Ivan Andreevich Khovansky
Prince Ivan Khovansky ( Russian Иван Андреевич Хованский ; † 1682 ) was a Russian boyar , military leader and governor of various Russian provinces. His life was dealt with in Modest Mussorgsky's opera Khovanshchina .
He entered the service of the Tsar under Mikhail I. In the Russo-Polish War 1654–1667 he served as a voivode and commanded the Russian armed forces in the Belarusian theater of war, in the meantime he also fought in the war against Sweden . In 1659 he was awarded the boyar dignity. In 1682 he took part in the first Strelitzen uprising , which secured the reign of Tsarevna Sofia . But only a few weeks later, Sofia received information about a conspiracy planned by Khowanski with the aim of killing the tsarist family and becoming tsar herself. Prince Chowanski was immediately sentenced to death and executed together with his son Andrei .
literature
- A. Polowzow: Russkj biografitscheskj slowar. Tom XXI . Isd. Imperatorskago Russkago istoritscheskago obschtschestwa, 1901, pp. 376–379. (Russian)
- Yevgeny Zhukov and others: Sovetskaya istoritscheskaja enziklopedija: Tom 15 . Sowetskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1974, col. 605. (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Khovansky, Ivan Andreevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chowanski, Ivan; Хованский, Иван Андреевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian boyar and governor of various Russian provinces |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th century or 17th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1682 |