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Peter the Great (1672–1725) reformed the Russian nobility. Nobility was transferred by inheritance or was bestowed by a fount of honour, i.e. the sovereign of the Russian Empire, and was typically ranked as per below, with those of the highest noble prestige ranked first. Ancient nobility (descendants from Middle Ages) Titled nobility:
Gagarin family; Gamontov (Russian nobility) Gantimurov family; Garakanidze; Garsevanishvili; List of Georgian princely families; House of Golitsyn; Gorchakov; Grabbe family; Greig (Russian nobility) Gruzinsky; Gugunava; Guramishvili; Gurgenidze (noble family)
The Hitler family comprises the relatives and ancestors of Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945), an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party, who was the dictator of Germany, holding the title Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945.
This is a list of princely families of Russia (Russian Empire) The list includes: families of «natural» Russian princely stock - descended from old Russian dynasties (Rurik Dynasty) and Lithuania (Gediminovich and others); families, whose princely titles were granted by Russian Emperors; foreign princely families naturalised in Russia;
A noble house is an aristocratic family or kinship group, either currently or historically of national or international significance [clarification needed], and usually associated with one or more hereditary titles, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or patriarch.
Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, and his immediate family were executed in 1918, but there are still living descendants of other members of the imperial house. The house consisted of boyars in Russia (the highest rank in the Russian nobility at the time) under the reigning Rurik dynasty, which became extinct upon the death of Feodor I in
The House of Stroganov or Strogonov (Russian: Стро́гановы, Стро́гоновы), French spelling: Stroganoff, was a Russian noble family of highly successful Russian merchants, industrialists, landowners, and statesmen. From the time of Ivan the Terrible (r. 1533–1584) they were the richest businessmen in the Tsardom of Russia.
Count (since 1812) Noble family of Don Cossacks origin, ataman Matvei Platov (1751–1818) founded Novocherkassk. Count of the Russian Empire in 1812. He was awarded an honorary degree of low by the University of Oxford (1814). Grabbe family: 18th – today Count (since 1866) Don Cossacks noble family of a Finnish nobility origin.