News June,29,2007
IGA
- Russian Generals And Admirals Of The Napoleonic Epoch
- Table of Ranks Of The Russian Empire.
- What are the most common Russian surnames?
- Updates of our site
You are welcome to visit the site Russian Generals and Admirals of the Napoleonic Epoch.
http://www.100megsfree4.com/rusgeneralThere you will find many biogaphies of Russian commanders of this epoch and also a lot of very interesting information including the free on-line book "From The Niemen To The Berezina" about the Russian campaign of 1812.
On January,24, 1722 Emperod Peter The Great ratified "The
Law About the State Service Order In The Russian Empire" (ranks by seniority
and promotion succession), or "Table of Ranks" The base of this law was a
numer of similar laws in some European countries, especially in Denmark and
Prussia.
All ranks in "The Table of Ranks" were of three types:
military, civilian and court ones and were subdivided into XIV classes. (The
first class was the highest and fourteenth one - the lowest).
Military
ranks were higher than civilian and even court ones. This seniority gave
advantage for military ranks in the main goal - transferring to nobility. And
even XIV class of "The Table" ("Praporshik" - ensign) gave the right of the
hereditary nobiliary rank (in civilian service the hereditary nobiliary rank
was given only from 8 class, and 14 class gave only the right of personal
nobility).
Not long ago we posted The Table Of Ranks on our site. If you are interested please visit the page:
http://www3.webng.com/rusgenealogy/table.htm
It's very hard to count how the number of different Russian surnames, you will have to count millions names. And how to count them: by families, by people or generations? And also in a family may be seven sons in one generation and only one daughter in the next one and she changed her surname after marriage - what will be in this case?
But anyway such attempts to determine the frequency of Russian names were made twice. Philologist Boris Unbehaun that was born in Russia and for many years taught in the Oxford University tried to determine the frequency surnames of St.Petersburg inhabitants based of the address book "Whole Petersburg" for 1910 containing about 200 thousand surnames.
But becuase there were always very many foreigners living in St.Petersburg in the list of the most common names got two German surnames: Shmidt and Miller.
The second attempt belongs to our contemporary Anatoly Fedorovich Zhuravlev. He and his colleagues compiled a list of 500 most common Russian surnames. There are some differences with Unbehaun but the whole picture is almost similar.
Below you can see data of Russian surnames frequency made by Zhuravlev, the number on the left is the place of a surname in the list. The number in brackets is a position of this surname in the list of Unbehaun.
1. Ivanov (1)
2. Smirnov (4)
3. Kuznetsov (23)
4. Popov (9)
5. Vasiliev (2)
6. Petrov (3)
7. Sokolov (7)
8. Mikhailov (5)
9. Novikov (39)
10. Fedorov (6)
11. Morozov (41)
12. Volkov (22)
13. Alexeev (11)
14. Lebedev (13)
15. Semenov (16)
16. Egorov (21)
17. Pavlov (17)
18. Kozlov (36)
19. Stepanov (15)
20. Nikolaev (19)
21. Orlov (27)
22. Andreev (10)
23. Makarov (44)
24. Nikitin (24)
25. Zakharov (31)
26. Zaitsev (45)
27. Soloviev (25)
28. Borisov (25)
29. Yakovlev (8)
30. Grigoriev (14)
31. Romanov (42)
32. Vorobiev (63)
33. Sergeev (30)
34. Kuzmin (34)
35. Frolov (77)
36. Alexandrov (12)
37. Dmitriev (20)
38. Korolev (no)
39. Gusev (52)
40. Kiselev (54)
41. Il'in (37)
42. Maximov (35)
43. Poliakov (65)
44. Sorokin (55)
45. Vinogradov (33)
46. Kovalev (no)
47. Belov (74)
48. Medvedev (no)
49. Antonov (48)
50. Tarasov (no)
Professor Alexandra Superanskaya
Rossijskaya Gazeta June, 2007
We posted some new pages on our site.
Now you can find there the full list of towns and villages of the Belgorod province (oblast), Russia and also we updated our
List of Noble Families that had their estates in the Belgorod, Kursk and Voronezh regions in XVII - XIX centuries.
See the page Our Databases on the site:
http://www3.webng.com/rusgenealogy
bill.everett
250 "general Russian" surnames compiled by researchers of the Russian
Academy of Medical Sciences (RAMS). Some results of the study were
reported in <a href="http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?
DocsID=611986">Kommersant Vlast, No. 38 (641) 26 Sept. 2005<\a>.
1. Ivanov (1) [2]
2. Smirnov (4) [1]
3. Kuznetsov (23) [3]
4. Popov (9) [4]
5. Vasiliev (2) [13]
6. Petrov (3) [10]
7. Sokolov (7) [5]
8. Mikhailov (5) [22]
9. Novikov (39) [8]
10. Fedorov (6) [21]
11. Morozov (41) [9]
12. Volkov (22) [11]
13. Alexeev (11) [39]
14. Lebedev (13) [6]
15. Semenov (16) [16]
16. Egorov (21) [71]
17. Pavlov (17) [15]
18. Kozlov (36) [7]
19. Stepanov (15) [40]
20. Nikolaev (19) [63]
21. Orlov (27) [27]
22. Andreev (10) [30]
23. Makarov (44) [29]
24. Nikitin (24) [54]
25. Zakharov (31) [45]
26. Zaitsev (45) [14]
27. Soloviev (25) [12]
28. Borisov (25) [46]
29. Yakovlev (8) [41]
30. Grigoriev (14)[50]
31. Romanov (42) [44]
32. Vorobiev (63) [20]
33. Sergeev (30) [43]
34. Kuzmin (34) [35]
35. Frolov (77) [61]
36. Alexandrov (12) [88]
37. Dmitriev (20) [74]
38. Korolev (no) [47]
39. Gusev (52) [33]
40. Kiselev (54) [28]
41. Il'in (37) [32]
42. Maximov (35) [65]
43. Poliakov (65) [57]
44. Sorokin (55) [42]
45. Vinogradov (33) [18]
46. Kovalev (no) [31]
47. Belov (74) [25]
48. Medvedev (no) [52]
49. Antonov (48) [78]
50. Tarasov (no) [24]
Surnames among the first 50 in the RAMS list that are not in the list
above:
Goliubev [17]
Bogdanov [19]
Beliaev [23]
Komarov [26]
Titov [34]
Kudriavtsev [36]
Baranov [37]
Kulikov [38]
Gerasimov [48]
Ponomarev [50]
Mark C.
That is Unbegaun in Latin letters, not Unbehaun. At least, that's
the way he has his name in his indispensible book RUSSIAN SURNAMES
(Oxford, 1972). It's great for the meaning of surnames, and tons of
details on principles of surname formation and ethnic characteristics.
Mark C.