Vasily Kardanukovich Cherkassky (Kazi-Murza) - Abazin prince from the princely family of the Dudarukovs. The Moscow governor, the boyar ( 1598 ), the governor in Astrakhan , Smolensk and Ryazan , the son of Kordanuko-murza and the grandson of Supreme Prince-Val Kabarda Kambulat Idarovich .
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Biography
At the end of the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the Kabardian prince Kazi-Murza moved to Russia, where he accepted the Orthodox faith and received the name Vasily. Vasily Kardanukovich Cherkassky, the native nephew of Boris Kambulatovich Cherkassky , occupied a prominent position among the Moscow nobility.
In 1582, Vasily Kardanukovich was appointed by Tsar Ivan the Terrible as the first governor of the right-hand regiment in Novgorod . In November 1585, in the event of a new war with Sweden, the new Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich appointed Prince Vasily Cherkassky as the second governor of the left-hand regiment. However, the matter did not come to war, and the appointment was canceled.
Then Vasily Kardanukovich Cherkassky for several years defended the southern Russian borders from the attacks of the Crimean Tatars and Nogai. In October 1585, Vasily Cherkassky was appointed the first governor of a large regiment in Serpukhov . In April 1586 - the first governor of a large regiment in Serpukhov . In the spring of 1588, he was sent to the border by the first governor of the guard regiment , and on April 15, 1589 he was transferred to Kashira - the first governor of the left-hand regiment.
In January 1590, Prince Vasily Cherkassky was to accompany Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich as the first governor of the guard regiment in the campaign against Sweden, which ended in armistice in February of the same year.
In 1591, during the invasion of the Crimean Khan Gazi Geray to Russia, Vasily Kardanukovich Cherkassky was sent to Tula as the first governor of the advanced regiment .
In 1592 - 1599, Vasily Kardanukovich Cherkassky performed military service on the banks of the Oka River, protecting the borders from attacks by Crimean Tatars and Nogai, being the first governor of the left-hand regiment, then the second governor of the large regiment.
Since the summer of 1599, Prince Vasily Kardanukovich Cherkassky, who received the boyars from Boris Godunov , was in Moscow . In August 1599 he was with the sovereign at a dinner in honor of the Swedish prince Gustav , in October 1601 he was invited to meet with the Danish ambassador. In September 1602, along with other boyars, he met the Danish prince Johann and was present during the reception at the king.
In 1603, Vasily Cherkassky was appointed governor of Astrakhan . In September of the following 1604, Tsar Boris Godunov appointed the boyar of Prince Vasily Kardanukovich Cherkassky as governor to Smolensk , where he remained until February 1605 .
In 1605, after the death of Boris Godunov and the accession to the imperial throne of False Dmitry I, Prince Vasily Kardanukovich Cherkassky took the side of the latter. The impostor in his draft state council in 1605 determined Prince Vasily Kardanukovich a place in the secular council among the first class of boyars. False Dmitry I appointed Prince Vasily Cherkassky as the first governor in Ryazan.
In 1606, after the overthrow of False Dmitry I and the accession of Vasily Shuisky, Vasily Kardanukovich Cherkassky left the service and retired from Moscow to his estates. In the next 1607, the boyar Prince Vasily Kardanukovich Cherkassky was killed in Putivl on the orders of Lzhepetr .
Family
Prince Vasily Kardanukovich Cherkassky was married since 1590 to Anastasia Ivanovna Mstislavskaya (d. June 7, 1607 ), the daughter of a stable boyar, Prince Ivan Fedorovich Mstislavsky , from whom he had no offspring.
Literature
- Malbakhov B., Elmesov A. Medieval Kabarda. - Nalchik: Elbrus, 1994 .-- S. 165, 166. - ISBN 5-7680-0934-5