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Vasily Dolmatov (nicknamed Tretyak) (died after 1511) - clerk of the Grand Dukes Ivan III and Vasily III.
Service
At first he was a clerk of the brother of Ivan III, Prince Yuri Vasilyevich, and after his death (1472) he transferred to the service of the Grand Duke and participated in his negotiations with the Novgorodians during the fall of their veche freedom.
During the invasion of Khan Akhmet in 1480, he was sent from Moscow with the treasury to preserve it.
In 1486, he brought the inhabitants of Tver to the oath of allegiance to Ivan III.
In 1495 he was on an embassy to the Mazovian Duke Conrad, in 1499 - on an embassy to Lithuania, in 1500-1501 on Swedish-Livonian issues - on an embassy to Denmark.
In 1509, Vasily III sent Dolmatov to Pskov to check the complaints of the Pskovians against the Grand Duke's governor and after this he announced to them that if they wanted to live according to the old ways, they must fulfill two wills of the Grand Duke - they would abolish the veche and accept the Grand Duke's governors into all their cities: "either the sovereign himself, Dolmatov told the Pskovians, will be a peaceful guest to you, good subjects, or he will send you an army to pacify the rebels." The residents of Pskov asked for time to think over their answer, but the very next day, January 15, 1510, they took down their veche bell and surrendered to the will of the Grand Duke.
In 1510, he was sent as an ambassador to Poland to settle border disputes.
Disgrace
In 1511, Dolmatov fell into disgrace: the Grand Duke appointed him ambassador to the German Emperor Maximilian, but Dolmatov began to dissuade himself from fulfilling this assignment, citing his poverty. Then Dolmatov's house was sealed, 3,000 rubles found in it were confiscated, and the owner himself was punished by imprisonment in Beloozero, where he died.