Here you can see the "Seal of Ivan Karovi". It was discovered in 1950 during excavations on the territory of Zaryadye and dated by epigraphic signs to the XV century.
After studying the history of the household of Prince I. Y. Patrikeev in Zaryadye and the pedigrees of the nobles of the XV – XVI century, it turned out that the owner of this seal was a representative of the Tver princely court Ivan Ivanovich Karova Yakhontov, the second son of I.K. Yakhont Levashov, a descendant of boyar Alexander Mikulich Levash, who served in Tver.
The discovery made it possible to clarify what was happening in Moscow at the end of the XV – beginning of the XVI century. At the end of the XV century, the all-powerful great Moscow governor Prince I. Y. Patrikeev lost the trust of Grand Duke Ivan III. He lost his position and fell into disgrace. His real estate was confiscated to the sovereign's treasury, and then was distributed in smaller plots to various nobles. Among them were the court of the Tver prince, who were brought to Moscow after the liquidation of the Tver Principality, but many Muscovites were, on the contrary, resettled in Tver. So the history of the little bone seal turned out to be connected with the history of the annexation of other lands to Moscow and the formation of a single Russian state.
Author article: Igor Ivanov