Lame, Fedor Davydovich

Grandson of Ivan Khromoi , representative of the Davydov-Khromykh family of a small industry of descendants of Akinf the Great . The son of Davyd Ivanovich Lame . From marriage with the daughter of boyar Yakov Zakharyevich Koshkin, he had two sons Grigory and Peter .

In 1471, Fyodor Khromoi, along with Prince Daniil Dmitrievich Kholmsky, participated in the campaign of Grand Duke Ivan III Vasilyevich to Veliky Novgorod . Commanding the advanced regiment, the governors D. D. Kholmsky and F. D. Khroma defeated the Novgorod militia on July 14, 1471 in the battle on the Shelon River .

In 1472 , as a person very close to the Grand Duke, he took part in a meeting of the Byzantine Princess Zoe Fominichna Paleolog , the future wife of Ivan III Vasilyevich . Together with the Grand Duchess bride, a papal legate came to Russia (since Zoya had previously lived in the Vatican under the care of Pope Sixtus IV ). Even in Pskov his unusual appearance was emphasized, his demonstrative desire not to follow Russian customs and ceremonies (“ having no worship for the holy icons, and no cross on her hand, and only signified in the house of the Holy Trinity ... and then by order of the princess "). However, this was not strange - the papal legate and nuncio Antonio Bonumbre behaved in the Orthodox country in accordance with his dignity and position, fulfilling the important political and ideological mission assigned to him. The papal curia intended to use the establishment of relations with the Russian state to propagate its ideology in order to familiarize the "barbaric" country with the influence of the " enlightened " Catholic West. The behavior of the papal legate in Moscow caused a decisive rebuff. Having learned that before the legate the “ kryzhs were carried ” (the Catholic cross) according to the Catholic rite, the Grand Duke turned for clarification to Metropolitan Philip, who categorically demanded that any propaganda of Catholicism on Russian soil be banned. Then Ivan III "an ambassador to that legatos, so that he would not go before him . Fyodor Khroma was sent to meet the legate with the order, " having taken away the roofs from the legatos, but put them in the sleigh ." Having met Zoya Paleolog’s motorcade 15 miles from Moscow, Fyodor Khromoi exactly fulfilled the important assignment entrusted to him (see Korsunsky Cross # The Cross from the Kremlin ).

In the same 1472, Fyodor Davydovich Khromoi received boyars and participated in repelling the invasion of the khan of the Great Horde Akhmat in the Aleksin area. In 1475 he participated in the “campaign by the world” of the Grand Duke to Veliky Novgorod . In May 1477, he took part with the boyar Ivan Borisovich Morozov-Tuchk in negotiations with the Novgorodians about their future fate.

In the fall of 1477, the boyar F.D. Khromoy participated in the third campaign of the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III Vasilyevich to the Novgorod Republic , commanding a separate detachment, crossed Ilmen on ice and in one night occupied all the vicinity of the city. In the 1470s, he attended the trial of the Grand Duke on local issues as a boyar. Around 1471-1482 letters of merchants were reported to him. OK. 1473 - 1485 attended the reports of the Grand Duke Ivan III.

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• Lame, Fedor Davydovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• Lame, Fedor Davydovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.