After the death of False Dmitry Donsve and Tersve, the Cossacks attacked the city, brutally plundered it and demanded recognition as king of the Cossack Vasily Elagin, who appeared under the name of Tsarevich Peter, son of Oeodor Goannovich. In 1606, Astrakhan was plundered by the same Cossacks, and in 1607, the Astrakhan people, refusing to recognize Vasily Shuisky as king, themselves joined the rebels. In 1608, Zarutsyu appeared near Astrakhan with Marina Mnishek, demanding obedience from the okolnichy Golovin and an honorary prize for Marina. Golovin, a cunning man energetic, feignedly agreed to the proposal, but at the first appearance
The city of Zarutsky’s solemn embassy ordered the death of all those sent, of whom there were about 800 people. Zarutsy himself, only by luck did not go with his messengers, avoided their fate. Having no success in his attack, Zarutsky, however, harassed Astrakhan for almost four years. In 1660, the Tatars approached the city with significant forces, all the time not losing hope of capturing Astrakhan again and determined to capture it this time. The inhabitants locked themselves in the Kremlin and decided to protect themselves until the last possible opportunity; The reasonable orders of the steward Prozorovsky and the various precautions taken by him ensured that the enemy’s first attack was repulsed with such enormous damage for him that he left the city.
In 1670, Astrakhan was taken by Stenka Razin and this time she experienced a childhood the like of which she had never experienced either before or since. No matter how energetic Prozorov was, no matter how diligently he prepared for a stubborn defense, he was not able to save the city, and while he was lying wounded in the cathedral on the carpet, and the Metropolitan, who was weeping bitterly, said goodbye to St. Tain, there were outrages all over the city and the unbridled Razinites committed atrocities, which even in the history of the Razin rebellion did not always have a place. The Astrakhan mob showed their bloodthirsty, bestial instincts in all their terrible nakedness. Blood flowed in streams along the streets of the city, some were cut, others had their arms and legs chopped off, and others were drowned. Everything that belonged to the upper class was exterminated into purity. Nobles, officials, merchants, even foreign clerks were killed without any pity. When rioters entered the cathedral, where the governor lay and where crowds of sobbing women and women had disappeared, violent rampages began; the wounded governor was thrown from the bell tower, the nobles and merchants hiding in the cathedral were chopped down in front of the cathedral with swords, and their corpses were thrown into a large pit. Unstoppable robbery took place throughout the city and not only houses and trading yards, but even churches were robbed
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us. Leaving Ataman Vaska Usa to rule Astrakhan instead, Stenka Razin sailed up the Volga. Vaska Us ruled the city in such a way that everyone obeyed him; The only person who did not submit to the new order was the Astrakhan Metropolitan Tosif *), who was not touched even by Stenka Razin himself. Stenka’s protege, Vaska Us, turned out to be crueler than his patron, and the saint, denouncing the inhabitants of treason and raising his voice against the rebels, celebrated a martyr’s death: after terrible torture, he was thrown from the cathedral bell tower. After that Vaska Us died, and Astrakhan was taken over by the Tsarina’s ataman Fedka Sheludyak. Only in 1671
*) Metropolitans began to be appointed to Astrakhan in 1667, according to the charters of Tsar Alekei MinE I Khailovich, and in 1716 they were replaced by bishops.
year, Astrakhan was taken from the robbers by the tsarist troops, who approached it under the leadership of the boyar Miloslavsky.