"On the herald of Prince Konstantin of Ostroh" - ruthenian panegyric (1608)

words: Demyana Nalyvaika
performance: Taras Kompanichenko
background: Konstantin Vasyl Ostrozky (also Vasyl Kostyantyn Ostrozky, c. February 2, 1526 - between February 23 and 29, 1608) was a Ruthenian prince, military, political, cultural and religious figure, tycoon, patron. One of the wealthiest and most influential tycoons, senator of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, founder of the Ostroh Academy. Son of Prince Konstantin Ostrozky. He was the head of Kyiv Voivodeship for 49 years.
He was the youngest son of Prince Konstantin Ostrozhsky (elder - Ilya) from his second marriage with Princess Alexandra Semenivna Slutskaya. Vasyl's father was more than 60 years old at the time of his birth. He came from the family of Ostrozki - the richest and most influential princely family of the then Belarus and Ukraine of the 16th - early 17th centuries. Among his ancestors, the genealogical tradition of the late 16th and early 17th centuries names Rus and Ruthenian princes - Rurik, Volodymyr Svyatoslavich, Yaroslav the Wise, as well as King Danylo.
After his father's death in 1530, he was raised by his mother in Turov. As a young man, he received a good education, as evidenced by his correspondence and speeches in the senate. After the death of his older brother in 1539, Ilya entered into a long-term struggle for his father's inheritance, which lasted until 1574.
From the mid-1540s, in official documents, Vasyl Ostrozky began to be referred to by his father's name - Konstantin. Remaining in fact the sole heir of his rich father, he got possession of huge estates in Volyn, Kyiv region, Podillya and Galicia, which gave an annual profit of more than 1 million zlotys. Konstantin Vasyl Ostrozky also owned significant land estates in what is now Hungary and the Czech Republic.
At the age of 18 (1543-1544), he began his military service under the leadership of Prince Fyodor Sangushka, Marshal of the Volyn Land. He began his political career in 1550, having received from the Grand Duke of Lithuania the post of Starost of Volodymyr and Marshal of Volyn. The best defender against Tatar attacks after the death of his father.
In 1559, K.V. Ostrozky became the governor of Kyiv, which greatly contributed to the strengthening of his influence on the political life of southern Ruthenia. Not striving for military glory, he pursued an energetic colonization policy in the borderlands of Kyiv region and Bratslav region, founding new cities, castles and settlements. The economic power of the estates of the princely family and its considerable political influence quickly made K. V. Ostrozky the "uncrowned king of Rus'", conducting a relatively independent policy in the Russian lands. In the 1560s, K. V. Ostrozky advocated the equal entry of Ruthenia into the state entity of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
In 1569, he became a senator. He was the de facto leader of Russia-Ukraine during the Union of Lublin in 1569, signed it.
In 1572, the Jagiellonian dynasty died out - in 1573-1574, K. V. Ostrozky was one of the possible candidates for the Polish throne, whose candidacy was supported by the Ottoman Empire (this was prevented by the fact that he was considered the "leader of the schismatics"), later also for the Moscow throne - after the death of the last Rurik family, Tsar Fyodor I Ivanovich, in 1598 due to his kinship with the Moscow Rurik families.
In 1574, he moved the princely residence from Dubno to Ostroh, where the reconstruction of Ostroh Castle began under the leadership of the Italian architect Pietro Sperendio.
On July 13, 1598, Yuriy Ryminsky confirmed that the villages of Budorazh, Busche, Pivche, Volya, newly settled village Borshchevka and Mizoch Malyy, which was captured by the Kyiv voivode, Prince Konstantin of Ostroh, belong to the diocese of Lutsk and Ostroh. On July 14, 1598, Volyn castelian Mykhailo Myshko Varkovskiy, at the request of Budorazh governor of Lutsk and Ostrog bishop Kirill Terletsky, confirms that the villages of Budorazh, Busche, Pivche, Volya, the newly besieged village Boorshchivka, village Mizoch Malyy, which was captured by the Kyiv voivode, Prince Konstantin of Ostroh, long ago belonged to the diocese of Lutsk and Ostroh.
He died between February 23 (the date of the letter stating that the prince was dying) and February 29, 1608 (the date of death according to a number of sources) in the city of Ostrog. On April 27, 1608, he was buried in the crypt of the Church of the Epiphany in Ostrog.

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