Radziwill, Yuri Hercules

Since the 1500s, he held various positions of governors, including Vyalensky, Meishgal, Meratsky, Utsensky, Mozyr (from 1511-1514), Grodno (from 1514), Lida and Belitsky (from 1528). The subordinate Lithuanian in 1509–1517, the governor of Kiev in 1511–1514, the Lithuanian Hetman in 1520–1523, the Trox cottage in 1522–1527 and the Vilensky from 1527, while the marshal was full from 1528. In the 1530s, together with the Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania A. Gashtold and the Zhemoyt headman J. Radzivil, he entered the magnate triumvirate, who actually ruled the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the absence of the Grand Duke. Since 1531, the great hetman of Lithuania .

He was one of the richest tycoons on. He owned the estates Svir, Mikhalishki, Zhuprany, Baruny, Gerany in the Oshmyany povet, Indura, Kotra, Tabola in the Grodno povet, Zhyrmuny, Dokudovo, Selets and Zblyany in the Lida povet, Vselub and Lipsk in the Novogrudok povet, Nyobi, Kamy, Vyaz, Vyaz ' povet.

He became famous for his victories in 30 battles. He participated in the war with the Russian state in 1508. In 1511, he defeated the Crimean Tatars with the Slutsk prince Yuri Olelkovich in the tract Rutka 20 miles from Kiev . In 1512 he participated in the victorious battle of Lopushin . In the Battle of Orsha, he commanded the Lithuanian cavalry on the left flank. In 1517 he participated in the siege of Opochka , which was devastating for Lithuania, and in 1519 - in battles with the Russian army at Krev . In 1519-1521 he fought with the Teutonic Order . In 1527, together with Ostrog, he defeated the Tatars on the Olshanitsa River outside the city of Kanev. In 1534-1537 he commanded the Lithuanian army in the Starodub War . In 1535, his army, along with the army of Y. Tarnovsky, took Gomel and Starodub . During the capture of Starodub , 13 thousand civilians were destroyed. ^[one]

Founder of the Birzhan-Dubin branch of the Radziwill clan. He was twice married, his first marriage to Barbara Kishka (d. 1513), daughter of the great Lithuanian hetman Stanislav Petrovich Kishka , from whom he had no children. In 1515, he remarried to Barbara Cola um. 1550), daughter of the governor of Podolsk Pavel Kola, from whom he had two daughters. Left three children:

• Nicholas, nicknamed "Red" (1512-1584), the Grand Chancellor of Lithuania and the Great Hetman of Lithuania
• Anna Elizabeth (1518–1558), the wife of Marshal of the Volyn land Peter Kishka and the great captain of the Lithuanian prince Semyon Golshansky .
• Barbara (1520-1551) - the Polish queen, wife of Sigismund II Augustus

• Gritskevich A. Radzivil Yuri // EGB, vol. 6, vol. І. - S. 62-63.