Fermor (Russian nobility)

Fermor
Fermor
Country	Russian Empire

The Fermor family (Russian: Ферморы) is a Russian noble family of Scottish origin with the Counts of Fermor becoming Counts of Stenbock Fermor in female lineage.^[1]^[2]^{[dubious – discuss]} The family held Generals, Russian commander in chief, Governor positions, female steel entrepreneurs, zemstvo president and Duma depute.^[3]

In 1758 General Wiliam Fermor became russian Count Fermor (recognition of the H.R.E title of the same year). His daughter Sarah Eleanore Fermor and son William George Fermor portraits are displayed in the Russian Museum. In 1825 permission to assume the additional name of Fermor with the title of Count Stenbock Fermor was given by Emperor Alexander I of Russia. Otto von Bismarck as German Ambassador to Russia lived in the house of the Count Fermor Stenbock in 1859 and received Russian culture and language lessons by the family.^[4]. The aide camp of the russian Governor of Poland Count Fermor got mortaly wounded in Warsaw by revolutionists in 1906 during the Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland.^[5]^[6]^[7] Count Fermor gifted in 1913 to the National Museum of Natural History, France a complete frozen Mammoth of the Island Great Lyakerski in Siberia.^[8]^[9]^[10] A descendant Fermor joint the US Army after the 2 World War for a free world.^[11]

Notable members[edit]

Count Villim Villimovich Fermor was an Imperial Russian Army officer best known for leading his country's army at the Battle of Zorndorf during the Seven Years' War, he was born in 1702 in Pskov of Scottish and Lutheran Baltic German descent.^[12]^[13]
Count Pavel Fedorovich Fermor(Павел Фермор), (Russian: Фермор, Павел Фёдорович, was a Russian Army, Lieutenant general and he was the first principal of the Alexander Military Law Academy from 1867 to 25.12.1875. He served as a major in all campaigns during the Polish November Uprising in 1830 and 1831, and commanded Lithovian Saper battalion during the Battle of Olszynka Grochowska in February 1831.
Countess Nadezhda Stenbok-Fermor (1815-97) female entrepreneur in metalurgy^[14]
Count Alexei Alexandrovich Stenbock-Fermor Russian general, took part at the Crimean War and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.^[15]
Count Vladimir Vasil'evič Stenbock-Fermor Russian Duma deputy^[16]

Count Fermor
Count William Fermor
Portrait William George Fermor by Ivan Vishnyakov (State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg)
Portrait of Sarah Eleanore Fermor by Ivan Vishnyakov (State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg)

References[edit]

^ Marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval, Melville Henry Massue (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe. ISBN 9780850110289.
^ Prince Dolgorouky, Paul (1858). A Hand-book of the Principal Families in Russia.
^ "The Evening Journal - Unrest spreads in Russia". 7 December 1904.
^ "The Morning Herald - Bismarck's feat". 25 October 1896.
^ "The Spokesman-Review - Russ Railroad men to strike". 23 August 1906.
^ "Boston Evening Transcript - Anarchy in Russia". 23 August 1906.
^ "The Montreal Gazette - Shot Count Fermor". 24 August 1906.
^ "The Telegraph-Herald - Specimen of Mammoth". 21 September 1913.
^ "Ludington Daily News - Mammoth is found in ice". 3 November 1913.
^ https://www.mnhn.fr/fr/mammouth-laineux
^ "Herald-Journal - Czech join US Army". 11 April 1948.
^ "FERMOR, WILLIAM [SSNE 3876]". SSNE Database. University of St Andrews Institute of Scottish Historical Research.
^ "Wiliam Reichsgraf Fermor entry 82925 oid 84004". Erik-Amburger-Datenbank. Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS).
^ Ulianova, Galina (6 October 2015). Female Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Russia. ISBN 9781317314196.
^ Граф Стенбок-Фермор Алексей Александрович
^ "Vladimir Graf Stenbock-Fermor entry 78685". Erik-Amburger-Datenbank. Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS).

Millar, Simon & Hook, Adam. Zorndorf 1758: Frederick Faces Holy Mother Russia. Osprey, 2003.
Szabo, Franz A.J. The Seven Years' War in Europe, 1756–1763. Pearson, 2008.
Фермор, Павел Федорович // Русский биографический словарь: в 25 томах. — Санкт-Петербург—Москва, 1896–1918.: Pavel Fedorovich Fermor in Russian Biographical Dictionary

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[1] Marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval, Melville Henry Massue (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe. ISBN 9780850110289.

[2] Prince Dolgorouky, Paul (1858). A Hand-book of the Principal Families in Russia.

[3] "The Evening Journal - Unrest spreads in Russia". 7 December 1904.

[4] "The Morning Herald - Bismarck's feat". 25 October 1896.

[5] "The Spokesman-Review - Russ Railroad men to strike". 23 August 1906.

[6] "Boston Evening Transcript - Anarchy in Russia". 23 August 1906.

[7] "The Montreal Gazette - Shot Count Fermor". 24 August 1906.

[8] "The Telegraph-Herald - Specimen of Mammoth". 21 September 1913.

[9] "Ludington Daily News - Mammoth is found in ice". 3 November 1913.

[10] ttps://www.mnhn.fr/fr/mammouth-laineux

[11] "Herald-Journal - Czech join US Army". 11 April 1948.

[12] "FERMOR, WILLIAM [SSNE 3876]". SSNE Database. University of St Andrews Institute of Scottish Historical Research.

[13] "Wiliam Reichsgraf Fermor entry 82925 oid 84004". Erik-Amburger-Datenbank. Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS).

[14] Ulianova, Galina (6 October 2015). Female Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Russia. ISBN 9781317314196.

[15] Граф Стенбок-Фермор Алексей Александрович

[16] "Vladimir Graf Stenbock-Fermor entry 78685". Erik-Amburger-Datenbank. Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS).

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