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unusual facts about landed nobility


Ilya Ulyanov

Ilya Ulyanov was born in Astrakhan, to Nikolai Vasilievich Ulyanov (1765—1838) (sometimes as Ulyanin), a port-city tailor and a former serf who came from Sergachsky District, Nizhegorod Governorate and received his freedom from an landowner Stepan Mikhailovich Brekhov; and Anna Alekseyevna Smirnova (1793—1871), a daughter of a rich city-dweller Aleksei Lukianovich Smirnov (a son of Lukian Smirnov who hailed from rich Oirats of Middle Asia).


Krzeczyn Mały

The former German Junker (landed nobility) of the Harrach family left a Baroque palace that is now property of Count Ghislain de Nicolay.


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