Valya Dolgorukov vs Dolgoruky

[helenazar]

I have seen Valya's last name appear as both versions depending on source, which one is correct, does anyone know? Thanks!

[Forum Admin]

The 1889 Genealogy of the Russian Nobility published in Petersburg, in the French edition, lists the Noble Family name as "Dolgorukov"

[helenazar]

Thanks, so is Dolgoruky another family completely, nothing to do with Valya? Or are they related?

[rudy3]

The telephone directory Ves Petrograd of 1916 lists:

prince Sergey Alexandrovich Dolgorukij and princess Irina Vasilevna Dolgorukaya (address Moika 120), prince Petr Alexandrovich Dolgorukij and princess Olga Petrovna Dolgorukaya (Galernaya 77) and princess Sofia Alekseevna Dolgorukaya (English Embarkment 70)

All others are listed under Dolgorukov (9 princes) / Dolgorukova (6 princesses)

[helenazar]

Thanks! I wonder if they are all part of same original family name, which ended up with spelling variations, or completely separate...

[Превед]

It's the same family. I guess different branches would have assumed different spellings by 1914, but only a century earlier a Dolgorukov / Dolgorukiy used both form indiscriminately, as evidenced in the research dug up in the city of Penza's quest to establish if their улица Долгорукова should be renamed улица Долгорукого. See here.

[helenazar]

It's the same family. I guess different branches would have assumed different spellings by 1914, but only a century earlier a Dolgorukov / Dolgorukiy used both form indiscriminately, as evidenced in the research dug up in the city of Penza's quest to establish if their улица Долгорукова should be renamed улица Долгорукого. See here.

Thank you very much, that's what I wanted to know!

[Forum Admin]

It is not the same family.. The official Genealogy of the Russian Nobility of 1889 makes no mention of any change of spelling nor the name Dolgoruky. Vasily Alexandrovich Dolgorukov was born in 1868 to Prince and Princess Alexander Vasilievich and Mary Sergeyevna Dolgorukov. This is the spelling in the book.

They should not be used interchangeably and Dolgoruky is incorrect entirely.

[Превед]

It is not the same family.

How come the English Wikipedia introduces Princess Yurievskaya as:
"Princess Yekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukova (Екатерина Михаиловна Долгорукова), also known in English as Catherine Dolgorukova, Catherine Dolgoruki, or Catherine Dolgorukaya"

The same with Tsaritsa Мария Долгорукая (Долгорукова) / Mariiya Dolgorukaya (Dolgorukova), Ivan the Terrible's seventh wife.

And that the genealogist and dissident Prince Pyotr Vladimirovich Dolgorukov wrote a book called "Сведения о роде князей Долгоруковых", 1842, (Accounts of the Princely Family of Dolgorukov) and in another one, "Notices sur les principales familles de la Russie, par le prince Pierre Dolgouruky", (!) 1842, writes:
"Les princes Dolgorouky, Même origine. Leur appellation dérive du surnom de l'un de leurs aïeux, Dolgorouky (longue main)....."

I think it's a question of which languge used: In Russian they are nearly always known as Dolgorukov, in French sometimes by the more archaïc Dolgoruky.

[Forum Admin]

The volume I reference is "L'Annuaire de la Noblesse Russie" first edition published in French in St Petersbourg 1889. I will rely on it as accurate far more than Wikipedia.

The name Dolgoruky is nowhere mentioned in the book.

[rudy3]

Princes Dolgoruky do exist. For example the ones I mentioned above, listed in the Ves Petrograd directory.

Here about prince Sergey Alexandrovich Dolgoruky, who was enlisted in the suite of the Empress Maria Feodorovna:

http://pskovgrad.ru/war/pervaya-mirovaya-vojna/26814-knyaz-dolgorukiy-sergey-aleksandrovich.html

[Inok Nikolai]

I have seen Valya's last name appear as both versions depending on source, which one is correct, does anyone know? Thanks!

Dolgorukov was his surname.

Many accounts mistakenly call him Dolgoruky/ Dolgorukii.

The Court Calendar (Pridvorny Kalendar) for 1917, p. 135, lists him as Prince V. A. Dolgorukov.

In “Last Days At Tsarskoe Selo”, p. 87 (and elsewhere), his own step-father, Count P. Benckendorff, calls him V. A. Dolgorukov.

The confusion may have arisen from the fact that V. A. Dolgorukov’s mother, Maria's maiden name was "Dolgorukaya" — i.e., she belonged to the Dolgoruky branch, but had married a Dolgorukov.

By 1917 there were only a few Princes Dolgoruky left: Sergei Alexandrovich, who had been an a-d-c to the Tsar, his brother Peter Alexandrovich, Peter's daughter Olga, and perhaps their uncle, Pr. Nicholas.

The Princes Dolgorukov were much more numerous.

BTW: Princess Yurievskaya was a Dolgorukova, and a distant cousin of the Pr. V. A. Dolgorukov under discussion here.

[helenazar]

Dolgorukov was his surname.

Many accounts mistakenly call him Dolgoruky/ Dolgorukii.

The Court Calendar (Pridvorny Kalendar) for 1917, p. 135, lists him as Prince V. A. Dolgorukov.

In “Last Days At Tsarskoe Selo”, p. 87 (and elsewhere), his own step-father, Count P. Benckendorff, calls him V. A. Dolgorukov.
The confusion may have arisen from the fact that V. A. Dolgorukov’s mother, Maria's maiden name was "Dolgorukaya" — i.e., she belonged to the Dolgoruky branch, but had married a Dolgorukov.
By 1917 there were only a few Princes Dolgoruky left: Sergei Alexandrovich, who had been an a-d-c to the Tsar, his brother Peter Alexandrovich, Peter's daughter Olga, and perhaps their uncle, Pr. Nicholas.
The Princes Dolgorukov were much more numerous.  BTW: Princess Yurievskaya was a Dolgorukova, and a distant cousin of the Pr. V. A. Dolgorukov under discussion here.

Thank you very much, this is exactly the type of info I was looking for... I was a little confused about why Valya was sometimes "Dolgorukov" and at other times "Dolgoruky" depending on source... This makes sense now!

[helenazar]

I knew that the Dolgorukys were a very prominent old Russian noble family, and as mentioned above even Princess Yurievskaya, the second wife of Alexander II, was part of this family... Which was why it confused me a little to see "Dolgorukov" used interchangeably. I had a feeling that although the latter are more numerous, the former is the older spelling, but they all came from the same family root originally, going way back, as someone else mentioned...

[Превед]

The volume I reference is "L'Annuaire de la Noblesse Russie" first edition published in French in St Petersbourg 1889. I will rely on it as accurate far more than Wikipedia.

The name Dolgoruky is nowhere mentioned in the book.

If there is no separate Dolgoruky family, it must then mean that it was all one and the same family, some of whom sometimes used the form Dolgoruky instead of Dolgorukov.