Princess Myra Kudashev

Myra Armour – born Princess Maria Serguéievna Kudashev [1895 - 1990].

Drawing by Olive Sewall in 1921.

This drawing is now in the Possession of Theo Armour

Prince Akchurin

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.]

Family 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 Kudashev family. This revision is a scanned version of the chapter on the Kudashev family. I have left the text in the original French.

koudachev-geneology [pdf]

Drawings by Jelena Djurovic

Jelena Djurovic is the great-grand-daughter of Prince Vladimir Vladirmirovitch Kudashev. 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 Princes Kudachev (Koudacheff)

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 Russian nobility by Czar 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 Czar 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.

New Document Gallery

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Currently there are many scans of historical documents and photos.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 Kudashev House in St Petersburg

Photos of the house (palace?) belonging to Prince Serge Vladimirovitch Kudashev are available at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aceit/tags/57bolshayamorskaya/

The building at 57 Bolshaya Morskaya now contains a dentist office, the law offices of the American firm Baker & McKenzie and some residences in the rear courtyard.

Photos taken by Theo Armour on a trip to St Petersburg in 2004.