Urusbiy ( krc, Урусбийлери, Орусбийляры, Urusbiylari) is the surname of the mountain
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 (Taubiy) of the
Balkaria in the
North Caucasus
The North Caucasus, ( ady, Темыр Къафкъас, Temır Qafqas; kbd, Ишхъэрэ Къаукъаз, İṩxhərə Qauqaz; ce, Къилбаседа Кавказ, Q̇ilbaseda Kavkaz; , os, Цӕгат Кавказ, Cægat Kavkaz, inh, ...
.
History
The Urusbiy surname has its origins in one of the representatives of the Sunshevs' surname ( krc, Suynschleri) - the Bezengi Taubies (mountain princes).
The grandson of Chepelleu, a son of Urusbiy Sunshev, left with his mother at the end of the 18th century, first to the Chegem society, where his mother came from. Having grown up and become acquainted with the neighboring Baksan gorge, he decided to leave forever. After taking his noblemen (uzdens), emcheks and
serfs
Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery, which developed ...
with their families from there, he settled in the Baksan gorge near the entrance to the gorge, near the border of the possessions of the Kabardinian princes
Atazhukin, on the site called "Kamyk". Soon after the resettlement, Chepelleu received support from relatives of his mother - the Chegem princes (Taubiy). With the passage of time, the Urusbievs' surname was formed from Chepleleua and his descendants. The Urusbiy surname took the name of the father of the founder Chepleleu - Urusbiy Sunshev.
Representatives
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Ismail Urusbiy, (1831-1888), a son of Murzakul - Lieutenant of
Russian Imperial Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar ...
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Barazbiev M.I. "Taubiy Urusbievs - officers of the Russian Imperial and White armies."
(in Russian)
References
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External links
Etudes about Balkaria. Urusbiev, Misost Abayev, Basiyat Shakhanov.The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Volume 39 page 74The Chromolithograph: a journal of art, decoration, and the accomplishments. page 25
Objects from the Central Caucasus (The Koban Culture)
History of Kabardino-Balkaria