Ivan Andreevich Chelyadnin

Ivan Andreevich Tscheladnin portrayed in the painting the battle of Orsha in 1514 as the general of the Russian troops

Ivan Andreyevich Tscheljadnin (also Tschelädnin , Russian Иван Андреевич Челяднин , Polish Ivan Andriejewicz Czeladnin ; † 1514 in Vilnius ) was a Russian nobleman , Bojar , officials in the civil service , diplomat and military commander of the Grand Duchy of Moscow .

Life

Ivan was the son of Andrei Fyodorowitsch Tscheljadnin († 1503), who was a Russian-Muscovite nobleman, general ( Konjuschi ) and governor of Veliky Novgorod . Like his father, he became during the reign of Grand Duke Vasily III. appointed to the office of Konjuschis of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, he also held the office of voivod as a civil servant in the years 1508–1509. He was sent on a diplomatic mission to Poland in 1508, during the Muscovite-Lithuanian War 1507–1508 , to negotiate an armistice with the Polish king and Lithuanian grand duke, Sigismund I the Elder . In 1510, in the name of Grand Duke Vasily, he received the oath of subjects from the Pskov population, whom he had deported to the interior of the Moscow state after the complete submission of the republic of the same name . For loyal service he was raised to the rank of boyar in 1511 and a year later sent again on a diplomatic mission to the Khan of Kazan . In 1512 he destroyed a raid by the Crimean Tatars directed against Moscow . During the Muscovite-Lithuanian War 1512–1522 he besieged the Smolensk fortress in 1512 without success . He was one of the military leaders of the Muscovite armed forces, which Konstantin Iwanowitsch Ostroschski at Orsha in 1514 decisively routed . He himself was imprisoned in Lithuania, where he died a little later in Vilnius.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arthur Kleinschmidt : Russia's history and politics presented in the history of the Russian high nobility , p. 82