Miloslavsky Ivan Mikhailovich - boyar and famous statesman. He was a close associate of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich and a voivode from the Miloslavsky family. Historians called him "Moscow Cromwell".
Biography
Ivan Mikhailovich was born in 1635. He came from a noble family, his father was Mikhail Vasilyevich Miloslavsky.
Ivan Mikhailovich began his service as a steward in 1648. His career was largely due to the special attitude of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich. The sovereign singled out Miloslavsky and promoted him in the service.
In the spring of 1660, Ivan Mikhailovich was granted the post of a roundabout, and in 1669 he was in charge of the Pharmaceutical Order. One of Miloslavsky's estates was in the village of Petrovskoye in Lytkarino.
From the beginning of the 1660s, Miloslavsky was a member of the circle of close Duma members in the Tsar's Room and the Anteroom during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich. He took part in the discussion with the sovereign of the articles of the ambassadorial order to the Rzeczpospolita (in 1662), as well as in the analysis of the "case" of Patriarch Nikon.
In 1677, Ivan Mikhailovich received the boyar dignity. As for family and personal life, Miloslavsky was married twice, in total he had eight children.
The heyday of Miloslavsky's career
Miloslavsky's career flourished during the reign of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich.
Ivan Mikhailovich was a very active and difficult person, he intrigued a lot and calculated his actions “several steps ahead”. At the same time, he was a rather rich and influential person at court, made a great contribution to state affairs.
In 1680 he was appointed to one of the most important positions of that time - the head of the Order of the Great Treasury. By modern standards, this post can be equated with the Minister of Finance. Not only money flocked to Miloslavsky, but practically all the threads of state administration.
In addition, over the years, he led the Novgorod and Reitarsky orders, the Order of the Big Palace and the Order of the Big Parish, the Vladimir and Streletsky orders and other institutions.
Intrigues and death of Miloslavsky
After the death of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich, the boyar Miloslavsky supported his sister Sofya Alekseevna. He fought for power, intrigued, persuaded the archers, and during the riot of 1682 (Streletsky riot) killed boyar Matveyev, who was a close ally of the Naryshkins.
Then Ivan Mikhailovich, with the support of the princes Odoevsky and Streshnev, removed from the court for two years and sent almost all the Naryshkins into disgrace.
With the help of his influence and all sorts of intrigues, Miloslavsky practically ruled the country. However, in the spring of 1684, his influence sharply weakened.
At the entrance to the palace the clerk of the order of the Great Treasury was caught with a knife. He admitted that it was Miloslavsky who had sent him in order to assassinate Tsar Peter I and his mother. Miloslavsky categorically denied his guilt. The boyar died in 1685 from a stroke and was buried in the Armenian lane near the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
In 1697, the tsar set up a search after denouncing the conspiracy of the rifleman colonel I. E. Tsikler, who was formerly a friend of Miloslavsky.
Under torture, he and other boyars - accomplices confessed that, by order of Sophia, they planned to kill the king. The conspirators were publicly executed, and their still warm blood flowed into the open coffin on the corpse of the boyar Miloslavsky. For execution, the body was dug from the grave and brought to the village of Preobrazhenskoye on pigs.
After that, the remains of the conspirators and Miloslavsky were transported to Moscow and placed on Red Square, where they were kept for several months.
