The House of Abamelik ( hy, Աբամելիք, ka, აბამელიქი, russian: Абамелик; also rendered as ''Abamelek'', ''Abymelikov'') was a noble family of
Armenian origin in the
Kingdom of Georgia, and then in the
Russian Empire.
History
According to the ''
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary'' (Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, abbr. ЭСБЕ, tr. ; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume ...
'' (1890–1906), the family attained to the dignity of princes of the 3rd rank when the Georgian crown prince
David (1767–1819) married Helene (1770–1836), daughter of the priest Simon Abamelik, in 1800. The family was officially included in the List of Georgian
Princes
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 title, hereditary, in some Euro ...
of the Russian Empire in 1850.
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''Russian Biographic Lexicon''. Accessed on November 27, 2007.
In 1873, Major-General
Semyon Abamelik (1815–1888) was granted the right to assume the surname of his late father-in-law, Khristofor Yakimovich Lazarev (1789–1871), for himself and his descendants — the princes Abamelik-Lazarev (Абамелик-Лазаревы). By 1906, both the Abamelik and Abamelik-Lazarev lines were registered in the
governorates of
Moscow,
Podolsk, and
Tula
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Antarctica
*Tula Mountains
*Tula Point
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.
The Armenian composer
Makar Yekmalyan
Makar Grigori Yekmalyan (also transliterated ''Ekmalian''; in Armenian language, Armenian Մակար Եկմալյան) (2 February 1856, Vagharshapat - 6 March 1905, Tiflis) was an Armenian composer.
Biography
Yekmalyan studied at the Echmiadzin ...
dedicated his Nocturne for piano to Prince Semyon Abamelik-Lazarev.
In Rome there is a Villa Abamelek, which nowadays, is the residence of the Russian ambassador to the Italian Republic.
See also
*
List of Georgian princely families
References
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Abamelik family