Daniel Vasilyevich Shchenya
Daniel Wassiljewitsch Schtschenja ( Russian Даниил Васильевич Щеня ; * before 1450 ; † 1519 ) was a Russian prince (Knjas) from the Lithuanian house of Gediminas . As a voivode and general of the Grand Duchy of Moscow , he made as a civil servant during the reign of Ivan III. and Wassilis III. career in the Russian army.
Life
Daniel Wassiljewitsch came as the son of Vasily Jurjewitsch Patrikejew († 1450) of the Lithuanian dynasty of the Gediminids. His grandfather in the male line , the Lithuanian Prince Yuri , left the native Lithuania, took place in Moscow a new home and married Mary, the daughter of the Moscow Grand Prince Vasily I . As the grandson of the Lithuanian, he was not only indirectly related to the Grand Duke of Moscow, but also to the uncle of the Russian general Mikhail Bulgakov-Goliza , whose father Ivan Vasilyevich Bulgakov was Daniel's biological brother.
Daniel was a respected Russian general and took part in many campaigns of the Moscow state against the neighboring states. One of his first campaigns led him against the Free State of Chlynow (Vyatka), which was allied with the Kazan Khanate and whose population often carried out raids against the Moscow state. After the conquest of the Free State in 1489 , the inhabitants were deported to the interior of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Daniel Shtschenja participated during the Russo-Lithuanian War 1487-1494 in raids in the Russian-Lithuanian border region, which he devastated. In 1493 his troops took the city of Vyazma, which was under Lithuanian rule, and brought the local Rurikid princes to Moscow. In the campaign against Sweden from 1495 to 1497 , they devastated Swedish Finland . 1500, in the Russo-Lithuanian War 1500–1503 , the troops under Shchenya's command defeated the Lithuanian hetman Konstantin Ivanovich Ostroschski in the battle of the Wedrosch , and the Lithuanian commander-in-chief was captured. Shchenya carried out his next assignment against the Teutonic Order in Livonia , but was defeated by Landmeister Wolter von Plettenberg , the ally of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Alexander , on August 26, 1501 in the Battle of the Seriza . In 1502 he undertook a second campaign against Livonia, but was defeated again in the Battle of Smolina on September 13th.
These defeats did not diminish the favor of the Moscow Grand Duke (Ivan III until 1505): Shchenya was appointed to the office of second voivod of Moscow. During the Russo-Lithuanian War 1507–1508, he unsuccessfully besieged the Lithuanian fortress of Orsha . In the same year he became the first voivode of Moscow. He crowned his military career in the Russo-Lithuanian War 1512–1522 with the conquest of Smolensk .
Daniel Wassiljewitsch Shtschenja died around 1519 without leaving any descendants.
Comments and individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schtschenja, Daniel Wassiljewitsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prince from the Lithuanian house of Gediminas |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1450 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1519 |