Romodanovsky, Fedor Yuryevich

Representative of the most noble family of the Romodanovsky in the XXIII tribe from Rurik . Fyodor Yuryevich’s father, Prince Yuri Ivanovich Romodanovsky , was at first a steward , later a boyar . From an early age, Prince Fyodor, being the son of the close king Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, was at court. When the birth of Pyotr Alekseevich was celebrated in 1672 , Prince Fedor Yurievich Romodanovsky was shown first among the ten nobles invited to the home table in the Faceted Chamber . In the boyar book at this time he is written as a close steward ^[1] .

The sharp rise of Romodanovsky occurs in the early years of the independent reign of Peter I. The prince supported the young king in the struggle with his sister Sophia ; it was he who was entrusted with the supervision of the princess detained in the Novodevichy Convent . Standing at the head of the Preobrazhensky order , Romodanovsky participated in all of Peter's undertakings, starting with his "amusing campaigns." A sign of the tsar’s trust in Romodanovsky was that, setting off for the Azov campaign , he left him in his place in Moscow with the unprecedented title of Prince Caesar:

A significant moment is Peter's extensive correspondence with the prince, in which the tsar mentions all the most important issues of domestic and foreign policy, not being afraid to ask the Romodanov Council and addresses his letters to “Sovereign Prince Fyodor Yuryevich”. Romodanovsky, just like Field Marshal Count Boris Sheremetev , had the right to enter Peter I’s office at any time without a report.

Fedor Yuryevich Romodanovsky played a decisive role in the suppression of the Streletsky revolt of 1698, which happened in the absence of Peter I , who was in Europe with the Great Embassy . In 1701 , after a strong fire that devastated Moscow, Prince Fyodor Yurievich was engaged in rebuilding the capital entrusted to him.

In private routine, Fyodor Yurievich lived in the way of an old boyar , loved and respected old customs and adhered to old customs; was hospitable, but demanded special respect from everyone. In society, everyone stood in front of him. “No one dared to drive into his courtyard, - the Tsar himself left his one-winged car at his gates” ^[2] . The house of Prince Romodanovsky was in Moscow , on Mokhovaya , near the Stone Bridge

The closest executor of Peter's plans, Fyodor Yuryevich did not always approve of his actions: thus, by the way, he did not welcome Peter's marriage to Catherine . (This is explained by the fact that his daughter Fedosya was the wife of the uncle of Tsarevich Alexei , brother of the first wife of Tsar Peter Evdokia Fedorovna ). Prince Romodanovsky died in old age, September 17, 1717; buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra .

Perhaps the only one of his contemporaries who left subjective feedback on the nature and activities of Prince Romodanovsky was B. I. Kurakin , who mentioned him in his “Gishtoria of Tsar Peter Alekseevich and his people":

This prince was of a particular character; by his appearance, like a monster; the temper of an evil tyrant; the greatest unwanted good to anyone; drunk all day; but his majesty was faithful so that no one else. <...> We will also mention his authority, Romodanovskago, which belongs to the wanted list, betrayal, arguments, who didn’t come to any qualifications and faces of a female or male person, he could put him on the wanted list, arrest him, and to search, and to execute search.

The origin of the wife of Prince Romodanovsky, Evdokia Vasilievna ^[3] , is unknown ^[4] . He had three children in marriage:

• Ivan (d. 1730), Actual Privy Councilor (1725), Governor General of Moscow (1727); after the death of his father, he became, like him, called "Caesar Prince". Married to Anastasia Saltykova (d. 1736), sister of Tsarina Praskovya Fedorovna . The last prince Romodanovsky was thus the brother-in-law of Tsar Ivan V. From the offspring left only daughter Catherine .
• Irina , wife of the captain-lieutenant of the Navy Vasily Vasilyevich Sheremetev.
• Fedosya , wife of Abram Lopukhin , brother of Tsarina Evdokia Fedorovna , executed on charges of conspiracy in 1718.

The image of the prince appears in the novel by A. N. Tolstoy “Peter I”, where Romodanovsky is described as a faithful companion of the tsar, tough, merciless, ready for any measures to preserve the power of Peter. In modern literature, the image of the prince is found in the novel by Anatoly Brusnikin "The Ninth Savior ."

The following actors played in the movie of Romodanovsky:

• Roman Filippov (“ Youth of Peter ”, “ At the Beginning of Glorious Deeds ”, 1980)
• Igor Buchko ( Young Russia , 1981-1982)
• Omar Sharif ( Peter the Great , 1986)
• Sergey Shakurov (" Peter the First. Testament ", 2011)

• Kolpakidi A., North A. Special Services of the Russian Empire. - M .: Yauza Eksmo, 2010 .-- S. 33 - 35. - 768 p. - (Encyclopedia of special services). - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-699-43615-6 .
• Petrov A. Romodanovsky, Fedor Yuryevich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.

• Solovyov S.O. Russian History. Chapter XXXVI. The reign of Fedor Alekseevich