Gagarin, Semen Nikitich

Prince Semyon Nikitich Gagarin was first mentioned in 1610 , when he was the second commander in Tsarevo-city (comrade okolnichy Prince Andrey Khvorostinin). In 1611 - the second voivode in Toropets and comrade Prince Semyon Vasilyevich Prozorovsky .

In 1613 - 1614 he was the voivode in Beleva , in 1614 - 1615 he was in the voivodeship in Nevel . In 1616 - 1619 - the second voivode in Kazan (comrade of the boyar Prince Vladimir Timofeevich Dolgorukov ), in 1619 - 1620 - the voivode in Vyazma (comrade of Prince Ivan Fedorovich Khovansky ), in 1627 - 1629 he was in Voevodstvo in Verhoturie . In 1631 - 1632 years - the governor in Novgorod .

In 1613, “ on the 30th day of July, the emperor Tsar and Grand Prince Mikhail Fedorovich wrote ... from Belev the voevoda Prince Semyon Prince Nikitin's son Gagarin, that Cherkasy [Zaporozhtsy] and Lithuanian people came to Serpy places and Serpeesk , and Meschosk , and Kozelesk, and Bolkhov , and Likhvin, and Przemysl took and burned, and the Belevsky fortress took the same and burned. And they, Prince Semyon and nobles, and with the children of the boyars and with all sorts of people, beat the Cherkasy and beat the Cherkasy and sat in the city . ” In 1614, he continued to serve in Beleva , when " Prince Semen was ordered to be on Nevlya, and in Belev, Governor Prince Mikhail Borisov’s son Dolgorukov was ordered to be Governor ."

Being already in Nevel, he repelled the attack of the Lithuanians and did not surrender the city, for which he was granted tsar Mikhail Fedorovich. Semyon Nikitich Gagarin received from Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich “a fur coat, bora calves of various silks, on sables, the price was 66 rubles., 30 alt., 2 dengi, a silver bucket, a weight of a hryvnia, 39 spools with a half-hammer .”

In 1621 and 1622, Prince S. N. Gagarin was the officer of the Turkish ambassador at reception with Patriarch Philaret and on leave from Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich . In 1625 - the bailiff at the Kyzylbash ambassadors. In 1625 - 1626, Prince S. N. Gagarin was at the royal table. In 1626, at the second wedding of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich with Evdokia Lukyanovna Streshneva was among the nobility for the sleigh.

In 1622, Prince Semyon Nikitich Gagarin was appointed commander of the advanced regiment in Dedilovo , to protect the South Russian border from the raids of the Crimean Tatars and Nogai. Prince Vasily Petrovich Shcherbatov was sent by the governor of a large regiment in Tula. Semyon Gagarin beat his forehead on Vasily Shcherbaty “ in the fatherland, exposing that Gagarins and Shcherbaty were never; the sovereign in the fatherland refused him . " At the end of May 1622, the Crimean Tatars made a raid on Dankovsky, Epiphansky, Solovsky, Odoevsky and Belevsky counties. On June 3, the Crimeans approached the village of Dolgoye, near Dedilov , and “the herds were beaten ”. On June 7, Ivan Yakovlevich Velyaminov was sent from Moscow to Tula , who was to investigate the actions of the regimental governors in the defense of the borders. On June 3, when the Tatars approached Dedilov, Prince Semyon Gagarin did not come out against them, but sent hundreds from the fortress, and made a sama, “as the Tatars went backwards”. The governor of the large regiment, Prince V. P. Shcherbatov, having learned about the coming of the Tatars, stood idle in Tula . In June, upon receiving news from Azov about a new raid by Azovtsy and Nogai on southern Russian counties, Prince S.N. Gagarin, on the royal order, made a deed from Dedilov to Aleksin to join up with Prince Ivan Fedorovich Khovansky .

He died, leaving behind no offspring.

• Gagarin, Semyon Nikitich // Russian biographical dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.