Grigory Aleksandrovich Khodkevich ( Belorussian. Rygor Alyaksandravich Hadkevich , Polish. Grzegorz Chodkiewicz ; d. November 12, 1572 ) - statesman and military leader of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania .
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| Predecessor | Andrey Nemirovich | ||||||
| Successor | Roman Fedorovich Sangushko | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Nikolai Radziwill Red | ||||||
| Successor | Nikolai Radziwill Red | ||||||
| Birth | c. 1513 | ||||||
| Death | November 12, 1572 | ||||||
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| Kind | Khodkevichi | ||||||
| Father | Alexander Ivanovich Khodkevich | ||||||
| Mother | Vasilisa Yaroslavna Golovchinskaya | ||||||
| Spouse | Ekaterina Ivanovna Vishnevetskaya | ||||||
| Children | Andrey, Alexander, Alexandra, Anna and Sofia | ||||||
Biography
It comes from the famous Lithuanian magnate family of the Khodkevichs . The second son of the governor of Novogrudok, Alexander Ivanovich Khodkevich (c. 1475 - 1549 ) and Princess Vasilisa Yaroslavna Golovchinsky . From the middle of the 16th century, he held high positions of the governor of Vitebsk (from 1554 ), the Trokansky chestnut (from 1559 ), the Lithuanian hetman (from 1561 ), the Vilnensky chestnut (from 1564 ), and the great Lithuanian hetman (from 1566 ). He was a supporter of the independence of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and an opponent of the Union of Lublin . Protesting against the federal association with Poland in the Commonwealth , in 1569 he abandoned all state and administrative posts [1] . He participated in the Livonian war .
In 1568, he founded a printing house at an Orthodox monastery in the town of Zabludovo, Grodno County (now the Bialystok county of Podlaskie Voivodeship in Poland , where Moscow’s first printers Ivan Fedorov and Peter Mstislavets , who fled from persecution from Moscow , continued their work, they printed the “ Gospel ” in Zabludovo a collection of conversations and teachings with the interpretation of the Gospel texts (44 copies were preserved), with the coat of arms of Grigory Khodkevich on the back of the title page Ivan F, who left for Vilna , already without Ivan Yedorov printed in the Zabludov printing house “Psalter with the Chasoslovist” (4 copies were preserved). The pressure of the Catholic clergy forced Grigory Khodkevich in 1570 to abandon support for Cyrillic Orthodox printing.
He lived to the end of his days in Zabludov. According to his will, buried in the catacombs of the Annunciation Cathedral in Suprasla
Family
Grigory Khodkevich was married to Princess Ekaterina Ivanovna Vishnevetskaya (d. C. 1580 ), daughter of Prince Ivan Mikhailovich Vishnevetsky (c. 1490 - 1542 ), holder of the Cherkasy and Propoisky , and Anastasia Semenovna Olizarovich.
Children
- Andrew (d. 1575/1576 ) - the great capital of Lithuania
- Alexander (d. 1578 ) - the headman of Grodno and Mogilev
- Alexandra (d. 1570 ) - wife of the full Lithuanian hetman and governor of Bratslav , Prince Roman Fedorovich Sangushko ( 1537 - 1571 )
- Anna (d. After 1595 ) - the wife of the Kiev cashtel Pavel Ivanovich Sapieha (d. 1580 ) and the cousin of Vilnius Pavel Patz (c. 1530 - 1595 )
- Sofia is the wife of the head of Orsha and the governor of Smolensk, Philo Kmit ( 1530 - 1587 ).
Notes
- ↑ Gryckevich A. Hadkevichy // Vyalikae of the Principality of Lithuania: Enceklapedyya. At 3 t / red. G.P. Pashkoў іnsh. T.2: Kadetsky corps - Yatskevich.- Minsk: Belaruskaya Etsyklapedyya, 2005. - 788 pp.: Il. ISBN 985-11-0378-0 / S. 709.
Literature
- Polevoy P.N. History of Russian literature from ancient times to the present day. T. 1. Ed. 2nd. - SPb. , 1903.
- Ivan Fedorov and East Slavic typography. - Mn. 1984.
- Thoughts and Svetnіkі Belarusі: encyclopedic davadnіk. - Mn. : Belarus encyclopedia, 1995. (bel.)