Arsenyev (noble family)

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Arms of those of Arseniev (Courland)

Arsenjew ( Russian Арсеньев ) is the name of a Russian and Kurland noble family that of a Moscow Uradelsfamilie derived. In Russia they had been known in documents since the middle of the 15th century. In the Russian Empire they were in the service of the emperors, held leading positions in public administration and in the military , they were never settled in Courland .

ancestors

The aristocratic family of Moscow Arsenyev traced its origins back to Prince Oslan, who was descended from the Khan family. This had left the Golden Horde and took the side of the Moscow Grand Duke Dmitri Donskoy . Oslan was baptized in 1389 and given the name Prokopi, he married Maria, a daughter of Dimitri. The couple had five sons, one of whom was Arseni and is considered the ancestor of the Arsenjews.

ancestors

The verifiable documented ancestry is traced back to Ignati Arsenjew, he is mentioned in a soul mass register of the Trinity Monastery of Sergiev Posad from the 15th century. The family history shows that in 1538 Nasar Ivanovich Arsenyev was governor of Medyn . Furthermore, Kyrillowitsch Arseniev in 1540 and Filimon Ivanovich Arsenyev in 1548 are named as Moscow nobles who had participated in the war against Sweden . In 1556 the court clerk Fyodor Markarjewitsch Arsenjew, who was killed in a battle at Wenden , is recorded. The documentary evidence can only be traced with large annual gaps, the tribesmen were in the aristocratic registers of the governorates of Moscow , Tula , Smolensk , Orel , Yaroslav , Kursk , Vladimir , Penza , Tver , Pleskau , Saint Petersburg , Kaluga , Tambov , Voronezh , Poltava and Ryazan led.

Courland progenitor

The aristocratic family of the Arsenjews is not an original family in Courland, they were only accepted into the Courland knighthood at the express request of the Imperial Russian rulers . Nikolai Ivanovich Arsenjew (1760-1830) was provincial proxy of the Tver governorate, he became vice governor of the Courland governorate in 1797 and was governor of Courland from 1800 to 1808. On March 18, 1808 he received the Courland and on April 27, 1808 the Piltensche Indigenate . From 1802 he was the beneficiary of the crown property in Baldone (Courland).

Lineage of the Courland family

Nikolai Ivanovich Arsenjew (* 1760 in Moscow, † 1830 in Moscow ), progenitor of the Courland line, governor of Courland

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Courland Arsenyev is derived from the original coat of arms of the Russian extended family. It is described as follows: The heraldic shield in blue is a downward-flying silver arrow , overlaid with two downward- pointing , crossed silver Turkish sabers , on both sides to the right of a turned away golden moon, to the left of a golden star. In the sign foot under the arrowhead erect a horseshoe. Crowned helmet without crest , the helmet cover blue-silver and red-silver.

  • Coat of arms of the original tribe

  • Coat of arms of the Courland Arsenyev

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “The farmer commissioners were entrusted with the control and supervision of the peasant self-government.” Source: Article “Bauernkommissar” . In: Baltic Legal Dictionary .