Ivan Mikhaylovich Vorotynskiy, (year of birth unknown — died January 8, 1627), prince, boyar, eldest son of Mikhail Ivanovich Vorotynskiy, a prominent political figure of the Time of Troubles in the early 17th century.

Ivan Mikhaylovich's son, Aleksey Ivanovich (1610–1642), a stolnik (court attendant) from 1625, was married to Maria Lukyanovna Streshneva, the full sister of Tsarina Evdokia Lukyanovna, wife of Mikhail Fyodorovich.[1]

According to researchers, Vorotynets arose as a selo (a larger village) in the first quarter of the 17th century, most likely between 1617 and 1623, and the Vorotynets church was built no earlier than 1617.[2]

He took part in suppressing the uprising of the Kazan Tatars and Cheremis in 1583 and served as voivode (military governor) in Nizhny Novgorod in 1586–87. Before his appointment as voivode in Nizhny Novgorod, Ivan Mikhaylovich had served as voivode in Muroma in 1582.[1]

During the struggle for power under Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich, he was among the opponents of Boris Godunov, as a result of which he fell into disgrace and was exiled. He was released only after seven years. He was pardoned, raised to the rank of boyar, and sent to Kazan as first voivode, where he remained from 1592 to 1596.

From the spring of 1605 he was a boyar.

After the deposition of Boris Godunov, according to foreign accounts (Strahlenberg and Wagner), Prince I. M. Vorotynskiy helped raise Vasily Shuisky to the throne. Serving him, he fought the "Tushino men" and routed the army of False Dmitry II near Yelets.

In 1606–1607 he actively participated in suppressing the uprising led by I. I. Bolotnikov.

In 1608 he was defeated near Tula by Telyatevsky, a leader of the traitors, and fled to Aleksin.

In 1610 Vasily Shuisky assembled a militia to fight False Dmitry II; Crimean tsareviches and a number of princes, including Ivan Mikhaylovich, joined this militia. The Pretender defeated the militia, ravaged a nearby monastery, slaughtered its inhabitants, and plundered everything. I. M. Vorotynskiy barely escaped, fleeing to Moscow.

On June 17, 1610, Ivan Mikhaylovich, despite his personal attachment to the tsar, on the instructions of the Duma announced his deposition to him and conveyed him, with all his property, to the boyar compound belonging to Vasily Shuisky.

He became a member of the "Seven Boyars." The Duma began negotiations with the Polish king Sigismund on placing Sigismund's son, Prince Władysław, on the Russian throne. However, I. M. Vorotynskiy, in complete agreement with Patriarch Hermogenes, stood for the complete clearing of Moscow of the Poles and against raising Władysław to the throne.

In October 1610 Ivan Mikhaylovich was accused of betrayal and treason, arrested on suspicion of participating in an anti-Polish conspiracy, and released only in 1612.

He was a participant in the Zemsky Sobor (Assembly of the Land) of 1612–1613. As a descendant of the Rurikids, he received an offer to ascend the Russian throne, but he declined. Ivan Mikhaylovich supported the candidacy of Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov and was among the envoys sent by the Zemsky Sobor to the newly elected tsar to ask him to hasten his arrival in Moscow. In Novobratovshchina, I. M. Vorotynskiy greeted Mikhail Fyodorovich before his ceremonial entry into the capital.

In 1616 Ivan Mikhaylovich headed an embassy to Poland for peace negotiations. The envoys met six or seven times, but the negotiations failed because of the fierce resistance of the Poles and Lithuanians, who were determined by every means to secure the election of the Polish prince Władysław to the Russian throne.

The tsar appointed I. M. Vorotynskiy first voivode in Kazan. From 1617 he was the viceroy of Kazan.

The prince enjoyed the unlimited trust of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich, and when the tsar left for the Trinity-Sergius Lavra on a pilgrimage, he left Ivan Mikhaylovich in Moscow as chief voyevoda (military governor). In this way, in 1620 and 1621, Ivan Mikhaylovich ruled Moscow in the absence of the tsar, who had gone on pilgrimage.[1]

Judging by the Cadastral Book of the Zakudemsky Stan, compiled by Dmitry Vasilyevich Lodygin, Vasily Ivanovich Poltev, and the clerk Dementy Obraztsov in 1621–1623, Ivan Mikhaylovich Vorotynsky can be considered the founder of Vorotynets. This source contains the first documented mention of Vorotynets: "The selo (a larger village) of Vorotynesk, on a spring and on the little river Molvyazh, has newly settled in the forest. And in the selo there is a church of the Not-Made-by-Hands Image of the Savior, of wood, built in the klet style, with a side chapel of Alexis the Man of God and a side chapel of Michael, Prince of Chernigov, and his boyar Theodore. And in the church the icons and candles and vestments and church vessels and books, and on the bell tower the bells, are the work of the patrimonial landholder, the boyar Prince Ivan Mikhaylovich."

That Ivan Mikhaylovich was the founder of Vorotynets is also attested by the side chapels of the Vorotynets church, whose altars are consecrated in honor of the heavenly patrons of his father Mikhail Ivanovich and his son Aleksey Ivanovich.

At the end of his life, Prince I. M. Vorotynsky took monastic vows and received the schema with the name Iona; he died on January 8, 1627.

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  1. hram-rpb.cerkov.ru — Before being appointed voyevoda in Nizhny Novgorod (1586–1587), Ivan Mikhaylovich served as voyevoda in Murom in 1582.
  2. opentextnn.ru — According to researchers' conclusions, Vorotynets as a selo arose in the first quarter of the 17th century, most likely between 1617 and 1623, and the Vorotynets chu