Fyodor Jurjewitsch Romodanowski

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Fyodor Jurjewitsch Romodanowski

Fyodor Yuryevich Romodanovsky ( Russian Фёдор Юрьевич Ромодановский * to 1640 , † September 17 . Jul / 28. September  1717 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian government official and politician .

Life

Romodanowski came from an old Russian princely family who traced back to Ryurik . His father Yuri Ivanovich Romodanowski was first a Stolnik and then a Boyar . Romodanowski lived from childhood at the court of Tsar Alexeis I , whose confidante was his father. At the celebration of the birth of Peter I , Romodanowski was shown as the first of the 10 nobles at the table in the Facetted Palace Peter.

After the death of Fjodor III. Romodanowski supported the underage Peter I in the fight against his half-sister Sophia . When she was exiled to the Novodevichy Convent , Romodanovsky was put in charge of her supervision. In 1686 he became head of the secret chancellery for monitoring all political events ( Preobrazhensky- Prikas ). He was involved in all of Peter I's playful activities and in 1694 became generalissimo of the toy army of Peter I. During the Azov campaigns , Peter I was represented by Romodanovsky in Moscow and gave him the title of Prince Caesar His Majesty . Romodanovsky and Field Marshal Count Boris Petrovich Sheremetev were allowed to join Peter I's cabinet without prior notice. When Peter I traveled to Western Europe with the Great Embassy , Romodanowski played the decisive role in suppressing the Second Strelizan Uprising . After the great fire in Moscow in 1701, Romodanowski was involved in the reconstruction of the city entrusted to him. 1704–1705 he was the successor of Andrei Andrejewitsch Winius ' the Siberia -Prikas. He was followed by Matwei Petrovich Gagarin . Romodanowski also headed the pharmacist- Prikas. He held court in Moscow in his house not far from the Great Stone Bridge, according to boyar tradition, and expected respect from all of society.

Romodanowski had three children. Ivan became governor of Moscow and married Anastassija Saltykowa (sister of Tsarina Praskovia Fyodorovna ). Irina married the naval officer Vasily Vasilyevich Sheremetev. Fedosja married Avraam Fyodorowitsch Lopuchin (brother of Tsarina Evdokija Fyodorovna ), who was executed as a conspirator in 1718.

Romodanowski was buried in the St. Petersburg Alexander Nevsky Monastery .

Alexei Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy portrayed Romodanowski in his novel Peter the First as a faithful and ruthless companion of Peter I. Romodanowski also appears in the historical novel Dewjatny Spas (The Ninth Redeemer) by Anatoly Brusnikin ( pseudonym Boris Akunins ). In the film Peter the Great (1986) Romodanowski was portrayed by Omar Sharif .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ромодановский (Федор Юрьевич) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape XXVII , 1899, pp. 85 ( Wikisource [accessed August 20, 2019]).
  2. ↑ a b c Петров А .: Ромодановский, князь Федор Юрьевич . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 17 , 1918, pp. 130-139 ( Wikisource [accessed August 20, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Государственное управление в России в портретах: Фёдор Юрьевич Ромодановский (accessed August 20, 2019).
  4. ↑ Исторический документ: Князь Федор Юрьевич Ромодановский (accessed August 20, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Romodanowski, Fyodor Jurjewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ромодановский, Фёдор Юрьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian civil servant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1640
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1717
Place of death St. Petersburg