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He was a son of Fedor
Andryeyevich, appanage prince of Starodub. He became appanage prince of
Romodanov. His sons were Vasilii, Ivan, Semyon, Yuri, Fedor, Mikhail and Boris,
all princes Romodanovski without udels. Boris had a son, Petr. The family is
shown on this chart.
The Romodanovski udel was a village of Romodanov, east of Starodub. Vasilii was
the first and last prince of Romodanov with udel rights. His sons, Vasilii and
Ivan, were Moscow Boyars. In the 17th century Prince Gregorii Grigor'yevich,
son of boyar Grigori Petrovich, was a prominent military commander for Tsars
Alexei and Fedor, who won victories over the Turks and Tatars in the Ukraine.
He was killed by the streltzi in 1682. His sons were Mikhail and Andrei. Yuri
Ivanovich Romodanovski was a special confidant of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich.
The Romodanovski family was famous during the reign of Peter I in the person of
Prince Fedor Yur'yevich, who, while not a boyar, was Peter's favorite and
special purpose henchman until he died in 1717. The family died out in 1730.
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