Bogdan Belsky

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian. (November 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at [[:ru:Бельский, Богдан Яковлевич]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|ru|Бельский, Богдан Яковлевич}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Bogdan Belsky" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Bogdan Yakovlevich Belsky (Russian: Богдан Яковлевич Бельский; died 1611) was a Russian statesman, oprichnik, and a close associate of Ivan the Terrible.^[1][2]

Biography

Early life and career

Bogdan was not related to the great

After the death of Ivan, a number of boyar parties emerged. Bogdan Belsky sided with the Nagoys (relatives of Maria Nagaya, the tsarina). Boris Godunov was the only influential boyar to offer protection to Belsky. After the exile of Dmitry Ivanovich and the Nagoys to Uglich, the frontrunning boyars joined their efforts in their struggle against Bogdan Belsky, inciting the citizens of Moscow. He was blamed for the death of Ivan and accused of plotting to murder Feodor I in order to transfer power to Boris Godunov or even seize it himself. On hearing the news of Belsky's removal to Nizhny Novgorod (1584), the Muscovites calmed down. They didn't know, however, that he had been sent there as a voivode.

In 1591, Bogdan Belsky was among those who fought with the