Olsufiev

The clan comes, according to the apocryphal information of the genealogy of the legend, from the duma nobleman Mikhail Ivanovich Olsufiev , the serpent landowner, for participating in the defeat of Devlet Giray , the Crimean khan (1572), who received the village of Lipitsa with villages in Serpukhov county . According to the documents, the genus can be traced from the beginning of the XVII century.

Rod rose in the time of Peter. Matvey Olsufyev was a confidant of Catherine I and received the possession of the village of Goritsy ; the Great Hermitage was built on the site of his metropolitan mansion. His nephew Adam Olsufiev is a writer, translator, and state secretary of Catherine II . On the site of the Moscow estate of his descendants, Olsufevsky Lane was laid.

Coat of arms of the noble Olsufievs

A shield cut horizontally into two parts, of which the lower one encloses a silver field, and the upper one - two silver wheels in a red field. The coat of arms is crowned with a helmet and a crown, from which a lion emerges, facing to the right and holding a golden wheel in its paws. Bastard emblem red with a substrate of gold (" General Russian Stamp", part III, No. 35).

Coat of arms of the Olsufievs

The shield, cut into four parts, of which the first and fourth depict the common emblem of the surname, and in the second and third - in the golden field a lazure cross. In the middle, in a shield that has a golden field, the state two-headed eagle is depicted. The coat of arms is crowned with the count's crown, over which are placed three helmets with noble crowns. Above the middle of them is the emerging state eagle, which has on its chest a monogram image of the august name of his imperial majesty (Alexander II). The right crest represents a lion with a wheel turned to the right, and the left one represents a golden eagle wing and has a lazure cross on it. The bastard in the middle is black, on the right is red, on the left is azure, with a gold backing. Shield-holders are two lions. Motto: “None Like God.” (Herbovnik, XII, 19).

• Matvey Dmitrievich (d. Before 1750) - Ober-Hoffmeister under Catherine I.
  • Pavel Dmitrievich (d. 1783) - lieutenant general.
  • Ivan Matveevich - Tver leader of the nobility (1776-1782).
  • Dmitry Matveevich is a real state adviser.
    • Zakhar Dmitrievich 1st (1773-1835) - lieutenant general .
    • Nikolai Dmitrievich 3rd (1775-1817) - major general , participant in the Napoleonic Wars.
• Vasily Dmitrievich (d. 1723) - brother of Matvey Dmitrievich, chief-hofmeister under Peter the Great .
  • Adam Vasilievich (1721-1784) - diplomat, state secretary of Catherine II , senator.
    • Sergei Adamovich (1755-1818) - major general .
      • Dmitry Sergeevich (1780-1858) - participant in the Napoleonic Wars, Penza provincial leader of the nobility.
    • Dmitry Adamovich (1769-1808) - current state adviser, Moscow provincial leader of the nobility; father of the first count Olsufiev.
      • Alexander Dmitrievich (1790-1853) - honorary guardian, chamberlain.

Count branch of the Olsufievs

Vasily Dmitrievich (1796-1858) - the son of Dmitry Adamovich, chief-hofmeister, Moscow governor, received the count title in 1856.

• Adam Vasilievich (1833-1901) - his son, lieutenant general, owner of the Gorushka estate.
  • Mikhail Adamovich (1860-1918) - Dmitry district leader of the nobility, chairman of the county council and the Zemstvo assembly. At his invitation, from 1918 until his death in 1921, P. A. Kropotkin lived in his house ^[1] .
  • Dmitry Adamovich (1862-1937) - a political and public figure.
• Alexey Vasilievich (1831-1915) - son of Vasily Dmitrievich, cavalry general , member of the committee on the wounded and an honorary guardian in Moscow .
  • Vasily Alekseevich (1872-1924) ^[2]
    • Maria Vasilievna (1907-1988) - religious figure of the Russian diaspora, translator of Russian literature into Italian.
• Alexander Vasilievich (1843-1907) - the son of Vasily Dmitrievich, major general, adjutant general, assistant commander of the Imperial main apartment.
  • Yuri Alexandrovich (1878-1938) - art critic, clerk of the temple on the Kulikovo field , built on the lands of his parents.

• Prosopography from P.N. Petrov
• The Olsufievs // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• History of the Ryazan Territory: Olsufievs (Neopr.) . Date of treatment December 16, 2018. Archived October 18, 2012. (Retrieved August 22, 2012)
• Dolgorukov P.V. Russian genealogy book . - SPb. : Type. 3 Sep. Own. E.I.V. Chancellery, 1857. - T. 4. - P. 439.
• Materialy to the history of the Olsufievs. Line Vasily Dmitrievich (1796-1858) of the first Count Olsufiev. - M., 1911.
• Olsufiev D.A. Eternal carpet of life. Family Chronicle / Publication by M. G. Talalai . - M .: Indrik, 2016 .-- 448 p. ISBN 978-5-91674-402-6
• Olsufiev // Oceanarium - Oyasio. - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2014. - P. 130. - ( Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004—2017, vol. 24). - ISBN 978-5-85270-361-3 .