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EASTERN EUROPEAN
Heraldry and Genealogy:
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Polish Heraldry – Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine |
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PAN-EASTERN
EUROPEAN HERALDRY
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The books and or websites listed herein are those that cover two or more of the several geographical areas included within this heraldic classification. |
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HERALDRY: |
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BIOGRAPHIES AND GENEALOGIES: Ukrainian.Cossack, petty officers and Russian nobility born in Chernigov in 17th & 18th centuries, by Miloradovich, 1870 |
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GEOGRAPHY: Books: A Dictionary,
Geographical, Statistical, & Historical of the various countries, places, and principal natural objects in the
world, by John Ramsay M'Culloch, four volumes, published 1866
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BULGARIAN
HERALDRY
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The development personal and family coats of arms among Bulgarians can be placed into two primary groups. Firstly, there are the coats of arms granted to Bulgarians by foreign aristocracy. This occurred mostly after the Ottoman conquest, of what is now
1878 liberation of Bulgaria. Included within this grouping are the armorial bearings of foreign nobility, like the princes of Walachia and Moldova, who had estates of their own South of Danube, as well as the Hungarian and Polish immigrants from the middle of the 19th century, and especially the “White Russians” who came to Bulgaria during the 1920s. |
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POLISH
HERALDRY
(Belarus; Lithuania; Poland; Ukraine)
Heraldic symbols began to be used in Poland in the 13th century. The generic Polish term for a coat of arms, herb, dates from the early 15th century. Polish heraldry is inclusive of the specifically Polish traits of heraldry and the development of coats of arms in the lands of historical Poland which also included the present day countries of Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine. By the 16th century heraldry was well established in the aforementioned regions in so much that the contributed greatly to the development of the heraldic system developed in Russian during the 17th century.
coat of arms could appear in slightly different versions, typically in different colors, depending on the custom of the family using it. Such modifications are still considered as representing the same coat of arms. One of the most visually striking characteristics of Polish heraldry is the abundance of red fields. Among the oldest coats of arms in Poland, nearly half use a red background, with blue coming in a distant second. Nowhere else in Europe is there seen such a strong bias towards a particular color scheme. It follows however the well-known heraldic custom of all Europe, of the vassals following the color-scheme of their overlord, which found practical use on the battlefield. Other typical features used in Polish heraldry include horseshoes, arrows, Maltese crosses, scythes, stars and crescents. There are also many purely geometrical shapes for which a separate set of heraldic terms was invented. The inclusion of supporters, mottos and compartments were uncommon on Polish influenced armorial bearings until the 18th and 19th centuries. |
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Polish Nobility and Its Heraldry: An Introduction, by Piotr Pawel Bajer, (manuscript), 54 pages Armorial Polish: Messages historical genealogy of noble lineages (Herbarz polski: Wiadomosći historyczno-genealogiczne o rodach szlacheckich), by Adam Boniecki 16 Volumes + Supplement, published
Polish genealogy & heraldry: an introduction to research, by Polish Banners at Grunwald, 1410, by Andrezi Klein, et.al., 2000, 130 pages Nobility and coats of noble houses in the Crown and the Grand Ziestwie Polskiey Lithuania, Kuropatnicki, 1789 Names of the nobility of their own coats of arms… in the Polish Kingdom & Grand Lithuanian, by Małachowski, 1805 A few words of Polish heraldry, by Stanisław Mieroszowski (hrabia.) – 1887 Lithuanian Heraldry, by Prof. Krzysztof Mikulski, Prof. John Tęgowski, (manuscript), 5 pages Armorial Ignatius Kapitza Milewski: complement Niesiecki, by Ignacy Kapica Milewski – 1870, 504 pages Armorial Polish (Herbarz polski), by Kasper Niesiecki, et.al., 10 volumes published 1839-1846
The Book of Polish families armorial Heraldry: Volume 1, by Juliusz Ostrowski (hrabia.) - 1897 Coats of arms of Polish knighthood, by Bartosz Paprocki - 1858 Polish heraldry of the Middle Ages, by Franciszek Piekosiński - 1899 Polish knights of the Middle Ages; 1200-1366, by Franciszek Piekosiński – 1901 History of Polish and Polish law: Unknown heraldic records of the books wislickich, by Piekosiński - 1907 Heraldic monthly: Volumes 1-3, by Polish Society of Heraldic , Heraldry Society in Lviv, 1908 Przęsło ze Zwierzyńca, by Mikołaj Rej – 1884 Heraldry knighthood of Lithuania: Compendium, the familie of knighthood in Lithuania, Vijūkas-Kojelavičius, 1897 Unknown Polish nobility coats of arms, by Wiktor Wittyg, Stanisław Dziadulewicz - 1908 The Polish Ancestral Arms, their history and their stories, by Emilian von Źernicki-Szeliga – 1904 |
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BIOGRAPHIES AND GENEALOGIES: Ukrainian Nobility at the Break of the 16th and 17th Centuries, By Prof. Michal Hruszewski, (manuscript), 13 pages Monographs historical and genealogical of some Polish families, Vol. 1, by Kossakowski, et.al., 1859 Monographs historical and genealogical of some Polish families, Vol. 2, by Kossakowski, et.al., 1860 Monographs historical and genealogical of some Polish families, Vol. 3, by Kossakowski, et.al., 1872 About dynastic origins of the Polish nobility, by Franciszek Piekosiński – 1888 About dynastic nobility Polish origin, by Franciszek Piekosiński, 2nd edition, 1896 Twelve of the first generations of Polish knights of the Middle Ages, by Franciszek Piekosiński - 1896 Polish knights of the Middle Ages, Volume 1, Franciszek Piekosiński – 1896 Titled Families of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, by Michael Subritzky-Kusza Ct, PNA. (manuscript), 5 pages The Polonization of the Ukrainian Nobility, By Orest Subtelny, (manuscript), 2 pages Notes on the illustrious and titled families of Poland..., by Seweryn Uruski (hrabia) - 1862 |
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HISTORY: Poland and Lithuania in the historical relationship, by Warszawa, published 1914, 700 pages. |
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RUSSIAN
HERALDRY
Heraldry was not adopted in Russia until after 1600. However, there is some information about tribal symbols and identification marks being used in Russia up to that time. Early arms were at least partly inspired by Western designs, and this was made greater by the acquisition of Ukraine from Poland, which had already been influenced by western heraldry. Early designs of Russian heralds did not follow the usual rules of heraldry. By 1689, there was some legal status of arms, helped by the nobility reforms of 1682, and the ideas of Peter the Great. He oversaw the first officers of arms, the turning of state symbols into true heraldry, and started to protect certain families' rights to particular arms. Unlike coats of arms in other countries (such as in English heraldry), they were largely granted to the family as a whole. In Imperial Russia, the use of coats of arms was not regulated. The use of armorial bearings was common among the upper classes. Arms of non-nobles were rare, although they were not banned. When the Soviet regime took over in Russia, it abolished all titles of nobility. However, the heraldic lineages of the former noble class did continue. As such, a large number of noble arms, complete with supporters and helms dating back to the days of the old Russian Empire are still actively used as a symbol of one's former nobility. There has been no change in the regulation of coat-of-arms in the current Russian state, although the use of traditional noble indicators such as certain types of helms, and supporters, for example, is restricted. |
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Heraldry: Moscow Archaeological institute in 1907/8 year, by Yuri Arsenyev, published 1908, 298 pages Russian Heraldry: Volume 1, by Alexander B. Lakier, published 1855 Russian Heraldry: Volume 2, by Alexander B. Lakier, published 1855 Heraldry: Istoricheskіy Collection, by Н. В. Shaposhnikova - 1900 Emblems gorodovw̄, gubernịy, regions and posadovw̄ Rossịyskoy imperịi: 1649 to 1900, by Paul P. von Winkler, 1899 |
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BIOGRAPHIES AND GENEALOGIES: Lists provincial marshal of nobility Rossіyskoy Imperіi 1785-1895, by Miloradovich, 1895 Genealogy Book Chernigovskago Nobility: Volume 1, by Earl A. Hryhoriy Miloradovich, 1901 More Editions Genealogy Book Chernigovskago Nobility: Volume 2, by Earl A. Hryhoriy Miloradovich, 1901 More Editions Genealogy Book Chernigovskago Nobility: Vols. 3-6, by Earl A. Hryhoriy Miloradovich, 1901 More Editions Ukrainian Cossack, petty officers and Russian
nobility born in Chernigov in 17th & 18th centuries, by Miloradovich,
1870 Russian Genealogy Book ((Российская родословная книга), by Peter Dolgorukov (Prince) (Петр Долгоруков (князь) |
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