The coat of arms of Alexander Pushkin. What does the coat of arms of the Pushkin family say?

The Pushkin family has always been famous for thanks to one of its brightest representatives. But very few people know that this family is closely connected with the heroic past of the Russian state since the time of Alexander Nevsky.

This ancient noble family had a coat of arms, which many could see without knowing who it belonged to. What was Pushkin's coat of arms, and also the genus to which he belonged?

Pushkin family

The history of the family is closely intertwined with the strengthening of the Russian state. For many years representatives of this family faithfully served the power.

Pushkin refers to an ancient noble family. This is confirmed by the fact that there is a separate emblem of the Pushkin family. But before describing it, it is worth learning a little more about the genus itself.

His family originates from a certain Ratsha. He supposedly lived in the twelfth century, came to Russia from another kingdom. He served under the Grand Duke of Kiev. Another ancestor is called Gavril Aleksich, who was a Novgorod prince and served with Alexander Nevsky.

The ancestor of the family is Grigory Alexandrovich, who lived in the fourteenth century. During the service, of which nothing is known, he received the nickname Gun. From him and went the name Pushkin. The genus soon split into separate branches, some of which were thin. About the representatives of the separated branches, practically nothing is known, but more information has been preserved about Pushkin. Who were they in the Russian state?

Bright representatives of Pushkin

Many of the noble family occupied different positions in their time. They glorified the Pushkin emblem, a photo of which can be found in the part of the General Hermitage of the All-Russian Empire.

The list of posts that occupied the Pushkin most often:

• Envoys;
• Voevods;
• Governors;
• The stewards;
• Okolnichie;
• Boyar;
• Diplomats;
• Governors;
• Officers.

Pushkin Evstafiy Mikhailovich, being an ambassador under Ivan the Terrible, gets an ancestral lands, which by the seventeenth century the genus was able to pass by heredity. It became the village of Boldino, as well as the neighboring village of Kistenevo.

One of the first known representatives of the clan was Pushkin Ivan Mikhailovich, who lived at the end of the sixteenth - the beginning of the seventeenth century. He was a nobleman, courtier and diplomat.

One of the last descendants of the clan was Pushkin Alexander Alexandrovich, who lived from 1833 to 1914. He became famous in military affairs, being a general of cavalry. In addition, he was the eldest son of the famous poet and playwright Alexander Pushkin.

great poet

The coat of arms of Pushkin would hardly have been so famous without the brightest representative of the family. It is known that Alexander Sergeevich was interested in his own genealogy. He studied it both on the mother's line and on his father's line.

So in Boldino, the writer made notes, which he gave the title "Experience of Reflecting Certain Non-Literary Accusations." He also wrote about his ancestors in the well-known poem My Pedigree.

The poet had four children. In the male line, only Alexander's son left offspring. The last direct descendant of the writer on the male line is Alexander Pushkin. He was born in 1942 and to this day lives in Belgium. He is a philanthropist and public figure. In 2005, he received Russian citizenship, remaining a subject of Belgium. He lives with his wife Maria-Madeleine Pushkina-Durnovoi, they have no children.

Despite this, in the world there live many descendants of the ancient family. All of them know and honor the history of their kind, of which the family coat of arms is also a part.

Description of the coat of arms

Researchers can not say exactly who created the coat of arms of the Pushkin family, as well as when exactly it appeared. It consists of several elements. Each of them has its own meaning. By its beauty and richness it becomes obvious that the family was in a good financial position and held high status in the society.

The main part is made up of a shield divided by a horizontal strip. At its top is a prince's cap of scarlet velvet, lying on a purple cushion. All this is placed on the background of the ermine field.

The lower part of the shield is divided into two halves. In the right side on the blue field there is a hand in lats of silver. She holds the sword pointed upwards. In the left side, which is trimmed with gold, there is an eagle, which spreads its wings halfway up. In the claws the bird holds the sword and power.

Above the shield is depicted a noble helmet with three ostrich feathers. On the helmet is a noble crown. Around the helmet is a horn, consisting of blue and gold leaves intertwined. In places, leaves and curls are supplemented with silver.

What you can learn from the coat of arms

In the old days Pushkin's coat of arms was a symbol of noble origin. Today it is also a source of valuable information on the origin of the genus.

What can tell the coat of arms of Pushkin:

• The princely hat means that, mentioned above, Ratsha arrived in Russia and fought under the victorious banner of Alexander Nevsky.
• The arm in lats was a long-standing emblem that the descendants of Ratsch accepted in memory of the fact that their ancestor came from Slavonia.
• The eagle was the family coat of arms of the ancestors of Ratshi.