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Romodanovsky family
The House of Romodanovsky (Russian: Ромодановские) was a Russian noble family descending from sovereign rulers of Starodub-on-the-Klyazma.[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] They claimed descent from the Rurikids.[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.[citation needed] Early membersAmong Vasily's sons, one was Ivan III's okolnichi, another sat in the Boyar Duma during Vasily III's reign. 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.[citation needed] External links
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