The new Kudashev web site is up at http://kudashev.info.
Though this web site will not be deleted, all new posts will be added to the new web site.
Sample of Romanization table from Wikipedia
Cousin Kitty Stidworthy of Cambridge, England sends in the following recommendation:
Since the question of Romanization of the name Кудашевы has been raised, may I suggest that we follow the Library of Congress system, which is now pretty well standard in all Anglophone countries. Anybody unfamiliar with it can find it on the following sites:
This is an image of the patent of nobility confirming the nobility of Prince Sergei Danilovitch Kudashev (1795 -1862) and his wife, Mathilde Josephine-Catherine Kudashev (Choiseul-Gouffier) (1806 – 1867), as well as their ten children. The children were all individually named including:
Princess Myra Koudachev
Myra Armour – born Princess Maria Serguéievna Koudachev [1895 – 1990].
Drawing by Olive Sewall in 1921.
Detail of the document
Two lists with the Letters Patent issued by the Grand Duke Vasili [Basil] Ivanovich to Prince Akcura Adasheva and his children on estates along the river Tsne. [Beginning of the 16th century.]
A portion of the main genealogy
In the summer of 1999, I did a search on the Internet and came across a reference to Jacques Ferrand and to some books he has written on the noble families of ancient Russia. I ordered a book that included references to the Koudachev family. This revision is a scanned version of the chapter on the Koudachev family. I have left the text in the original French.
Jelena Djurovic is the great-grand-daughter of Prince Vladimir Vladirmirovitch Koudacheff. She is an artist living in Geneva Switzerland. Click on “Read the rest of this entry” to view some of the drawings Jelena recently exhibited in Belgrade.
The following text has kindly been provided by Marion Scheinberger-Koudacheff.
There are two branches of this family, one which remained muslim and the other one, which converted to the Christian faith in the beginning of the 17th century, since it was obligatory to take up the orthodox faith in order to be admitted to the Russan nobility by Tsar Boris Godunov. Our ancestor Kudach Murza took the precaution to only convert his first three sons.
According to old Russian archives our ancestor KUDACH MORZA (murza being a tatar title equivalent to prince) was given land by Tsar Boris Godunov, in the region of Temnikov (Tambovsk gubemija) and its wealth came from the cultivation of bees (bee-hives), Bees are still part of the coat of arms of the region of Ternnikov and Tambovsk. Read the rest of this entry »
We have now moved this site from Dreamhost.com over to WordPress.com. This means that the site will be automatically updated. This will reduce the time needed to magage the site which should increase the time for writing new posts.
In the move, we dropped the separate photo gallery (which was broken anyway) and have started using the simple gallery built into recent versions of WordPress.
You can get to this gallery by clicking Documents Gallery up above in the header.
Currently there are many scans of historical documents and photos.
As you enter an album you will see thumbnail images. Click on any thumbnail to see a medium size image. Click again to see the full size image. You will have to click on the “Go back one page” button to return to the gallery.
We will be working on giving these images full titles and better descriptions.
Photos of the house belonging to Prince Serge Wladimirovitch Koudachev are available at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aceit/tags/57bolshayamorskaya/
The building now contains a dentist office, the law offices of the American firm Baker & McKenzie and some residences in the rear courtyard.
Bol’shaya Morskaya Ulitsa 57, Saint Petersburg
Кудашевы - Koudachev, Koudacheff and Kudasheva 