Life
In the election campaign of 1613 he was named one of candidates to the throne. When Cossacks gave their support to his nephew Mikhail, Ivan Nikitich purportedly said to them: "This prince Mikhail Fedorovich is too young and not yet in his full reason". As a result, he never held any governmental posts since then. He is said to have been the greatest private proprietor of his day
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“The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish between them according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?”
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—Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 21:23-25.