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A58415 A relation concerning the particulars of the rebellion lately raised in Muscovy by Stenko Razin its rise, progress, and stop : together with the manner of taking that rebel, the sentence of death passed upon him, and the execution of the same. 1672 (1672) Wing R774; ESTC R3393 13,376 34

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such a person and he is still in Mosko at the house of Kneas Jacob Codonietewitz a Circassian And to drive on these devices he spred abroad that this Lord Czarawitz had made an escape from the violent hands of the Bojars and great Lords and taken his refuge to him adding that he Stenko was come by order of the Great Czar to put to death all the Bojars Nobles Senators and other great ones that were too near to his Majesty as Enemies and Traytors of their Countrey By these base practises invented and push't on by Stenko the ignorant people was inflamed to fight furiously and those of them that were taken prisoners underwent death with a wonderful resolution as being possessed with the perswasion of dying for a good cause At Smolensko was hanged a certain person who said that he died upon having seen with Stenko the Prince Czarawitz whereas he saw but a counterfeit one The other ship that Stenko had was lined with Black Velvet and he gave out that there was in it the late Patriarch Nikow who in the year 1666. was upon the Condemnation passed by the Patriarchs of Alexandria and of Antioch by his Majesty the Great Czar deposed from his Dignity and sent to the Monastery of Belooser where he is yet at this day By these Arts Stenko had so far advanced his design that the whole Tract of Land about the Volga and farther up into the Countrey was engaged in this rebellion as far as to the Towns Accateur and Arsa And the number of the Rebels was augmented to two hundred thousand and part of the Czernische Tartars and all the Ruffian Countrey-men living in this Tract and belonging to Muscovian Lords rose up against their Governors killing and hanging them and the fire of this Rebellion gained at length so much ground that it began to burn not above twelve miles from Mosko it self Hereupon the Great Czar raised a great Army and under the conduct of the Noble Kneas Jurge Alexewitz Dolgeroek sent it about the end of September against the Enemy of whom he met a party of Fifteen thousand men who though they fought resolutely and rallied three times yet were at length beaten and put to slight very many remaining dead upon the place and a great number being taken who were immediately executed Six Field pieces fell into the hands of Dolgeroek who encamped under the Town Arsamas where he exercised severe judgment upon these Rebels The place was terrible to behold and had the resemblance of the Suburbs of Hell Round about it were Gallows each of which was loaded with Forty or fifty Men. In another place lay many Beheaded and covered with Blood Here and there stood some impaled whereof not a few lived unto the third day and were heard to speak Within the space of Three Moneths there were by the Hands of Executioners put to death Eleven thousand Men in a legal way upon the hearing of Witnesses Dolgeroek himself remaining upon the place of Judgment sent his Army out by Parties that found out defeated and dispersed Stenko's forces It was of great importance to Russia and a great Mercy of God that the Rebels lay here and there divided as also that they could not agree amongst themselves about the Supream Command For if this power of the Rebels consisting of Two hundred thousand Men had been united and unanimous it would have been difficult for the Forces of the Czar to have resisted and mastered the same The German Officers were highly applauded by His Majesty for having acquitted themselves so well in leading on their Men. The most resolute of the Rebels were those of the small Towns of Lisko and Morasko who had more than once attempted to take by storm the Cloister of Macariof and lost a great number of Men before it taking it at last by the treachery of a Jew and putting to death all the Monks that were found in it and carrying away a rich prey because the people living thereabout had carried their Goods thither for security Morasko held out but those of Lisko rendred themselves in good time and delivered Thirty of the Rebellious Cosacks together with a Nephew of Stenko Razin and so they were pardoned Amongst the Prisoners there was brought to Kneas Jurge Dolgeroek a Nun in Man's habit put over her Monastical dress This Nun had commanded Seven thousand Men and done bravely in this War till she was taken prisoner There appeared not any alteration in her nor any fear of death when the Sentence of being Burnt alive was pronounced against her Amongst the Russians the deserting of a Monastery is esteemed a black and capital crime A little before she died she wished that many more had behaved themselves and fought as couragiously as she had done that then certainly Kneas Jurge would have found his best safety in his heels Being now to die she signed herself after the Russian manner with the cross on her forehead and brest and so laid her self quietly down upon the Pile and was burnt to Ashes There was also brought to Judgment one of Stenko Razin's Confederates and his best Counsellor who had been his right hand His Arms and Legs were cut off and so he was Beheaded and Hanged The Prisoners were commonly put upon the Rack and being examined what they designed in this Rebellion they answered That they intended for Mosco and would have the lives of the Nobles and other great ones Their word was Not'schay that is to say Vnexpected intimating That the Czarawitz Alexis Alexewitz was come as it were from Heaven besides their expectation Thus hath Kneas Jurge Dolgeroek in the space of Three Moneths made an end of this Rebellion in the Quarters about the River Don but in other places the Fire was not yet extinguished when the Czar called him back with his Army Mean time Kneas Constantine Czarbatof was by His Majesty commanded to march towards Taneboef there to subdue the Rebels of those parts which also by the assistance of God was effected So that all the Disquieted and Rebellious Countreys have been by Hanging Burning Beheading Slaughtering besides the Eleven thousand Executed by the Hands of Hangmen and by killing in the Field above an Hundred thousand Men reduced to their former obedience But to return to Stenko Razin after that he had been routed about Simbierske and was retired downwards he chose a freer Air for his abode and remained for a while in the Wilderness of Steep leaving to one of his Confederates call'd Sjorte-Ous that is the Divels Knuckle the command of Astracan Stenko in the mean time wandring up and down until at length by the Captain Cornelius Jacolowitz and those of the Donsky-Cosacks that had remained faithful to the Czar he was secured and brought into Mosco This Cornelius Jacolowitz was God-father to Stenko and always honored by him as if he had been his Father whence he never in the least imagined that that person should contrive any mischief against him But