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The Chelyadnins (Челяднины) were an old and influential Russian boyar family who served several princes of the Kievan Rus, most prominently the Grand Princes of Moscow. They were descended from Ratsha, court servant (tiun) to Prince Vsevolod II of Kiev.
History
Ancestry
The Chelyadnins were descended from Ratsha, court servant (tiun) to Prince Vsevolod II of Kiev and the oppressive manager of serfs in Kiev. Several other Russian noble families are also descended from Ratsha, including the Pushkin, Aminoff, Buturlin, Kuritsyn, Kamensky families.
Ratsha's great-grandson Gavrila Aleksich was a boyar under the famed Alexander Nevsky and played an important role in the Battle of Neva. Gavrila Aleksich's son Akinf Gavrilovich the Great was a boyar under two Grand Princes of Vladimir, Andrey of Gorodets and Mikhail of Tver. The founder of the Chelyadnin family was Mikhail Andreevich Chelyadnya, son of Akinf and seventh-generation descendant of Ratsha.
Notable Chelyadnins
Boyar Andrey Fyodorovich Chelyadnin (?-1503), the first of Chelyadnins who gained the title of konyushy, governor (наместник, namestnik) of Novgorod. He was Commander-in-Chief during the Russo-Swedish War (1495–1497). In 1500 he defeated the Lithuanians at the Lovat River and captured the city of Toropets.
Boyar Ivan Andreyevich Chelyadnin (?-1514), konyushy at the court of Vasili III of Russia, voyevoda (1508–1509). He took part in a number of battles with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, after the defeat of Russia at the Battle of Orsha he was taken into captivity and died in a prison in Vilnius.
References
- Karamzin, Nikolay. History of the Russian State, Vol. 2. p. 123, note 290.
- Bobrinsky, Alexander Alekseevich, Stat. Count Alexander Bobrinsky Noble families included in the General Armorial of the All-Russian Empire: in 2 volumes, (1890) St. Petersburg, Part I: Poluyekhtovs, pp. 219-220.
- M. Wegner, Pushkin's ancestors, (1937) Soviet writer, p. 156.
- "Clan of the Sviblovs". Genealogical book of princes and nobles, Russian and visiting (Velvet Book), Part 1. Novikov Printing House. 1787. p. 309.
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