Mussorgsky (), the name of an old

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

noble family, which is one of the branches of rich

boyar A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the Feudalism, feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Kievan Rus', Bulgarian Empire, Bulgaria, Russian nobility, Russia, Boyars of Moldavia and Wallachia, Wallachia and ...

family of Monastyrev, descendants of

prince A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. Th ...

s of

Smolensk Smolensk ( rus, Смоленск, p=smɐˈlʲensk, a=smolensk_ru.ogg) is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow. First mentioned in 863, it is one of the oldest c ...

from

Rurikid The Rurik dynasty ( be, Ру́рыкавічы, Rúrykavichy; russian: Рю́риковичи, Ryúrikovichi, ; uk, Рю́риковичі, Riúrykovychi, ; literally "sons/scions of Rurik"), also known as the Rurikid dynasty or Rurikids, was ...

stock. The family traces its name to Roman Vasilyevich Monastyrev, nicknamed Mussorga (18th generation from

Rurik Rurik (also Ryurik; orv, Рюрикъ, Rjurikŭ, from Old Norse '' Hrøríkʀ''; russian: Рюрик; died 879); be, Рурык, Ruryk was a semi-legendary Varangian chieftain of the Rus' who in the year 862 was invited to reign in Novgoro ...

). Peter Ivanovich Mussorgsky governed

Staritsa Staritsa (russian: Старица) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Modern localities ;Urban localities *Staritsa (town), Tver Oblast, a town in Staritsky District of Tver Oblast ;Rural localities * Staritsa, Astrakhan Oblas ...

in 1620. One representative of this family is the great composer

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ( rus, link=no, Модест Петрович Мусоргский, Modest Petrovich Musorgsky , mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj, Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; – ) was a Russian compo ...

History

In the genealogy of the Princes of Smolensk, which is in the velvet and other genealogical books, it is shown that the great-grandson of the Great Prince

Vladimir Svyatoslavich Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych ( orv, Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь, ''Volodiměrъ Svętoslavičь'';, ''Uladzimir'', russian: Владимир, ''Vladimir'', uk, Володимир, ''Volodymyr''. Se ...

who baptized the Rus' land, the Grand Duke Vladimir Vsevolodovich Monomakh had a son Mstislav, Prince of Smolensk, and this one had a son Rostislav, Prince of Smolensk. The aforementioned Prince Mstislav had a great-grandson, Grand Duke Yuri Svyatoslavich of Smolensk. After the death of his father Yuri, the underaged Prince Alexander was taken by his grandmother — Princess Nastasia — who bought him a

votchina Votchina (russian: во́тчина) or otchina (о́тчина – from word ''Father'') was an East Slavic land estate that could be inherited. The term "votchina" was also used to describe the lands of a knyaz. The term originated in the la ...

in the White Lakes, became a num and nursed him in the monastery, from which he was called Alexander the Monastery ( Александр Монастырь), and from him, the Monastyrevs started. Children of Alexander had lost the titles of Princes. Aladyin family was the only family of Monastyrevs stock, including the Monastyrevs themselves, to receive a coat of arms from the ruling

Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov The House of Romanov (also transcribed Romanoff; rus, Романовы, Románovy, rɐˈmanəvɨ) was the reigning imperial house of Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern ...

dynasty. In 1857, Prince Peter Dolgorukov didn't deny their ancestry but explicitly questioned their future existence writing only 5 lines about the family, finishing the paragraph with the anti-punctuation .two signs together: "For their origin, see the previous article about the Monastyrevs. Lyapun and Tretyak, the Yakov children, the Musorgskies, were granted estates in the Moscow district on 2 October 1550. Two Mussorgskys owned inhabited estates in 1699. The coat of arms of this family is not in the armorial, and we doubt whether it he feminine word for 'family' in Russian is also identical to 'surname' in Englishstill exists today?."

References

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