Skuratov is a brief biography

Malyuta Skuratov: The tragic fate of children Malyuta Skuratov-the biography of Malyuta is certainly not a real name, his name was Grigory Lukyanovich Skuratov-Belsky. In history, his name is associated with the merciless punitive actions that he conducted, commanding the guardsmen. Russian people called him a "noble executioner", and he called himself a "bloody dog." Actually, he was such, the most devoted “dog” of Ivan the Terrible.

Many historians suggest that Skuratov significantly influenced the king, and created an authoritarian ruler from him. But there are other opinions of scientists that the cruelty and bullying attributed to both are greatly exaggerated, chronicles who wrote history after their death. Childhood in the biographical data of Malyuta Skuratov, there is no date for his birth, just as the place where his family lived was unknown.

He probably got his nickname "Malyuta" because of his small stature. Or for the frequently repeated phrase “I pray”, with which he addressed the autocrat with any request. It is known that Skuratov is a native of a small noble family. Its representatives served the sovereigns. The first mention of Malyuta was in the 19ths of the 16th century, in the discharge books of the year, about the campaign in Livonia, he headed the oprichnaya army.

Perhaps he had been close to the king of the king before, but in the year, by order of Ivan the Terrible Chronicle, he was no longer conducted, and the early documents were destroyed. The oprichnik Ivan the Terrible was afraid of conspiracies, uprisings, and especially that it could be losing his life. On his orders, an oprichnaya army was created. At first, Skuratov held a lower post, he fulfilled various instructions: a severide, a close guard, a comforter.

Its growth began much later, when the oprichnaya army began its campaign for victims. They, under good intentions, created lawlessness and arbitrariness, "protecting the personal security of the king." Later, Skuratov, who did not belong to the boyar family and the Zemstvo hierarchy, rose to the most close to Ivan the Terrible. Karamzin reported that Malyuta with the guardsmen smashed the courtyard of disgraced nobles, took away their wives and daughters “for fornication” for the royal close ones.

Malyuta Skuratov Malyuta himself conducted interrogations, often it was cruel torture. By his personal order, both the boyars and nobles could be executed. Their estates were selected, the land and property all departed to the king. In the year, Skuratov was appointed “head” of an oprichnaya detective department, in the affairs of the state treason. Skuratov was especially distinguished at the pogrom in Novgorod.

Then their detective activity led to the death of so many residents of the city. It was later noted that they did not particularly look for evidence, perhaps there was no state treason. But they were guided by the rule, there is a denunciation, and they themselves fulfilled the verdict right there, without trial and investigation. Ivan the Terrible precisely Malyuta ordered the arrest of Prince Vladimir Staritsky, his cousin.

He was accused of claiming the throne. He could theoretically lead the boyars and nobles, but there was no evidence. It was then that Malyuta was instructed to deal with this business. Everything turned out to be simple, the cook testified that the prince ordered him to poison the king, and gave him poison. The sentence to both death. Malyuta Skuratov and Ivan the Terrible in the year Metropolitan Philip, did not give a blessing to the pogroms, and accused the king and guardsmen of excessive cruelty.

In the morning he was found dead. It is believed that Malyuta personally dealt with the clergyman, strangling him with a pillow. But this is only an assumption, of course there are no historical facts. By the year, more people had an oprichnoe army. It should be borne in mind that they began to arrange pogroms throughout the country, without any command of the sovereign. The impunity unleashed his hands with a walking and inveterate guardsmen, in the ranks of which were “nasty” people.

Malyuta Skuratov kills Metropolitan Fillaret, Yenrich von Staden, referring to the story of the German mercenary, who served as an armor: “The guardsmen sewed the whole country ... to which the Grand Duke did not give them his consent. They themselves gave themselves damps, as if the Grand Duke indicated to kill one or the other from the nobility or merchant, if only they thought that he had money ...

Many were scribbled with gangs around the country and allegedly traveled from the oprichnina, killed everyone who came across along the big roads. ” The army of guardsmen for the king and the state became more dangerous than boyars or state conspiracies. Ivan the Terrible began to understand that control over him was leaving. This whole structure at any moment could get out of obedience.

And then Malyuta played a huge role in the elimination of the oprichnina. The torture Malyuts of Skuratov on June 25 on Red Square were sentenced, the king ordered the man to have mercy, ordered the rest to be tortured. Malyuta himself began the execution. Later, but in the same year the head of the oprichnaya Duma was sentenced to death, Prince Cherkassky and three more governors.

In the year, the army was dissolved, and the order of the king was forbidden to pronounce the word “oprichnin”. They may be familiar.