Khovansky, Andrey Andreevich

In 1598, stolnik prince Andrey Andreevich Khovansky signed a letter of election of Boris Fedorovich Godunov to the royal throne. In 1613 - the governor of Meshchovsk. In 1615 - 1620 he was in the voivodship in Astrakhan , in 1626 - 1628 - the voivode in Tobolsk .

Prince Andrey Khovansky, the governor of Tobolsk, had to find out by royal decree whether it was possible to build a jail near the salt lake Yamysha, whether there was arable land, hay mowing, forests and fishing, whether there would be any cramped places and collapses from the “Kolmak people”, trade them, what goods do they have and will there be profits for the treasury? Fearing that the British , or, as they were called then, “German people”, would not find a waterway to Mangazeya from Arkhangelsk or directly from their lands, bypassing Arkhangelsk , Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich ordered to ask knowledgeable people if it was possible to put a prison somewhere, and if there is no forest, then bring from Tobolsk . Andrei Khovansky exactly obeyed the royal decree and sent scouts in sailing boats, but they could not reach the Green and Mudny rivers and the Kara Bay, because they had been waiting for a fair wind for six weeks, and then the water froze. The following year, Prince Khovansky resumed the search and sent to put a prison, so as not to let the British go to Mangazeya .

Due to the frequent raids of the Kalmyks on the city of Tara and its county, the governor of Tobolsk Prince Andrei Andreevich Khovansky gave the Tara governors written instructions on the events and repeatedly sent people, gunpowder and lead to help them. Many orders of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich to other Siberian governors went through Prince Khovansky, for example, to order them to draw drawings of cities, prison and nearby rivers and tracts, indicating the distance between cities and prison, as well as the means of communication. Through him, the Siberian governors sent to Moscow the paintings of prisoners in prisons in Tobolsk , Tomsk , Tyumen , Berezovo , Narymsky prison and Surgut . Further, Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich ordered Prince Andrei Khovansky to arrange peasants for his sovereign arable land in various Siberian cities, increase incomes and seek new ones.

In 1629, Prince Andrei Andreevich Khovansky was sent to the province of Nizhny Novgorod , where he died 10 years later ^[1] . Children: Grigory Khovansky, Ivan “Tararuy” Khovansky and Semyon Khovansky .

• Khovansky, Andrei Andreyevich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.