Family coat of arms of the Lopukhin family. Family heraldry in the Russian noble assembly

Some Lopukhins are an untitled Russian noble family, from the Kasog prince Rededi and his descendant Vasily Lopukha, the coat of arms of the family is in part 3 of the “General armorial of the noble families of the Russian Empire”. The Lopukhin family is included in the 6th part of the noble genealogical books of the Vladimir, Kyiv, Moscow, Novgorod, Oryol, Pskov, Tver and Tula provinces.
Additional Information. Some nobles of the late 19th century with this surname. At the end of the line - the province and district to which they are assigned.
Lopukhin, Bor. Aldr., zemstvo beginning Orlovsk. u., Orel. Oryol province. Maloarkhangelsk district. Gg. nobles with voting rights.
Lopukhin, Vikt. Iv., ks. Oryol province. Karachevsky district. Gg. nobles who have the right to vote directly and have a vote in all positions of the Governor. Meetings.
Lopukhin, Nikl. Iv., Golovkovo village. Smolensk province. Sychevsky district.
Lopukhina, Maria. Vladimir province. Gorokhovetsky district.
Lopukhina, Nat. Os., Golovkovo village. Smolensk province. Sychevsky district.

The following people are buried in section 1 of the Donskoy Monastery cemetery in Moscow:
LOPUKHIN ALEXEY ALEXANDROVICH 1813-1873 (see), friend of M.Yu. Lermontov
LOPUKHIN ALEXANDER?-1787, ensign
LOPUKHINA VARVARA ALEXANDROVNA 1819-1873
LOPUKHINA EKATERINA ANDREEVNA, baby
LOPUKHINA EKATERINA 1835-1841
The following people are buried in section 6 of the Donskoy Monastery cemetery in Moscow:
LOPUKHINA LIDIA ALEKSEEVNA 1842-1895
LOPUKHINA MARIA ALEXANDROVNA 1802-1877, friend of M.Yu. Lermontov, sister No. 1
LOPUKHINA MARIA ALEKSEEVNA 1840-1886
In addition, in the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery there is the tomb of the Lopukhins.

Scratch a Russian boyar and you will find a foreigner! Sheremetevs, Morozovs, Velyaminovs...

Velyaminovs

The family traces its origins to Shimon (Simon), the son of the Varangian prince African. In 1027 he arrived in the army of Yaroslav the Great and converted to Orthodoxy. Shimon Afrikanovich is famous for the fact that he participated in the battle with the Polovtsians on Alta and contributed the most to the construction of the Pechersk temple in honor of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary: a precious belt and the legacy of his father - a golden crown.

But the Vilyaminovs were known not only for their courage and generosity: a descendant of the family, Ivan Vilyaminov, fled to the Horde in 1375, but was later captured and executed on Kuchkovo Field. Despite the betrayal of Ivan Velyaminov, his family did not lose its significance: the last son of Dmitry Donskoy was baptized by Maria, the widow of Vasily Velyaminov, the Moscow thousand.

The following clans emerged from the Velyaminov family: Aksakovs, Vorontsovs, Vorontsov-Velyaminovs.

Detail: The name of the street “Vorontsovo Field” still reminds Muscovites of the most distinguished Moscow family, the Vorontsov-Velyaminovs.

Morozovs

The Morozov family of boyars is an example of a feudal family from among the Old Moscow untitled nobility. The founder of the family is considered to be a certain Mikhail, who came from Prussia to serve in Novgorod. He was among the “six brave men” who showed special heroism during the Battle of the Neva in 1240.

The Morozovs served Moscow faithfully even under Ivan Kalita and Dmitry Donskoy, occupying prominent positions at the grand ducal court. However, their family suffered greatly from the historical storms that overtook Russia in the 16th century. Many representatives of the noble family disappeared without a trace during the bloody oprichnina terror of Ivan the Terrible.

The 17th century became the last page in the centuries-old history of the family. Boris Morozov had no children, and the only heir of his brother, Gleb Morozov, was his son Ivan. By the way, he was born in marriage with Feodosya Prokofievna Urusova, the heroine of V.I. Surikov’s film “Boyaryna Morozova”. Ivan Morozov did not leave any male offspring and turned out to be the last representative of a noble boyar family, which ceased to exist in the early 80s of the 17th century.

Detail: The heraldry of Russian dynasties took shape under Peter I, which is perhaps why the coat of arms of the Morozov boyars has not been preserved.

Buturlins

According to genealogical books, the Buturlin family descends from an “honest husband” under the name Radsha who left the Semigrad land (Hungary) at the end of the 12th century to join Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky.

“My great-grandfather Racha served Saint Nevsky with a fighting muscle,” wrote A. Pushkin in the poem “My Genealogy.” Radsha became the founder of fifty Russian noble families in Tsarist Moscow, among them the Pushkins, the Buturlins, and the Myatlevs...

But let’s return to the Buturlin family: its representatives faithfully served first the Grand Dukes, then the sovereigns of Moscow and Russia. Their family gave Russia many prominent, honest, noble people, whose names are still known today. Let's name just a few of them:

Ivan Mikhailovich Buturlin served as a guard under Boris Godunov, fought in the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia, and conquered almost all of Dagestan. He died in battle in 1605 as a result of betrayal and deception of the Turks and mountain foreigners.

His son Vasily Ivanovich Buturlin was the Novgorod governor, an active associate of Prince Dmitry Pozharsky in his fight against the Polish invaders.

For military and peaceful deeds, Ivan Ivanovich Buturlin was awarded the title of Knight of St. Andrew, General-in-Chief, Ruler of Little Russia. In 1721, he actively participated in the signing of the Peace of Nystad, which put an end to the long war with the Swedes, for which Peter I awarded him the rank of general.

Vasily Vasilyevich Buturlin was a butler under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, who did a lot for the reunification of Ukraine and Russia.

The Sheremetev family traces its origins to Andrei Kobyla. The fifth generation (great-great-grandson) of Andrei Kobyla was Andrei Konstantinovich Bezzubtsev, nicknamed Sheremet, from whom the Sheremetevs descended. According to some versions, the surname is based on the Turkic-Bulgarian “sheremet” (poor fellow) and the Turkic-Persian “shir-Muhammad” (pious, brave Muhammad).

Many boyars, governors, and governors came from the Sheremetev family, not only due to personal merit, but also due to kinship with the reigning dynasty.

Thus, the great-granddaughter of Andrei Sheremet was married to the son of Ivan the Terrible, Tsarevich Ivan, who was killed by his father in a fit of anger. And five grandchildren of A. Sheremet became members of the Boyar Duma. The Sheremetevs took part in the wars with Lithuania and the Crimean Khan, in the Livonian War and the Kazan campaigns. Estates in the Moscow, Yaroslavl, Ryazan, and Nizhny Novgorod districts complained to them for their service.

Lopukhins

According to legend, they descend from the Kasozh (Circassian) Prince Rededi - the ruler of Tmutarakan, who was killed in 1022 in single combat with Prince Mstislav Vladimirovich (son of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavovich, the baptist of Rus'). However, this fact did not prevent the son of Prince Rededi, Roman, from marrying the daughter of Prince Mstislav Vladimirovich.

It is reliably known that by the beginning of the 15th century. the descendants of the Kasozh prince Rededi already bear the surname Lopukhin, serve in various ranks in the Novgorod principality and in the Moscow state and own lands. And from the end of the 15th century. they become Moscow nobles and tenants at the Sovereign's Court, retaining Novgorod and Tver estates and estates.

The outstanding Lopukhin family gave the Fatherland 11 governors, 9 governors-general and governors who ruled 15 provinces, 13 generals, 2 admirals, served as ministers and senators, headed the Cabinet of Ministers and the State Council.

The boyar family of the Golovins originates from the Byzantine family of Gavras, which ruled Trebizond (Trabzon) and owned the city of Sudak in Crimea with the surrounding villages of Mangup and Balaklava.

Ivan Khovrin, the great-grandson of one of the representatives of this Greek family, was nicknamed “The Head,” as you might guess, for his bright mind. It was from him that the Golovins, representing the Moscow high aristocracy, came from.

From the 15th century, the Golovins were hereditarily the tsar's treasurers, but under Ivan the Terrible, the family fell into disgrace, becoming the victim of a failed conspiracy. Later they were returned to the court, but until Peter the Great they did not reach special heights in the service.

Aksakovs

They come from the noble Varangian Shimon (baptized Simon) Afrikanovich or Ofrikovich - the nephew of the Norwegian king Gakon the Blind. Simon Afrikanovich arrived in Kyiv in 1027 with a 3 thousand army and built at his own expense the Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, where he was buried.

The surname Oksakov (in the old days), and now Aksakov, came from one of his descendants, Ivan the Lame.
The word “oksak” means lame in Turkic languages.

Members of this family in pre-Petrine times served as governors, solicitors, and stewards and were rewarded with estates from the Moscow sovereigns for their good service.

Since its creation in May 1991, the Russian Assembly of Nobility (RAS) has considered and continues to consider the revival of the traditions of Russian noble heraldry as one of its tasks. At the same time, however, we have always strived to remain faithful to the legal norms of the Russian Empire, which provide for the mandatory Highest approval of family noble coats of arms and the immutability of coats of arms already approved by the Highest (1).

As is known, this practice continued abroad. Coats of arms and titles granted by the heads of the Russian Imperial House in exile - Emperor Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich - for example, the title and coat of arms of the Counts Tolstoy-Miloslavsky (1933) (2), the title and coat of arms of Baron V.K. von Lemmerman (1939) (3), the title and coat of arms of the princes of Chkotua (1938) (4), transferred through the female line, etc., were and are recognized by the most authoritative international experts and authorities, including the British College of Arms, heraldic and genealogical services of Italy, the Sovereign Order of Malta, etc.

In connection with the need to determine the rights of members of the Assembly to certain coats of arms, a Arms Department was formed in the Heraldry Department of the RDS. It was headed by Viktor Yuryevich Rickman, who made the first attempt to codify the current heraldic rules.

In accordance with the initial principles of the organization of the RDS, at that moment it was allowed to develop draft coats of arms for the descendants of noble families through the female line and inheritance through the female line of existing coats of arms, but with some differences.

Initially, until November 1992, these changes were not specified; with the introduction of the rules developed by V.Yu. Rickman, as elements indicating such an origin, used some figures of traditional foreign heraldry: a border, a tournament collar (titlo), a baldric. The azure head of the shield, burdened with a golden noble crown, then became a kind of “trademark” of the RDS. According to V.Yu. Rickman, this element was to become a mandatory feature of coats of arms developed or registered in the RDS (5).

The armorial department has always recognized and now recognizes the right to officially approved coats of arms of noble families in the Russian Empire only for the direct descendants of these families in the male line.

But at the same time, it was necessary to determine the attitude towards the family coats of arms, which were preserved in many noble families, but did not pass the Highest approval. As is known, a particularly large group of such coats of arms consists of Polish-Lithuanian family coats of arms, preserved by the descendants of the Polish gentry. In this case, opinions were sharply divided. In particular, S.V. Dumin advocated preserving such coats of arms unchanged (as monuments of Russian and foreign family heraldry, sanctified by tradition, which corresponded to pre-revolutionary practice), but V.Yu. Rickman insisted on the mandatory introduction of the already mentioned head with a golden noble crown into such old family coats of arms (6).

However, the system developed by V.Yu. Rickman, actually did not receive real embodiment in the official family heraldry, which we will talk about below.

It should be emphasized from the very beginning that the RDS, strictly adhering to the principles of legitimism, initially recognized and recognizes the Head of the Russian Imperial House as a “source of honor” (“fons honorum”) for the Russian nobility. After the death of Sovereign Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich on April 21, 1992, the Assembly strongly supported his legal heir and successor, Sovereign Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna. It is the Grand Duchess, the Head of the Imperial House, who is for us the only legal arbiter in resolving certain issues related to the problems of the Russian nobility.

This position is quite logical. The very membership of the nobility is a category that exists outside the republican legal system of the Russian Federation, which, as is known, does not recognize estates and class divisions. Like the Church, the nobility is “separated from the state”; like the Church, the nobility has its own laws, belonging to a different legal system. Belonging to the Russian nobility is determined by the laws of the Russian Empire. The heads of historical dynasties, who have lost state power, like Christ, could say: “my kingdom is not of this world,” but they are the highest arbiter for the historical nobility of their countries and their people, allowing them to solve inevitably arising legal and other problems. Without such a supreme arbiter, the nobility turns into something antique, a monument of the past, a “herbarium.” The existence of legitimate heads of dynasties, which, according to international law, retain some sovereign rights (7) and are recognized as such by other royal houses and knightly organizations (in particular, the Sovereign Order of Malta), allows some noble corporations (in particular, the nobility of Italy, as well as the Russian nobility assembly) to preserve the nobility within the framework of the legal system that gave birth to this class and is recognized by other (international) authorities. Of course, the republican state cannot and should not interfere in the affairs of the estate, since such interference in modern conditions would contradict the non-estate principle of building society.

Thus, initially the RDS set as its goal to ensure the functioning of the previous, legally flawless system, according to which the Russian noble coat of arms finally acquires official status only after the Highest approval. Therefore, the first 30 coats of arms developed by the RDS both for hereditary nobles (descendants of noble families in the direct male line), and for members of the assembly - descendants of nobles in the female line (8), in the summer of 1993, during the visit to Moscow of the Head of the Russian Imperial The houses of Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna were presented for her consideration.

The Grand Duchess paid close attention to this problem and, having studied the submitted projects, made significant adjustments to the activities of the Arms Department of the DG RDS. In her rescript on June 21, 1993 it was noted:

“The coats of arms developed in the Arms Department of the Department of Heraldry, as well as previously unapproved coats of arms that have undergone examination there, must be approved by the Head of the Russian Imperial House.
Coats of arms can only be approved for hereditary nobles and only in exceptional cases for other persons in reward for their special merits.
As for the thirty coats of arms already approved in accordance with the current Regulations by decisions of the Council of the Russian Assembly of Nobility dated November 19, 1992 and May 14, 1993, their approval should be considered subject to further confirmation by the Highest.
The armorial department of the Department of Heraldry must monitor the correct use of noble coats of arms and prevent their unauthorized appropriation and use.” (9).

Thus, it was confirmed that only and exclusively the coats of arms of hereditary nobles can be submitted for approval, i.e. persons who, according to the laws of the Russian Empire, belong to the nobility and, therefore, have the right to a coat of arms. The right to a coat of arms was not recognized for the descendants of nobles on the female line, and, therefore, projects of such coats of arms could not be submitted for the Highest approval.

There is one important legal subtlety here. According to the laws of the Russian Empire, “coats of arms granted by sovereigns” were recognized as one of the indisputable proofs of belonging to the nobility. Consequently, the award of a noble coat of arms to a non-nobleman (and the female descendants of noble families, according to the laws of the Russian Empire, no longer belong to the nobility) would mean elevating him to the nobility. Meanwhile, the Grand Duchess, in principle allowing for such a possibility (for special services to Russia and the Imperial House), did not consider it possible to make any massive awards to the nobility. Therefore, the circle of persons whose coats of arms were subject to approval was deliberately limited (which exactly corresponded to pre-revolutionary practice).

On May 28 and July 3, 1993, for the first time in Russia after a 76-year break, four noble coats of arms were approved. The coat of arms of the Nizhny Novgorod Sapozhnikov nobles was based on the coat of arms of their female ancestors (the Anastasiev nobles), with the addition of a border and some other distinctive elements. The basis of the coat of arms of the Dandre family of nobles (immigrants from France) was their former (French) family coat of arms (a scarlet St. Andrew's cross in a golden field). Coats of arms of the nobles of L.A. Ivanov and V.A. Nikolaev were compiled in the Armorial Department. All four of these coats of arms include an azure head encumbered with a golden noble crown (10).

On the initiative of V.Yu. Rickman in the Armorial Department for some time continued to develop heraldic emblems both for hereditary nobles and for the descendants of nobles in the female line, the preliminary approval of which was carried out by the Council of the RDS. But, realizing that such registration was at least preliminary in nature, the Department of Heraldry made a distinction between them and the coats of arms themselves. Formally, since September 1993, it was a question of registering “herald bookplates”, i.e. bookplates (there was a corresponding inscription on the picture) depicting the family coat of arms. As such, both old unapproved family coats of arms were depicted (for example, in the armorial bookplates of the Shidlovskys, Trambitskys, and the Turkestan princes), as well as newly created emblems. In addition, armorial bookplates were developed according to the rules already mentioned above, with the obligatory inclusion in the design of the coat of arms (even if this coat of arms was an old family one) of an azure head with a crown and the use of lowering elements (title, border, sash) for the descendants of nobles by female line (11).

More than two dozen such armorial bookplates were developed and published, the drawings of which were approved by the Department of Heraldry and the Council of the RDS (12). But this practice did not last long and stopped in July 1995, after the departure of V.Yu. Rickman from the post of manager of the Stamp Department and the temporary suspension of the activities of this division of the RDS.

However, it was in 1995 that the Highest Rescript (signed on February 21) officially recognized the Department of Heraldry of the RDS “at this stage as the successor to the Department of Heraldry of the Governing Senate” and it was he who was entrusted with reviewing and systematizing all the Highest acts related to the award of honorary titles and dignities, orders, ranks and coats of arms (12).

Since July 1995, issues of coat of arms and stamp examination were resolved in the Expert Council on Genealogy and Heraldry, formed by the RDS together with the Historical and Genealogical Society in Moscow. The Expert Council was headed by full member of the RDS, Chairman of the IRO S.V. Dumin. The Council included many famous historians, genealogists, and heraldists; P.F. worked most actively in it. Kosmolinsky (later appointed manager of the Stamp Department), O.V. Shcherbachev, N.V. Pokrovsky, B.N. Morozov and others.

The most important principle of the Council’s activities was the careful preservation of heraldic monuments. It was recognized that the family coats of arms of the nobility of the Russian Empire, even those that had not passed the Highest approval, constitute the heraldic heritage and should not be subject to modification. As reliable sources confirming the use of the family coat of arms, deeds on the nobility, definitions of noble assemblies containing information about coats of arms, as well as family documents, family seals (if their belonging to a given family are confirmed), some of the most authoritative heraldic reference books that preserve data on heraldic monuments, for example “Armorial of Anisim Titovich Knyazev”, “Little Russian Armorial”, Polish heraldic publications, “Baltische Wappenbuch” of Klingspor, etc.

The element previously proposed as a “trademark of the RDS” - an azure head with a crown - was retained as one of the possible (but no longer mandatory) elements for the newly developed coats of arms of hereditary nobles who had significant services to the revived noble movement. In this capacity, it was later used in the coats of arms of three provincial leaders of the nobility - V.A. Afanasyeva (Minsk), V.A. Bykova (Novosibirsk), V.V. Dyagileva (Kostroma) (13).

When developing new coats of arms for hereditary nobles and their heraldic descriptions, the Council followed and continues to follow the traditions of Russian heraldry. It is allowed to use all elements traditionally used in noble coats of arms, including shield holders, mottos, rank crowns, as well as the princely mantle in the coats of arms of princely families.

In total, in 1993-2001. About 30 coats of arms were submitted for approval and the Highest approved. Most of them are ancient original coats of arms of the indicated families, officially used by the ancestors of the petitioners in the Russian Empire at least from the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th centuries.

So, for example, the coat of arms of the Serbian family of Counts Vuich, Supremely approved on September 18, 1995, repeats their noble family coat of arms, known in the Kingdom of Hungary (cited by Siebmacher). On June 13, 1905, this noble coat of arms was Supremely approved by Emperor Nicholas II - by the way, despite the resistance of the then master of arms, who demanded that the severed Turkish head be removed from the coat of arms.

The change in the coat of arms, in connection with the award of the count's title to the head of the marching chancellery of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, Nikolai Emmanuilovich Vuich (1897-1976), was provided for in the charter of Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich (September 4, 1976) and carried out on the recommendation of S.V. Dumina. At the same time, only two new elements appeared in the coat of arms: the rank count's crown above the shield and above the helmet itself (where it replaced the noble crown), as well as the motto “For Faith and Loyalty” on an azure ribbon, reminiscent not only of the awarding of the Order of St. to Nikolai Vuich. Apostle Andrew the First-Called, but also about the long-term service of several generations of this family to the Russian Imperial House in exile (14).

The coat of arms of Prince Vadim Olegovich Lopukhin was Supremely approved on February 9, 1996 in connection with the restoration of the princely title in his branch of the Lopukhin family, granted by Emperor Paul to another, subsequently extinct branch of the same ancient boyar family. This coat of arms almost repeats the previously existing coat of arms of the Most Serene Princes Lopukhins, but also has some differences from it (instead of the monogram of Emperor Paul I - the monogram of Grand Duchess Maria in a shield on the chest of a double-headed eagle, etc.) (15).

The coat of arms of the Andronikov family of princes, approved on March 21, 2000 at the request of Prince Mark Konstantinovich Andronikov, who lives in Paris, is an ancient Georgian family coat of arms of this family, preserved on family seals and a ring inherited by the petitioner from his father (the late Prince Konstantin Jesseevich Andronikov, Professor Sergievsky Orthodox Institute in Paris (16).

The coat of arms of the family of Tatar princes Chanyshev, approved at the same time (restored to princely dignity by Emperor Paul I on August 24, 1796 and confirmed by the Highest Decree of the Head of the Russian Imperial House on May 25, 1998), was compiled at the request of a resident of Ufa, Prince Rafael Ismagilovich Chanyshev, taking into account historical traditions of this family and existing examples of Tatar princely coats of arms (17).

Also approved on March 21, 2000, the coats of arms of the nobles of the Vitebsk province Milevsky (Polish coat of arms "Slepuvron"), the Minsk province - Mukhlya (Polish coat of arms "Rudnitsa") and Khotkovsky (Polish coat of arms "Ostuya") and the Mogilev province - Donetsk (Polish coat of arms "Yunusha" ") and a number of others are ancient Polish family coats of arms, which these families used even before entering Russian citizenship, and about the use of which there is information in Senate affairs about the nobility (18).

The family of Chernigov nobles, the Bykovs, did not previously have a family coat of arms, and the draft coat of arms of Vladimir Alekseevich Bykov (Minsk) was compiled using some elements of the coats of arms of related families (Little Russian noble families of Tovstoles and Yakimovich-Kozhukhovsky); The golden noble crown placed in the azure head of the shield, as already mentioned, recalls the active participation of V.A. Bykov in the revived noble movement when he was the leader of the Novosibirsk noble assembly (the drawing of the coat of arms, after the approval of its description, was made by the Belarusian heraldist A. Levchik).

The coat of arms of Romuald Aleksandrovich Makovetsky (Kaunas, Lithuania) and his family is the Polish coat of arms “Pumyan” (in a golden shield there is a black head of a bison, pierced with a silver sword with a gold handle obliquely on the right, in a crest there is a hand in silver armor decorated with gold, holding a silver and gold the hilt is a sword), which (following the example of their Polish namesakes) was used by this ancient Lithuanian-Tatar noble family (with this coat of arms the Makovetskys proved their nobility in the Vilna province in 1819).

The founder of the Trambitsky family, to which the Muscovite Yuri Alekseevich Trambitsky belongs, was a Polish nobleman who entered the Russian service after the capture of Smolensk in 1654; this family was included in the genealogical book of first the Smolensk, then the Kherson province, and in Russia used the Polish coat of arms “Thrombs” (i.e. “Trumpets”; the main figure of the coat of arms is three black hunting pipes placed “in a star”); This coat of arms was approved for the petitioner and his family, but with a slight difference from the Polish prototype (the field of the shield in the Trambitsky coat of arms is not silver, as in the usual coat of arms of Tromba, but scarlet).

The coat of arms of Vasily Valentinovich Diaghilev, leader of the Kostroma provincial assembly of nobles, was also designed in the Arms Department. The family of hereditary nobles, the Diaghilevs, like many families of the Russian nobility, previously did not have a family coat of arms, and the project was compiled using elements indicating the family name (blooming angelica of natural color in a golden field), the family’s connection with Russian musical culture (golden lyre in crest) and the active participation of V.V. Diaghilev in the revived noble movement (golden noble crown in the azure head of the shield) (19).

Let us remind you that at present only hereditary nobles can be full members of the RDS. But at the same time, the possibility of associated membership remains. This does not mean recognition in the nobility, but allows the sons and grandsons of noblewomen to participate in certain areas of the work of the RDS - that is, it allows you to attract to this real work those who, despite the formal lack of noble rights, inherited traditions from their noble ancestors and ideals that correspond to our traditions and ideals, and is ready to serve the cause of the revival of historical Russia (in fact, other meetings that deny associated membership, for example, the St. Petersburg meeting, headed by Prince A.P. Gagarin, attract people from other classes to their work, and even genealogical examinations upon admission to this collection are carried out by persons who do not belong to the nobility).

We, of course, are aware that the meeting itself does not have the right to bestow upon them the title of nobility. But we hope that the most worthy of them can find a “noble name” for themselves and their offspring by the Highest mercy. After this, they and other persons who do not belong to the nobility by origin, but have been awarded it for their merits, will also acquire the right to the Highest approved noble coat of arms. Such cases are still rare, but they do exist. When developing coats of arms for persons elevated to the rank of nobility, in cases where there is some kind of heraldic tradition in the family, we strive to preserve it and consolidate it in the new coat of arms.

So, for example, on June 29, 1998, simultaneously with the approval of the coat of arms of the old noble family of the Pereleshins, the coat of arms of Alexander Yuryevich Korolev-Pereleshin, a descendant of the Pereleshins on the maternal side, was approved, most graciously elevated to the nobility on personal merit (20).

The Pereleshin coat of arms was developed based on the image on the seal of their relative, Admiral Pereleshin, kept in the Sevastopol Museum. Here is his Highest approved description:

“In the azure shield there is a silver trunk diverging like a slingshot, supported by two opposing golden lions, with a silver falcon flying above them to the left. The shield is topped with a noble crowned helmet. Crest: three silver ostrich feathers. Mantling: on the right, azure with gold, on the left, azure with silver. Shield holders: two warriors in azure Russian caftans and silver armor, of which the right one is armed with a arquebus, and the left one with a saber” (21).

This coat of arms was also used as the basis for the coat of arms of A.Yu. Queen-Pereleshina, but at the same time the shield holders were excluded (traditionally assigned in Russian family heraldry to predominantly titled and ancient noble families), and the head of the shield was burdened with a gold imperial crown (symbolizing services to the Russian Imperial House, in particular in organizing numerous Highest visits to Russia ).

The coat of arms of the family of Nikolai Ivanovich Dmitrovsky-Baikov (Australia), who was most graciously granted hereditary nobility with permission to add the surname of his mother - the last representative of the family of nobles Baikov, was compiled on the basis of the preserved armorial seal of one of the direct ancestors of the petitioner on the maternal side (22).

The coat of arms of Captain 1st Rank Georgy Petrovich Golik (St. Petersburg), granted hereditary nobility by decree of the Empress Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna on March 24, 1996, was drawn up in the Armorial Department taking into account the naval service of the petitioner - this is indicated by two azure antique dagger and St. Andrew's cross in a silver field - and the traditions of his family. Maternal origin from the noble family of Oreshko-Yakimenko is indicated by three golden nuts in the green head of the shield. This coat of arms also has a motto - “Firmness and Honor”. It is curious that the motto was originally proposed in Latin - “Fortitudo et Honor”, ​​but the Grand Duchess (by the way, in full accordance with the oral instructions to the Department of Heraldry of Emperor Alexander III) ordered the motto to be translated into Russian; only after this the coat of arms was finally approved (August 4, 2001) (23).

The coat of arms of Viktor Nikolayevich Yaroshenko, the former Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of Russia, Russia's trade representative in France, approved on May 23, 1998, also indicates personal merit; it uses, in particular, the colors of the Russian flag (for the revival of which in August 1991 V. N. Yaroshenko had the most direct relation) (24).

As already noted, in total in 1993-2001. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna was pleased to approve 30 family coats of arms of individuals and families who, according to the laws of the Russian Empire, belong to the hereditary nobility.

Initially, drawings of coats of arms were submitted for the Highest approval, and not their descriptions (compiled and published separately). It must be said that the RDS actively collaborates with many heraldry artists. Among them, we can once again mention Pyotr Fedorovich Kosmolinsky, whose coats of arms have adorned the Department of Heraldry since the creation of the RDS. In addition, Irina Leonidovna Verkhovskaya, David Anzorovich Gulordava (a specialist in heraldry of the Caucasus and especially Georgia), Natalia Sergevna Dumina have been collaborating with us for several years. In some cases, petitioners submit drawings of coats of arms themselves or order them after the Highest approval of the heraldic description.

It is not always possible for applicants to be able to pay for the services of a heraldist artist. In this regard, and, by the way, taking into account the practice of the Heraldic Council, in the last three years, in many cases, it is the heraldic description of the coat of arms developed by the Council and sealed with the signatures of S.A. that is submitted for the Highest approval. Sapozhnikov and S.V. Dumina. It is the description after the Highest resolution “Be it so” that is the document that finally secures the right of the noble family to the specified coat of arms. The design of the coat of arms is submitted for approval less frequently.

The highest approved drawings and descriptions of coats of arms are affixed with his signature and seal by Prince Nikolai Nikolaevich Urusov (Paris), Acting Minister of the Court of the Russian Imperial House. But the RDS has the right to issue copies of these documents, sealed by the Heraldry Department.

A great loss for us was the untimely death of Pyotr Fedorovich Kosmolinsky, who for the last several years had been acting as manager of the Arms Department of the Heraldry Department.

In 2001, Stanislav Vladimirovich Dumin was appointed to this position, and retained the position of chairman of the RDS Expert Council on Genealogy and Heraldry (25). The development of new coats of arms in the RDS is by no means a mass phenomenon, but several petitions are currently being considered by the Arms Department of the Heraldry Department and should also be submitted for Supreme approval in the near future. It must be said that sometimes this process does not proceed as quickly as the petitioners would like, but our desire to preserve traditions forces us to prepare each question very carefully, especially in cases where there is reason to assume that the family has an ancient coat of arms. How important this is is indicated by at least one of the latest cases of this kind - the consideration of the petition of the Smolensk nobles Verkhovsky. Their ancestor Adam Wierzchowski was elevated to the rank of nobility by the Polish king Władysław IV in 1635, but until recently the family (which had been a Russian citizen since 1654) did not know which coat of arms was granted to their ancestor upon his nobilization. Based on the Polish publications known to them, which mentioned their namesake nobles Wierzhovsky, the Verkhovskys petitioned for approval of the Polish coat of arms of Slepowron, which was used in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by one of the Verkhovsky families (more precisely, the Wierzhovskys). And only in December 2001, thanks to our Polish colleagues, it was possible to find out that in the royal privilege upon nobilization, Adam Wierzchowski received a different coat of arms - Pubug (27) (in an azure shield there is a silver horseshoe, crowned with a golden claw cross, in a crest there is a silver greyhound in a collar). . It is this coat of arms, undoubtedly belonging to the descendants of Adam Wierzchowski according to Polish heraldic laws, that is now being submitted for the Highest approval (28). Meanwhile, without sufficiently researching the history and genealogy of this family, we could make a mistake and distort the heraldic tradition of the family!

As we hope, in the future the coats of arms, most graciously approved by the Heads of the Russian Imperial House in exile (the first acts of this kind known to us date back to the 1930s), will make up the next, XXII volume of the “General Armorial Book” begun in 1797 by decree of Emperor Paul I noble families of the All-Russian Empire."

In conclusion, I would like to say a few words about the attitude of the RDS to the problem of new personal coats of arms. As already noted at the first meeting on the problems of personal (tribal) heraldry, organized on February 25, 2001 by the Heraldic Council, the existence of non-noble coats of arms was not provided for by the heraldic laws and traditions of the Russian Empire. This, however, does not prevent their creation and registration in the Russian Federation (where their status will be completely different: not a sign of hereditary privileges, like a noble coat of arms, but simply a family sign). But these personal coats of arms should not contain attributes traditionally assigned to noble coats of arms in Russian heraldry, in particular rank crowns. Perhaps one should think about developing a different type of helmet for them, different from the helmets adopted in noble coats of arms, or even abandon the helmet as a heraldic element associated with a different historical era and a different class tradition.

But the question arises about the fate of the family coats of arms of those families that, according to the heraldic tradition, have the right to previously created family coats of arms, including rank attributes, i.e. coats of arms of families belonging to the nobility as a historical corporation. At a meeting on February 25, 2001, State King of Arms G.V. Vilinbakhov rightly proposed to recognize and register the coats of arms previously approved in the Russian Empire as the heraldic heritage of the corresponding clans. At the same time, the question was raised about family noble coats of arms, which had not undergone formal approval until 1917, but were also subject to preservation and registration.

But it is difficult to imagine that the Heraldic Council will also take on the responsibility of genealogical examination, which makes it possible to judge the right of a person to an approved or unapproved, but old family coat of arms of the nobility. In this case, the Council would have to create its own huge genealogical archive, attract additional staff of genealogists, performing functions until 1917 carried out by the Department of Heraldry of the Governing Senate.

In response to this remark G.V. Vilinbakhov then proposed granting the right of such examination to noble assemblies and genealogical societies. In principle, this is possible, but the right to such an examination cannot be assigned simultaneously to many different public organizations. Only in St. Petersburg, along with the RDS (a branch of our all-Russian noble organization, headed by I.V. Dolivo-Dobrovolsky) and the regional assembly of Prince A.P. Gagarin, there are several more organizations that call themselves noble. The scientific level of genealogical societies also varies. How to get out of this situation? An option is possible when the right to noble attributes and registration of a noble coat of arms will be recognized on the basis of recommendations of only the most authoritative noble organizations and scientific societies with all-Russian status. But then genealogical problems arise again: after all, the inheritance of the descendants on the coat of arms, and not only the noble one, officially registered by the Heraldic Council, must be supported by documents that indisputably confirm the origin, kinship, i.e. a system of genealogical examination, the creation of genealogical dossiers, etc. will inevitably be required.

Probably, first of all, there is no need to rush, you still need to think it through carefully. Documents being developed on this issue require careful study and discussion. Therefore, it seems appropriate to return to this problem, based on specific proposals and options.

(1) Dumin S.V. The right to a family coat of arms in the light of Russian laws and traditions // Meeting on issues of personal (family) heraldry in Russia. St. Petersburg, 02/23/1999. P.8-18.
(2) Dumin S.V. Titled families of the Russian Empire. (1). Counts Tolstoy-Miloslavsky. (2). Princes Drutsky-Sokolinsky-Dobrovolsky. (3). Counts of Vuici // Chronicle of the Historical and Genealogical Society in Moscow. Issue 2 (46). 1994. P.78-85; Dumin S.V. Coat of arms of Counts Tolstoy-Miloslavsky // Herbologist. 1994. No. 1-2 (5-6). P.50-56.
(3) Libro d`Oro della Nobilta Italiana. Libro d`Oro della Nobilta Italiana. Roma, Collegio Araldico, 1969-1972.
(4) Tschkotua (Tchkotua) // Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Furstliche Hauser. Glucksburg, 1953. Band II. P.411-419.
(5) Rickman V.Yu. The first coats of arms of the Russian Noble Assembly // Heraldic Gazette. 1993. No. 1. C.2.
(6) Rickman V.Yu. On the problem of unapproved coats of arms // Heraldic Gazette. 1994. No. 3. C.2.
(7) Degli Uberti P.P. La Commissione Internationale permanente per lo studio degli Ordini cavallereschi // II Mondo del Cavaliere. Rivista Internationale Sugli Ordini Cavallereschi. 2001. Nr. 1. P. 3-4.
(8) See Heraldic Registers. 1993. No. 1. P.3-8 (tab); No. 4. P.3-6 (tab).
(9) Heraldic registers. 1993. No. 4. S.1.
(10) Report of the Heraldry in the Highest Presence in Moscow // Heraldic Gazette. 1993. No. 4. P.1 (see drawings and descriptions of the coats of arms of Dandre and Nikolaev. Ibid. P.3-4).
(11) Rickman V.Yu. On the armorial bookplates of members of the Russian Assembly of Nobility // Heraldic Gazette. 1994. No. 1(5). C.1 (it should be noted that not all heraldists agreed with this practice, since in foreign heraldry these and other “lowering” elements were used in the coats of arms of the younger branches of the clan, i.e. individuals and families descended from the ancestor-coat of arms holder by direct male, and not at all female line).
(12) See: Heraldic statements. 1994. No. 1(5). P.1-2 (Rules), 7-8 (tab); No. 3(7). P.7-8; 1995. No. 1(9). P.7-8; No. 2(10). P.7-8, etc.
(13) Heraldic registers. 1995. No. 2(10). C.2.
(14) Archive of the Arms Department of the Heraldry Department of the RDS.
(15) Dumin S.V. Coat of arms of the Counts of Vuich. History of approval // Herbologist. 1996. No. 2(10). P.96-104 (approved September 16, 1995).
(16) Dumin S.V. Princes and nobles Lopukhins // Noble families of the Russian Empire. M., 1997. T.3. P.261-262.
(17) Gulordava D.A. Coat of arms of the Andronikov princes (Andronikashvili) // Herbologist. 2000. No. 44. P.71-74; Danyar V. [Dumin S.V.]. In the Armorial Branch of the Department of Heraldry // Noble Bulletin. 2001. No. 3-4 (82-83). S.6.
(18) Danyar V. [Dumin S.V.]. In the Armorial Branch of the Department of Heraldry // Noble Bulletin. 2001. No. 3-4 (82-83). S.6.
(19) Ibid.
(20) Dumin S.V. In the Armorial Branch of the Department of Heraldry. The highest approval of noble coats of arms // Noble Bulletin. 2001. No. 9-10 (88-89). P.8 (all these four coats of arms were Supremely approved on August 4, 2001). About the coat of arms of V.V. Diaghilev, see also: Tishinkov D. To be according to this // Kostroma Courier. 19-21.12.2001. C.3.
(21) Archive of the Arms Department of the Heraldry Department of the RDS.
(22) Ibid. When describing newly approved coats of arms, we use the heraldic terminology adopted in the Department of Heraldry of the Governing Senate at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
(23) Danyar V. [Dumin S.V.]. In the Armorial Branch of the Department of Heraldry // Noble Bulletin. 2001. No. 3-4 (82-83). P.6 (Highly approved on March 21, 2000).
(24) Dumin S.V. In the Armorial Branch of the Department of Heraldry. The highest approval of noble coats of arms // Noble Bulletin. 2001. No. 9-10 (88-89). P.8. (Highly approved on August 4, 2001).
(25) Archive of the Arms Department of the Heraldry Department of the RDS.
(26) Danyar V. [Dumin S.V.]. In the Armorial Branch of the Department of Heraldry // Noble Bulletin. 2001. No. 3-4 (82-83). S.6.
(27) AGAD (Warszawa). Metryka Koronna, 180, fol.460 v.; Wdowiszewski Z. Rejestry nobilitacji w Polsce 1404-1794 // MBGiHP. T. IX. S.973.
(28) Archive of the Arms Department of the Heraldry Department of the RDS.

OGDR IV-6. Coat of arms of the family of Prince Lopukhin.

The shield is divided horizontally into two parts, of which in the upper part in a golden field there is a black double-headed crowned eagle, on the chest of which the name of the Sovereign Emperor PAULO the First is depicted. In the lower part, in a silver field, there is a red Vulture facing to the right. On the shield are placed three helmets, crowned with noble crowns, and on the middle one are visible seven peacock feathers. The mantle on the shield is blue, lined with silver. The shield is held on the right side by the Goddess holding the Scales of Justice in her hand, and on the left by the Warrior holding a crimson Banner in her hands. Under the shield is the motto: GRACE. The entire shield is covered with the Mantle and Cap belonging to the Princely dignity.

Prince Pyotr Vasilyevich Lopukhin, as shown in Russian History and in the certificates of the Rozryadny and the Collegium of Foreign Affairs Archives, comes from an ancient noble family. The Grand Duke of Tmutarakan Mstislav, the son of the Russian Grand Duke Vladimir Svyatoslavich, who baptized the Russian land, in 6530/1022, having defeated the Kasog Prince Rededya or Redega, took all his estate and imposed tribute on Kasogi. The children of this Prince Redega, named after baptism Yuri and Roman, were in the service of the Grand Duke. The great-grandson of Roman Redegich, Mikhailo Yurievich Sorokoum, had a son, Gleb, from whom came the Glebovs, Koltovskys, Lupandins and Ushakovs. The great-grandson of Gleb Mikhailovich, Bartholomew Grigorievich, nicknamed Lapot, had a son, Vasily Lopukha, whose descendants Lopukhin, many of the Russian Throne, served in various noble ranks in both ancient and modern times and were awarded by the Sovereigns with estates and signs Royal favors. Descended from the same family of Boyar Feodor Avramovich Lopukhin, the daughter Evdokia Feodorovna was in a blessed marriage and eternal glory worthy of the memory of the Sovereign Emperor PETER the Great. - On the 19th day of January 1799, the aforementioned Pyotr Vasilyevich Lopukhin, by Decree of the Sovereign Emperor PAVLOV the First, was most mercifully granted the Prince of the All-Russian Empire with all the offspring descended from him, male and female, and on February 22 of the same year he was granted to Prince Lopukhin and his entire family the title and advantage of the Most Serene Prince, and for this dignity on the 28th day of March a Diploma, a copy of which is kept in the Heraldry.

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OGDR III-8. Coat of arms of the Lopukhin family.

The shield, which has a silver field, depicts a red Vulture facing the right side. The shield is crowned with an ordinary Noble helmet with a Noble Crown on it, on the surface of which seven Peacock feathers are visible. The marking on the shield is blue and red, lined with silver. The shield is held by two armed Warriors each holding one Spear.

The Grand Duke of Tmutarakan Mstislav, the son of the Russian Grand Duke Vladimir Svyatoslavich, who baptized the Russian land, as shown in Russian history in 6530/1022, having defeated the Kasog Prince Rededya or Redega, took all his estate, and imposed tribute on Kasogi. The children of this Prince Redega, named after baptism Yuri and Roman, were in the service of the Grand Duke. The great-grandson of Roman Redegich, Mikhail Yurievich Sorokoum, had a son, Gleb, from whom came the Koltovskys, Lupandins and Ushakovs. The great-grandson of Gleb Mikhailovich Bartholomew Grigorievich, nicknamed Lapot, had a son, Vasily Lopukha, whose descendants, many Lopukhins, served the Russian Throne, served in both ancient and modern times various Noble services in the most noble ranks, and were granted estates and other honors and signs of the Monarchs by the Sovereigns favors. Descended from the same family of Boyar Feodor Avraamovich Lopukhin, the daughter Evdokia Feodorovna was married to the Great Sovereign Emperor Peter the Great. All this is proven in addition to Russian History by references from the Archive of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs, the Rank Archive and the genealogy of the Lopukhins.

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