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The Chelishchev family is a family of Russian nobility, known from the end of the 15th century.
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Челищевы
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Volume 2, Sheet 33 of the General Stamp
Part 6 of the Genealogy Book
Excerpt from the General Stamp
The shield is divided perpendicularly into two parts, of which in the right in the black field is the Banner having the Golden shaft, placed on the silver Crescent; the left part is cut horizontally by a line. In the upper part in the blue field is depicted the Cardinal Golden Hat and three golden Lilies near it. In the lower part in the red box are two golden Trumpets and between them on the silver strip are three ostrich Feathers of red color. The shield is crowned with an ordinary noble helmet with a noble crown on it, on the surface of which a lion with a sword is visible. The mantling on the shield is gold, blue and red. | |
| Country | Russia |
| Place of origin | Kaluga Governorate, Pskov Governorate |
The surname may come from the Turkic (Kazan–Tatar) nickname Chalysh, which means "oblique".[1] In the 16th and 17th centuries, many of the Chelishchev nobles clearly had Turkic nicknames (such as, for example, Alai, Bulysh, Enaklych, Kulush, Sarmak, etc.), which may indicate an eastern origin. The knowledge of the Turkic languages is also indicated by the fact that in the years 1533–1542 the Chelishchev brothers were constantly sent to the Crimean Khanate for negotiations.
In the eighteenth century, when compiling the Herbovnik, the families of the Chelishchevs, Pantsyrevs and Glazatovs invented a common origin from the Welfs through the fictional "William of Luneburg from the generation of King Otto IV" who allegedly went "to the Grand Duke Alexander Yaroslavich to the Battle of the Neva" and adopted Orthodoxy with the name of Leon.[2] At the same time, Mikhail Brenko, a favorite of Dmitry Donskoy, who laid down his head during the Battle of Kulikovo, was included in the number of ancestors of the Chelishchevs.
In the Herbovnik of Anisim Titovich Knyazev of 1785 there is an image of two seals with the arms of representatives of the Chelishchev family:
Boris Fedorovich Chelishchev, in 1498–99, the ambassador of Ivan III to the Crimean Khan Meñli Giray; in 1492, the Lithuanians burned his estate Alexino near Novgorod.
Osip Ivanovich Postnikov Kulush, landowner of Toropets, governor in Dankov in 1620–21.
Pyotr Semenovich Chelishchev, in 1600–02, the bypass head in Moscow, the grand-nephew of Ilya Mikulych.
Nikita Dmitrievich, second cousin of Pyotr Semyonovich and grand-nephew of Ilya Mikulych.
Alexander Ivanovich (d. 1821), son of the court adviser Ivan Petrovich, lieutenant general; under Paul I, the chief chief of the Artillery Department of the Military College; Married to Maria Nikolaevna Ogaryova.