her Miloslavsky relatives, while inducing jealousy on the part of other boyars. Eventually, the rumours about Khovansky's intention to assassinate the Tsar's family and to usurp the throne prompted Sophia to evacuate Ivan V and Peter I from Moscow to Kolomenskoe and then to the St Savva monastery in Zvenigorod. In September a royal ukase declared Khovansky the mutineer and the patron of heretics, while the Boyar Duma had him sentenced to death. He was captured in Pushkino near Moscow and taken to Vozdvizhenskoe where he was beheaded together with his son. When the news of Khovansky's execution reached the Streltsy stationed in Moscow, they started a riot and seized the Kremlin, but the regent soon quelled the mutinous army and appointed Fyodor Shaklovity as their new leader. References Khovansky (Tararui), Ivan Andreyevich Russian people of the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) Khovansky (Tararui), Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (Tararui), Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (Tararui), Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (Tararui), Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (Tararui), Ivan Andreyevich Executed Russian people People executed by Russia by decapitation 17th-century executions by Russia