Miloslavsky Ivan Mikhailovich is a boyar and a well-known statesman. He was close to Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich and governor of the Miloslavsky clan. Historians called it "Moscow Cromwell."
Biography
Ivan Mikhailovich was born in 1635. He came from a noble family, his father was Mikhail Vasilievich Miloslavsky.
Ivan Mikhailovich began his service as a stolnik in 1648. His career has developed largely due to the special attitude of Tsar Fedor Alekseevich. The emperor allocated Miloslavsky and promoted.
In the spring of 1660, Ivan Mikhailovich was granted the post of nothing, and in 1669 he was in charge of the Pharmaceutical Order. One of the estates of Miloslavsky was in the village of Petrovsky 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 Front room under the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich. He took part in the discussion with the sovereign of the articles of the embassy’s order in the Commonwealth (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, all in all, eight children were born to him.
The heyday of Miloslavsky’s career
The heyday of Miloslavsky’s career occurred during the reign of Tsar Fedor Alekseevich.
Ivan Mikhailovich was a very active and difficult person, he intrigued a lot and calculated his actions “several steps forward”. At the same time, he was a rather wealthy and influential person at court, and made a great contribution to state affairs.
In 1680, he was appointed to one of the most important posts of that time - the head of the Order of the Big Treasury. By modern standards, this post can be equated with the Minister of Finance. By Miloslavsky flocked not only money, but almost all the threads of government.
In addition, over the years, he led the Novgorod and Reitarsky orders, the Order of the Grand Palace and the Order of the Grand Parish, Vladimir and Streletsky orders and other institutions.
