Alekseevich , who distinguished him. Ivan Mikhailovich was an active man, very cunning and quite rich. In 1680, he was appointed head of the order of the Treasury (Minister of Finance), while one of the most influential positions. All the threads of state administration flocked to him, just as they flocked to his uncle during the late Tsar Alexey.

In addition to the Order of the Big Treasury, at various times, Ivan Mikhailovich Miloslavsky led the Novgorod Order (1677–1679), the Reitarsky Order (1677–1680), the Order of the Galician Couple (1677–1680), the Order of the Grand Palace ( 1677 ), the Order of the Grand Parish ( 1678 ) , Order of the New Cheti ( 1678 ), the Vladimir and the Foreign Orders ( 1678 ), the Strelets Order ( 1683 ).

After the death of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich (1682), the boyar Ivan Miloslavsky tried to support the influence of his sister, Sofia Alekseevny, as governors. According to the version of the Naryshkins , he inflamed the passions of the archers, destroying the boyar A. Matveyev returned from exile during a riot on May 15, 1682 . Later he joined the fight against I. A. Khovansky , which ended with his death. The participants of the second rifle revolt, which happened after his death, accused Ivan Mikhailovich of their testimony in an effort to eliminate the tsar.

For 8 years he owned the village of Kuntsevo (“... in 1677 the village of Kuntsevo with wastelands in the amount of 76 quarters of the land was granted from the palace villages to Ivan Mikhailovich Miloslavsky”.) Another village near Moscow, Vsekhsvyatskoe , received a dowry along with the hand of his daughter Tsarevich Alexander Imeretinsky .

He died in 1685 , probably from a stroke . He was buried near the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the Pillars in Armenian Lane .

In 1697, before being sent to the great embassy, ​​the king arranged a search after a denunciation of the plot of archer colonel I. Ye. Tsikler , a friend of I. M. Miloslavsky. Under torture, he and his associates, the boyars Sokovnin and Pushkin, confessed that by order of Sophia they planned to kill the tsar. The conspirators were executed. Their blood flowed into an open coffin on the corpse of I. M. Miloslavsky, specially dug from the grave, brought to the village of Preobrazhenskoye on pigs and placed under the chopping block. After the execution was over, the remains of the conspirators and I. M. Miloslavsky were transported to Moscow. Their bodies were placed at a stone pillar in Red Square, where they were kept for several months. ^{[1] [2]}

He was married twice. His first wife was Alexandra Kuzminichna, whose origin and surname is unknown. Re-married Princess Evdokia Petrovna Prozorovskaya . Children:

• Vasily (d. 1657)
• Semyon (died 1652)
• Michael (d. 1660)
• Semyon (d. 1663)
• Michael (died 1665)
• Anna (d. 1665)
• Peter (died 1668)
• Feodosya (died 1695 ), wife from 1687 to Tsarevich Alexander Archilovich Imeretinsky (1674-1711)

• Platonov S.F. Lectures on Russian history // Higher School. - Moscow, 1993. - p . 736 . - ISBN 5-06-002499-7 .
• Ustrialov N. History of the Kingdom of Peter the Great. - St. Petersburg, 1858. - T. 3.

• Rodoslavnoe tree of Miloslavsky