Pushkin, Stepan Gavrilovich

The representative of the noble family of Pushkins . The second son of the governor and Duma nobleman Gabriel Grigorievich Pushkin (? - 1638) from his first marriage with Maria Melentevna Ivanova (died 1605). Older brother - boyar , voivode and diplomat Gregory Pushkin "Kosoy" (d. 1656).

In 1625 and 1628, Stepan Pushkin was present at the reception by the tsar Mikhail Fedorovich of the Persian embassy, ​​and in 1631 - at the reception of the Swedish ambassador Anton Monir . In 1635, at the dinner of the tsar of the Lithuanian ambassadors, S. G. Pushkin “ looked at the crooked table ”, and at the dinner with the Persian ambassadors wore to drink at the large table. In 1637 he was at the reception of the Lithuanian messenger.

In 1636, 1640, 1649-1652 Stepan Gavrilovich Pushkin, together with other dignitaries, remained in Moscow during the absence of the Tsars Mikhail Fedorovich and Alexei Mikhailovich .

In 1639 S.G. Pushkin “ spent and spent the night ” at the coffins of Tsarevich Ivan Mikhailovich and Vasily Mikhailovich . In 1644 he was in the voivodship in Rylsk , from where he sent military detachments to the Rylsky and Putivl counties against the Crimean Tatars.

In 1646 - the voivode in Odojev . During the raid of the Crimean Tatars on the Kursk , Rylsky counties and Komaritsky parish, he received an order to arrive with the regiment from Odoev to Kaluga , and then go to Kursk to join the commander Prince Semyon Vasilyevich Prozorovsky . In the same 1646, Stepan Pushkin compiled census books for the city of Suzdal, described the courtyards, people and palace volosts in Reshema settlement , local estate villages, villages and courtyards in the camps of Suzdal district.

In 1647 - the governor in Veliky Ustyug . In 1648 he was granted by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich from the stolniki to the okolnichie . In 1649, during the pilgrim " campaign " of the tsar, Stepan Pushkin rode to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra ahead and prepared stops (camps) along the road. In December 1649, together with his elder brother Gregory Pushkin, he was sent to Warsaw to conclude an agreement between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moscow State. At the same time he was granted the title of governor of Alatorsky.

In the years 1650-1651, the Polish ambassadors Prazhmovsky and Vitovsky, who came to Moscow for talks, were “ in charge ” with the brothers Gregory and Stepan Pushkins. For his embassy service in Poland, Stepan Gavrilovich Pushkin received on October 22, 1650 a fur coat, covered with gold atlas, a cup and a salary of 70 rubles to the old one.

In 1652, Stepan Pushkin unsuccessfully resigned with the princes Yuri and Dmitri Alekseevich Dolgorukov and was imprisoned under the tsar's orders. In 1653 he was in the voivodship in Putivl . In the case of the raid of the Crimean Tatars on the South Russian counties S. G. Pushkin was supposed to connect with the boyar Vasily Borisovich Sheremetev in Yablonovo .

In 1654, okolnichiy Stepan Gavrilovich Pushkin participated in the Smolensk campaign of the Russian army under the leadership of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich . In the years 1654-1655, together with his elder brother Gregory, was in the voivodship in Smolensk .

In 1656, when Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich again set off from Moscow near Smolensk , Stepan Pushkin was “ left ” in Moscow, that is, he was entrusted with the main oversight of order, and, according to the existing custom, had to come to the tsar before leaving him from Moscow . But in the “ Palace discharge ” for 1656 it was written: “ Stepan Gavrilovich Pushkin, a student of the sovereign, was not at the hand of the emperor for the illness, and after that he was gone ”.

He was married to Elena Danilovna, from a marriage with whom he had two sons and two daughters:

• Matvey Stepanovich Pushkin (c. 1630-1706), steward (1658), okolnichy (1678), boyar (1682) and the voivode
• Yakov Stepanovich Pushkin (? - 1699), solicitor (1676), steward (1684), okolnichy (1686) and boyar (1691)
• Daria Stepanovna Pushkina (died 1663), wife since 1656 of Nikita Sheremetev (died 1675)
• Irina Stepanovna Pushkina (died after 1656).

• Pushkin, Stepan Gavrilovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• Pedigree painting of the Pushkins
• Pushkin (the younger branch, the descendants of Konstantin G. Pushkin)