Biography of Zotov Nikita

In marriage with Anna Pashkova, private notes, being the clerk of the order of a large parish, was recommended by Tsar Fedor Alekseevich as a teacher for five -year -old Peter Boyarin Sokovnin. He began the training of the prince, withstanding the test in reading and writing, to whom he, at the request of the king, Simeon Polotsky. According to the system established in Rus', he first of all forced his student to read, and then teach the Chasals, Psalter, and the Gospel.

But he did not stop there; According to Golikov’s review, “although he did not know the sciences and languages, he was sent to the Crimea in August, with Stolnik Tyapkin, for negotiations with Khan Murad-Girey, who ended in the Bakhchisarai world. Peter loved him with him and then, although he almost killed him in an aquis The king of Sheina, accompanied the tsar in the Azov campaign, and, according to Peter, "was in unceasing works of writing to many languages ​​and other matters." president ".

In the city of Zotov received the rank of a Duma clerk; In the list of G. in the "All -Pacific Synod", where Peter was listed as a protodeacon, Zotov was the chairman with the loud title "Archbishop of Preshpursky, all Yauza and all the cocoa of the Patriarch" or "Holy and the Extra -Healing Joachita." There is a news that Peter was first against this marriage, but then he took an active part in preparations for the Shutovsky wedding and ignored the letter of Conon Zotov, in which he asked the sovereign to rid his father and the whole surname from humiliation.

The sons and grandchildren of Nikita Zotov, who received the count's title in the city at that time, was dissatisfied with the transformations of Peter I and, as a result, the king granted his associate Lytkarino for free. Then Lytkarino still consisted of six peasant yards with 29 male souls, and occupied arable land in 58 acres. The farm had 7 casing horses, 24 heads of cattle, 24 sheep.

Thus, Zotov received a pretty good estate, given that Alchevo was already in his property. Since that time, the estate began to be created in the village on the site of the former monastery house. Upon completion of construction and improvement, the estate was a lordly house, on the sides - two outbuildings, behind the house - a park in the form of a square with alleys, one of which the central led into a specially created large hall.

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