Ivan Khovansky (other)
Ivan Khovansky may refer to: *Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (?–1621), Russian boyar and voyevoda * Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (Tararui) (?–1682), Russian boyar * Ivan Ivanovich Khovansky (?– 1701), Russian boyar *Ivan Nikitich Khovansky Prince Ivan Nikitich Khovansky (russian: Иван Никитич Хованский) (died 1675) was a Russian boyar and voyevoda, nephew of Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky and cousin of Tararui. Ivan Nikitich Khovansky was first mentioned in historic ...

Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky
Prince Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (russian: Иван Андреевич Хованский) (died 1621) was a Russian boyar, voivode of Novgorod, and viceroy of Ryazan of Lithuanian Gediminid origin. During the Time of Troubles, he participated in the struggle against the supporters of False Dmitry II and Polish invaders. In 1607, Khovansky was sent to Mikhailov, which had been occupied by the opponents of Vasili IV of Russia, but his attacks on this city were rebuffed. In 1608, he and Prokopy Lyapunov fought against the Polish army in the Ryazan region, but was defeated by Aleksander Józef Lisowski at Zaraysk. In 1610, Khovansky fought alongside Prince Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky, who ordered him to combine forces with the Swedish army, occupy the southern part of the Tver region, and prevent the enemy from regrouping. Khovansky managed to rendezvous with the Swedes near Staritsa, capture Rzhev, and beset Bely. Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski was dispatched to aid the Polish ...
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Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (Tararui)
Prince Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (russian: Ива́н Андре́евич Хова́нский) was a Russian boyar who led the Streltsy during the Moscow Uprising of 1682, alternatively known as the Khovanshchina. His life was dramatized by Modest Mussorgsky in the opera called after the name of the uprising. Khovansky's moniker, Tararui, derives from the old Russian word for "chatterbox". Khovansky came from the Lithuanian Gediminid dynasty, whose ancestors moved from Podolia to Moscow in 1408. He started his employment under Mikhail I as a stolnik. In 1650 he was sent to Tula to counter the raids of Crimean Tatars. In 1651–1654 he was governor in Vyazma, and in 1656 he was governor of Mogilev. During the Russian-Polish-Swedish war he served as a voivod. In 1657 he blitzed a number of Swedes under Gdov. He was promoted to boyar on March 27, 1659. In January 1660 he attacked Brest and set it on fire. During the Copper Riot in Moscow on 25 July 1662 he dealt with insu ...
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Ivan Ivanovich Khovansky
Ivan Ivanovich Khovansky (russian: Иван Иванович Хованский) (died March 15, 1701) was a Russian boyar, son of Ivan Nikitich Khovansky, opponent of Peter the Great's reforms. The name of Ivan Ivanovich Khovansky was first mentioned among the royal court stolniks in 1664. In 1676, he was appointed ''room stolnik'' (комнатный стольник) of Tsar Tsar ( or ), also spelled ''czar'', ''tzar'', or ''csar'', is a title used by East Slavs, East and South Slavs, South Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word ''Caesar (title), caesar'', which was intended to mean "emperor" i ... Feodor III of Russia. In 1682, Ivan Khovansky was granted the title of a boyar (which he would be stripped of later, but then regain). In 1700, Ivan Khovansky became involved in an affair that had to do with a writer named Grigory Talitsky, who would identify Peter the Great with the Antichrist. Before the affair was over, Ivan Ivanovich Khovansky died unde ...
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