His distant ancestor Morza Bagrim, who relocated from the Great Horde in the 15th century to Moscow, was baptized and became a vassal of the Russian Grand Prince Vasily II.
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It traces its origins to a famous Tatar general Murza Yenikey Tenishevich Kougushev, who lived in the mid-16th century in Kazan, and was also a warlord in 1668 in Temnikov.