So is everyone (or most people) with the last name sheremetev a descendent of this noble family? In another post, someone said there are 2 main branches. Are they related or unrelated? is the spelling interchangeable? Is there a family tree I can look up somewhere? I also heard there was an airport. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.
While Sheremetev isn't one of the most common Russian surnames, I'd say most people with that name are not descendants of the noble family: Proof: Wikipedia lists several Soviet-era celebrities in sports etc. called Sheremetev. They would never have been allowed to live and prosper if they had been nobles.
Does anyone know the origin of the name Sheremetev? It was first born by the 16th-century boyar brothers Ivan, Vasiliy and Boris, sons of Andrey Bezzubtsev, himself the great great grandson of Andrey Kobyla, the ancestor of the Romanovs. Ivan Andreyevich Sheremetev was voyevode of Tula and took part in campaigns against Turkic and Tartaric peoples, which would be the occassion for adopting the name Sheremetev, if the theories that derive it from Chuvash
sheremet, poor man, or Tatar/Turkic-Persian
shir Æhmæd, Ahmed the Lion, are true. And honestly Sheremet- sounds more Oriental than Slavic.
But if it's a "nom de guerre" from a foreign language, how does one explain all the non-noble Sheremetevs (in imitation of the noble Sheremetevs?) and the dozen villages called Sheremetyevo? Are all of them named after the family or are both they and the families named after some obscure person, feature or concept?
