Poltoratsky family explained

Poltoratsky family
Native Name:Полторацкие
Founder:Mark Poltoratsky
Estate:Utkina Dacha, Avchurino, Gruziny, Krasnoye, Kosaya Gora, Istye

The Poltoratsky family was a Russian noble family, descended from the Cossack Mark Fedorovich Poltoratsky (1729–1795), who during the reign of Catherine the Great, was in charge of the Court Singing Chapel. The Poltoratsky coat of arms shows a harp as a sign of this.

History

"The family that recently emerged from the merchants, in which all the brothers and sisters were distinguished by a sharp tone and an extraordinary enterprise in all kinds of labor", the contemporary of the Poltoratsky family characterized them in the 1820s.[1]

Poltoratsky owned famous estates Gruziny in Tver Governorate and Avchurino in Kaluga Governorate. Outside these provinces, they were also included in the genealogical books of the provinces of Kursk, Penza, St. Petersburg and Tambov.

Significant members

Information in the General Armorial of the Noble Families

Volume and sheet of the General Armorial: II, 142.
Parts of the genealogy book: II, III.
The coat of arms of Poltoratsky in the General Armorial of the noble families of the Russian Empire:
"The shield is divided horizontally into two parts, of which three silver crosses of the trifoliate figure are depicted in the upper blue field. In the lower part in the silver field there is a harp with stretched blue strings.

The shield is crowned with an ordinary noble helmet, decorated with a noble torse, on the surface of which a silver lion extending to half is visible, holding a bunchuk with a blue rim and a black shaft in its front paws. The mantling on the shield is blue, enclosed with silver. The coat of arms was included in Part 2 of the General Armorial of the Noble Clans of the All-Russian Empire, p. 142".

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Notes and References

  1. Notes of Dmitry Nikolayevich Sverbeev. Printing house "Kushnerev and Co.", 1899. p. 263.
  2. Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich. "Russian portraits of the XVIII and XIX centuries". Issue 4, No. 20-21.
  3. Local history magazine "The Old Tver".
  4. Lazar Chereisky. Mikhail Poltoratsky // Pushkin and his circle / Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Department of Literature and Language of the Pushkin Commission. Responsible editor Vadim Vatsuro. – 2nd edition, supplemented and revised – Leningrad: Science. Leningrad branch, 1989.