Prince Kyril Scherbatow & Count Geogi P. Monomakhoof

[Royal Yankee]

I was looking around Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, NY, USA
yesterday and discovered the graves of two Russian noblemen.

1. - Count Georgi P. Monomakhoff, 1906 - 2005
2. - Prince Kyril Scherbatow, Nov. 23, 1902 - Apr. 13, 1993

I googled both names and found out that the Prince was a godson of
Nicholas II. It listed the names of his parents also. His mother was a
lady-in-waiting to the Czarina Alexandra.
I found out very little information concerning the Count. Could anyone
help me in finding out more detailed information about these two men?

[Svetabel]

Prince Kirill Pavlovitch Tscherbatow was eldest son of Prince Pavel Borisovicth (1871-1951) - former aide-de-camp of GD Nikolai Nikolayevitch-younger - ,and Princess Anna Vladimirovna Baryatinskaya (1879-1942).
Among his siblings was Prince Alexei (1910-2003), a scientist and Marshal of the Russian nobility  in the USA. Prince Kirill himself was a member of the Malthusian Order.
There was a sister of them, Princess Xenia (1919-1975), who by the way was born in Yalta - so at the Crimea period of many Russian noble families -, later in 1947 she married Prince Daniil Volkonskiy.

[Svetabel]

As for "Count Monomakhoff" then his family name sounds strange and somewhat funny. There are no such Counts in Russia, probably the name is fake.

[Royal Yankee]

According to this website-  [url]http://www.russiannobility.org/Default.asp?page=26[url]                         
 
"The Russian Nobility Association regrests to announce that Count Georgi P. Monomakhoff, Russian Nobleman, died peacefully on Monday, January 17 2005, at his home in Buffalo, New York.
 
Monomakhoff with his family, escaped from St. Petersburg in 1917 during the Russian Revolution.  His parents were Count Pavel Monomakhoff and Countess Aleksandra Oreus.  He moved to the United States in 1928.  During WWII, he served in the European Theater, U.S. Army, 87th Division, Combat Intelligence, receiving a Bronze Star with two clusters.  Before moving to Buffalo in 1996, he resided in Wantagh, Long Island.
 
He was a member of the Russian Nobility Association, 87th Infantry Division Association, VFW.
 
Survivors include his wife, Countess Eileen Monomakhoff, two daughters, Countess Alexandra Monomakhoff, Countess Kathleen Monomakhoff Loree, and two grandsons.
 
Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York.

[LisaDavidson]

This name may sound strange to many of us, but students of Medieval Russian history will certainly recognize the name of the famous Grand Duke of Kiev, Vladimir Monomahk (1053 - 1125). VM founded the city of Vladimir and is widely associated with the Golden Age of Kiev, and was the link (because he was grandson of the Emperor of Byzantium) of the Russian Empire to the Byzantine in political mythology. (Students of British history may know that his wife was the daughter of Harold Godwin and Edith Swan Neck, the former being the ruler overthrown by William the Conqueror).

In Russian tradition, the line of descent from a famous person was often memorialized by a new surname. In this case, it is very likely that the gentleman buried in New York was a descendant of Vladimir Monomahk.

I found this little tidbit on MySpace, which was a list of resistance to the Bolsheviks from 1917:

June 7th, 1927: The mission of terrorists of the Russian All Military Union into the USSR. The group of Larionov, Soloviev, and Monomakhov throws a bomb at the party club of the Leningrad communist university, wounds 26 people and escapes into Finland; the group of Maria Zakharchenko-Schultz, Voznesensky, and Opperput tries to bomb the housing facility of the OGPU in Moscow but is discovered and killed in a gun battle. On that same day in Minsk the head of the Belorussian OGPU Opanskiy is killed by unknown assailants, and the 17 year old Boris Koverda kills the Soviet political ambassador Voikov at a train station. The reason for these actions is to destroy the myth of the all-powerful GPU, which had been widespread after their provocational TREST operation of the 1920's.

Finally, Monomahk's Cap is a very famous part of the Russian Crown Jewels and presently resides in the Kremlin Armory in Moscow. It is the oldest crown in the collection

[Svetabel]

This name may sound strange to many of us, but students of Medieval Russian history will certainly recognize the name of the famous Grand Duke of Kiev, Vladimir Monomahk (1053 - 1125). VM founded the city of Vladimir and is widely associated with the Golden Age of Kiev, and was the link (because he was grandson of the Emperor of Byzantium) of the Russian Empire to the Byzantine in political mythology.

Of course 'Monomakh" is easily recognizable for those who knows Russian History. That's why I said in my previous post the name sounded funny and strange. It would be the same amuse if we'll read somewhere about someone like "Count Plantagenetov" , and I think such a family name of that "Count Monomachov" is a fake or pseudonim.

[LisaDavidson]

This name may sound strange to many of us, but students of Medieval Russian history will certainly recognize the name of the famous Grand Duke of Kiev, Vladimir Monomahk (1053 - 1125). VM founded the city of Vladimir and is widely associated with the Golden Age of Kiev, and was the link (because he was grandson of the Emperor of Byzantium) of the Russian Empire to the Byzantine in political mythology.

Of course 'Monomakh" is easily recognizable for those who knows Russian History. That's why I said in my previous post the name sounded funny and strange. It would be the same amuse if we'll read somewhere about someone like "Count Plantagenetov" , and I think such a family name of that "Count Monomachov" is a fake or pseudonim.

But, the use of a famous name (becoming a surname) is not uncommon in Russia. For example, the Dolgorukis, descendants of the famous Yuri Dolgoruki (reputed founder of Moscow and son of Vladimir Monomahk), were a well known Russian family. Alexander II's second wife, as we recall, was Catherine Dolgoruki.

While I haven't seen the Monomahk surname as commonly as the Dolgoruki name, the fact that it appears otherwise in history, tends to decrease the chances it was a false name. (Just my opinion).

[Mike]

Until today, I have also never heard or read about the Monomakhovs, but such a family actually existed. Nikolai Vladimirovich Monomakhov belonged to the nobility of Saratov Governorate and graduated subsequently from the First Pavlovskoye military school and the Mikhailovskoye artillery school. In 1897, he was member of the Saratov peasant administration, since 1906 - vice governor and then acting governor of Vologda Governorate. In 1910 he was appointed vice governor of Primorskaya Region at Vladivostok, and in 1912 governor of Kamchatka - in which capacity he served until the revolution in February 1917. Nothing is known about him after that time. His wife was an ardent amateur actress who organized the first theater in Kamchatka. They had at least two children, Natalia and Vladimir, who in 1919 lived in Vyatka. 

These Monomakhovs weren't counts.

[Mike]

More info on the Monomakhovs:
Colonel Alexander Vladimirovich Monomakhov in 1908 - 1914 commanded 13th Dragoon "Military Order" regiment.
In 1920, Boris Monomakhov was director of finances of the Siberian provisional government at Chita.

[Mike]

Sad update on Nikolai Monomakhov, former Kamchatka governor:
In 1934 he, his wife, their daughter Natalia and granddaughter Essia, 17, lived in Leningrad. After assassination of Kirov, all four of them were arrested together with other former "servants of the Tsarist regime" and their families. Nikolai Monomakhov was apparently executed shortly afterwards, his wife was exiled to a remote region and perished there, and Natalia threw herself on railway track during prisoners' transportation to Siberia. Essia, after two years in exile, was permitted to return to Leningrad.
Source: http://www.kamlib.ru/resourses/neizv.htm