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The town of Sremski Karlovci, which served as his headquarters and was at the time of his death the location of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, together with the Russian Ministry of Culture had erected a monument in his honor. The notable members of the family were also Mikhail Nikolayevich Gersevanov (1830-1907), an engineer who supervised numerous road-building projects in the Caucasus; and his son Nikolay (1879-1950)who was a soviet scientist in the field of soil mechanics and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Subsequently, the family was received among the princes of the Empire under the name of Amilakhvarov (1825) and Amilakhvari (1850). He was educated in the corps of cadets at St Petersburg, began his military career in the Seven Years' War, and was wounded at Zorndorf. During the hard fighting at the Bir-Hakeim (January) he wrote: "We, foreigners, have only one way to prove to France our gratitude: to be killed ...". Vasily's political adversary was his cousin Prince Boris Alexeevich (1654–1714), a court Chamberlain since 1676. He would die two days after the visit. From him on, his children became Melikoff ("from Melik"), later on the name underwent "Russification" to become Milyukov. He advocated the Northern Alliance and closer ties with Frederick the Great of Prussia. The Vorontsovs from this branch were inveterate Anglophiles and entertained many English servants, painters, and architects. Prince Sergei Konstantinovich's older son Prince Sergei Sergeievich Belosselsky-Belozersky (1898–1978), fought with the Horse Guard in the WW I battles, returned to then Petrograd in 1918 and after having been arrested in Petrograd in mid-1918 by roaming red guards and imprisoned in both the Peter and Paul Fortress and in Kronstadt island naval base, but released on the orders of the infamous red commissar Moisei Uritsky fled via Finland to London and Paris before finally moving to the USA prior to WW II. Razumovsky or Rozumovsky is a Ukrainian-Russian noble family of which the only surviving remained in Austria. Mikhalkov penned words to accompany a musical score by the composer Alexander Alexandrov (1883–1946) that became known as National Anthem of the Soviet Union. As a Lieutenant-general, he fought in the bloody battle of Austerlitz, and at Gutstadt, Heilsberg and Friedland; in the latter battle he was badly wounded in his right side. He was succeeded after death by three sons and two daughters of which, two of his sons continued in their father's naval footsteps while the other became a nautical engineer. Prince Andrey Alexandrovich Lieven (1839-1913), his son, was the Senator and Minister of State Properties in 1877-81. He led the excavations of Scythian mounds near Kerch and Kiev, describing some of his findings in the monograph on Tauric Chersonesos (1905). A species of jerboa is named after him. When the First Russian Revolution started three years later, he founded the Constitutional Democratic party, represented it in the State Duma, and drafted the Vyborg Manifesto, calling for political freedom, reforms and passive resistance to the governmental policy. In 1924, he established the Russian All-Military Union, an organization established to fight for the preservation and unity of all White forces living abroad. Having lost his position at the University due to political issues, Milyukov traveled widely and visited the United States several times. A bronze monument to him was installed in Yaroslavl in 1828. In 1924, Dimitri entered the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr and was commissioned as a second lieutenant after his graduation in 1926. As a staunch supporter of Stalin, he became known as "Red Count" or "Comrade Count" and his work was acknowledged to be classics of the Soviet literature. After the Russian conquest of Imereti in 1810, the family was integrated into the Russian nobility and confirmed as a princely house (knyaz) in 1850. The "Krestovsky" was their estate in St. Petersburg until the Russian Revolution in 1917 forced them to leave Russia and all their possessions behind, including the Krestovsky Island and their estate on it. Undoubtedly the most prominent of early Troubetzkoys was Prince Dmitry Timofeievich, who helped Prince Dmitry Pozharsky to raise a volunteer army and deliver Moscow from the Poles in 1612. The most notable figures of the family of the last century was Ivane Javakhishvili. He founded Stroganov Moscow Arts and Industrial Institute in 1825. Unlike his relatives, he chose to remain in Moscow after the revolution and came to be recognized as one of the most prominent Soviet zoologists. It wasn't until the Russian Renaissance in the late 1990s that his surviving family was sought out by Tsar Paul Romanov II. In 1934 Milyukov was a witness at the Berne Trial. They fled Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917, settling in Muswell Hill, London. His son, Constantin Andronikof became the Dean of St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, and translator of Sergei Bulgakov's theological writings into French. After the Bolshevik revolution Milyukov left Petrograd and advised various leaders of the White Movement. Having taken what property they could in their flee from Russia, the family survived as best they could. Notable representatives of the family include: Aleksey Grigorievich Razumovsky (1709-1771) - the favorite and morganatic husband of Empress Elizabeth. However, the family did not return to Russia until after the Russian Renaissance in the late 1990s. Andrey was created the HSH Prince in 1815 and settled there in the end, converting to Catholicism. Many other northern noblemen Milyukovs were seriously affected by the abolition, due to the fact that serfs, who could take winter jobs in the cities, were much more valuable possessions then often frozen land. His opponents mockingly called him "Milyukov of Dardanelles". After the break-up of the Kingdom of Georgia in the late 15th century, Abkhazia came under the influence of the Ottoman Empire and Islam, forcing several members of the family into flight to the eastern Georgian lands – Kartli and Kakheti. He escaped and settled in Paris, where he spent the rest of his life. However, once the Russian Empire reclaimed the northern region of Georgia the family moved back to Georgia and entered into service in the Georgian noble Court. He seriously guaranteed the integrity of Polish territory, after placing Stanislaus II on the throne, in order that Poland, undivided and as strong as circumstances would permit, might be drawn wholly within the orbit of Russia. After defeats in which he lost half his standing army, and facing defeat in Northern Tavria and the Crimea, Wrangel organized a mass evacuation on the shores of the Black Sea. The house of Zedguinidze-Amilakhvari had formerly served as hereditary Master of the Horse to the Georgian Crown and retained their princely dignity during the Imperial Russian rule of Georgia. In 1793 Nikolai married Tatiana Vasilievna von Engelhardt (January 1, 1769-May 23, 1841), one of Prince Potemkin's nieces. In the 17th century, numerous Starovo-Milyukovs were stolniks and gentlemen of the bedchamber. Together with his two young sons Georges Esperovich, Paul Esperovich their mother Madeleine Jakovlena (ne'e Moulin) fled to Finland at first and then to France. Considered the strongest candidate for the title, Tsar Paul II granted Andrey the noble title and rank that his family had taken away from them. On the 5th day of his reign, Emperor Paul made his half-brother a Count of the Russian Empire and promoted him General-Major. After the Russian annexation of Georgian polities, the family was confirmed as Princely Abashidze by the Tsar’s decree of 1825. At the age of 42, Prince Boris Nikolaievich Yusupov (June 9, 1794, Moscow - October 25, 1849, Arkhangelskoye Estate), Marshal of the Imperial Court, inherited his immense family wealth, including more than 675,000 acres (2730 km²) of land and more than 40,000 servants inhabiting it, but unlike his father, Prince Boris was not a patron of the arts but, instead, was primarily occupied with business concerns. The Khilkoffs have played a notable part in Russian history. von Essen are a Baltic German noble family, known since 1584. In 1782 Count Alois sold his Polish dignities and estates and returned to Saxony, but Johann Friedrich with his family of seven children by an Alsatian Protestant preacher's daughter Salomea b. Schweppenhäuser (1755-1833), stayed in Warsaw. After the end of the war he became the first captain of the British-built armored cruiser Rurik II. After World War II Dimitri was awarded France's highest decoration, the Legion of Honour. He owed his influence partly to the fact that he was the governor of Paul, who was greatly attached to him, partly to the peculiar circumstances in which Catherine had mounted the throne, and partly to his knowledge of foreign affairs. Wrangel graduated from the General Staff Academy in 1910 and commanded a cavalry unit during World War I. In late 1920 to early 1921 Ungern von Sternberg's troops entered Mongolia at the invitation of the displaced Bogd Khan, Mongolia's civil and religious ruler. After the first volumes of Javakhishvili's monumental, but yet unfinished, kartveli eris istoria (A History of the Georgian Nation) appeared between 1908 and 1914, the young scholar quickly established himself as a preeminent authority on Georgian and Caucasian history, Georgian law, paleography, diplomacy, music, drama and other subjects, producing landmark studies in these fields. The there was Prince Georgy Sergeyevich Golitsyn (born 1935) is a Russian physicist noted for his research on the concept of nuclear winter. The family moved back to St. Petersburg and were among the other Georgian nobility set to return to Tbilisi before the Georgian War. What remained of their entire wealthy following the reconstruction was returned to the family. During the first Russian Revolution and the abdication of Nicholas II, emperor of Russia, Lvov was made head of the provisional government, formally appointed by Nicholas II as his last act as a sovereign. The eldest great-grandson of Count Aleksey Alekseyevich was Count Aleksey Aleksandrovich Bobrinskoy (1852-1927), who led the Council of United Nobility starting in 1906 and represented the nobility of the St Petersburg guberniya in the Senate and the 3rd State Duma. Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718-83, St. Petersburg), was a Count (1767) and a First Rank Actual Privy Counsellor (1773). Seizing lands from the local population by conquest and colonizing them with incoming Russian peasants, the Stroganovs developed farming, hunting, saltworks, fishing, and ore mining in these areas. After the Bolshevik takeover of Georgia, the family relocated to Europe in 1930. As the Britannica 2004 put it, "he was too inflexible to succeed in practical politics". Patrick and Stephane have sons Vincent Patrickevich and Antoine Stephanovich. One famous member was Count Hans Henrik von Essen (1755–1824) who was a Swedish officer and statesman. Ungern von Sternberg was also known as the "Mad Baron" because of his exceedingly eccentric behavior. Gregor was the first to describe and classify the Triturus Helveticus Razoumovsky. The style, moreover, is based on the bad journalistic style of the period, which originated largely with Osip Senkovsky, and which today invariably produces an impression of painfully elaborate vulgarity. It was his reckless drunkenness which ultimately ruined him in the estimation of Peter the Great, despite his previous inestimable services. Count Vladimir Alekseyevich Bobrinsky (1868-1927) was the third son of Count Aleksey Pavlovich. He married Baroness Anna Dorothea von Ungern-Sternberg (1769-1846) and had issue which continues to this day. Orlov's influence became paramount after the discovery of the Khitrovo plot to murder the whole Orlov family. In 1819, Prince Gagarin married Maria Alexeeva Bobrinsky, daughter of Count Bobrinsky, granddaughter of Catherine II of Russia and Prince Gregory Orlov. Chavchavadze is a Georgian noble family, formerly a princely one. Essen entered the Imperial Russian Navy after graduating from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1880. Family Ter Hachatrjan fell under the repression of NKVD in 1937. On 4 January 1936 he scored two tries on his England debut in a 13-0 victory over the All Blacks, the first time England had beaten New Zealand. Instead, they were supported by the Japanese with arms and money. In a remarkable record of service, his war service in 1940 had thus taken him from Africa to the Arctic Circle and back again, as far as the Equator, all in the space of a few months. They followed the events of World War II and the Cold War, always weary of the course of Russian history and always determined to return. They started a trading company and made their name as merchants of fine furs, supplying, among others, the Russian Imperial Family and several German ducal houses. In the summer of 1919, he led the White Army's capture of Tsaritsyn (later Stalingrad, now Volgograd) and gained a reputation as a skilled and just administrator[citation needed]. Prince K died in Vesteros in 1718; his body was brought to Petersburg and buried in the Alexander Nevsky monastery, 18 October 1719. He spent his early days at the court of Tsar Alexius where he gradually rose to the rank of boyar. He also founded the Siberian town of Barnaul, whose central square still bears his name. Her sister Elena Konstantinovna left with her husband Prince Kotchoubey, their estate "Dikanka" in Ukraine for France and Paris. He was born to a Georgian noble family in St. Petersburg. They remained married for 53 years until her death. By 1578, the family had been coerced to flee Samtskhe to Kartli in central Georgia, where they were recognized as princes and maintained themselves into the 20th century. It is said that he killed 11 people in duels. Vladimir's nephew, Count Nikolay Alekseyevich Bobrinsky (1890-1964) specialized in biology. The family first reached prominence in the late 17th century, on account of its connections with the Miloslavsky clan to which Tsar Alexis' first wife belonged. Another living member of the family is Nikolai Tolstoy-Miloslavsky (born in 1935), a controversial British historian. The last volume was actually finished in jail, where he spent six months for his political speech at a private event (1901). His possessions were turned over to the crown. Ivan's son Konstantine continue the family well into the time of the Russian Renaissance and as the only surviving line of the family, was the one who accepted Tsar Paul Romanov II's offer of restoring the family rank and title of behalf of the family. Today, Georgians revere Chavchavadze as Pater Patriae (Father of the Fatherland) of Georgia. Describing this campaign in his memoirs The voyage to Arzrum, Aleksandr Pushkin mentions R.R. He would live a successful life in the Neo-Roman Empire as a banker and would help fund the Russian Renaissance. Ostermann-Tolstoy was once again wounded in the battle of Bautzen (1813) but didn't give up command of his force. He gradually gained in Peter's confidence serving first as the Russian ambassador to Constantinople, then as the head of the secret police. Use of the Soviet anthem, with Mikhalkov's lyrics, continued until 1991, when it was retired after the USSR disintegrated. Prince Obolensky only won a further three caps for England later that year (against Wales on 18 January, Ireland on 8 February and Scotland on 21 March), and scored no further tries. However, Demetre's reign over Northern Georgia was relatively short and he was forced out of government by one of his own Generals. Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (1734-1783), who created for his family such an illustrious Russian history, was the son of Gregory Orlov, governor of Great Novgorod. Grigory Grigorevich spent much of his time traveling, and always carried a sketchbook, drawing or watercoloring impressions from most of his stops. Galitzine was a typical representative of Russian society of the end of the 17th century leaning towards Westernism. Prince Felix was appointed adjutant to Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich in 1904 and commanded the Guards Cavalry of the Imperial Guards, and in 1914 he was appointed Governor General of Moscow. Milyukovs were forced to go in business for themselves or go broke. He played for Leicester Football Club between 1934 and 1939, as well as Rosslyn Park F.C.. His selection for England caused a stir because he was not a British citizen, but he gained British Citizenship in 1936. By August 1939, Obolensky was already serving as an A/P/O with 615 Squadron, Auxiliary Air Force, stationed at Kenley; and, on the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he joined the Royal Air Force's 504 Squadron. He was born in London to Prince Paul Chavchavadze (1899–1971) and Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia (1901–1974), thus being a descendant of the prominent Georgian noble family and the Imperial Russian dynasty. He was appointed into the State Council of Imperial Russia in 1912. He commanded a Uhlan regiment in Caucasus during Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829 and was a confident of High Commander, Ivan Paskevich. However, in his adult years Erich became a very successful architect, designing many beautiful and impressive buildings. Two members of the family were active during the Napoleonic wars. During his term in office, he put into effect a vigorous Russification program in Poland and Ukraine, for which he is chiefly remembered. In Russian History two of the most prominent Wrangels have been Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel and Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel. Yet this eminent, this superior personage was an habitual drunkard, an uncouth savage who intruded upon the hospitality of wealthy foreigners, and was not ashamed to seize upon any dish he took a fancy to, and send it home to his wife. After the murder of Rasputin he was exiled to Crimea, but returned to St. Petersburg in 1917 to find the city in massive disorder after the February Revolution. The Mikeladze’s princely domain in Imereti, known as Samikeladzeo, was centered on the village of Kulashi on the right bank of the Rioni River, where their familial castle and church were located. In 1566, at their own request their lands were included in the "oprichnina", the territory within Russia under the direct authority of Ivan the Terrible. The family had estates in the governorates of Moscow and Nizhegorod, and was confirmed among the princely nobility of Russia in 1833. Today, the family serves as a proud member of the Georgian Royal Court. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, but left for Germany following the revolution of 1917. They are descended from Algirdas's son Demetrius I Starshiy (1327 –1399, Battle of the Vorskla River). From 1907 he began to abandon his radical views and was drawn increasingly towards the Orthodox Church. After making a report on the condition of the Russian police, he was appointed deputy governor, first of Ryazan and then of Tver. It was Tsar Paul Romanov II who invited descendants of the Milyukov family back to Russia to have their family's noble rank and title restored to them. It wasn't until the Russian Empire took back Northern Georgia that the family finally returned to their ancestral lands and joined the Georgian Court. Milyukov was regarded as a staunch supporter of the conquest of Istanbul. In 1919, Javakhishvili succeeded the noted chemist Petre Melikishvili as the second rector of the university: he served until June 1926, when, in the aftermath of anti-Soviet August Uprising of 1924, tolerance of non-Marxist intellectuals began to contract. Bolsheviks held a tremendous advantage in equipment yet the beginning stages of summer 1921 the last Mongolian invasion of Russia looked very promising. On the death without heirs of King Rostom of Kartli, his adopted son Vakhtang, Prince of Mukhrani, succeeded on the throne as King Vakhtang V in 1659 and ceded the ownership of Mukhrani to his younger brother, Constantine I, ancestor of all the subsequent Princes of Mukhrani. In 1558, Ivan the Terrible granted to Anikey Stroganov and his successors large estates in what was at the time the eastern edge of Russian settlement, along the Kama and Chusovaya Rivers. Russian Anreps retained the Lutheran religion of their ancestors. The family moved to England where they continued on through the years of the Soviet Union up to its collapse in 1991. It was in his family estate Yasnaya Polyana near Tula that he created two novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, that are widely acclaimed as among the best novels ever written. He was granted his families old mining business which he gracious took over. The Amilakhvari were related through marriage with several other noble houses of Georgia and the royal Bagrationi dynasty. After graduating from the Institute of Mining Engineering in 1901, Wrangel volunteered for the Cavalry and was commissioned an officer in 1902, taking part in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.