THE
MARCOV ORIGINAL FAMILY NAME.
The
family prior to XVIII Century
The
name of the family is written alternately Mîðêîâ
(Cyrillic) or Marcoff
(Marcov) (Non Cyrillic). There are family references back to the XV Century.
Ivan Ivanovich Mîðêîâ was Novgorodian
Envoy to Moscow in 1477 (together with Fedor Kalitin and Grigory Sovkin).
Iakov and Moisei Mîðêîâ, sons of
Iury, are mentioned in the cadastres of the Votskaia piatina (= province)
in 1499; Davyd, Petr, Kil’deiar and Men’shik Mîðêîâ,
sons of Ivan, boiarskie deti (literally “boyar children”) in the District
of Suzdal, received service estates (pomest’ia). On the 2nd October 1550
one thousand young members of the best noble families were called to Moscow,
including among them another Ivan Mîðêîâ.
The family had service estates (pomest'ia) given by the Tsars Mijail Fedorovich,
Alexey Mijailovich, Feodor Alexeevich,
Ioann (Ivan) IV and Petr Alexeevich
Ivan
IV "The terrible" (1530-1584)
Ioann
(Ivan) II Ivanovich "The Red"
(1326-1359)
Ivan
Iakovlevich Mîðêîâ went as a messenger
to Crimea in 1578. Serapion Mîðêîâ,
"starets" (elderly) of the Vladimirsky Rozhdestvensky Monastery,
signed the decree electing Boris
Fedorovich Godunov to the throne in 1598.
Danilo
Pavlovich was a "stolnik" (camerlingo) during the reign of Peter
the Great. Thirty-four Mîðêîâ were
in possession of service estates in 1699. Ivan Nikiforovich († 5th December
1778), with his wife Praskovia Fedorovna Kutuzova (b 19th October 1711,
† 1774), had three sons, later elevated to the dignity of counts.
Boris
Fedorovich Godunov (Boris I) 1551-1605