mother of murzada Elene of Kabarda aka princess Cherkasski
M Sjostrom
http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00137147&tree=LEO
was heiress of a *branch* of Kabardian princely dynasty of murza Yidar. Her
brother, murza Danila, died childess in 1706.
Elena has a lot of descendants in high aristocracy of Russia, and to what
western families they recently spread it in emigre; as well as in a
selection of high aristocracy of western Europe.
Elene was birthing her own children between 1696-1704 and she should have
died before 1724
she must have been born in 1657 at the very earliest (this makes her 46 at
the time of her last dated pregnancy), but much likelier later, such as
around 1670.
now, her father, murza Senjeley (murdered on 14 October 1673, born probably
around 1620 in Caucasia, probably at the fortress of Terek, in lesser
Kabarda), had two consecutive wives, and the second marriage is listed as
having taken place in 1659.
He married firstly: the Rurikid princess Paraskeva Nikitichna Odoevskaia,
heiress of Vokressenskoje and Dodygino (died in 1656, or in some tables
1658)
(daughter of thus couple:
http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00493616&tree=LEO
he married (in 1659) the Rurikid princess Evdokia Ivanovna Pronskaia,
heiress of Tshirikovo (born in est 1630s; buried in 1686)
(first cousin of this:
http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00350679&tree=LEO
Everything in Elene's own family career and its dayes points towards her
being born of the second wife (Eudokia), only in 1660s or even in early
1670s.
Why would she have waited from 1656 to 1696 (to the age of forty) to start
her pwn family, and then however birthed a veritable brood. More natural to
start in her twenties.
It is almost impossible (because of the date of her last known pregancy in
1704) for Elene to be born early enough to be child of the first wife
(Paraskeva).