Prince Grigory Grigoryevich Romodanovsky was a leading Russia

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n general of Tsar Alexis's reign who promoted the Tsar's interests in Ukraine

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Romodanovsky belonged to the Rurikid clan of Romodanovsky. He took part in the Pereyaslav Rada of 1654 and led his Streltsy

Streltsy

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 against the Poles during Russo-Polish War, 1654-1667.

During the 1660s and 1670s, he was instrumental in spreading Muscovite influence in the Cossack Hetmanate

Cossack Hetmanate

The Hetmanate or Zaporizhian Host was the Ruthenian Cossack state in the Central Ukraine between 1649 and 1782.The Hetmanate was founded by first Ukrainian hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky during the Khmelnytsky Uprising . In 1654 it pledged its allegiance to Muscovy during the Council of Pereyaslav,...

, sometimes openly interfering into election of hetman

Hetman

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s and promoting the candidates backed up by Moscow

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Romodanovsky was in charge of the Russian army during the Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681), but his rivalry with a cousin, Prince Vasily Galitzine, stymied his later career. Prince Grigory Romodanovsky was killed by the mob during the Moscow Uprising of 1682

Moscow Uprising of 1682

Moscow Uprising of 1682, also known as Streltsy Uprising of 1682 , was an uprising of the Moscow Streltsy regiments which resulted in supreme power being devolved on Sophia Alekseyevna...

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