Aleksey Nikitich Trubetskoy (17 March 1600-1680) was a Russian prince who was the lord of Redkino and Loknya during the mid-17th century.
Biography[]
Aleksey Nikitich Trubetskoy was born in 1600 to the noble Trubetskoy family, of which he was the last voivode. Under Tsar Michael I of Russia, he was sent to govern distant Tobolsk and Astrakhan due to his disfavor with Patriarch Filaret of Moscow, but, after Tsar Alexis I of Russia came to the throne in 1645, Trubetskoy's friend Boris Morozov oversaw Trubetskoy's appointment as a commander of the Tsar's personal guard regiment. He took part in negotiations with Poland-Lithuania and Sweden in 1647 and with Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1654, and, in 1654, he defeated the Lithuanians at the Battle of Shepeleviche. In 1656, he advanced north and besieged and captured Tartu in Swedish Livonia. His army was partly defeated by the Poles, Tatars, and Cossacks at the 1659 Battle of Konotop, and, that year, he negotiated a renewed alliance with the Cossacks. He became the godfather of Tsar Peter the Great, and he died in 1680.