Hello wolvies
Thanks for your question - I enjoyed tracking down the information you
requested.
The short answer is that the Count and the Princes were not related.
Luckily for us there is one expert on the Russian nobility, T.F.
Boettger, who has published his 'Register of the Titled Families and
Persons of the Russian Empire' on the net.
He explains that the Count and the Princes have no ancestors in
common:
"It should also be remembered - especially with regard to princely
families - that in almost all cases there exist untitled noble and/or
non-noble families who bear the same surname but who are in no way
related to their titled homonym. For example, the nobles Putiatin (one
of whom later received the title of count) do not share a common
ancestry with the Princes Putiatin."
This is from his reference to the ancestry of the Princes:
"PUTIATIN
..Prince Ivan Semenovich Drutskii surnamed "Putiata" ... His sons bore
the surname "Putiatich" (Putiatycz) and from his younger son Ivan
Ivanovich descend the Princes Putiatin proper.
Sources: ANR, KLR, NdR, TN"
The title of Prince clearly goes back a long way. The last French
Ambassador to the Russian Court had this to say about Prince Sergei's
ancestry:
"Prince Putiatin is not only an expert in history, archæology and the
science of heraldry, but also belongs to one of the oldest families in
Russia. In his veins he has nothing but Russian blood, dating back to
the tenth century, for he is a descendant of the line of Rurik,
through his ancestor Ivan Seinenovitch, voïvode of Lithuania in 1430,
who was himself descended from St. Vladimir, through Michael
Romanovitch, Prince of Drutzk in the thirteenth century."
diary entry for Dec 24 1916 in:
An Ambassador's Memoirs, by Maurice Paléologue, translated by F. A.
Holt, O.B.E. published New York (1925)
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/FrAmbRus/pal3-04.htm"
Boettger also provides the only explanation I have found of how
Admiral Putiatin became a count. His title was granted by the Czar in
1855, which event Boettger abbreviates as 'IU', Imperial Ukase, or
"ukase of His Imperial Majesty". It appears that the title died with
one of his descendants in 1909, since the Admiral himself died in
1883.
"PUTIATIN
Russian Empire: (IU) 6 Dec. 1855 for Evfimii Vasil'evich Putiatin.
Extinct 10 Mar. 1909.
Sources: NdR, STRL, TN, TRRI I"
REFERENCES
Here are the relevant pages on Boettger's website:
Boettger on Princes
http://www.geocities.com/tfboettger/russian/princes.htm
Boettger on Counts
http://www.geocities.com/tfboettger/russian/counts.htm
Boettger's notes on abbreviations and the quote about the two Putiatin
families being unrelated (scroll down to 'homonyms')
http://www.geocities.com/~tfboettger/russian/abb.htm
These are the sources he used for his research:
ANR = Emerin (Roman Ivanovich). Annuarie de la noblesse de Russie, 3
vols. St. Petersburg, 1889, 1892, 1900. [Partial genealogies of noble
families of the Russian Empire, 18th-19th century; 1889 has only the
princely families; 1892 includes some comital, baronial, and untitled
families; 1900 has numerous foreign noble families that settled in
Russia]
KLR = Wolff (Józef). Kniaziowie Litewsko-Ruscy od konca czternastego
wieku. Warsaw, 1994 (1895). [Complete and partial genealogies of the
Lithuano-Russian princes to the end of the 15th century]
NdR = Ikonnikov (Nikolai Flegontovich). La noblesse de Russie, copie
des livres généalogiques de l'union de la noblesse russe, constituée
d'après les actes et les documents existants, et complétés par le
concours dévoué des nobles russes, 50 vols. Paris, 1933-1966.
[Complete genealogies of noble families of the Russian Empire to the
mid 20th century; only 50 sets ever printed]
STRL = Heraldry Department of the Ruling Senate. Spiski titulovannym
rodam i litsam Rossiiskoi Imperii. St. Petersburg, 1892. [List of the
titled families and persons of the Russian Empire with full dates of
creation/confirmation of titles together with the names of those
persons granted or confirmed in said titles; more detailed than TN
(see below); a few supplemental pages published in 1894]
TN = Komaroff-Kourloff (Nicolas P.). Titres nobiliaires 862-1917.
Paris, 1985. [List of the titled nobility of the Russian Empire from
862-1917 with information on family origins and titles]
TRRI = Liubimov (Sergei Vasil'evich). Titulovannye rody Rossiiskoi
Imperii, 2 vols. St. Petersburg, 1910. [List of titled families of the
Russian Empire with information on family origins and titles]
Boettger's sources
http://www.geocities.com/tfboettger/russian/sources.ht
The Count's dates of birth and death:
http://hp.iitp.ru/eng/42/4259.htm
And, finally, a definition of 'ukase':
"ukase n.
1 a command or edict, esp. in Russia or the former USSR.
2 an edict of the Russian government.[Russ. ukaz ordinance, edict f.
ukazat' show, decree]"
The Oxford English Reference Dictionary. Oxford University Press
(1996) quoted on xrefer.com
http://www.xrefer.com/entry/431077
As well as thanking you for an interesting question, I should probably
thank Boettger for making his authoritative work available!
I hope this is helpful. Please feel free to get back to me if anything
needs clarification.
Regards - Leli
search notes:
I searched with various terms like 'family' and 'history' and even
went up a blind alley at first since one university website (which I
won't name and shame) calls one of the princes a count. However, this
is the search which led me to the expert:
://www.google.com/search?q=putiatin+OR+putyatin+russian+genealogy&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N
I also used Putiatin + "death" "title granted" "ennobled" "became
count" "ukase" etc. |
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