Kurakin, the Glossary
The House of Kurakin (Куракин) is a name of an old, historical Russian princely family descended from Lithuanian dynasty of Gediminas.[1]
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18 relations: Alexander Kurakin, Alexey Kurakin, Antons Kurakins, Boris Alekseevich Kurakin, Boris Kurakin, Dniester, Gediminas, Gediminids, House of Golitsyn, Igor Kurakin, Juri Kurakin, Lithuanian nobility, Natalia Kurakina, Okolnichy, Pinsk, Russian nobility, Stolnik, Tsardom of Russia.
Alexander Kurakin
Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin, sometimes spelled Kourakine (18 January 1752 – Weimar, 6 / 24 June 1818) was a Russian statesman and diplomat, a member of the State Council (from 1810), who was ranked Active Privy Counsellor 1st Class (see Table of Ranks).
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Alexey Kurakin
Prince Alexei Borisovich Kurakin (19 September 1759 – 30 December 1829) was a Russian statesman, Active Privy Councillor of the 1st class (1826), who held a number of top positions in the reign of Paul I and Alexander I. The direct ancestor of all subsequent Kurakin princes.
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Antons Kurakins
Antons Kurakins (born 1 January 1990) is a Latvian professional footballer who played as a defender for Riga FC and the Latvia national football team.
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Boris Alekseevich Kurakin
Boris Alekseevich Kurakin (Russian - Борис Алексеевич Куракин; 13 September 1784 - 2 October 1850) was a Russian Empire politician and diplomat.
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Boris Kurakin
Prince Boris Ivanovich Kurakin (Князь Борис Иванович Куракин; 30 July 1676, Moscow – 28 October 1727, Paris) was the third permanent Russian ambassador abroad, succeeding Andrey Matveyev in The Hague and one of the closest associates of Peter the Great.
Dniester
The Dniester is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe.
Gediminas
Gediminas (Gedeminne, Gedeminnus; – December 1341) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1315 or 1316 until his death in 1341.
Gediminids
The House of Gediminid or simply the Gediminids were a dynasty of monarchs in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that reigned from the 14th to the 16th century.
House of Golitsyn
The House of Golitsyn or Galitzine (Golitsyny) was a Russian princely family.
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Igor Kurakin
Igor Anatolyevich Kurakin (Игорь Анатольевич Куракин; 9 April 1963 – 8 August 2000 in a road accident) was a Russian professional footballer.
Juri Kurakin
Juri Kurakin (born 3 August 1987) is a former competitive ice dancer who is best known for his partnership with Barbora Silná for Austria.
Lithuanian nobility
The Nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania or the Szlachta of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (bajorija, šlėkta, szlachta Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego) was historically a legally privileged hereditary elite class in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth (including during period of foreign rule 1795–1918) consisting of Lithuanians from Lithuania Proper; Samogitians from Duchy of Samogitia; following Lithuania's eastward expansion into what is now Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, many ethnically Ruthenian noble families (boyars); and, later on, predominantly Baltic German families from the Duchy of Livonia and Inflanty Voivodeship.
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Natalia Kurakina
Princess Natalia Ivanovna Kurakina (Наталья Ивановна Куракина; 16 August 1766 - 2 July 1831) née Golovina (Головина) was a Russian composer, singer, and harpist in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Okolnichy
Okolnichy (око́льничий) was an old Russian court official position.
Pinsk
Pinsk (Пінск; Пинск,; Pińsk; Пінськ) is a city in Brest Region, Belarus.
Russian nobility
The Russian nobility or dvoryanstvo (дворянство) arose in the Middle Ages.
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Stolnik
Stolnik (сто́льник) was a court office in Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Russia, responsible for serving the royal table, then an honorary court title and a district office.
Tsardom of Russia
The Tsardom of Russia, also known as the Tsardom of Muscovy, was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of tsar by Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721. From 1550 to 1700, Russia grew by an average of per year. The period includes the upheavals of the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov dynasties, wars with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian conquest of Siberia, to the reign of Peter the Great, who took power in 1689 and transformed the tsardom into an empire.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurakin
Also known as Kurakina, Kurakins, Princess Elisabeth Andreevna Kurakina, Куракин.