Stepan Andreevich Kolychev was born in 1660. Father - Kolychev Andrei Ivanovich (- 1688), a steward and a chalice under the tsars Aleksei Mikhailovich and Fedor Alekseevich, was a governor on the Terek. As it appears in the scribal books of 1679, its courtyard was located at the Yauzsky Gate in the White City, 8 sazhes from the Church of Peter and Paul. Mother (married 1656) - Evdokia Yakovlevna (died 1698), daughter of Yakov Timofeevich Vitovtov.
Stepan Andreevich Kolychev served in the Guards Semenov regiment (1702). He was a Voronezh Ober Commandant (1707-1710). Carried out in Voronezh and in the cities assigned to it "every military command", participated in the construction of the fleet in Voronezh and Tavrov.
Chief Commandant of the Orered Fortress (1710-1713). In 1714, he participated in the delimitation of the Russian-Turkish border according to the terms of the Adrianople Peace Treaty. The first and last vice-governor of the Azov province (November 1713-1721), exercised military leadership of the province. First Herald Master of Russia (1722).
In the years 1722-1724 was under investigation, which remained unfinished. Chief Commissioner for the determination of the border between Russia and China (1725-1727), General-Rektamaster at the Senate (1725). He owned land in Nizhnelomovsky, Ryazhsky and Shatsky counties.
First married to Evdokia Petrovna Buturlina (d. 1712). A son was born in this marriage: Peter (1710-1776), colonel, voivode in Vyatka in 1763–1768; married consistently to knzh. E.P. Korkodinova, on E.V. Sheremeteva and on E.M. Miloslavskaya.
The second marriage since 1713 was married to Evdokia Andreevna Field (1680s – 1750), daughter of the last Prince Belsky (from Rurik) and the widow of Fyodor Mikhailovich Polev (1682–11.01.1707), from the marriage with whom she had 2 children: a daughter Mary (c. 1704-22.03.1733; in marriage Balk) and son Alexander (1705-1.09.1707), who died in infancy (with the death of his faction, the genus Field). Sons: Alexey (1717-1752), second major; married to Ekaterina Ivanovna Rzhevskaya (died 1769); they have a son Stepan, vice-chancellor of the Russian Empire.
In addition to his sons, Stepan Kolychev had two daughters who were married to G. M. Sobakin and Prince E. F. Volkonsky.
