Obolenski (noble family)
Obolenski ( Russian Оболенский , also Obolensky , feminine form Obolenskaja ) is a Russian princely family of the Rürik dynasty , belonging to the high nobility .
history
The house traces its descent to Yuri, the fifth son of Michael von Tschernigow , ruler in the Principality of Chernigow . His descendants ruled the Principality of Obolensk, founded by Juri in 1270 (today Obolenskoe east of Obninsk ) and remained there as governors from 1494 after it was placed under the Grand Duchy of Moscow . A younger branch of the family are the Princes Dolgorukov , another the Princes Repnin .
Many of the ancient Russian aristocrats left the empire after the revolution in 1917 . There is a family association that holds family days in Paris every year on the last weekend in February.
Coat of arms of the Obolensky-Repnin princes
.png)
The Obolensky coat of arms contains the arms of Kiev and Chernigov .
Blazon : About silver sign foot, is facing on green ground two vorw. see nat. yellowish hens with bronze wings, one pop in each beak. marked iron arrow, each holding a golden ball in the raised inner claw. In the right, Saint Michael with a golden halo, shield and flaming sword in silver Roman armor and cloak (Kiev), on the left a crowned left-facing black eagle in gold, holding a golden cross diagonally over his body to the right (Tschernigow); Princely hat and coat.
Bearer of the name
Obolenski is a family name for the following people:
- Prince Alexander Petrovich Obolenski (1780–1855), Russian officer and politician
- Prince Nikolai Petrovich Obolensky (1790–1817), Russian officer and holder of the order Pour le Mérite
- Prince Evgeni Petrovich Obolensky (1796–1865), Russian officer and Decembrist
- Prince Alexej Wassilewitsch Obolensky (1819–1884), senator, general of the artillery
- Alexis Obolensky (1914–1986) father of modern backgammon , organized the first major tournament in the Bahamas in 1964 and in Monte Carlo in 1973
- Prince Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Obolensky (1833–1898), Imperial Russian Lieutenant General and Commander of the Guard Corps
- Nikolai Leonidowitsch Obolenski (1878–1960), Imperial Russian Real State Councilor and Governor of Kursk , Kharkov and Yaroslavl
- Ivan Michailowitsch Obolenski († 1523), nickname Repnya , origin of the Repnin family
- Ivan Michailowitsch Obolensky (1853–1910), politician and governor general of Finland
- Valerian Valerianowitsch Obolensky (1887–1938), Russian revolutionary and Soviet economic leader
- Wassili Petrowitsch Obolenski (1780–1834) Imperial Russian Major General, holder of the Pour le Mérite order
- Princess Alexandra Alexejewna Obolenskaja (1831–1890), Russian advocate of women's education in Russia, school founder and patron
- Vera Apollonovna Obolenskaja (1911–1944), Russian resistance fighter in the Resistance
- Leonid Leonidowitsch Obolensky (1873–1930), Soviet diplomat
- Leonid Obolensky (1902–1991), Soviet actor, cameraman and film director
