Draft:Mamstryuk Temryukovich

Mamstryuk Temryukovich (Mamstryuk-murza) (mind. 1600/1601) — Kabardian military prince, the second son of the supreme Prince-Valiya Kabarda Temryuka (mind. 1571), brother-in-law Ivan the Terrible.

Biography
In June 1565, Mamstruk-Murza arrived for the first time at the head of the Kabardian embassy in Moscow, where he was received with honor by Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible. At the reception, on behalf of his father, Mastryuk Temryukovych asked the king for military help in the fight against other Kabardian princes.

"And Mamstruk smote the king and the great prince with his forehead...from his father from Temruk the prince, because many troubles came to Temruk the prince from Cherkasy, and they were disobedient to him in all things, and the king would have welcomed him, and sent his staff to Cherkasy, and commanded him to be defended from the disobedient."

After staying with Moscow for three months, Mamstruk went to Kabarda at the end of September. The Tsar Ivan the Terrible sent together with his brother-in-law the deacon Matvey Ivanovich Rzhevsky a detachment of riflemen and Cossacks. The military detachment went down the Volga on streams. Another detachment of riflemen led by voivode Ivan Dashkov went on foot to Kabarda. In March 1566, the two detachments merged into Astrakhan. In April, princes Temruk and Mamstruk, together with Russian riflemen and Cossacks, made a raid on Great Kabarda, on the possessions of Temruk. The princes of Great Kabarda led by Psheapshoko Kaitukin were supporters of the alliance with the Crimean Khanate. The Russian townspeople defeated the enemies of Temruk Idarovich in battle and ruined their ancestral possessions, taking many prisoners and much booty.

In 1570, the Kabardian prince Temruk with a small troop came to the aid of his allies-Adyg, whose lands were attacked by a large Crimean-Tatar army under the command of Tsarevich Adil Gerai. In the unequal battle of Ahughe (a tributary of Kubani) Temruk was defeated and mortally wounded. His sons Mamstruk-murza and Bulgairuk-murza were captured by the Crimeans. In the following year 1571 the supreme prince of Kabarda Temryuk Idarovich died.

The Russian Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible had difficult diplomatic negotiations with the Crimean Khan Devlet Gerai about the release of his brother-in-law Mamstryuk Temryukovych. The Crimeans asked the Moscow government for the release of Mamstruk at first 8,000, and then 10,000 gold.

In 1578, the Russian Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich addressed his message to the Kabardian princes Mamstryuk Temryukovich, who had been released from the Tatar captivity, and Kazia Psheapshokov, inviting them and their troops to take part in the Livon War.

In 1583, the Turkish army under Osman Pasha, moving from Transcaucasia via Kabarda to Crimea, suffered considerable damage from attacks by Kabardian detachments under Mamstryuk Temryukovych. Together with him, the Cossacks of Rreben and Tert acted.

In 1588 the Kabardian princes Mamstruk Temrukovich and Kudenet Kambulatovich at the head of a large delegation arrived in Moscow, where they were received with honor by Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich. The princes asked the tsarist government for military assistance to defend against the Ottoman Turks and Crimean Tatars. In the following year 1589 a detachment of riflemen was sent to Kabarda. The Kabardian princes together with the Russian officials destroyed the possessions of Prince Sholokh Tapsarokovich, a supporter of the Crimean-Turkish orientation.

In the summer of 1589 Mamstryuk Temryukovych met with the Russian ambassador Prince Semyon Zvenigorodsky, who was sent on a mission to Georgia to Kakheti Alexander. Semyon Zvenigorodsky asked him to accompany him to the Georgia border. The Kabardian princes Mamstruk Temryukovich and Kudenet Kambulatovich with their troops safely escorted the Russian ambassador through the mountains to Georgia.

In 1590–1591 of the Tersky voivode Prince Grigory Zasekin fought with Shamkhal of Tarkov. During the battle with the Shamhal, Mamstruk was captured, where he spent some time "in great distress" when he was tried to force him to renounce his alliance with the Russian tsar and stand up against Moscow. However, Mastryuk Temryukovych "suffered every need, but did not lag behind the tsar's piety..."

In 1600 or 1601 the Kabardian princes Domanuko and Mamstruk Temryuković were invited by their opponent Kazi Murza Psheapshkov to peace talks in Big (Kaziev) Kabarda. During the negotiations, Qazi-Murza treacherously captured them and then ordered them to be killed.

Children
Mamstryuk Cherkassky had six sons and two daughters:
 * Aktulum-murza
 * Saraip-murza
 * Kangshao-murza (Dmitry Mamstryukovich Cherkassky (died 1651)
 * Guzh-murza (Vladimir Mamstryukovich Cherkassky)
 * Alikai-murza (died 1622)
 * Kaituk-murza
 * Kanshovkha Mamstryukovna, wife of Kabardian Prince Inarmas Kaitukin-Kiziev,
 * Maria Mamstryukovna, the boyar's wife Yuri Yansheevich Suleshov.

Literature

 * "Malbakhov B. and Elmesov A." Medieval Kabarda. Nalchik: Elbrus Publishing House, 1994. 93, 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104 and 105. — ISBN 5-7680-0934-5.