Romodanovsky family

[citation needed] Their progenitor was Prince Vasily Fyodorovich Starodubsky (Василий Фёдорович Стародубский) who changed his name to Romodanovsky after his votchina (estate) of Romodanovo.

[citation needed] Although the family was one of the first Rurikids to enter the service of the prince of Moscow,[citation needed] it was in the 17th century that they finally rose to the highest ranks of Muscovite Russia.

Their nephew was sent by Ivan the Terrible as a Russian ambassador to Copenhagen.

The latter's nephew, Prince Ivan Petrovich Romodanovsky, was killed by the Kalmucks on his way from Persia in 1607.

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