By Vladimir Chernyshev © copyright 1998-2001: by Vladimir Chernyshev, all rights reserved BACKGROUND: Vladimir Chernyshev of Murom, Russia has made available to FEEFHS for posting on this website merchant and noble family surname indexes for the region of Murom Russia. It is a product of a decade of his archival research as a historian and genealogist. He explains in his own words: "I have collected many items of information about merchant dynasties in Rusian state archives for the last 10 years. To date I have managed to reveal 369 merchant families during the period from 1723 for 1917. I have worked in Moscow in the Russian state archive of the ancient acts and documents, in the regional archive of city Vladimir, Nizhni Novgorod and my native city of Murom." "Each surname represents a separate file. In it I have assembled a chronological sequence of the extracts from archival materials, with the indication of a source. The circle of sources is very extensive. It is auditings, census, records from church books about birth, wedding and death; obituaries, probate records, actions of proceedings and items of information regarding private property, houses, ground, manufacture." "I also have available some photos of separate dynasties and pictures of the kept houses at which they lived. The general listing of all materials has made about 600 pages, written in Russian, not including graphic files." "At the same time I have also collected information on various nobile families living in Murom. Among them there are representatives old Russian nobility dynasties. I will be sending a surname list of Nobility to FEEFHS soon. The materials about nobility are assembled by the same principle, as well as about merchant." "Unfortunately, I do not have an opportunity to publish my research in Russia today. I shall be very glad, if you will find an opportunity to help me." Anyone seriously interested in contracting for professional research concerning a specific Murom family listed in the surname index below is invited to contact Vladimir Chernyshev (see bottom of this page). Revised Surname list of Murom merchant families (in English) (The Russian system of alphabetical listing has been maintained) Abramov Abrosimov Averyanov Ageev Akifiev Aleksandrov Alekseev Andronnikov Anisimov Anifiev Anohin Antonov Artamonov Afanasiev Babin Baranov Basikov Basyrgin Baharev Belikov Belyaev Belyakov Bechishev Bibin (from a photo) Bondyrev Borman Bosov Brov' Bronnikov Bruntcalin Budilov Burnashev Burovin Bushuev Bykov (from a photo) Bychkov Varakin Vasiliev Venediktov Visilkin Vishnyakov Vlasov Volkov Volosovsky Voloshin Vorobiev Vorontcov Voshinin Vyaznikovtcev Vyaltcov Gavrilov Galkinsky Gerasimov Gladilshikov Gladkov (from a photo) Glebov Gnusin Golovin Golubev Golubyatnikov Gordeev Gorin Gorshkov Gostev Gragolebsky Grachev Grigoriev Grunechev Gryaznov Gundobin (a photo) Gurikov Guriev Gusev Danilov Dvornikov Dvoryankin Degtyarev Deev Dementiev Deulin Dobrynkin Dolotov Drujinin Dubenskoi Dunaev Dushev Dymkov Diakonov (a photo) Diachkov Evseev Evstifeev Egorov Elatomtcev Elin Emel'yanov (a photo) Ermakov (a photo) Erofeev Eruslanov Efimov Jadin (a photo) Jegin Jeleznikov Jelobkov Jiryakov Johin Juravlev (a photo) Zavyalov Zaitcev Zasuhin (a photo) Zahariev Zaharov Zatciplin Zverev Zworykin (a photo) Zimin Zotikov Zubchaninov Zuev Ivanov Ignatov Ignatiev Izbegov Ikonnikov Ilinov Isaev Kaverzin Kaverin Kazakov Kalinin Kapustin Karatygin (a photo) Karmanov Karpachev Kasatkin Kvasnikov Kiselev Klenov Klepikov Klinov Koginov Koznov Kokorev Kokushkin Koldaev Kolesnikov Kolesov Kolobaev Kolomnin Koloshin Kolychev Kolchugin Kondratov Konovalov Konstantinov Konyahin Korobkov Korol'ev Korol'kov Korotkov Korsakov Korsunsky Korchagin Korshikov Kotov Koshelev Koshnov Krasheninnikov Krestovnikov Krechkov Krivov Krivtsov Krygin Krylov Krylyshkin Krykov Kuzgin Kulpin Kundasov Kuprepin Kurakin Kushelnikov Ladnev Lazarev Lebedev Linkov Lipkov Lihonin Lishov Lobanov Lopatin Luzgin Lukin Lychagin Lvitcyn Lyanguzov Makarov Maslennikov (a photo) Maslov Melnikov Milovanov Milytin Minin Mihailov Michurin Mokeev Molodkin Moshentcev Mulin Musatov Muhin Myazdrikov (a photo) Myakinkov Myakinkov Nazarov Nedomerov Nekrasov Neratov Nesterov Neudachin Neustruev Nefedov Nehoroshev (a photo) Nikitenko Nikitin Nikiforov Novikov Novosadov Ovchinnikov Ojegin Orlov Osipov Osminnikov Pagarsky Panin Pankov Pantcyrev Paramonov Parin Patyrmin Paholkov Pashin Pervov Peregudov Perehvatov Perlov (a photo) Pestov Petrov Pehov Pivovarov Pirojnikov Plotnikov Plynov Polunin Ponomarev Popov Popushkin Pribylin Provotorhov Prokofiev Prolubshikov Prohorov Pupkov Puchkov Pushkin Rakov Rapov Rastrepin Repikov Rodivilov Rodionov Roshin Rukavishnikov Rukosuev Rusakov Rybin Ryjkov Ryabinin Savinov Cazonov Samarin Safonov Sverlov Svetlozarov Sveshnikov Sviridov Sekirin Semenov Sergeev Serebrennikov Serebryakov Serpuhovitin Sidorov Simonov Sinbirkin Sinev Sinitcyn Sintcov Skolov Slesarev Smirnov Smolin Smolyaninov Sobinkin Sokolov (a photo) Sorokin Sosulnikov Sosunov Spolov Starikov Stepanov Strahov Stulov Sudin-Strijev Suzdaltsev (a photo) Sumkin Syromyatnikov Tagunov Takjin Tarasov Tatarinov Telegin Terentiev Titov (a photo) Tihonov Tretiyakov Trofimov Trusov Tymenev Uglov Umnov Usov (a photo) Fadeev Fantalov Fedorov Fedotov Filipov Firsov Harlamov Hvatkov Hmelev Hodanov Holinov Hohlov (a photo) Tsibikov Tsibyzgin Chekaltcev Cheparev Chetvertakov Chijev Chuvanov Chuloshnikov Sharov Shashkin Shvedov Shvetcov Sheludyakov Sherstobitov Shestakov Sheshrshin Shilov Shirshikov Shustov Shtannikov Shutov Shuyaninov Shelokov Shepov Yagunov Yakovlev Summary of Sources |