Mikhail Ilyich Miloradovich
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Mikhail Ilyich Miloradovich | |
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| Native name | Михаил Ильич Милорадович |
| Born | c. 1660s Herzegovina |
| Died | 25 September 1726 |
| Allegiance | Zaporozhian Host |
| Years of service | early 18th century |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Commands held | Gadyatsky Regiment |
| Other work | Diplomatic missions under Peter the Great |
Mikhail Ilyich Miloradovich (Russian Cyrillic: Михаил Ильич Милорадович; c. 1660s - September 25, 1726) was a Gadyatsky colonel of the Zaporozhian Host.
Biography
The Serbian Miloradovich family came from Herzegovina to Imperial Russia sometime in the early 17th century.
Miloradovich was first mentioned in Russian written sources in 1638. In the Russian Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA), in the Discharge Prikaz fund there is a "petition of the newly-emigrant foreigner of the Serbian land, Prince Mikhail Miloradović, for service."
In 1711, by personal decree of Tsar Peter the Great through a letter from Count Golovkin, Mikhail Ilyich Miloradovich was summoned to Little Russian service from Serbia. Miloradovich was sent together with Captain Ivan Lukačević to the inhabitants of Montenegro with a proposal for a joint fight against the Ottoman Empire. In the letter from the Tsar to the Montenegrins, dated 3 March 1711, among other things, it was said:
“We enter into the midst of the infidel enemy with an army and strong weapons, to free the oppressed Orthodox Christians, if God allows, from his pagan yoke... and so if we will work together, each according to his ability, and fight for the faith, then the name of Christ will be more glorified, and the heirs of the pagan Mohammed will be driven into their old homeland, into the sands and steppes of Arabia.”
When leaving Montenegro, Miloradovich left the Montenegrins a charter in his name, “which was written at the Montenegrin assembly in Cetinje, 16 April 1712,” and which he signed as follows: “The pious Tsar Peter the Great, Colonel and Cavalier Mikhail Miloradovich,” and in this charter he promised Montenegro freedom from the hands of the “Great Tsar.” The ambassadorial services of Mikhail Miloradovich are described in the following way in the charter of Tsar Peter in 1718:
“Having accepted from us, the Great Sovereign, the rank of colonel, he went to the Montenegrins and other local peoples of our pious faith, as well as the Roman law, he aroused and encouraged those people to take up arms against the Turks, and with such his faithful and zealous efforts he brought a large number of those peoples into actual war with them, the Turks, and had under his command, he carried out significant military searches against the Turks and thus held back the Turks and Tatars from a major offensive against our, the Tsar’s Majesty and Little Russia.”
After completing Peter I's mission and returning to Russia, Miloradovich was generously rewarded - he received 500 chervonets in cash, a portrait of Peter the Great decorated with diamonds on the St. Andrew's ribbon to wear in his buttonhole, and he also received estates in Little Russia (now Ukraine).
From 10 June 1715, Mikhail Ilyich Miloradovich was appointed Gadyatsky Colonel of the Zaporozhian Host and held this post for 11 years, "causing complaints from the colonels," whom he oppressed and tormented, extorting gifts and land concessions from them. The complaints of the colonels led to nothing, since the hetman was deprived of the power to collect from the colonel, who was appointed by the tsar himself.
Ivan Charnysh, in whose place Miloradovich was appointed Gadyatsky Colonel, being related to Ivan Skoropadsky, did not want to voluntarily give up his position to the new colonel, which forced the latter to complain about the insults inflicted on him by Charnysh. In his complaint, Miloradovich says that the hetman wanted to take one of the hundreds of the Gadyatsky regiment -- Kamyshanskaya -- “by force and give it to Ivan Charnysh, since in Kamyshanskaya Charnysh had subjugated many lands for himself and built considerable factories.” In addition, Charnysh “openly and publicly dishonoured him before the people, calling him a traitor, a rogue, a gypsy and a swindler,” and the scribe, that is, the assistant clerk, said that if “he, Miloradovich, betrayed one, then he can betray the Tsar.” In this case, Chancellor Prince Gavriil Golovkin answered Skoropadsky, who was interceding for Charnysh, that “it is impossible to cancel the Tsar’s Majesty’s Decree,” and Miloradovich got his way. In 1718, Miloradovich accompanied Hetman Ivan Skoropadsky “together with the rest of the Cossack elders” to Moscow, where he was present with other Little Russians at the trial of Tsarevich Alexei. It is known that only the Little Russian elders had the courage to refuse the Tsar’s approval of the sentence for the defendant and refused to sign it.
In 1723, Miloradovich was sent from Little Russia with five thousand Cossacks to the Ladoga, by order of Peter, to dig canals. In the same year, Mikhail Ilyich, together with Colonel Apostol Lubensky, returned from Kolomak, where they went to protect the border from the Tatars and Turks. Returning with the regiment to their homeland, Miloradovich and Apostol were summoned to Petersburg on the case of Pavel Leontievich Polubotok and imprisoned in a fortress, where they were interrogated and languished until the death of Peter I. In 1725, upon Catherine I's accession to the throne, both of them were released and received their estates and regiments back. Two years after this, Mikhail Ilyich Miloradovich died in Little Russia [1].
Family
- Brothers - Alexander, Gavriil.
- The wives are the first unknown person to die in Serbia, the second is the daughter of General Captain Butovich Ulyana Stepanovna Butovich.
- The son, Stepan Mikhailovich Miloradovich, was a comrade of Bunchuk’s and had six sons from his marriage to the daughter of Mikhail Gamaleya.
Literature
- Кривошея В. В. Козацька еліта Гетьманщини. — Киев: ІПіЕНД ім. І.Ф.Кураса НАН України, 2008. — ISBN 978-966-02-4850. (укр.)
- Модзалевский В. Л. Малороссийский родословник. — Киев, 1908. — Т. 1. — С. 6.
- Милорадович, Михаил Ильич // Русский биографический словарь : в 25 томах. — СПб.—М., 1896—1918.
- Биографические очерки о роде дворян и графа Милорадович
- Биографические очерки замечательных Милорадовичей
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