Aleksey Trubetskoy
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PrinceAleksey Nikitich Trubetskoy(Russian:Алексей Никитич Трубецкой;c. 17 March 1600 – 1680) was the lastvoivodeof theTrubetskoy familyand a diplomat who was active in negotiations with Poland and Sweden in 1647 and with the ambassadors ofBohdan Khmelnytskyin 1654. He was thegodfatherofPeter I of Russia.
Under TsarMichael's rule Aleksey Trubetskoy was in disfavour with the powerfulPatriarch Filaretand was appointed to govern distant towns ofTobolskandAstrakhan.But the situation changed after Michael's death in 1645 andAlexis I's succession to the throne, when Trubetskoy's close friendBoris Morozovbecame a head of government. In 1646, Trubetskoy was appointed a commander of the Tsar's personal Guard regiment.
In 1654, Prince Aleksey Trubetskoy on the side ofAlexis I of Russialed the southern flank of theRussian armyfromBryanskto theGrand Duchy of Lithuania.The territory between theDnieprandBerezynarivers was overrun quickly, with Aleksey Trubetskoy takingMścisławandRosławl.He defeated both Lithuanian HetmansJanusz RadziwiłłandKorwin Gosiewskiin theBattle of Shepeleviche.In 1654, the formerPrincipality of Trubetskwas conquered by Aleksey Trubetskoy, Prince of Trubetsk himself, as a result of theRusso-Polish War (1654-1667).
In 1656, the secondRussianarmy under the command of Trubetskoy advanced in the north ofSwedish Livonia,besieged and capturedTartu.In 1659, a Russian army led by Aleksey Trubetskoy and Ukrainiancossacksunder the command ofIvan Bezpaly[1]crossed into Ukraine and were partly defeated in a surprise attack by a large Polish-Tatar-Cossack[2]army led byMehmed IV GirayandIvan Vyhovskyin theBattle of Konotop.The same year, he negotiated the SecondTreaty of PereiaslavwithYurii Khmelnytsky.
Trubetskoy was married to Ekaterina Pushkina (died in 1669), a sister of BoyarBoris Pushkin,a prominent statesman. The mother of Aleksey was Eudokia Trubetskaya and his father was Nikita Trubetskoy (16th century – January 1608). He had brothersWigund-Jeronym TrubetskyandFyodor Trubetskoy.He had no children and died in 1680, having previously accepted a monastic vow. Thus the Principality of Trubetsk returned to the possession of the Tsar.[3]
References
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- ^Magocsi, Paul R. (1996).A History of Ukraine.Toronto:University of Toronto Press.p. 225.ISBN0-8020-0830-5.
- ^"Historical Genealogy".Zerkalo. 2 September 1995.Retrieved2 September2022– via Google Books.