Marfa Posadnitsa Biography

It is known that it came from the Boyar family of the Loshinsky [3] and that she got married twice.

The first husband was the boyar Philip, in marriage two sons of Anton and Felix were born, drowning on the Karelian coast of the North Sea. Pimen’s supported by her does not receive a dignity, and the chosen Feofil is dedicated to Moscow, and not in Kyiv, as the Lithuanian party wanted. Martha and her son, the Novgorod Society Posadnik Dmitry, in the year led the struggle of Novgorod for freedom and independence from Moscow.

In addition to Martha, the opposition to Moscow was supported by two other noble Novgorod widows: Anastasia wife Boyarin Ivan Grigoryevich and Evfimia wife Posadnik Andrei Gorshkov. Martha, who had significant cash, conducted negotiations with the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Casimir IV on the joining Novgorod into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania on the rights of autonomy while maintaining the political rights of Novgorod.

The Grand Duke Ivan III declared a war on the Novgorod Republic and in the Battle of Shelona defeated the army of Novgorod, and Dmitry Boretsky killed as a political criminal. However, the right of Novgorod to self -government in his internal affairs was preserved. The conflict arose between the Lithuanian and Moscow parties and the latter reported to the Borean Grand Duke Ivan.

Claudius Lebedev. Martha Posadnitsa. The destruction of the Novgorod Vecha in the year Ivan III finally committed it with the Novgorod Republic: the veche was closed, the veche bell was taken to Moscow in prison in prison for the republic, the wealthy citizens of the city were sent to prison for life imprisonment, and their property was seized to the Grand Duke treasury. Martha and her grandson was first brought to Moscow, and then sent to Nizhny Novgorod, where she was tonsured into monasticism under the name of Maria in Streetevsky since the year - the Cross -Western Monastery, where she died in a year.

According to another version, Martha died or was executed on the way to Moscow in the village of Mlevsky of the Tver Principality. As accusations against her, the desire to marry the “Lithuanian pan” is called her to own Novgorod after his attachment to the Principality of Lithuania. This prophecy is connected with a visit to Zosima Novgorod during the conflict of the monastery and the Novgorod principality regarding the rights of the monastery to fishing.

Subsequently, an opinion appeared that this document could not be issued to Martha, but is a late fake of the Solovetsky monks.