Putyatin (family)
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Putyatin also romanized Poutiatine, Putjatin, Putiatin, is a Rurikid family with princely and noble lines. They branched from the dukes of the autonomous principality of Drutsk, sometime in mid-15th century.
Notable figures of the princely family
- Prince Nikolai Putyatin, Russian philanthropist and philosopher.
- Duke Mikiitta Iivananpoika Putjatin settled after mid-15th century to the service of Moscow and received estates from Ivan III
- Duke Taavetti Mikiitanpoika Putjatin held in the beginning of the 16th century a remarkable bunch of landed estates in Karelia of Käkisalmi in eastern Finland. He is ancestor of all the presently living members of the princely family of Putjatin. The taxation register of Vatja from the year 1500 lists several of his holdings.
- Duke Sergei Putjatin, the second husband of Grand Duchess Maria PavlovnaGrand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890-1958)Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, known as "Maria Pavlovna the Younger" was the daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich and Alexandra Georgievna of Greece by marriage Princess of Sweden...
the younger (1890–1958)
Members of other (non-princely) Putiatin families
- Yevfimy PutyatinYevfimy PutyatinYevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin was a Russian admiral noted for his diplomatic missions to Japan and China which resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Shimoda in 1855.-Early life:...
, Russian admiral. He was not a member of the princely family which were Rurikids, instead the admiral came from another family with the same surname