Bakunin family explained

House of Bakunin
Native Name:Баку́нины
Native Name Lang:ru
Type:Noble family
Coat Of Arms:Bakunin_coat_of_arms.jpg
Parent Family:Báthory family
Country:Russia
Region:Tver
Etymology:From the Russian: Бакуня|translit=Bakunya; meaning "chatterbox, phrase monger".[1]
Origin:Transylvania
Founded:
Founder:Zenislav Bakunin
Nikifor Bakunin
Estate:Pryamukhino

The Bakunin family (Russian: Баку́нины) is an old Russian noble family, claiming descent from the Hungarian House of Báthory.

History

The Bakunin family claims descent from Stephen Báthory, the Prince of Transylvania who campaigned against Ivan the Terrible for control over Livonia. According to the family legend, the Bakunin dynasty was founded in 1492 by Zenislav Bakunin, one of the three brothers of the Báthory family who left Hungary to serve under Vasili III of Russia. Zenislav was subsequently baptised as Peter Bakunin and granted estates in Ryazan, where his family continued to serve the Russian Empire.[2] But the first documented ancestor of the Bakunins was a 17th-century Moscow clerk Nikifor Evdokimov, who became a noble in 1677, going by the nickname of "Bakunin".[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia: Бакулить. Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language. ru.
  2. Encyclopedia: Герб рода Бакуниных. Bakunin coat of arms. All-Russian Armorials of Noble Houses of the Russian Empire. 5. 22 October 1800. A.N.. Khmelevsky. ru. 41. gerbovnik.ru.
  3. Encyclopedia: Бакунины. 1891. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. Wikisource. IIa. 774–775. ru.