Cherkasovs (Keretskys): During the Period of the Muscovite Kingdom (to the 450th Anniversary of the Cherkasov Family)

The paper examines the history of the Cherkasov family from Keret during the period of the Muscovite Kingdom.The attention is given to the first five generations in the history of the family, who lived in the period from 1570 to 1725.The source base of our research is based on archival materials from the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (Moscow, Russian Federation), as well as the Archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation).In conclusion, the author states that the history of the Cherkasovs from Keret today has 17 generations, which fell on the period from 1570 to the present.At the same time, the family history of the period of the Moscow Kingdom is only the first five generations (1570-1725): the initial chronological point is associated with the birth in 1570 in the Zaporozhian Sich (territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) of a Cossack named David (1st generation), and the final one with the death in 1725 of a representative of the 5th generation Prokopii Antonovich Cherkasov.With the death of Prokopii Antonovich, an entire epoch came to an end -an epoch in which a representative from the 2nd generation of the Cherkas Davydov family, the son, stays from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to the territory of the Moscow Kingdom, serves in its military formations and settles in Keret.Cherkas's sons, who continued their father's work, also receive excellent military training.Cherkas' grandson Anton participates in the defense of the Solovetsky Monastery, and his great-grandchildren serve in the Streltsy army and take part in hostilities.During this era, all four generations of Cherkasovs from Keret (2nd -5th generations) were directly related to military service in the Muscovite Kingdom either as part of military men or as part of the Streletsky army.This allows us to talk about the Cherkasovs from Keret as a family of sovereign servants of the period of the Moscow Kingdom.