Prince Nikolai Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky (d. December 1659 ) is a Russian tycoon, Minsk chestnut ( 1649 - 1659 ), military and statesman of the Commonwealth , brother-in-law of the Ukrainian hetman Ivan Vygovsky .
| Nikolai Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky | |||||||
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| Ukrainian Mikola Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky | |||||||
 Coat of arms of the princely family of Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Gideon Dunin-Raetskiy | ||||||
| Successor | Yakub Theodor Kuntsevich | ||||||
| Death | 1659 | ||||||
| Kind | Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky | ||||||
| Father | Stepan (Stefan) Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky | ||||||
| Mother | Anna Bokiy | ||||||
| Spouse | Princess Domitsila Solomeretskaya | ||||||
| Children | sons: Stefan, Nikolay Adam and Alexander Gilyar | ||||||
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Biography
Representative of the Volyn princely family of Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky .
Father - Prince Stefan (Stepan) Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky (d. 1648), Colonel of the Crown Troops, Coronet of Bratslav ( 1622 ) and Subcommittee of Bratslav ( 1625 ), Lutsky
Mother - Anna Bokiy (d. 1612 ), daughter of Lutsk judge Gabriel Bokiya and Marianna Vaganovskaya.
Didich of the New Quarter in Volhynia. It was first mentioned in documents from 1632 , when he was elected ambassador ( deputy ) from the Bratslav Voivodeship to the provocative Sejm , he signed a “reassurance point for the inhabitants of the Crown and the ON of the people of the Russian Greek religion” ( November 1 ).
On May 18, 1639, Prince Nikolai Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky was appointed by the king as a member of the commission to consider complaints from Bratslaw residents against insults from local elders; in August, he was elected marshal of the knight’s stake on a seismic in Lutsk .
In 1647, he was an ambassador from the Bratslav Voivodeship to the Sejm and a deputy of the Crown Tribunal. Rejected the offer of Bohdan Khmelnitsky to go over to his side, in response, the rebellious Cossacks and peasants looted and burned his estates in Volhynia.
With the rank of captain of the crown troops, he participated in battles with the rebels near Zborov (1649) and Berestechko (1651) .
On February 5, 1649, Prince Nikolai Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky received the position of Mastiff Minsk in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . During his occupation, he, like the voivode of Minsk, did nothing to strengthen the Minsk castle. City ramparts and gates were being destroyed. Only at the Sejm in 1654 a decision was made to repair the city fortifications of Minsk and other cities of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
In the will of Metropolitan of Kiev Peter the Grave on December 22, 1646, Prince Nikolai Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky is mentioned as one of the Orthodox dignitaries who was entrusted with custody of the Kiev Orthodox college.
On September 9, 1659, Prince Nikolai Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky wrote a will in Godomichi . In December of that year, the first lawsuit between his heirs took place.
Family and Children
He was married to Princess Domicile Solomeretskaya (d. 1659 ), the daughter of Prince Yan-Vladislav Solomeretsky (d. 1641 ) and Anna Volovich (d. 1669 ). Their kids:
- Prince Stephen
- Prince Nicholas Adam
- Prince Alexander Gilyar
Links
- Książętа Czetwertyńscy (03) (Polish)
Sources
- Ryszard Mienicki. Czetwertyński-Światopełk Mikołaj († 1649) / Polski Słownik Biograficzny: Kraków, 1937.— t. IV, zeszyt 16.— S. 364. (Polish)