Volkov - meaning and origin of the surname. The origin of the wolf surname, its history and famous representatives

Each of us at least once in our lives was interested in the origin or meaning of our surname. Volkov is curious and fascinating. Not only the name gives a person special features, but also the surname. This is one of the reasons why it is necessary to know the origin and meaning of your last name. It is also believed that at the beginning and end of the twentieth century, the surname Volkov was in 22nd place among the most popular. We will consider its origin and meaning below.

Version No. 1

There are several theories regarding the origin of this surname. Many are interested in the genus of Wolves. We will consider the origin of the surname in two versions. So, it consists of a subgroup formed from the names of animals. In many countries there are male names that carry the word “wolf” in their meaning. For example, in Germany there is the name Wolf, in Serbia - Vuk. Do you think it's an accident? This is not true and is due to the fact that the predator has been familiar to man since ancient times. Our ancestors endowed the wolf with such qualities as rage, gluttony, greed and cruelty. Our ancestors also believed that the wolf was an intermediary between the worlds of the living and the dead, magicians and ordinary people.

There is such a legend. The devil molded the wolf from clay or carved it out of wood, but was unable to revive it. When God endowed this creature with life, the wolf rushed at the imp and grabbed him by the hoof. The Slavs especially believed in the magical capabilities of this animal, so they carried a wolf’s tail with them as protection against various diseases. The name of the predator itself also acted as a talisman. Some documentary sources confirm that during Ancient Rus' An unfriendly and lonely person could be called a wolf. The surname Volkov was first encountered by researchers in documents of the 16th century. Analysis of the Volkov surname gave rise to the existence of another version.

Version No. 2

The German lexicographer Max Vasmer in his “Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language” writes that the name of the animal - wolf - comes from the verb “to drag”, and clarifies that this predator “drags away” its prey or victim. But this version for onomastics (the section of language that studies the origin of names and titles) sounds unconvincing, because not only this predator “drags away” its prey, but also many others. Also, Max Vasmer’s dictionary does not specify the specific etymology of the verb “to drag.” It turns out that the German “wolf” came from the Slavic “wolf”.

The origin of the name of the predator has been restored on the basis of the ancient and little-known Nakh language. “Wolf” consists of two onomatopoeic words “vo” - howl, and “lakh” - up. Putting the Nakh words together, we get “volakh”, which literally translates as “howling upward.” In this language, from the image of a wolf howling at the moon, another meaning of the verb “lakh” was formed - to sing.

There are several more unreliable versions of the origin of the Volkov surname. But it no longer makes sense to consider them.

Volkov clan: origin of the surname

IN Russian Empire about seventy noble families with this surname were recorded. Among them there are several ancient ones. The very first Volkovs believe that their family was founded by the noble Lithuanian Volk Gregory, who came to Russia at the beginning of the 16th century. In subsequent centuries, the Volkovs were recorded in the ranks of governors, stewards, ambassadors and clerks. The grandchildren and great-grandsons of Gregory Volk were awarded lands in 1618 (at that time they were called estates) in the Yaroslavl district. According to the armorial of the first volume, it is known that this branch of the Volkovs is one of the oldest. She descended from Vasily Ivanovich Volkov, who was recorded in the sixth part of the genealogical books of Kostroma, Novgorod, Vologda and other provinces.

The great-grandson of Grigory Volk, Ivan Fedorovich Volkov, was known among his contemporaries as a heroic figure, was awarded the rank of major general, and particularly distinguished himself during the storming of the Izmailovo fortress, for which he was awarded estates in Mosalsky and Meshchovsky districts. This genus is recorded in the seventh part of the genealogical books of Simbirsk, Moscow, Novgorod, Chersonese and Tambov.

The Volkovs are a noble family that belongs to the new and established nobility; they are included in the second and third parts of the genealogical books of twenty-two provinces! With the permission of His Imperial Highness, it was approved that the founder of the Russian theater (the origin of the surname has a common source) was also awarded the title of hereditary nobleman.

Let's sum it up

The origin of the surname Volkov has several versions. It was also established that during the Russian Empire, 72 noble families were recorded. The oldest of them was founded by the Lithuanian Gregory Volk at the beginning of the 16th century. They say that Volkov was harsh. The origin of the surname, of course, is associated with a predatory animal.

Volkov Dynasty

I'll start with the roots. So, daddy line.

My great-grandmother Antonina Nikolaevna Novoselskaya (from the Oryol province) was, no more, no less, a countess. My great-grandfather Nikolai Nikolaevich Agurov was born in Baku. Later, already in Tiflis, he was an assistant to the governor for financial matters. They had three children: Nikolai Nikolaevich - my grandfather, Evgeniy Nikolaevich and Valentina Nikolaevna.

After the revolution they became actors. Evgeniy Nikolaevich and Nikolai Nikolaevich worked in the same theater in Baku and decided that one of them should take a pseudonym.

They cast lots. It happened that Nikolai Nikolaevich (my grandfather), without further ado, took the name of the most famous Russian actor Fyodor Volkov. That's how we became Volkovs!

My grandmother Antonina Nikolaevna Gimburzhevskaya was an operetta actress in Odessa, where she and my grandfather met and then got married. In 1934 My dad was born in Odessa.

And in 1943 During the evacuation, my aunt Valentina Nikolaevna was born.

After the war, their family returned to Odessa, where grandfather worked at the Russian Theater. Ivanova.

In the theater he was a leading actor, adored by the Odessa public. Grandfather acted a lot, but he became known to everyone for his role as Old Man Hottabych.

After the war, my grandmother no longer worked in the theater, but took care of her family. Dad graduated from an art school in Odessa, but then, unexpectedly for everyone, he went to Moscow and entered the Shchukin School. After graduating from college, he was accepted by A.A. Goncharov at the Moscow Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Soon, after playing Torchikov in the play “Physicists and Lyricists” (directed by A. Goncharov), he received his first recognition. When A.V. came to the theater. Efros dad began to play in all his performances and considered this time the happiest in his life. creative destiny. The roles alone are worth it: Vershinin, Don Juan, Podkolesin, Othello, etc.

After Efros left for Taganka, dad moved to the Mayakovsky Theater and worked there until the end of his life.

So, we have more or less figured this out, now mom's line.

My grandparents met in Leningrad. My grandfather Viktor Evgenievich Safronov was a career military man.

Grandmother Maria Gavrilovna graduated from technical school Food Industry and played in a theater studio.

She was invited to the theater institute, but she preferred the blue-eyed lieutenant acting career and left for Far East, where he then served. My uncle Evgeniy Viktorovich Safronov was born there. Soon the war began, which found my grandfather’s family in Novosibirsk, from where he went to the front. My grandfather took part in the battles near Moscow, on the Karelian Front, and ended the war in May 1945. near Prague. There were terrible battles there after the signing of the surrender. He ended the war as a lieutenant colonel and received countless awards. In 1948 my mother Vera Viktorovna was born.

In 1956 grandfather (Viktor Evgenievich) was demobilized from the army, and the family returned to Leningrad.

My mother graduated from Leningrad state institute Theater, Music and Cinematography (LGITMiK), Faculty of Theater Studies.

In 1973, when Malaya Bronnaya was on tour in St. Petersburg, my parents met, and in 1975. got married.

Mom started working in Moscow in the regional department of culture.

After the birth of my brother Kolya in 1976. she became completely involved with dad and us.

In 1982 Mitya appeared, and in 1985, finally, I was born!

In 1990 unexpectedly for everyone and herself, my mother became a teacher. She was invited to school to teach world artistic culture(MHC). This profession became her calling, perhaps because she ended up in the wonderful Cooperation school, where she still works and where all three of us studied. Although my mother lives most of her life in Moscow, she still misses St. Petersburg and it has also become our hometown.

So, my brothers!!! By seniority:

- son of Olga Vladimirovna Volkova and my dad.

Born in 1974 in St. Petersburg, and since 1992. lives with us. Vanya graduated from GITIS, course A.V. Borodin.
Actor, musician, composer. IN this moment works at the ARTO theater. He already has two children: the eldest Arina (from his first marriage with Chulpan Khamatova) and the youngest Egor (from his second marriage with Olesya Volkova).

Nikolay Volkov (Nikolai Nikolaevich in the 5th generation) –

born in 1976 Graduated from the directing department of VGIK, workshop of I.F. Maslennikova.
Director, screenwriter, editor, musician.

Born in 1982 graduated from TI named after B.V. Shchukin under the leadership of E.V. Knyazeva.
Actor, composer, musician, step dancer and so on, so on, so on...
Currently works at the Lenkom and ARTO theaters.

But besides my relatives, I also have cousins ​​Oksana and Vitya Safronov.

Oksana has two children Alisa and Makarik.

And Vitya hasn’t had children yet. And I also have a cousin, Zhenya Volkov, with whom we grew up together and who is like family to us all.

Evgeniy Volkov –

Born in 1978 He is the only one in the family clever man(can count!!!)
Programmer, producer, photographer, etc...

Zhenya is married to the wonderful Anya Kachurovskaya.

They have two children: the eldest Fyodor, my godson, and the youngest Manya.

Well, it seems, in a nutshell, I told you everything. My family ( Wolf Pack) takes up a lot of my life great place, so I thought it necessary to tell you about them. Please love and respect.

Plan:

Introduction

• 1 Origin and history of the family
• 2 Description of coats of arms
  • 2.1 Coat of arms of the Volkov family
  • 2.2 Coat of arms of Life Campanian Larion Spiridonovich Volkov
  • 2.3 Coat of arms of Fyodor Grigorievich Volkov
  • 2.4 Coat of arms of the Volkov family, descendants of Semyon Afanasyevich Volkov
  • 2.5 Coat of arms of the Volkov family, descendants of Andrei Fedorovich Volkov
• 3 Famous representatives of the Volkov noble families
Notes

Introduction

Coat of arms of the Volkov family (descendants of Grigory Volk)

Life-Campanian coat of arms of Larion Spiridonovich Volkov

Coat of arms of Fyodor Grigorievich Volkov

Coat of arms of the Volkov family (descendants of Semyon Afanasyevich Volkov)

Coat of arms of the Volkov family (descendants of Andrei Fedorovich Volkov)

Volkovs- ancient Russian noble families.

1. Origin and history of the family

Among the seventy-two noble families of the Volkovs, approved on personal merit, there are several ancient families. The oldest of them descend from a “noble” Lithuanian Gregory Volk, who arrived in Russia at the beginning of the 16th century. In the 16th and 17th centuries, many Volkovs served as governors, stewards, solicitors, ambassadors, and clerks.

• Descendants of Gregory Volk - Gregory And Vasily Mikhailovich Volkov for the Moscow siege in 1618, they were granted estates in the Yaroslavl district. This is the oldest branch of the Volkovs, descendants of Grigory Volk, descended from Vasily Ivanovich Volkov, recorded in part VI of the genealogical books of the Vologda, Kostroma, Novgorod, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yaroslavl provinces (Gerbovnik, I, 70).

• Abram (Avram) Vasilievich Volkov, Yaroslavl landowner who participated in the 1634 siege of Smolensk. His son Alexei and grandson Andrey killed near Lesnoy (1707 or 1708). Of the latter's grandchildren Alexey Andreevich, who died in 1796, was Governor-General of Tobolsk and Perm (1788). Apollon Andreevich(1739-1806) - senator. Sergey Apollonovich, died in 1854, trustee of Moscow University. Yuri Aleksandrovich Volkov, a writer, belongs to the same branch. This genus is included in the VI part of the genealogical book of the Vologda, Kostroma, Moscow, Poltava and Yaroslavl provinces.

• Descendants of Gregory Volk, descended from Andrey Fedorovich Volkov, placed in 1680, who was granted estates in Mosalsky and Meshchovsky districts (1685) for his service in the war with Turkey. His great-grandson, Volkov, Ivan Fedorovich, major general, distinguished himself during the assault on Izmail. This genus is included in the VI part of the genealogical book of the Simbirsk, Moscow, Novgorod, Kherson and Tambov provinces (Armorial, VII, 136).

• Other descendants of Gregory Volk originate from Semyon Afanasyevich, who owned estates in Ruza district since 1628, and was located in 1626. Recorded in part VI of the genealogical books of the St. Petersburg and Moscow provinces (Armorial, VII, 64).

• Pravotarkh Kudeyarovich, who owned an estate in Suzdal district (1628-1631), and his grandchildren Peter, Andrei and Ivan Sergeevich, is recorded in the VI part of the genealogical books of the Vladimir and Kostroma provinces.

• The Volkov family, descended from Ivan Grigorievich Volkov, steward and governor in Saransk (1686 or 1689) and his descendants are included in Part I of the genealogical book of the Saratov province.

• The ancestor of the family Avvakum Volkov, landowner of Shatsk district (1719). His descendants are included in the VI part of the genealogical book of the Moscow province.

In the Lithuanian-Russian provinces, the surname Volki, the representative of this family was the founder of the ancient Volkov family, Grigory Pavlovich Volk, was common. There is an ancient noble family of the Wolves of the Truba coat of arms in the Minsk, Vilna, Mogilev and Kovno provinces. One of the common ancestors of the Volki family was the elder of Pensky near Olshana, Mikolay Volk. This Wolf of the Truba coat of arms ("Lords, glorious and brave Wolves") left two sons, Fyodor and Nikolai. Pomeranian voivode Nikolai Volk from Lanevichi became the progenitor of the Volkov-Lanevsky family, attributed to the Korczak coat of arms. Fyodor Volk is the grandfather of Grigory Pavlovich Volk, who went to “Tsar Vasily V”. For this departure, the relatives of Grigory Volk who remained in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were subjected to "infamy" and only the great-grandson of Grigory Volk - boyar Levon Grigorievich Volk, for faithful service, received in 1553 the right to estates in the Rechitsa povet from Anna Bona (Bona Sforza d, Aragon - Grand Duchess Lithuanian), confirmed in 1562 by the Charter of King Sigismund Augustus, the descendants of Leon Grigorievich began to be called Volk-Leonovich. According to family legend, the ancestor of the ancient Lithuanian noble family of Volkov was a descendant of Vseslav the Magician, Prince Vit of Polotsk, whose name was Volk.

The noble families of the Volkovs, belonging to the new, distinguished nobility, are included in the II and III parts of the genealogical book of 22 provinces. By the highest permission, the offspring of the brother of the famous founder of the Russian theater, Fyodor Grigorievich Volkov, was approved in the hereditary nobility.

2. Description of the coats of arms

2.1. Coat of arms of the Volkov family

The shield, which has a silver field, depicts three black trumpets tied together with a gold cord, and under them a ring. The shield is topped with an ordinary noble helmet with ostrich feathers. The cover on the shield is red, lined with gold. Lakier notes this coat of arms as a variation of the Polish coat of arms of the Pipe - the ring, instead of the middle, is placed specially under the pipes. Among the noble families using this coat of arms, the surname Wolf (Polish. Wolk).

The coat of arms of the Volkov family is included in Part 1 of the General Arms of Arms of the Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire, p. 70

2.2. Coat of arms of Life Campanian Larion Spiridonovich Volkov

The shield is divided perpendicularly into two parts, of which on the right, in a black field between three silver pentagonal stars, a golden rafter is depicted, with three burning garnets of a natural color marked on it. On the left side, in a golden field, there is a black wolf looking back with its tongue out. The shield is topped with an ordinary noble helmet, on which is superimposed a grenadier cap with ostrich feathers, red and white, and on the sides of this cap two black eagle wings are visible, and on them there are three silver stars. The mantling on the shield is black, lined with gold on the right side and silver on the left.

Larion Spiridonov, son of Volkov, while in the Life Company, according to the Named Blessed and Eternal Glory worthy of the memory of the Empress Elisavet Petrovna, 1741, December 31st day, the Decree was most mercifully granted with his legitimate children born from this date and henceforth born and their offspring in noble dignity, and on the 12th day of December 1748, a Diploma, a copy of which is kept in the Heraldry.

Volkov's coat of arms is included in Part 3 of the General Arms of Arms of the Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire, p. 120

2.3. Coat of arms of Fyodor Grigorievich Volkov

The shield, which has a red field, has two silver rafters connected horizontally in the middle and a silver rose above them. The shield is topped with an ordinary noble helmet with a noble crown on it and three ostrich feathers. The shield lining is red, lined with silver.

Volkov's coat of arms is included in Part 5 of the General Arms of Arms of the Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire, p. 139

2.4. Coat of arms of the Volkov family, descendants of Semyon Afanasyevich Volkov

The shield is divided into four parts, of which in the first, in a red field, two silver swords are placed crosswise, with the pointed point up. In the second, in a golden field, there is a black wolf standing on its hind legs, facing to the right. In the third, a golden horn is depicted in a blue field and a tree of natural color is depicted under it in a silver field. In the fourth part, in a red field, there is a silver tower with three battlements. The shield is crowned with a noble helmet and crown, on the surface of which two deer antlers are visible. The border on the shield is gold, lined with green.

The coat of arms of the Volkov family is included in Part 7 of the General Arms of the Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire, p. 64

2.5. Coat of arms of the Volkov family, descendants of Andrei Fedorovich Volkov

In the shield, divided in two, in the upper half, in a red field, two silver swords are placed crosswise, with the pointed point up. In the lower half, two silver towers are placed in a blue field. The shield is topped with a noble helmet and a crown with ostrich feathers. The border on the shield is gold, lined with blue. The shield is held by two lions.

The coat of arms of the Volkov family is included in Part 7 of the General Arms of Arms of the Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire, p. 136

3. Famous representatives of the Volkov noble families

• Volkov, Alexander Alexandrovich (Lieutenant General) (1778-1833) - Lieutenant General
• Volkov, Alexander Andreevich (1736-1788) - king of arms
• Volkov, Alexander Apollonovich - chamberlain of the court, leader of the nobility of the Yaroslavl province
• Volkov, Alexey Andreevich (1738-1796) - lieutenant general, Perm and Tobolsk governor.
• Volkov, Apollon Andreevich - lieutenant general,
• Volkov, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1776-1820), Russian major general
• Volkov, Dmitry Vasilievich (1718-1785) Chief of Police of St. Petersburg 1778-1780
• Volkov, Ivan Fedorovich (1748-1823) Major General, commander of the Voronezh Hussar Regiment
• Volkov, Platon Stepanovich - leader of the nobility of the Vologda province

• Knights of the Order of St. George IV class:
  • Volkov, Alexander Alexandrovich; Major General; No. 4192; December 25, 1828
  • Volkov, Alexander Grigorievich; colonel; No. 9086; November 26, 1853
  • Volkov, Anton Petrovich; Major General; No. 4323; December 19, 1829
  • Volkov, Grigory Gavrilovich; colonel; No. 3451; November 26, 1819
  • Volkov, Grigory Fedorovich; Prime Major; No. 1034; November 26, 1793
  • Volkov, Ivan Grigorievich; captain 1st rank; No. 6759; December 3, 1842
  • Volkov, Ivan Fedorovich; lieutenant colonel; No. 496; November 26, 1787
  • Volkov, Karl Fedorovich; colonel; No. 9098; November 26, 1853
  • Volkov, Mikhail Kirillovich; captain; No. 9245; November 26, 1853
  • Volkov, Nikolai Apollonovich; staff captain; No. 2979; October 17, 1814
  • Volkov, Nikolai Petrovich; lieutenant colonel; No. 10060; November 26, 1857
  • Volkov, Pyotr Apollonovich; colonel; No. 8198; November 26, 1849
  • Volkov, Pyotr Gavrilovich; major; No. 3745; November 26, 1823
  • Volkov, Pyotr Lukich; captain; No. 237 (197); November 26, 1774
  • Volkov, Semyon Alekseevich; colonel; No. 7755; November 26, 1847
  • Volkov, Sergey Ivanovich; Major General; No. 9641; November 26, 1855
  • Volkov, Timofey Alekseevich; lieutenant colonel; No. 6496; December 5, 1841
• Vasily Volkov, “the son of a Moscow service nobleman” - a character in the novel “Peter I” by A. N. Tolstoy, husband of Alexandra Brovkina

Notes

1. Polovtsov A. A. Russian Biographical Dictionary. - www.rulex.ru/xPol/index.htm
2. Encyclopedic Dictionary of F. A. Brockhaus and I. A. Efron. In 86 volumes with illustrations and additional materials, St. Petersburg, 1890-1907
3. Part 1 of the General Arms of Arms of the Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire, p. 70 - gerbovnik.ru/arms/70.html
4. Part 3 of the General Arms Book of the Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire, p. 120 - gerbovnik.ru/arms/420.html
5. Part 5 of the General Arms Book of the Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire, p. 139 - gerbovnik.ru/arms/739.html
6. Part 7 of the General Arms Book of the Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire, p. 64 - gerbovnik.ru/arms/974.html
7. Part 7 of the General Arms of Arms of the Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire, p. 136 - gerbovnik.ru/arms/1046.html

When writing this article, material from Encyclopedic Dictionary Brockhaus and Efron (1890-1907).

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On the obelisk to the dead residents of the village of Nakhabino (near the stadium), among dozens of surnames, the names of the five Volkov brothers are carved: Ivan, Andrey, Fedor, Nikolai, Dmitry. In the village in the New Town microdistrict there is a street named after the Volkov Brothers. There is a memorial plaque on multi-storey building No. 1 of this microdistrict. The names are carved on it: Ivan Sergeevich, Andrey Sergeevich, Fedor Sergeevich, Nikolai Sergeevich and Dmitry Sergeevich. All of them died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Today, May 6, a rally is being held near this house in memory of the brothers who gave their lives for peace on earth.

The street named after the Volkov Brothers in the village of Nakhabino appeared 14 years ago. According to the decree of the head of the Nakhabinsk administration dated June 21, 1996, it was decided to assign this name to the new street in the New Town microdistrict.
...Big family Ksenia Nikitichna and Sergei Konnovich Volkov moved to Nakhabino from the city of Kimry, Kalinin region (now Tver region) in the 20-30s of the last century. There were five children in the family: Ivan, born in 1912, Andrey, born in 1914, Fedor, born in 1919, Nikolai, born in 1922, and Dmitry, born in 1925.
Ivan and Andrei Volkov were called to the front in the first days of the war. Soon a letter arrived from Ivan in which he reported that he was near Smolensk. There was no more news about Ivan.
Andrey Volkov was a scout. On June 1, 1943, while carrying out his next mission, he and a group of scouts were surrounded. They shot back until last cartridge. After the war, mother Ksenia Nikitichna received a letter from her son’s friend, who told her about Andrei’s death.
Great Patriotic War I met Fyodor Volkov while on active service in one of the tank units of the Red Army near Lvov. Just before the war, Ksenia Nikitichna received a letter from him. It contained the following lines: “I have two months left on my valid term. I’ll be there soon, mom.” But this was not allowed to come true: in the battle, Fyodor Volkov burned alive in a tank.
Nikolai Volkov was drafted into the army when the fascist invaders approached Istra. He, like his older brother Andrei, was a scout. After successfully completing one of the most difficult tasks, the command sent him home for a day. However, Nikolai never had time to visit Nakhabino; ​​an order was received to go behind enemy lines. He did not return from this reconnaissance...
At the beginning of the war, Dmitry Volkov was 16 years old. Getting to the front and helping his brothers in the fight against the Nazis was his main task. He went to the military registration and enlistment office again and again, asked to active army. When in Once again was refused and fled to the front. The train in which he was traveling to the front was bombed by the Nazis from the air.
All the years of the war there was no news from the brothers, but relatives believed that the children were alive, and the fact that there were no letters meant that there was a war going on.
The Volkovs received their first funeral for Andrei, who died in battle on June 1, 1943, in the winter of 1945. This was a crushing blow for Sergei Konnovich. He soon died, ordering his wife to wait for the rest of the children, the war was about to end, and they would definitely return.
After May 9, when the soldiers began to return from the front, Ksenia Nikitichna went to the station and met every train coming from the west. Only in the fall of 1945, on one day, the postman brought four funerals! They stated that Ivan, Fedor, Nikolai and Dmitry were missing in different months 1942.
Ksenia Nikitichna Volkova, in spite of everything, waited and believed that her sons would be found, but she did not wait. She died in 1975.
In the Museum of Military Glory of Nakhabino Gymnasium No. 4 there is a stand telling about the Volkov brothers. Schoolchildren are proud of their fellow countrymen-heroes.
Like this tragic story a large Nakhabin family, just one family out of millions. The memory of the soldiers of the Volkov homeland is alive and will live.

E. IVANOVA.

P.S. Traditionally, on the eve of Victory Day, an open volleyball tournament in memory of the Volkov brothers was held in the urban settlement of Nakhabino.
The women's stage of the tournament brought together four participants. The winner was the “Dedovsk” team, the second place was taken by the KMZ team, and the third place was taken by “Zorkiy” (both from Krasnogorsk).
Eight teams took part in the men's stage, four from Nakhabino. Team “Pchelki” won, second place went to KMZ (both teams from Krasnogorsk), team “Nakhabino” won third place.

There are many noblemen in Russia with the surname Volkov, belonging to different families: old, new, and recently established; so it doesn’t seem like there’s the slightest possibility yet of finding out the full genealogy of those bearing this surname. This impossibility is clear to everyone if we point out the abundance in the 16th and 17th centuries of persons with the surname Volkov and popular names, when the true Christian names of these persons, except for two, remain completely unknown to us.

Meanwhile, ignorance of them puts the prospector in a hopeless situation when he encounters the ranks of the ancestors of branches with only Christian or exclusively popular names - nicknames. Only the lucky ones can get out of this confusion by chance and receiving genealogies from all representatives of the family who have genealogical records or documents on the ownership of land that has been inherited. During these transitions, of course, circumstances are revealed that complement the genealogical news, which in themselves are often capable of raising new questions and instilling new doubts. But even having collected all the genealogies of family branches, the researcher will have to work a lot to reconcile the contradictions and clarify the affiliation of persons not included in the generation lists, who are often missed due to the negligence of the first submitters in the Classification of news about their family at a time when they did not always know each other and close relatives who had never seen each other beyond the distance and, even if they knew the ancestors of the branch, could not answer anything about the issue of offspring. So, the fact that a person is not included in the generational list cannot, of course, be considered an opportunity to discard him from the surname and consider him a namesake from another, unknown family, as the late compiler of the “Russian Genealogical Book”, Prince Pyotr Vladimirovich Dolgorukov, allowed himself to do, who solved this kind of difficulty head-on. We will only allow ourselves, speaking about the ancient Volkov family, who left Lithuania to visit Tsar Vasily V, to declare the possibility: to see next to the descendants of Gregory Volk representatives from the more ancient Novgorod family of the Volkovs and Volkov-Kuritsyns, descendants of the clerk Ivan III, who served in Moscow more anciently. with his grandson, Grozny.

Since we now want to primarily deal with the descendants of Gregory the Volk, we must point out traces of an earlier surname - having in their genealogy a direct succession of tribes - although not without interruptions, noticeable to those who handle generational paintings by stretching - not quite usual - generation space. The genealogy of the family that came to Tsar Vasily from Lithuania, Grigory Volk, indicates that the founder arrived in Moscow with his sons Fyodor and Andrei Grigorievich, although the family continues from one older brother, keeping silent about the offspring from the second.

Fyodor Grigorievich Volkov is shown by genealogy to be the father of three sons: Grigory, Ivan and Peter. In Gregory's genealogy we find the son Semyon; Semyon has Mikhail and Mikhail has Gregory. So Grigory Mikhailovich Volkov in the first campaigns of Grozny’s youth could only have been just beginning his service; Meanwhile, we find in the Polotsk campaign of Grozny (according to the list of March 1, 1544) two Grigori Mikhailovich Volkovs. First - governor of the 1st regiment Right hand, that is, almost the commander-in-chief, and the second, the same name as the first, was the first subject of the bell of the 2nd lesser sovereign, Saadak and Sulitsa. It is clear that only the role of the second of these persons, in terms of time itself, could be fitting for the great-great-grandson of Gregory the Volk, indicated in the genealogy. As for the governor of the 1st regiment of the Right Hand named after him, he should already be different, existing much earlier, with the same surname, to which we should include Grigory Vasilyevich Volkov, a nobleman who sent an embassy (with boyar Streshnev) to Lithuania in 1546 year. Assuming that this is the same surname as the one whose representative could receive nobility for services such as participation in the agreement with the Hansa, concluded under Vasily V (1514), we will find that it is Novgorod and, without a doubt, trade, which continued, maybe maybe from the 14th century. Even Dmitry Donskoy (1380) was provided with services by the merchant Konstantin Volkov, who traded in Azov. Well, instead of the headman of Novgorod, the merchant Fyodor Vladimirov Volkov, who had a hand in the agreement with the Hansa, could have entered the service in Moscow and been a nobleman here - the signatures of the Novgorod boyars Grigory Valuev and Ivan Pushkin, who signed the agreement with the Hansa with Fyodor Vladimirov Volkov, will directly prove to us, undoubtedly already under Vasily in the Moscow service. If we admit that Fyodor Vladimirovich Volkov, a Novgorod merchant, became a Moscow nobleman, then we must consider him to belong to the Volkov family, which enjoyed even greater significance in Moscow at the time when the descendants of the Litvin Grigory Volk devoted themselves to a career there. And if we consider its ancestor Fyodor Volkov, who was on the wedding train of Princess Marya Vladimirovna, given out as Prince Magnus, then next to him at the wedding of Tsar Ivan the Terrible with Martha Sobakina (October 1, 1572) we see Stepan Volkov carrying the sovereign’s candle, which indicates that the person awarded this honor was employed by a person of the highest rank. Preference at this wedding, apparently, was given to Novgorod surnames. And this should further strengthen us in the confidence of the origin of the old noble Moscow family from Novgorod, where they had relatives, perhaps in common with the Sobakins, also nobles from the merchant aristocracy. Chudin Volkov, who in 1586 went to a congress with the Swedes on the Plusa River, also belonged to the Novgorod-Moscow family.

But, we note, by the way, the absence in the boyar books of the 17th century of the Kuritsyn family, to which the famous businessman of Ivan III, clerk Ivan Grigorievich Volk, belonged. His family could - according to the general habit of Moscow nicknames - also turn into Volkovs; and, of course, the old Kuritsyn surname had to evaporate. On this score, we now allow ourselves to point out in the form of a hypothesis that Volk Kuritsyn had a son, Ivan; that Ivan Bogdanovich Volk-Kuritsyn vouched for Prince Ivan Fedorovich Mstislavsky to Tsar Ivan the Terrible in 1571. Grozny did not exterminate the Kuritsyn family, and under Mikhail we no longer see this surname in the boyar books, but we find the Meshchovo city nobleman Sevastyan Bogdanovich Volkov, listed in the book of 1627. At the same time, the thought involuntarily comes to mind: see the continuation of the Kuritsyn family, which disappeared from the boyar books, in the Volkov nobles? The father of Dmitry Vasilyevich Volkov in the 18th century was a landowner of Klin and Ruza districts. In the Klin district, Ivan III gave villages and villages to his clerk Volk-Kuritsyn, as appears from a document of 1504 (land survey document for the cities granted to Prince Yuri Ivanovich: Dmitrov, Ruza and Zvenigorod). Until all the circumstances are precisely explained, let our indication remain a hypothesis, which has a certain degree of probability behind it. Turning to her again in the question of the Kuritsyn family, we consider it necessary to note that from this surname Ivan III had two clerks, siblings: Ivan (Wolf) and Fyodor Grigorievich. Fyodor Grigorievich had a son, a clerk - Afanasy Fedorovich, who vouched with others before the Tsar for Prince Mikhail Glinsky (1527). In the old days, popular nicknames were given mostly according to characteristic features a face that distinguished him from others. It was not just physical defects or external signs that served as the reason and basis for these nicknames, but also the qualities of the special kind of duties performed by those who received the nickname. Thus, the word Krivopish could clearly only belong to the clerk, as a technique of writing, which constituted his direct occupation in the service. Therefore, finding Pankrat Krivopishich Volkov in the list of those killed near Kazan, we can, even without knowing the true name of his father, consider him the son of a clerk or clerk, i.e., belonging not to the surname of the descendants of Grigory Volk, but perhaps to the Kuritsyn-Volkov family?

Having singled out and removed so many names that do not belong to this surname, i.e. Volkovs from Lithuania, we, meanwhile, do not consider in the 16th century complete list the names of its representatives in the genealogy. Here is our evidence. In the genealogy after indicating youngest son the ancestor - Andrei Grigorievich Volkov - nothing is said about his offspring. Meanwhile, in the list of persons who participated in the Swedish campaign of 1549, Yakov Andreev Volkov is named as the 70th traveler, and we cannot help but consider him the son of Andrei Grigorievich Volkov, i.e., by no means non-existent, but clearly missed, since the genealogy was carried out in the descendants of the senior line from Fedor.

In the very offspring of Fyodor Grigorievich Volkov, his middle son, Ivan Fedorovich, according to the genealogy, only one son is shown: Vasily Ivanovich; Meanwhile, according to the lists of the Kazan campaign (1544), the Volkovs appear: Grigory Ivanovich (4th traveler), Erofey Ivanovich (53rd traveler) and Elizar Ivanovich (must be the youngest) in 1551 in the Polotsk campaign (108th driver). There is no reason not to consider them the sons of Ivan Fedorovich Volkov (in all likelihood, the same person as Ivan Volkov, released from Polish captivity in 1585).

We are ready to listen to all sorts of objections and accept from them everything suitable for resolving the dark question of the belonging of different Volkovs to the corresponding clan, but we remain convinced that it is impossible to deny the existence in the 16th century in Moscow of at least three surnames of Volkov nobles and in the present state of our There is no information about different namesakes of the Volkovs. We made our present instructions, bearing in mind the obvious darkness and incompleteness of the genealogy of even one family of Gregory the Volk, about which we can only speak with some confidence.

The Volkov family, which came from Poland - as is known - received a coat of arms placed in Part I of the "Armorial Book". And we have now conveyed in the correct photograph the coat of arms of the Volkovs, the descendants of Andrei Fedorovich Volkov, placed in the VII part of the “Armorial Book”. It represents a shield divided horizontally into two parts. In the top - in a red field there are two silver swords with the tips down, and in the bottom - in an azure field there are two silver towers. The shield is topped with a noble helmet and crown. The crest contains three ostrich feathers. A golden mantle with an azure backing. The shield holders are two lions. This is the coat of arms of the Ufa family of nobles Volkov, also old, like the Volk family.

We can consider the descendants of Grigory Volk to be the nobles of the provinces of St. Petersburg (senior branch from Fyodor Grigorievich), Moscow, Yaroslavl and Vologda (junior branch). The noble family of the Volkovs in the Ufa province is connected with the Simbirsk branch and there is a special Kostroma branch (from Kudeyar), which is almost ancient. The newer families of Volkov nobles in the Tula and Kaluga provinces are of clerical origin.

There are completely new families of Volkov noble families in the provinces of Moscow, Yaroslavl, Ekaterinoslav, Kovno and Penza. In the Novgorod province, the Volkov family of nobles was born from a life partner who received nobility on the basis of Elizabeth’s decree on December 31, 1741. For court service, the brother of the father of the Russian theater, Fyodor Grigorievich Volkov, received nobility with his family (under Paul I). We intend to describe all these, more or less containing gaps in the genealogies, surnames of the Volkov nobles, guided by the affairs of the archive of the department of heraldry, which were not touched by the compiler of the “Russian Genealogical Book”, who limited his service to the public to an extract from the “Armorial Book” of the Volkov surnames that received coats of arms, and then with erroneous indications of the numbers of the volumes of the Armorial. Why historical figures with the surname Volkov - given the real complexity of the family of Grigory Volk - was attributed to his family by the compiler of the “Russian Genealogical Book” - we also do not undertake to decide. We believe that he did not even suspect the existence of two other surnames at the same time in the 16th century. We, having received the conviction expressed by us, do not allow ourselves to treat the matter with such ease and, singling out the descendants of Gregory the Volk who are completely unnamed in the genealogy, we divide them into two significantly different branches, postponing a full clarification of earlier surnames until another time. At the same time, we allow ourselves one reservation: we still allow a parallel in the identity in the 17th century of clerk Vasily with Vasily Mikhailovich, the son of Mikhail Semenovich, although we find it difficult to see one person instead of two of the same name, separated by two or three decades in time. Pointing out these doubts of ours, we will try to indicate the service of Vasily the clerk (Vasily Mikhailovich), but according to the genealogy we again see a gap of one or two generations between the son of Vasily Mikhailovich - Afanasy Vasilyevich and Vasily Afanasyevich, the father of Pyotr Vasilyevich Volkov.
According to the genealogy of the descendants of Grigory Volk, it is shown: Semyon Grigorievich has a son, Mikhail, and Mikhail Semenovich has children: Grigory, Sylvester and Vasily. This Vasily Mikhailovich is considered, according to the genealogy of the Volkovs, the nobles of the St. Petersburg province, to be their direct ancestor, allegedly recorded under Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich as a nobleman according to the Moscow list in 1626-27 (i.e. 1618-19). Around this time we know the clerk Vasily Volkov, who was sent with Ambassador Grigory Kireyevsky to Poland (1619). On the occasion of being included in an expedition with a serious assignment that required both the ability to conduct business and dexterity, a clerk could even be given a position as a clerk; For the honor of the ambassador, he could be registered as a Moscow nobleman, not as a decree to others and in anticipation of official merit. To argue and find the non-identity of the clerk from the clerks with the founder of the St. Petersburg branch of the Volkovs for the sake of indicating that he was a Moscow nobleman at that time would be a statement of doubt on our part, leading nowhere. Moreover, this clerk-clerk-nobleman very soon became a significant person, whose abilities and differences cannot be rejected. That this person was called Vasily Mikhailovich cannot be disputed either, without rejecting the position that this businessman is the same person as clerk Vasily Volkov, who was with the princes Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky and Cherkassky in Mozhaisk with the army (October 18, 1633) and was sent from there in December this year to the rescue of Smolensk, after the surrender of which was again in Mozhaisk in 1634. This Vasily Mikhailovich Volkov in 1628 was the clerk of the Tsar’s Petition Order, while in Vyazma, and in 1629, upon being recalled to Moscow, he was invited to the Tsar’s table (April 7, 1629, on Tuesday of Holy Week). In 1631, he was in Valuiki to exchange prisoners with the Crimeans under the okolnichy prince Semyon Vasilyevich Prozorovsky. So the subsequent service does not cast doubt on the significance of the previous one, which could have caused early enrollment in the nobility on the Moscow list. The entire set of testimonies about clerk Vasily Mikhailovich Volkov and the time of his activity in no way undermine the likelihood that he could be the great-great-grandson of a person who arrived in Russia from Lithuania under Vasily, the father of the Terrible, i.e. a hundred years before the official activity that caused his prominent diligence, which proved nothing new in the service.

Having stopped at this and considering the indisputable origin of this person from Volk Litvin, in the sixth generation, we must call the St. Petersburg branch the eldest in the family and this surname of the Volkovs. Moscow nobleman Vasily Mikhailovich Volkov in 1636-37. was a clerk of two orders: Petition and Kazan, and after that he is not mentioned in the lists, so he can be considered dead at that time. According to his genealogy, he is shown to be the father of three sons: Alexei, Afanasy and Grigory Vasilyevich, first a clerk (until 1652), then Berezovsky governor and finally Kuznetsk governor (1676); Grigory Vasilyevich is listed on the lists until 1686. Afanasy Vasilyevich, according to his pedigree, supposedly the middle son of Vasily Mikhailovich, is mentioned: in 1656 as the son of a boyar, and in 1668 - as a Moscow nobleman; At the meeting of Polish ambassadors in 1862, he was the centenary head of hundreds of boyar people in the ceremony. There is an indication about Alexey Vasilyevich that he has been on the lists since 1640, so we have to more accurately consider Grigory as the eldest, and Alexey as the middle and Afanasy as the younger. But, even assuming so, one cannot help but find it inconceivable that it was supposedly his son, and not his great-grandson, Afanasy Vasilyevich who was allowed to serve. from 1736 to 1761, as shown in the pedigree. This is an obvious error, revealed even from the discharge extract about the Volkovs' service. In this extract there is the son of Afanasy Vasilyevich - Ivan Afanasyevich, who was missed in the genealogy, in 1686 a Moscow nobleman, in 1689 he received an increase in salary, and in 1692 he was promoted to Chigirin service stolniks and those listed on the list of stolnikov until 1714. Between the death of Ivan Afanasyevich and the beginning of Vasily Afanasyevich’s service, 22 years still passed, in which the latter’s father, also not mentioned in the genealogy, Zamyatiya Afanasy Ivanovich, could have died. With the inclusion of the father, any doubts are resolved and the inaccuracy of the pedigree is corrected.

Pointing to this, otherwise unfilled, but clearly existing gap in the succession of the tribes from Vasily Afanasyevich Volkov, we no longer find doubts about the further order of development of the St. Petersburg branch of the family and the unity of the ancestor of the Yaroslavl and Vologda branches associated with it. Petersburg branch of the Volkovs. Vasily, the son of Zamyatia, Afanasy Ivanovich, was in the service since 1736, therefore, was born around 1719, no later; began serving as a soldier in the Butyrsky Regiment, on March 31, 1743, he was promoted to second lieutenant, and on December 12, 1761, he was dismissed as a prime major. He was the father of three sons: Peter, Ivan and Dementy Vasilyevich. The eldest of them, Pyotr Vasilyevich, corporal of the Horse Guards in 1778, captain in 1789, retired collegiate adviser, married Ekaterina Pavlovna Guryeva (1828) and had children with her: Theodosius, Anton, Nikolai, Mikhail (1801). ) and Evdokia.

At the death of his mother, the children of Pyotr Vasilyevich are shown in a separate act of inheritance (1828): Feodosius Petrovich, crew master VII class, Anton Petrovich, Major General; Nikolai Petrovich, colonel (in 1844, active state councilor, leader of the nobility of Novoladozhsky district); Mikhail Petrovich, ensign (released from the Pavlovsk Corps in 1819), and Evdokia Petrovna married to the collegiate adviser Galchenkov.

In 1802, Pyotr Vasilyevich received, at his request, a copy of the coat of arms and a pedigree. It identifies representatives of the clan from Vasily Afanasyevich: his sons and grandsons. Sons: Ivan Vasilyevich, from the lieutenants of the army, titular adviser, solicitor of the Caucasian upper zemstvo court in 1785, and Dementy Vasilyevich, retired in 1793 as a second lieutenant. Children of Pyotr Vasilyevich, Anton and Feodosius Petrovich, who began serving as furiers of the Preobrazhensky Regiment (1788). Nikolai Petrovich (b. 1790), in 1834 an active state councilor, an official of special assignments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, married Baroness Ryule de Lilienstorm and had offspring: two sons - Peter (b. 1818) and Jacob (b. 1819) Nikolaevich and daughter Ekaterina Nikolaevna (born 1817).

Mikhail Petrovich (b. 1801), in 1847, caretaker of the Revel military hospital, married to the daughter of a VI class official (Black Sea Fleet shipmaster) - Lyubov Andreevna Melikhova. They have children: Peter (born 1832) and Nikolai (born 1835).

Their coat of arms: in a shield with a silver field, three black hunting pipes in a gold frame, connected at the mouths with a gold cord. Below the pipes is a gold ring. The coat of arms features a noble helmet. The crests contain five ostrich feathers. The mantle is red with a gold backing.
The Moscow branch of the Volkov family is the youngest, from the middle son of Fyodor Grigorievich Volkov - Ivan Fedorovich, whose pedigree shows only his son Vasily Ivanovich (while three more sons mentioned in the documents are missing: Elizar, Ierofey and Grigory - participants in the campaigns of Grozny). According to his pedigree, Vasily Ivanovich has a son, Abraham, and according to his rank certificate, he also has Zima-Panfil Vasilyevich. Abraham Vasilyevich has children: Afanasy and Alexey. Alexey has: daughter Ekaterina - for Pyotr Yazykov, Stepan (born 1707), Alexander, active state councilor, and Andrei, sergeant of the Life Guards Semenovsky regiment, killed near Lesnoy. Andrei Alekseevich has children: Alexey and Andrey Andreevich. The latter has sons: Alexander, Apollo and Nikolai. Alexander has children again: Alexander and Apollo. The first of them has three sons: Artemy, Alexander and Arseny. Alexander Alexandrovich has two daughters. Apollo Alexandrovich has children: Alexander, the Yaroslavl leader of the nobility, and Artemy. Alexander Apollonovich (born 1804) had children from his marriage to Elizaveta Alexandrovna Goryainova: Maria (born 1830), Vladimir (born 1834), Lydia (born 1835), Sofia (born 1837 g.), Anna (born 1839), Apollo (born 1841), Natalya (born 1842; and Sergei (born 1844). Consequently, the Yaroslavl branch - from Alexander Apollonovich Volkov - turns out to be the youngest branch of the family, descended from the Litvin Volk.

The senior line of the Moscow branch is represented by a family of Vologda nobles (case in the Vologda province of 1826). Their family directly continues from Vasily Ivanovich, whose grandson Alexey Avraamovich, captain of the Semenovsky regiment, killed near Lesnoy, had an eldest son, Stepan; He has children: Alexey, Abraham, Platon and Nikolai. Let's start with the youngest. We know of Nikolai Stepanovich only as having a son, Stepan Nikolaevich, a page in 1788. His children were Nikolai and Matvey Stepanovich. Nikolai Stepanovich, director of the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1854), was a lover of singing, a friend of Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, was brought up at the Institute of Railways and painted portraits in watercolors (his work was a portrait of the composer Glinka, 1834-35). Matvey Stepanovich learned to sing from Belloli and sang with Glinka from the Demidovs. Platon Stepanovich, the Vologda leader of the nobility (born 1738), had sons from his marriage with Anisya Maksimovna Chernavskaya: Grigory, collegiate assessor (born 1774), Pavel (born 1776) and daughter Varvara (born 1776). 1778). Grigory Platonovich, married to Varvara Alekseevna Bakhmeteva, has three sons: Grigory (born 1801), Alexander (born 1802) and Stepan Grigorievich (born 1812) and four daughters: Marya (born 1805) .), Catherine (born 1807), Anna (1808) and Alexandra (born 1809!). Grigory Grigorievich has a son, Platon; Alexander Grigorievich has a son, Yuri. Stepan Grigorievich, a collegiate assessor, petitioned in 1862 for the pedigree of his branch, and at his petition, proceedings were initiated in the Vologda province, concluding news about representatives of the younger line of the Lithuanian Volkov family.

Stepan Grigorievich, as can be seen from this case, had a son, Ilya, and daughters: Nadezhda (born 1836), Varvara (born 1838) and Sophia (born 1840). Another son of Platon Stepanovich, Pavel Platonovich (born 1776), had children: Alexander Pavlovich, a member of the council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Privy Councilor, and Nikolai Pavlovich, a colonel, who had a son, Nikolai Nikolaevich, a captain. While the eldest son of Pavel Platonovich, Alexander Platonovich, had two sons: Alexander (born September 12, 1837) and Pavel Alexandrovich. Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov, St. Petersburg vice-governor, is married to Sofya Platonovna Engelhardt (born 1839). The ones who most attracted the attention of their contemporaries were Alexey and Abraham Stepanovich Volkov. The second of them was a translator and writer, an active state councilor (born 1731, March 10, 1803). Having received an education in cadet corps, from sergeants he was promoted to second lieutenant of the army (1735), the following year he was made a Senate translator, and during the Seven Years' War he was a lieutenant-general auditor under Count P. S. Saltykov (1758). The reward for this service was the appointment of auditor general of the military board (March 1, 1761); whereas under Catherine II, at the age of ten, he rose to the rank of state councilor upon retirement (1772) and spent 25 years out of service, and on April 30, 1797, he was accepted by Paul I again with the rank of full state councilor and with an appointment to the medical board of vice -president. His translations from French were published in Moscow from 1763 for thirty years. His first published work was “The House of Silence,” a philosophical story, op. M.D. Arch, and in 1794 his original “Spirit of a Citizen and Loyal Subject” appeared. Avraham Stepanovich was married to Nadezhda Grigorievna, nee Sobakina (daughter of chief racketeer Grigory Mikhailovich Sobakin and Princess Agrafena Petrovna Khovanskaya), in her first marriage to second-major Ivan Mikhailovich Golokhvastov. From their marriage, children were born: Yuri Avraamovich (born 1786), Ilya (born 1787), Alexander (born 1789), Nikolai (born 1790) and Alexey (1792). The second Ilya Abramovich, second lieutenant (August 7, 1822), had been with Elizaveta Mikhailovna Voeikova since 1816 and left children: Alexei Ilyich (born 1820) and Abraham Ilyich (born January 8, 1821). Having been widowed, Elizaveta Mikhailovna entered into a second marriage with the titular councilor Marisov. The third son of Abraham Stepanovich, Alexander Abramovich, was a poet who already published in 1804 (i.e., at the age of 16) a collection of poems entitled: “The Passion of My Heart.” There is also his epic poem in 10 songs: “Liberated Moscow” (1820). He translated to French essay by Count Rostopchin: “The Truth about the Fire of Moscow” (1823).

The eldest of the sons of Stepan Alekseevich Volkov, Alexey Stepanovich, b. in 1726, died under Catherine II, dismissed from service in 1768 with the rank of state councilor. Meanwhile, the beginning of his career was most brilliant. For thirty-two years he was a counselor at the embassy in Warsaw; and at the age of 37 - the main figure in the resettlement of Serbs to Russia. He owns the translation into Russian of “The Law of Livonia and Estland.” By pointing to the son of Alexei Stepanovich, Peter, still a cadet in 1788, we exhaust our reserves of information about the younger branch of the old Volkov family of nobles.

Not far from the Volk family in terms of origin was the Kostroma branch of the Volkov noble family, which originated from Kudeyar, otherwise called Eakhteyar. These words sound Tatar, but to say directly that Russians and Orthodox Christians would not have been given such nicknames by their contemporaries on any occasion, we will not allow ourselves, much less challenge such an assumption. Bakhteyar Volkov is called Grigorievich in one place, which could involuntarily suggest the possibility of even recognizing him as the son of Grigory Fedorovich Volk, taking an equal number of tribes (XI) to our time in the Kostroma branch.

In saying this, we, and admitting proximity, are far from the idea of ​​including the Kostroma clan from Kudeyar in the Volkov family, but we considered it our duty to pay attention to the proximity in time before indicating generational descendants. Here is a list of them by genealogy in the case of the Volkovs (in Kostroma province, 1843). Pravo-Tarkh (Prova-Tarkh) Kudeyarov had a son, Sergei, the father of Peter, Andrei and Ivan. Peter is shown without offspring; Andrey has only two sons: Yakov and Ivan, whose children are not indicated by genealogy. But we can assume that Yakov Andreevich was the father of Peter’s servants: Alexei and Mikhail Yakovlevich. They could not have been named in the list submitted in our time by a descendant of their father’s younger brother, because in their time, having risen high on the ladder of ranks and distinctions, they broke off all contact with their poor relatives; remaining closer to the relatives of their wives, who inherited the entire fortune of the spouses when childless. To confirm such a disappearance of family names from genealogies under such circumstances, hundreds of examples can be collected. And we will not dare to end the question here by directly including the Volkov generals in the Kostroma clan, although we know that they were listed as nobles of the Kostroma province; We will allow ourselves to indicate their official activities and significance by finishing the Kostroma family of Kudeyar’s descendants, which continues from the third son of Sergei Prov-Tarkhovich, Ivan Sergeevich. This Ivan is shown as the father of six sons: Vasily, Afanasy, Andrei, Ivan, Alexei and Sergei. Vasily, Andrey and Sergey are shown without offspring; Alexey only has a son, Boris, with no offspring, and Ivan has one daughter, Tatyana. So the successor of the family turns out to be only Afanasy Ivanovich, married to Anna Semyonovna Menshikova. Sons from this marriage are shown; Artemon, married to Avdotya Dmitrievna Menshikova, is a landowner in the districts: Vyaznikovsky (wife's dowry) and Shuisky (Vladimir province), and Plessk (Kostroma). From his marriage with Avdotya Dmitrievna, he had two sons: Ivan Ivanovich (1775) and Alexander Ivanovich (1785), who retired as a lieutenant in 1810 and from 1812 to 1816 was a noble assessor of the Perekhotsky Zemstvo Court. From two marriages he had children: from the first (to Olga Alekseevna Guryeva) son Nikolai and daughter Ekaterina, and from the second (to merchant daughter Zinaida Ivanovna Zheludkova) - five daughters: Olga (1826), Maria (1827), Anna (1828), Glafira (1830) and Evdokia (1831), and son Victor (born March 30, 1833).

We wanted to point out two siblings, Peter's servants and generals, considering them the children of Yakov Andreevich, born in the second half of the 17th century. The eldest of them, Alexey Yakovlevich, in 1714 was already the adjutant of Prince Menshikov, dressed up as an American savage at the wedding of Prince-Papa Zotov. When receiving awards for the Peace of Nystadt, Menshikov begged him for the rank of major general, as a major of the guard. In 1726, he was already a lieutenant colonel of the guard and awarded the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, as the most trusted of His Serene Highness. This power of attorney, during the fall of Menshikov, against whom Volkov showed nothing suitable for prosecution, caused the deprivation of rank and order and the exile to the village of the faithful confidant.

Alexey Yak owes Osterman's influence under Anna. Volkov with the return of favors and importance with the assignment of an audit of the provisions office (1732). Promoted to lieutenant general in 1731, he soon died (1703). His younger brother, Mikhail Yakovlevich, who also, with the help of his brother, rose to the rank of lieutenant general, was in charge of the confiscation office in 1756. Many hated the couple of these brothers, but they could not do anything to them. Mikhail Yakovlevich's wife, Praskovya Timofeevna, lived in Moscow in 1775 in her house on Solyanka. Both brothers had no children, at least no sons.

We allow ourselves to consider the son of Boris Alekseevich (shown without offspring) as General Vasily Borisovich Volkov (born in 1745 and in 1813), the former chief commandant of Sennin. He was married to the daughter of a Gdov landowner (second-major Mark Velyashev) and from his marriage with her he had children: Ivan Vasilyevich (born 1787), Nikolai (born 1790) and daughters: Anna (born 1777) and Alexander (b. 1792), as can be seen from the file of the archive of the department of heraldry (1848, No. 121 (835) for the Novgorod province). If our assumption is confirmed, then it will become clear that there is another branch of the Kostroma family, which seems to have intersected for now. We find it not entirely convenient to attribute to the translator of Peter I (1708), Boris Ivanovich Volkov, the translations of Cicero “On Duties,” ed. 1761, “Wolffian Theoretical Physics” of 1760 and Pilpay’s fables of 1762 in language even purer than under Peter I.

Knowing the existence of Boris Alekseevich Volkov, from the Kostroma branch, who had a son in 1745, we are ready to consider the parent of Major General Vasily Borisovich to be precisely this performer of translations from the Latin of the times of Elizabeth and Catherine II. We consider the Ufa branch of the Volkovs to be just as ancient and most likely similar to the descendants of Volk as a surname, which undoubtedly began in the 16th century - from Poroshi, christian name which is not indicated in the pedigree. Assuming that the great-great-grandson of Grigory Volk, Mikhail Semenovich, whose son Vasily, as is known, served already at the beginning of the 17th century, could have been nicknamed Porosheya, we will have in the person of Vasily Mikhailovich (deacon or his brother of the same name) the founder of the Ufa branch, about whom in the genealogy it is indicated that he already received his salary in 1595, while his father Porosha (Mikhail) was sent as a messenger from Prince Pozharsky, who was stationed near Samara (1614). For the hypothesis there are many probabilities here, which are not easily overturned by the most captious claims.

Whether related or not to the descendants of the Wolf, Vasily's son Poroshin became the father of Dmitry, who in turn left three sons: Fyodor, Vasily and Peter. According to Fyodor Andreevich’s genealogy, no offspring are indicated, but there is also no entry: “childless,” which gives us some right to consider him the ancestor of another branch. The Simbirsk branch of the Volkov family actually traces its origins to Andrei Fedorovich, who also lived in the middle of the 17th century, like the eldest son of Fedor Dmitrievich, whose brother Vasily, according to the genealogy, is shown in 1669 and 1684. This circumstance seems so convincing to us that we are ready to accept the Simbirsk Volkov family as the senior line of the Ufa branch, despite the fact that the descendants of Andrei Fedorovich received a special coat of arms, no longer seeking ancient origin, but based on the merits of the representatives.

Having pointed out the probable connection with the Simbirsk branch, we continue the Ufa genera. Vasily Fedorovich Volkov is shown to have one son, Ivan, the father of his only daughter, Anisya. Pyotr Fedorovich was the father of Konstantin and Ivan Petrovich. Constantine's children are shown: Evdokim, without offspring, and Fedor, the father of four sons: Philip, Jacob, Gavril and Vasily.

The family of the middle grandson of Vasily Poroshin is shown by genealogy to continue to our times, namely: Vasily Dmitrievich had sons: Ivan, Dmitry and Vasily. Dmitry alone left his son Vasily. Vasily Dmitrievich had a son, Stepan, the father of Ivan and Fyodor Stepanovich. Ivan Stepanovich had a son, Ivan Ivanovich, and Ivan Ivanovich left two sons: 1) Yakov Ivanovich, father of Semyon and Avdotya, and 2) Gavril, married to Daria, who had surviving sons Danil and Alexander.

Having placed the coats of arms of the Volkov nobles, descendants of Andrei Fedorovich, recorded in the Simbirsk province, we must conclude our present study with an indication of this surname. Andrei Fedorovich Volkov, serving as a tenant, received for Turkish war under Tsars Alexei and Fyodor until 1681, according to a charter on January 26, 1689, to the estate of 146 quarters (from an estate of 730 quarters, in the field): 1) in Meshchovo district, Sukhinichi camp, lot of the village of Pishchalov, the Dyagileva wasteland, the village of Petrishchevskaya (Roznikovo also , on the Rudnitsa River), yes 2) in the Moscow district, Losevsky camp, lot of the village of Losev, according to books 136-137 and 165-190 (i.e., according to the censuses of 1628-29 and 1658-1682). The son of the one who received this patrimony, Evstifey Andreevich, ended his service already under Elizaveta Petrovna (1749), “due to illness,” in old age. Having spent his century in the service, the honest servant left only a granted estate as an inheritance to his three sons, without even having time to climb high up the ladder of the bureaucratic hierarchy. His sons were significantly superior in receiving distinctions. The eldest of them, Pyotr Evstifeevich, finished his service as a captain; the second, Fyodor, rose to the rank of actual state councilor, and the third, Nikolai Evstifeevich, with the rank of collegiate assessor, was a mayor in the city of Tetyushi.

Fyodor Evstifeevich in 1788 began a petition in the Simbirsk deputy assembly to include his family in the genealogical book of the nobility. At this time, the petitioner showed himself to be 63 years old (hence, he turned out to be born in 1725). From marriage (probably with two spouses) - of which the second was Maria Semenovna Rykacheva - Fedor Evstifeevich had children: 1) Ivan Fedorovich (born 1748), in 1803 with the rank of major general, who received the coat of arms placed by us ; 2) Gregory (born 1753), second major in 1788; 3) daughter Elena (born 1758), already married in 1788; 4) daughter Alexandra, also married (born in 1765); maiden daughters: 5) Elizabeth (born 1773) and 6) Claudia (born 1776); 7) and 8) sons: Nikolai (b. 1778) and Alexander (b. 1782), who in childhood (1788) were listed as furiers of the Izmailovsky regiment, and 9) and 10) babies: Natalya (b. 1786) and Larisa (born 1788). In all likelihood, Ivan Fedorovich’s son, Sergei Ivanovich, was a member of the military council (born 1803) and was brought up in the page corps. From April 21, 1743, he was married to Elena Nikolaevna Manzei, from his marriage with her he had offspring - daughters: Sofya Sergeevna (born January 19, 1844), Olga Sergeevna (born January 24, 1846) and sons: Mikhail (born November 5, 1848) and Alexander Sergeevich (born May 16, 1850).

The clans of clerks in the kingdom of Moscow require a lot more research and additions before anything complete and accurate can be said about them. Therefore, we leave their surnames and new births until another time.