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Tsykler was the son of a colonel from the foreign order regiment.
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He was drafted into military service in 1671, and appointed stolnik after eight years of service as a Strelets sub-colonel. He was a campaigner for Sophia of Russia, who trusted him as her most faithful follower. In 1687–1688, Tsykler took part in the first Crimean campaign of Vasily Galitzine.
In 1689, after Peter I"s revolt against Sophia, Tsykler informed him of Sophia"s conspiracy.
Foreign this he was elevated to the rank of Duma nobleman and was sent as a voivode to Verkhoturie. In 1696, he was recalled to Moscow to build fortresses on the shore of the Azov sea.
Other participants involved were okolnichiy Alexei Sokovnin and stolnik Matvei Pushkin. In February 1697, two Strelets, Yelizariev and Silin, notified Peter about Tsykler"s plan to burn down the house in which the tsar was residing.
Upon hearing this, Peter immediately personally arrested them and put them on trial.
During the trial, Tsykler explained under torture that he was motivated by Peter"s reproaches against his friendship with Miloslavsky. He also partially incriminated Sophia, leading to her imprisonment in the Novodevichy Convent. The exhumed corpse of Miloslavsky, who had died in 1685, was put under the scaffold during the execution of the conspirators.
Following the execution on 20 February 1697, the heads of Tsykler and his accomplices were put on pikes and exhibited in Red Square.
Trykler"s two sons were exiled to Kursk and forbidden to return to Moscow under the tsar"s decree.
