Mamstryuk Temryukovich Cherkassky (Mamstryuk-Murza) (d. 1600/1601 ) - Kabardian serving prince, the second son of the high prince-valia of Kabarda Temryuk (d. 1571 ), brother-in-law of Ivan the Terrible .
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Biography
In June 1565, Mamstryuk-Murza first arrived at the head of the Kabardian embassy in Moscow, where he was received with honors by Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible . At the reception, Mastryuk Temryukovich, on behalf of his father, asked the king for military assistance in the fight against other Kabardian princes.
"And with his brow he struck the tsar and the grand duke Mamstryuk ... from his father from Temryuk-prince, that Temryuk-prince came to many of Cherkas' cramps and they disobey him in everything, and the sovereign would have sent, his army sent to Cherkasy and from disobedient him to defend ".
After spending three months with Moscow , Mamstryuk set off for Kabarda at the end of September. Tsar Ivan the Terrible sent along with his brother-in-law clerk Matthew Ivanovich Rzhevsky a detachment of archers and Cossacks. The military detachment set off down the Volga in strugues. Another squad of archers under the leadership of the governor Ivan Dashkova went on foot to Kabarda . In March 1566, two detachments joined in Astrakhan . In April, the princes Temryuk and Mamstryuk, along with the Russian archers and the Cossacks, marched on the Great Kabarda, on the possessions of Temryuk's opponents. The princes of Great Kabarda , led by Psheapshoko Kaitukin, were supporters of an alliance with the Crimean Khanate . Russian warriors defeated the opponents of Temryuk Idarovich and destroyed their patrimonial possessions, taking many prisoners and large booty.
In 1570, the Kabardian prince Temryuk, with a small retinue, came to the aid of his Adyg allies, on whose lands a large Crimean Tatar army under the command of Prince Adil-Gerai attacked. In the unequal battle of pr. Akhuzhe (tributary of the Kuban), Temryuk was crushed and mortally wounded. His sons Mamstryuk-Murza and Bulgairuk-Murza were captured by the Crimeans. The following 1571, the supreme prince of Kabarda Temryuk Idarovich died.
Russian Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible led difficult diplomatic negotiations with the Crimean Khan, Devlet Gerai, about the release of his brother-in-law Mamstryuk Temryukovich. Crimeans asked the Moscow government for the release of Mamstryuk, at first 8 thousand, and then 10 thousand gold.
In 1578, Russian Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich addressed in his message to the Kabardian princes, Mamstryuk Temryukovich, who was evacuated from Tatar captivity, and Kaziya Psheapshokov, inviting them with their squads to take part in the Livonian war .
In 1583, the Turkish army under the command of Osman Pasha, moving from the Caucasus through Kabarda to the Crimea, suffered significant damage from the attacks of the Kabardian troops under the command of Mamstryuk Temryukovich. Together with him acted Grebensk and Terek Cossacks.
In 1588, the Kabardian princes Mamstryuk Temryukovich and Kudenet Kambulatovich headed a large delegation arrived in Moscow , where they were honorably received by Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich . The princes asked the tsarist government for military assistance to defend against the Ottoman Turks and the Crimean Tatars. The following 1589 a detachment of archers was sent to Kabarda . The Kabardian princes, together with the Russian military people, defeated the possessions of Prince Sholokh Tapsarokovich, a supporter of the Crimean-Turkish orientation.
In the summer of 1589, Mamstryuk Temryukovich met in the city of Terek with the Russian ambassador, Prince Semyon Zvenigorodsky, who was sent on a mission to Georgia to the Kakhetian king Alexander . Semyon Zvenigorodsky asked him to accompany him to the border with Georgia . The Kabardian princes Mamstryuk Temryukovich and Kudenet Kambulatovich with their troops safely led the Russian ambassador through the mountains to Georgia.
In 1590 - 1591, Terek voivod Prince Grigory Zasekin fought with Shamkhal Tarkovsky . In a battle with Shamkhal, Mamstryuk was captured, where he spent some time “in great oppression,” when they tried to force him to abandon the alliance with the Russian Tsar and oppose Moscow . However, Mastryuk Temryukovich “endured every need, but did not lag behind the royal salary ...”
In 1600 or 1601, the Kabardian princes Domanuko and Mamstryuk Temryukovich were invited by their opponent, Kazi-Murza Psheapshkov, to peace talks in the Bolshaya (Kaziev) Kabarda . During the negotiations, the Kazi-Murza treacherously captured them, and then ordered them to be killed.
Children
Mamstryuk Cherkassky had six sons and two daughters:
Actulum Murza
Saraip-Murza
Kanshao-Murza (Dmitry Mamstryukovich Cherkassky (died 1651 )
Guzh-Murza (Vladimir Mamstryukovich Cherkassky)
Alikai-Murza (died 1622 )
Kaituk-Murza
Kanshovkha Mamstryukovna, wife of Kabardian prince Inarmas Kaitukin-Kiziyeva,
Maria Mamstryukovna, the wife of boyar Yuri Enshevich Suleshev boyar.
Literature
- Malbakhov B. and Elmesov A. "Medieval Kabarda", Nalchik, Elbrus Publishing House, 1994. ISBN 5-7680-0934-5 , Art. 93, 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104 and 105