Fyodor Romodanovsky
Deceased Person
1640 – 1717
Who was Fyodor Romodanovsky?
Prince Fyodor Yuryevich Romodanovsky was one of Peter the Great's foremost assistants in the task of modernizing Russia. He was the country's first head of secret police.
An influential boyar from the Romodanovsky family, Prince Fyodor was given the post of the head of the Preobrazhenskoye prikaz in 1686. His integrity and resolution won him the admiration of young Tsar Peter, who made him "Generalissimo" of his toy army.
Romodanovsky was the one to whom Peter entrusted governing the country during his frequent absence from the capital between 1695 and 1699. When the Streltsy Uprising erupted in Peter's absence, it was Romodanovsky who ruthlessly suppressed it. For his vital services to the crown Peter had him jocundly styled "His Caesarean Majesty" and "Prince Caesar". Romodanovsky also had the right to keep his own court at Ropsha and to promote officers. The Tsar addressed him in German as "Min Herr Koenig" and signed his own letters "Your Majesty's humblest servant Piter".
Until his death, Romodanovsky remained in charge of the secret police, the Siberian prikaz, and the Apothecary; basically he was the second most powerful man in Russia till his death. Only after his death he was described as a "monstrum by the appearance, vicious tyrant by the character" by Klyuchevsky.
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