Jump to content
 







Main menu
   


Navigation  



Main page
Contents
Current events
Random article
About Wikipedia
Contact us
Donate
 




Contribute  



Help
Learn to edit
Community portal
Recent changes
Upload file
 








Search  

































Create account

Log in
 









Create account
 Log in
 




Pages for logged out editors learn more  



Contributions
Talk
 



















Contents

   



(Top)
 


1 Biography  





2 References  





3 External links  














Grigory Bogdanovich Volovich






Беларуская
Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
Lietuvių
Polski
Русский
 

Edit links
 









Article
Talk
 

















Read
Edit
View history
 








Tools
   


Actions  



Read
Edit
View history
 




General  



What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Wikidata item
 




Print/export  



Download as PDF
Printable version
 
















Appearance
   

 






From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 


Grigory Bogdanovich Volovich (1535–1577) was a statesman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, diplomat of the Lord's gentleman (from 1548), the MayorofGrodno (1558–1566), Marshal of Dvorny (1560–1563), of the Lord's Stalker (1567–1574), governor of Smolensk Voivodeship (1571–1577), the elder of Mstsislaw (1548–1567), sovereign of Varniany and Zel’va (1558–1569).

Biography[edit]

Grigory Volovich was a representative of the Russian-Lithuanian noble family Volovichi with arms "Bogoria". He was son of Bogdan Volovich, whose father, Gregory Volovich, groom the Grand Duke of Lithuania (1459) and was the ancestor of the genus Volovichi. His sibling Ostafiia Bogdanovich was Chancellor of the Lithuanian (1579-1587). In 1563, Grigory was sent as ambassador to Moscow, to the court of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. Referred to as the auditor of forests and forests in 1559. By decree of Sigismund II Augustus he founded the city Wasilków (now Podlasie, in Podlasie Voivodeship, Poland). Volovich converted from Eastern OrthodoxytoCalvinism, and later became Catholic. Around 1564 he married Katherine Yurlevne, the widow of Prince Matthew Bogdanovich Oginski, Elder of Kovno. In this marriage was born Hieronim Wołłowicz, Lithuanian officer, Roman, elder of Rahachow and Pëtr, Chashnik Lithuanian.

References[edit]

External links[edit]


Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grigory_Bogdanovich_Volovich&oldid=1175601697"

Categories: 
1577 deaths
1535 births
Converts to Calvinism
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Calvinism
Wołłowicz family
Voivodes of Smolensk
Hidden category: 
Webarchive template archiveis links
 



This page was last edited on 16 September 2023, at 04:45 (UTC).

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.



Privacy policy

About Wikipedia

Disclaimers

Contact Wikipedia

Code of Conduct

Developers

Statistics

Cookie statement

Mobile view



Wikimedia Foundation
Powered by MediaWiki