Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ƙarni na 16 da 17 dangin Odoyevsky sun yi aiki a kotun Moscow a matsayin boyars da voivodes. Gidan ya haifar da boyars 13. Voivodes daga dangin Odoyevsky sun halarci yaƙe-yaƙe da yawa na ƙarni na 16, kuma sun kasance sananne musamman a yaƙe-yaƙe da Tatars da kuma a cikin Kamfen na Kazanian na 1552
na Ivan da ban tsoro. Yarima Nikita Romanovich Odoevsky (d. 1573) ya shiga cikin Oprichnina na 1565<unk>1572. A matsayin boyar kuma memba na Oprichnina, ya yi aiki a matsayin jagora a yaƙe-yaƙe da yawa. Ya kasance voivode a yakin Molodi (1572), yana yaƙi da Crimean Khan Devlet I Giray. Ya jagoranci sojojin a 1572 yaƙi da Cherisy bayan da suka tayar a cikin. A shekara ta 1573, ba da daɗewa ba bayan da aka nada shi voivode a kan Oka, ba zato ba tsammani ya fadi daga alheri, aka kama shi kuma aka azabtar da shi har ya mutu. Jikansa, Yarima ( - 1689), ya yi aiki a matsayin namestnik ( - mataimakin sarki) a Astrakhan da Vladimir, ya gudanar da "Prikaz" (ma'aikatar) na Siberia da "Prikaz" na fadar Kazanian. Ya kula da yin Dokar 1649 ("Sobornoye Ulozheniye"), shi ne shugaban Babban Baitulmalin da kuma Ma'aikatun Reiter () da kuma Ƙasashen waje. A cikin 1682 ya sanya hannu kan dokar da ta soke mestnichestvo.