Konstantin Vasilyevich, Prince of Rostov. Konstantin Vsevolodovich the Wise

Vasily, Blessed Prince of Rostov, martyr Blessed Prince Vasily, or Vasilko, as the ancient chronicles call him, was the son of Grand Duke Konstantin Vsevolodovich and was born in Rostov the Great in 1209. The strife between my father and Grand Duke George hardly affected

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• Vinogradov. A.// Russian biographical dictionary: in 25 volumes. - St. Petersburg. -M., 1896-1918.
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• Vasilenko N. P.// Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg. , 1890-1907.

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In June, the Battle of Friedland took place, in which the Pavlograd residents did not participate, and after it a truce was declared. Rostov, who deeply felt the absence of his friend, having had no news about him since his departure and worrying about the progress of his case and his wounds, took advantage of the truce and asked to go to the hospital to visit Denisov.
The hospital was located in a small Prussian town, twice devastated by the Russians and French troops. Precisely because it was in the summer, when it was so nice in the field, this place, with its broken roofs and fences and its dirty streets, ragged inhabitants and drunken and sick soldiers wandering around it, presented a particularly gloomy sight.
In a stone house, in a courtyard with the remains of a dismantled fence, some broken frames and glass, there was a hospital. Several bandaged, pale and swollen soldiers walked and sat in the courtyard in the sun.
As soon as Rostov entered the door of the house, he was overwhelmed by the smell of a rotting body and a hospital. On the stairs he met a Russian military doctor with a cigar in his mouth. A Russian paramedic followed the doctor.
“I can’t burst,” said the doctor; - Come to Makar Alekseevich in the evening, I’ll be there. – The paramedic asked him something else.
- Eh! do as you please! Doesn't it matter? - The doctor saw Rostov going up the stairs.
- Why are you here, your honor? - said the doctor. - Why are you here? Or the bullet didn’t kill you, so you want to get typhus? Here, father, is the house of lepers.
- From what? - asked Rostov.
- Typhus, father. Whoever rises will die. Only the two of us with Makeev (he pointed to the paramedic) are chattering here. At this point, about five of our brother doctors died. “Whatever the new guy does, he’ll be ready in a week,” the doctor said with visible pleasure. “They called Prussian doctors, because our allies don’t like that.”
Rostov explained to him that he wanted to see the hussar major Denisov lying here.
- I don’t know, I don’t know, father. Just think, I have three hospitals for one person, 400 patients are too many! It’s also good, the Prussian ladies who are benefactors send us coffee and lint at two pounds a month, otherwise they would disappear. - He laughed. – 400, father; and they keep sending me new ones. After all, there are 400? A? – he turned to the paramedic.
The paramedic looked exhausted. He was apparently waiting with annoyance to see how soon the chattering doctor would leave.
“Major Denisov,” Rostov repeated; – he was wounded near Moliten.
- It seems he died. Eh, Makeev? – the doctor asked the paramedic indifferently.
The paramedic, however, did not confirm the doctor’s words.
- Why is he so long and reddish? - asked the doctor.
Rostov described Denisov's appearance.
“There was, there was one,” the doctor said as if joyfully, “this one must have died, but I can handle it, I had the lists.” Do you have it, Makeev?
“Makar Alekseich has the lists,” said the paramedic. “Come to the officers’ quarters, you’ll see for yourself there,” he added, turning to Rostov.
“Eh, it’s better not to go, father,” said the doctor, “otherwise you might end up staying here.” “But Rostov bowed to the doctor and asked the paramedic to accompany him.
“Don’t blame me too much,” the doctor shouted from under the stairs.
Rostov and the paramedic entered the corridor. The hospital smell was so strong in this dark corridor that Rostov grabbed his nose and had to stop to gather his strength and move on. A door opened to the right, and a thin man leaned out on crutches, yellow man, barefoot and in only underwear.
He leaned against the lintel and looked at those passing by with shining, envious eyes. Looking through the door, Rostov saw that the sick and wounded were lying there on the floor, on straw and overcoats.
-Can I come in and have a look? - asked Rostov.
- What should I watch? - said the paramedic. But precisely because the paramedic obviously did not want to let him in, Rostov entered the soldiers’ chambers. The smell he had already smelled in the corridor was even stronger here. This smell has changed somewhat here; he was sharper, and one could feel that this was where he came from.
In a long room, brightly lit by the sun through large windows, the sick and wounded lay in two rows, with their heads to the walls and leaving a passage in the middle. Most of some of them were in oblivion and did not pay attention to those who entered. Those who were in memory all stood up or raised their thin, yellow faces, and everyone with the same expression of hope for help, reproach and envy of someone else’s health, without taking their eyes off, looked at Rostov. Rostov went out into the middle of the room, looked into the neighboring rooms with open doors, and saw the same thing on both sides. He stopped, silently looking around him. He never expected to see this. In front of them lay almost across the middle aisle, on the bare floor, a sick man, probably a Cossack, because his hair was cut into a brace. This Cossack was lying on his back, with his huge arms and legs outstretched. His face was crimson red, his eyes were completely rolled back, so that only the whites were visible, and on his bare feet and on his hands, still red, the veins were strained like ropes. He hit the back of his head on the floor and said something hoarsely and began to repeat the word. Rostov listened to what he was saying and made out the word he was repeating. The word was: drink - drink - drink! Rostov looked around, looking for someone who could put this patient in his place and give him water.
-Who takes care of the sick here? – he asked the paramedic. At this time, a Furstadt soldier, a hospital attendant, came out of the next room and stretched out in front of Rostov with a beating step.
- I wish you good health, your honor! – this soldier shouted, rolling his eyes at Rostov and, obviously, mistaking him for the hospital authorities.
“Take him away, give him water,” said Rostov, pointing to the Cossack.
“I’m listening, your honor,” the soldier said with pleasure, rolling his eyes even more diligently and stretching out, but without moving from his place.
“No, there’s nothing you can do here,” thought Rostov, lowering his eyes, and was about to go out, but with right side he felt directed towards himself significant look and looked back at him. Almost in the very corner, sitting on an overcoat with a thin, stern face, yellow as a skeleton, and an unshaven gray beard, sat an old soldier and stubbornly looked at Rostov. On the one hand, the old soldier’s neighbor whispered something to him, pointing at Rostov. Rostov realized that the old man intended to ask him for something. He came closer and saw that the old man had only one leg bent, and the other was not at all above the knee. Another neighbor of the old man, lying motionless with his head thrown back, quite far from him, was a young soldier with a waxy pallor on his snub-nosed face, still covered with freckles, and his eyes rolled back under his eyelids. Rostov looked at the snub-nosed soldier, and a chill ran down his spine.
“But this one, it seems...” he turned to the paramedic.
“As you asked, your honor,” said the old soldier with a trembling lower jaw. - It ended this morning. After all, they are also people, not dogs...

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, dealing with the socio-political history of Russia... For the first time on the pages of Russian chronicles, Rostov was mentioned in 862, as a city in the land of the Finnish tribe Merya. Prince Rurik, distributing hail to his husbands, sent his governor to the Meryan region. From then on, until the end of the 10th century, princely governors ruled Rostov. Only in 988 did Grand Duke Vladimir Svyatoslavovich plant his son Yaroslav here, and in 1010 replaced him with Boris. Since 1019, Yaroslav Vladimirovich secured Rostov for himself and handed it over to his son Vsevolod of Pereslavl (Pereslavl of Kiev). Rostov region became hereditary in the family of Vsevolod Yaroslavich. It was owned in turn by the son of the Pereslavl prince Vladimir Monomakh, grandchildren - Mstislav, Izyaslav and Yuri (Dolgoruky) Vladimirovich, and great-grandsons - Andrei Bogolyubsky and Vsevolod Big Nest . Under Yuri Dolgoruky's son Andrei Bogolyubsky, Rostov lost its significance political center

- Rostov lands became part of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality, - but remained a large and rich city. The first independent Rostov prince was the eldest son of Vsevolod the Big Nest, Konstantin the Wise, (18.5.1186 - 2.2.1219 (according to other sources, 1218)). WITH, in poor health, Konstantin Vsevolodovich became addicted to books and knew several languages, which was not uncommon in the princely families of that time. After the 1199 campaign against the Polovtsians under the banners of his father’s squads, the young prince fell in love with history so much that he tried his hand at chronicle writing and began collecting ancient books and manuscripts. Having received Rostov as an inheritance, he tried to return the city to its former significance. Under him, Rostov developed a big library from a thousand volumes, part of which has survived to this day. Konstantin Vsevolodovich fell in love with Rostov. He persuaded his father to leave this city to him in his will along with Vladimir, insisting on his own, and did not even go to the ceremony of asserting his rights as heir to the throne. As punishment, Vsevolod Yuryevich gave Vladimir, and with him the great reign, to his second son, Yuri. In 1216, at the Battle of the Lipitsa River, he defeated Yuri and took the grand-ducal throne. Under Konstantin Vsevolodovich, the Rostov land flourished. In Rostov, a new Assumption Cathedral was founded (it has not survived to this day), and the Church of Boris and Gleb was built from plinth bricks. In Yaroslavl, the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral (also not preserved to this day) and other churches are being built, religious school, which in 1214 was transferred to Rostov. Before his death, he made peace with his brother Yuri and kept Rostov for his eldest son Vasilko, Yaroslavl for Vsevolod, Uglich for his youngest son Vladimir.

Vasilko (12/7/1209 - 3/4/1238) already at the age of 10 took part in Yuri Vsevolodovich’s campaign against the Mordovian prince Purgas. In 1223, the Grand Duke sent his nephew at the head of his squad to help the South Russian princes against the Mongols. Vasilko, sent by Yuri to meet an unknown threat, did not have time for the battle on the Kalka River, in which the united Polovtsian-Russian army was defeated. 14 years later, Batu’s horde fell on Rus'. By this time, Vasilko had already become one of the first assistants of the Grand Duke. Yuri Vsevolodovich in the battle on the Sit River (on the territory of modern Yaroslavl region) died along with his troops. Vasilko was captured and killed because he rejected the offer to serve Batu, refused to undergo the pagan rite of purification by fire and accept food from the hands of the invaders. His body was found abandoned in the forest, brought to Rostov and laid in the new Assumption Cathedral. Prince Vasilko's wife, Maria Chernigovskaya, compiled obituaries (patericons) for the Russian princes who died at the hands of the Tatars. In the quiet of the cell of the Spaso-Pesotsky Monastery in Rostov, which she founded, she remembered her husband like this: “Vasilko is red-faced, bright-eyed and menacing, more skilled in fishing, light-hearted, affectionate to the boyars...”. Laurentian Chronicle late XIV centuries preserved these lines, and the image of Vasilko became a symbol of captive, but not conquered Rus'.

The children of Prince Vasilko, Boris and Gleb, continued the line of Rostov princes. The eldest son Boris (1231-1277) from a young age went to the horde to claim the Rostov principality for himself. There he witnessed the death in 1246 of his grandfather, Prince Mikhail of Chernigov, who refused to observe the Tatar pagan rite. Chronicles note good relations Boris with Alexander Nevsky.

After the death of Prince Vasilko on the Sit River, the Belozersky inheritance of Gleb Vasilkovich (1237-1278) separated from Rostov. In 1277 it went to Mikhail Glebovich (1263-1293).

The grandson of Gleb Vasilkovich - Roman Mikhailovich (ruled 1293-1339) ceded the Belozersky possessions to Ivan Kalita on the condition of maintaining some independence. The senior line of Roman Mikhailovich's descendants was interrupted by the death of princes Fyodor Romanovich and Ivan Fedorovich on the Kulikovo Field. At that time, the youngest son of Roman Fedorovich Vasily occupied the Sugorye-Zasheksninsky (eastern) half of the Belozersk inheritance. He had five sons. The elder Yuri passed Belozersk, his descendants began to be called the princes of Belozersk. From his second son, Roman, came the family of the Beloselsky princes, and from younger Andrey, who owned the lands along the Andoga River, the princes of Andoga and Vadbolsky arose. From the second son of Vasily Romanovich, Afanasy, came the family of the Shelespansky princes (the name of the volost). Semyon Vasilyevich - the owner of Sugorye and Kem volost - through five sons gave rise to the family of princes Sugorsky and Kemsky. Ivan Vasilyevich, the only prince of Kargolomsky (the village of Kargolom), also owned the Ukhtomsk volost, inherited by his eldest son Ivan Ukhtomsky, who annexed Kargolom to his lands. In the 1380s, the Belozersk land was transferred to Moscow.

In 1279, Rostov was assigned to Prince Dmitry Borisovich (1253-1294). Remembering that he belonged to the eldest line of descendants of Vsevolod, the Big Nest, he “with sin and great untruth” took away cousin Mikhail Belozersky inheritance and annexed Uglich to Rostov, planting there younger brother Konstantin. At the end of his life, Dmitry Borisovich participated in the feud between Grand Duke Dmitry Alexandrovich and his brother Andrei on the side of the latter and, as part of the Horde troops (“Dudenev’s army”), destroyed the Russian lands.

All that is known about Konstantin Borisovich (1255-1307) is that he had two sons - Alexander and Vasily and a daughter, married in 1297 to Yuri Danilovich of Moscow.

Vasily Konstantinovich is mentioned in chronicles only twice - in 1291 and 1316, when Tatar ambassadors Sabanchy and Kazanchy ruined Rostov. Under his sons Fedor (ruled 1320-1331) and Constantine (1312-1365), the city and the entire principality were divided into two halves. The eldest, Fedor, got the Sretenskaya side, and Konstantin - the Borisoglebskaya side. Already under the son of Fyodor Konstantinovich Andrei (1331-1409), Moscow began to buy up the estate of Vasily I Dmitrievich.

The descendants of Andrei Fedorovich gave rise to a number of famous princely families. From the second son of Ivan Andreevich Fyodor Golenya, the family of princes Golenin descended. Fyodor Andreevich had five sons: Alexander Shchepa (1410-1434) - the ancestor of the Shchepin princes: Ivan the Bolshoi, Ivan the Lesser and Fyodor Rusan - childless: Dmitry Priimok - the ancestor of the Priimkovs, Gvozdevs and Bakhteyarovs.

From the youngest son of Vasily Konstantinovich, Konstantin, who received the Borisoglebsk side, led junior line Rostov princes. He was married to the daughter of Ivan Kalita and had five sons - Ivan, Gleb, Vasily, Alexander and Vladimir. The first three did not produce offspring. Alexander Konstantinovich (1365-1404) had three sons. The eldest of them, Andrei Alexandrovich (1380-1417) turned out to be the largest. His son Ivan Bryukhaty is considered the ancestor of the princes Khokholkov, Katyrev and Buinosov; Ivan-Yan (died before 1417) - the ancestor of the princes of Yanov; Ivan Temka and Vasily Gubka - princes Temkin and Gubkin, respectively. The third son of Alexander Konstantinovich, Ivan (15th century) had five sons, of whom the fourth, Ivan, nicknamed the Long, gave rise to the family of the Puzhbolsky princes, of whom there were only three generations. Younger son Konstantin Vasilyevich Vladimir is known only in genealogies. His son Ivan Bychok had two children, Alexander and Dmitry Britoy. From the sons of Alexander - Vasily Lastka, Mikhail Kasatka, Ivan Loban and Fyodor Goluby - came the princes Lastkin, Kasatkin, Lobanov and Goluby. From the son of Yuri Dmitrievich Vasily Bychk the family of the Shaved-Bychkovs descended.

There were so many Rostov princes that the people had a saying: “In the Rostov land there is a prince in every village.” They left behind different memories. Dozens of Rostov princes fell on the Kulikovo Field. Next to their fathers and brothers, princesses Daria Rostovskaya and Antonina Puzhbolskaya came out against the warriors of Mamai and fought bravely. But the seven sons of Prince Dmitry Dmitrievich Priimkov, the grandson of Fyodor Andreevich, during the feudal war of the second quarter of the 15th century, serving Vasily Kosoy, the enemy of the Moscow Grand Duke Vasily the Dark, became famous in a different way - for their adventures and battle-hardened character, becoming the prototypes of the fairy tale “About the Seven Semyons” siblings." Rostov voivode Prince Fyodor Alexandrovich himself already became a character in the satirical story “Shemyakin’s Court.”

TO end of the 19th century century, out of 20 princely families descended from Vasilko Konstantinovich, only 4 remained: the Shchepins, Kasatkins, Lobanovs and Bychkovs. Most died out in the 16th century XVII centuries. Bychkovs in late XVI centuries lost the princely title.

Currently, a number of villages in the Rostov region retain the names of their former princely owners: Gvozdevo, Priimkovo, Galakhovo, Gubino, and Semibratovo.

In the 18th generation, he had two sons: Prince. Fyodor Dmitrievich, who died childless, and Prince. Dmitry Dmitrievich, who had seven sons;

one of them, book. Fyodor Dmitrievich, nicknamed Bakhteyar, was actually the founder of the prince. Bakhteyarov. He had three sons: Prince. Ivan the Mute, book. Vasily and Prince Mikhail. With the death of the great-grandson Prince. Fyodor Dmitrievich, Prince.- a Russian princely family descended from Rurik and whose ancestor was Prince Alexander Fedorovich, nicknamed Shchepa. Prince Ivan Dmitrievich enjoyed importance under Grozny and ruled under Fyodor Ioannovich in Zavolochye and Opochka.