Sitsky, Ivan Vasilyevich

In the ranks, Ivan Vasilyevich was first mentioned in 1577 in the list of stolniki who are "with the sovereign."

In 1578 he had a local dispute with Kravchim , later Tsar Boris Fedorovich Godunov . Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible ordered Prince Sitsky to stand with him in his comrades at his sovereign's table on Christmas Day, but Prince Sitsky said that it was not his place to be in comrades with Boris, and beat the king to his elder brother Vasily Fedorovich Godunov in the fatherland and the score, and Boris Fedorovich, in turn, beat the king to Ivan’s father, the boyar Vasily Andreevich Sitsky. Then the king ordered the dispute to disagree the boyar Prince Ivan Fyodorovich Mstislavsky , the boyar Prince Ivan Yuryevich Golitsyn and the sexton Andrei Myasny, and in their court and account he perpetrated Godunov in many places more than the boyar Prince Vasily Andreyevich Sitsky and granted him a right to read and write.

In 1580, after the Moscow ambassadors were expelled from Krakow , negotiations again arose with Tsar Ivan IV with Stefan Batory , but these negotiations did not lead to anything. The Polish King appointed five weeks for the arrival of the Moscow ambassadors, and Prince Sitsky and Beers were sent to him, with a retinue of 500 people. When at the end of August 1580 they arrived at the camp of Batory under the Great Bows , he received them in the tent haughtily, sat in his hat when they were bowing to him from the king, did not want to say a “courteous word” to them. Ambassadors demanded that he order to lift the siege of the Great Onions, but instead of answering that very night, Zamoysky began to besiege the fortress. Ambassadors agreed to cede Kurland and 24 cities in Livonia , but Batory wanted to get all the regions of Livonian, as well as Velikie Luki, Smolensk , Pskov and Novgorod . Then Prince Sitsky and the Beers, declaring that they could not give in any more, demanded leave or permission to write to Ivan the Terrible. They were not given leave, but allowed to send a messenger to the king, which they performed on the same day. The ambassadors were again presented to Batory three days later, and then they had to accompany the king to the theater of military operations: they were taken to Nevl , to Polotsk , to Krev , held for long in the village of Tryabina, on 30 January 1581 they were brought to Warsaw and only February 19 were released with the answer: "there will be no embassy, ​​no peace, no truce, until the Moscow army cleans Livonia."

In 1582, Prince Sitsky was sent to Tula by the governor of a large regiment, but due to the petition the governor of the advanced and sentry regiments, Mikhail Mikhailovich Saltykov , Efim Varfolomeyevich Buturlin and Prince Mikhail Vasilyevich Nozdrovaty , that it would be impossible for them to be less powerful than Prince Sitsky, he would go to get a new regiment. Prince Sitsky appointed to Dedilov governor of his right hand. In another bit list it says: “how will the Ukrainian governors meet with the leaders of Tula, and then be in the forward regiment with Dedilov, and stand in Kaluga?”

In 1583 Prince Sitsky was the voivode of the right hand in Novgorod.

In 1585, Ivan Vasilyevich Sitsky was bestowed in the boyars by Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich ; attended the reception of the Lithuanian ambassador.

In 1586, Ivan Vasilyevich is mentioned as the vicar of Rzhev ; when receiving Georgian ambassadors in the spring of this year and in 1589 he dined in the Golden Chamber. In the same year he was in the Livonian campaign "alongside".

In 1588, Ivan Vasilyevich was present in the Order of the Grand Parish .

In 1591, Ivan Vasilyevich sorted out the local account of Prince Yury Nikitich Trubetskoy with the boyar Prince Andrey Ivanovich Nogtev-Suzdal . He was the leader in the distribution of monetary salary in the ten days of Pereyaslavl-Zalessky .

In 1591, Ivan Vasilyevich was appointed governor in Astrakhan . From the royal order given to him when sent there, it is clear that the province of his predecessor, Prince Troyekurov , was marked by many disturbances that had to be eliminated. This order to Prince Sitsky vividly paints the patrimonial and economic methods of the then Moscow government in its administrative regulations. After the usual order to take the treasury, bread, etc., there is a whole series of instructions regarding the reception in Astrakhan without the delay of grain stocks, intended to be sent to the Terek for serving people and about immediate delivery to them; regarding the proper supply of salt up the Volga and charging for it with weight, as well as proper supervision of the fishermen, so that they do not catch fish more than they can “poke and salinate and spoil”, since the excess fish rolls on the sand, rots and spoils the air. In addition to worries about bread, salt and fish, the order instructed Prince Sitsky to start building a stone wall around Astrakhan, as a result of which he was obliged to discuss what is more profitable, whether to burn only a limestone, or use old lime upholstered in neighboring ones. and distant Sheds, 80 to 100 versts from Astrakhan. The question of the suitability of the old lime was raised under Prince Troekurov, but there was a disagreement between the governor and the clerk, and therefore Prince Sitsky was told to look himself over and decide what to do. In its position close to the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan was of great importance: service Cossacks went from there either against the “Nogai people of Kaziyev Ulus”, now against the “thieving Cossacks”, now against the “royal non-observant Shevkalsky”. As a result, all the atamans and Cossacks who had rendered assistance needed to be given a royal salary, and those who would be on the “Shevkal service” (that is, act against the Shevkal ruler), should be given to feed flour, cereals and pulp. On the way to Astrakhan, Prince Sitsky was supposed to seize in Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan the planes, boats and anchors prepared there and receive from the governor in Kazan and Sviyazhsk 1500 rubles for the “city Astrakhan stone business”, and in Nizhny Novgorod 1000 rubles all for the same "Shevkal service".

In 1597, Prince Sitsky, together with the boyar Prince Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky, dealt with a local account between Peter Nikitich Sheremetev and Prince Fedor Andreyevich Nogotkov . In the same year, Ivan Vasilyevich was present at the Grand Faceted Painted Chamber at the reception of the Cesar's ambassador.

In 1598, during the campaign of Tsar Boris Godunov to Serpukhov, Ivan Vasilyevich was the third commander of the right hand, and Prince Alexander Andreyevich Repnin the third commander in the forward regiment. From this a curious local case arose, in which a clash of family and tribal interests is evident: in July of the same “year, Prince Nogotkov beat his brow instead of all the princes Obolensky , that Prince Repnin was less than Prince Sitsky, did not beat his brow in the fatherland, making friends with Prince Sitsky and pleasing Fyodor Nikitich Romanov because Romanov, Prince Sitsky and Prince Repnin are brothers and great friends among themselves. And it was Fyodor Romanov who intended this so that the thieves' lack of chastity of Prince Repnin would commit a reproach and reproach in the fatherland from his clan of the Romanovs and from other alien clans to the entire family of princes Obolensky. The sovereign would have granted them, ordered it to their petition to write down, so that the whole of their family in the fatherland would have no guarantee of reproach. And the sovereign, Prince Nogotkov, granted a petition in the discharge to write down that Prince Repnin was a friend of Prince Sitsky, and Prince Repnin, Prince Sitsky was the only one to blame, and no one in the fatherland owes this whole family to his princes Obolensky. ”

In addition, Prince Ivan Vasilyevich Sitsky had local scores: with Prince Ivan Vasilyevich the Great Gagin , Ivan Fedorovich Kryuk Kolychov , Grigory Ivanovich Meshchaninov-Morozov , Mikhail Glebovich Saltykov , Pankrati Yakovlevich Saltykov and Prince. Vasily Vasilyevich Tyufyakin .

Apparently, Prince Sitsky was only temporarily summoned from Astrakhan, and then remained there again in the voivodship until 1601. In favor of this assumption says written in 1651, "The ceremony, which we observed was during the construction of the Russian Sovereigns in the princely dignity of the Murz of the Nagaisk Horde"; in this “Ritual” it is said that in the province of Prince Sitsky under Tsar Boris, when he settled in the reign of the Nogai horde Ishterek the prince, “and in those days Astrakhan was ordered to keep great things in the city and in the prison was crowded and harmonious, for any kind of care. ”

In 1601, the Romanovs suffered a fall from Tsar Boris Godunov. Their relatives, including Prince Ivan Vasilyevich Sitsky, were also injured. He and his wife and son Basil were brought from Astrakhan to Moscow forged. Prince Sitsky himself was deprived of the boyars and tonsured as a monk with the name of Sergius in the Kozhozersky monastery , founded by the Rev. Serapion around 1565 and located in the Kargopol district . His wife, Euphemia Nikitishna, was tonsured with the name Evdokia in the desert of Suna Ostrog on White Lake , where she died on April 8, 1602. Ivan Vasilyevich himself died in 1608.

About the estates of Ivan Vasilyevich Sitsky it is known that in 1585/1586 he owned the village of Strelkov with 1 village and 6 wastelands, as well as 306 quarters of the middle land in the Sherelsky camp of the Moscow district (the former patrimony of P. Ilyin) ^[1] .

The very interesting fact of peasant land tenure at the end of the 16th century, that is, the time that preceded the enslavement of the peasants, is associated with the name of Prince Ivan Vasilyevich Sitsky. Judging by the scribal book of the Moscow district (1585-1586 years), the first place among the falsified owners, and by the number and number of leased land, was occupied by peasants, alone and by partnerships. From the single owners, peasant Ivan Vasilievich Sitsky, Yermolka, who held 12 wastelands with 449 cents, was issued.

Wife: Euthymius Nikitichna Romanova (died April 8, 1602), the daughter of the boyar Nikita Romanovich Zakharyin-Yuryev . Children:

• Basil (died 1608)
• Daughter ; husband: N Trakhaniotov .

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