Khilkov Ivan Vasilyevich (1571 — 1655) was a prince, a Moscow nobleman, and a statesman and military figure of the era of Mikhail Fyodorovich and Alexey Mikhailovich. Among other voivodeships, he governed Nizhny Novgorod in 1639–1641.[2]

Service and Career

Khilkov entered state service under Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich. In 1598 he signed the assembly act electing Boris Godunov as tsar. In 1605 Khilkov was dispatched to Ryazan to gather the nobility against False Dmitry I.[4] In 1613, as a stolnik, he took part in the election of Mikhail Fyodorovich to the throne.[2]

He successively held voivode posts in a number of towns: Kostroma (1615–1618), Alatyr (1621–1622), Solvychegodsk (1627–1629), Sviyazhsk (1630–1631), and Nizhny Novgorod (1639–1641). Under Mikhail Fyodorovich and Alexey Mikhailovich he was in charge of foreign affairs, receiving ambassadors and conducting negotiations with them. In 1634 and 1635 he received Turkish ambassadors, then Swedish and Persian ones, and in 1636 Holstein ones.[4][2]

Voivodeship in Nizhny Novgorod

Khilkov was appointed first voivode of Nizhny Novgorod after the death of his predecessor Andrey Andreyevich Khovansky, who died in the city on June 13, 1639. Alferiy (Olferiy) Kuzovlev served as second voivode (dyak) under him.[3][1] His voivodeship lasted until 1641, after which Nizhny Novgorod passed to the administration of Boris Ivanovich Nashchokin.[1]

Later Years

On January 16, 1648, the day of Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich's marriage to Maria Miloslavskaya, Khilkov headed the nobles. On August 15, 1647, Khilkov was granted the rank of okolnichy.[4] The tsar repeatedly entrusted him with running the affairs of Moscow during his absences from the capital. In 1651, when Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich set out on a campaign against the Polish king, Khilkov was left as second in charge "to oversee Moscow" in the sovereign's absence.[4] Khilkov received the boyar rank in 1657 — posthumously with respect to the date given in the source (he died in 1655).[2]

Sources

  1. ru.wikisource.org — Khilkov was born in Moscow in 1571 and died there on June 9, 1655. For a long time he served as a stryapchy (a court attendant), and only by 1613 did he hold the rank of stolnik (a court official of the tsar's table). (archive)
  1. opentextnn.ru — III. NIZHNY NOVGOROD VOYEVODAS AND VICEGERENTS (chronological list) — OPEN TEXT (archive)
  2. chuvenc.ru — Personalities
  3. kartaslov.ru — List of Voyevodas of Nizhny Novgorod — Knowledge Map