Golden Steward Vasily Grigorievich Fefilatiev

Abstract

From the XV century in the Russian state, an award for certain military merits is known in the form of rewarding those who distinguished themselves, or those who participated in a particular military campaign, with gilded silver or gold coins. The Moscow Kremlin Museums keep a gold award with an owner’s inscription stating that it was granted in 1639/40 to the stolnik Vasily Grigorievich Fefilatiev. This is the oldest personalized Russian award to date. It was possible to establish that the gold was awarded for the Saratov service in 1636. Archival sources made it possible to trace the history of this relic from the middle of the 17th century to the present day, as well as to add new information to the history of the Fefilatiev family.

Keywords

• printed order
• voivode
• boyar lists
• general kosagov
• karachev
• kalmyks
• pedigree paintings
• patriarchal boyar children
• vozdvizhensky convent
• staritsa dorofea