Feodor Koshka

Fedor Andreevich Kobylin, byname "Koshka" ("the Cat"^[a]) (Russian: Фёдор Андре́евич Кобылин (Ко́шка)) (died 1407), was the youngest son of Andrei Ivanovich Kobyla and progenitor of the Romanov dynasty and Sheremetev family.

He was a senior boyar in the Duma of Dmitri Donskoi and his son Vasili I of Russia. According to some sources, Koshka governed Moscow during Dmitry's absence in the Battle of Kulikovo. In 1393, he was recorded as negotiating with Novgorod for peace.

His cautious approach towards the Tatars was praised by Edigu in his 1407 letter to Vasili I. It is believed that Fyodor died about that date. His daughters Anna and Akulina married a Prince of Rostov and Prince of Mikulin, while his granddaughter Maria married Yaroslav of Borovsk, father-in-law of Vasili II of Russia. He had three sons: Ivan Fyodorovich Koshkin, Fedor Fedorovich Koshkin, and Alexander Fyodorovich Koshkin.

Notes

1. As a matter of fact, cats in Russia were highly valued and loved for their beauty, as well as for the ability to preserve one of the main treasures of the Russian people — bread. At the same time, while hunting rodents cats not only kept barns intact but also thereby obtained food for themselves. The price of the [good] mouse-hunting cat was higher than the price of cattle and some [people] had to pay as much silver as the domestic predator's weight. Not surprisingly, periodically the cats had been awarded for special merits or [people] had been given the nickname "Cat".^[1]

References

1. "Романовы – «Кошкин род»" [Romanovs — "Cat's line"]. myhistorypark.ru (in Russian). Historical Park "Russia - My History". Retrieved 8 December 2020.

  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)