Thinning the Ranks

After numerous reviews and debates and the convening of commissions and investigations, in 1861 the Imperial Heraldy announced the final decision of the Senate with regard to the noble status of Crimean Tatars. Among all of the mirzas and beys approved for inscription in the provincial noble register by the noble assembly in Simferopol, only 25 won Senate confirmation.

Here are the individuals whose status was confirmed and to whom patents were issued (surname and name of petitioner, year of inscription in the Tavrida noble register).

You can access the sketches of those who were inscribed in the noble registers between 1804 and 1853 and are therefore included in the "Mirza Lives" collection via the hyperlinks:

  • Abdaramanchik, Shelos Al'ma Sultan Hanim (1849)
  • Agmetov, [?] (1855)
  • Balatukov, Smail Bey (1815)
  • Balatukov, Batyr Bey (Guards lieutenant) and his cousin, Memet Bey; Memet Bey's wife, Zejned Sultan, and sons Mamut Bey and Ali Bey
  • Balatukov, [?], wife Biian Sultan and son Sefer Bey (1849)
  • Berkh, Memet Girey son of Bakhtysha Murza (1853)
  • Bobyrev, [?] and Suin; Katyrsha and Muratsha, sons of Mustafa Murza; Bakhtysha and Kurt, sons of Umer Murza; Temirsha, Merdymsha, and Adilsha, sons of Bakhtysha; Kassij and Dzhelial, sons of Osman Murza; Memet, son of Dzhelial (1853)
  • Bulgakov, Memetcha Bey, his wife Devlet Sultan, their sons Ali Bey, Seliamet Bey, Shagan Bey, Ibraim Bey, Kaia Bey; Il'ias Murza; Ismail Murza and his sons Sefersha and Abdysha; Shantemir Murza and his sons Krym Galy and Dzhien Gazy, with Dzhien Gazy's son Dzhan Arslan; Kurt Murza and son Temir (1854)
  • Chalbasheev, Mansur Murza and his cousins Amet Girey and Dzhan Girey, the sons of Court Councillor Dzhaum Aga; Sultan Ali Murza son of Dzhan Aga; and Nuradin Dervish Murza, son of Sultan Ali Murza (1848)
  • Chelebiev, Second Lieutenant Memet Aga (1848)
  • Dzhambatov, Mustafa Bey and his wife Saap Sultan and nephews Ali Bey, Khalil Bey, Amet Bey and Isliam Bey (1850)
  • Dzhamin, Ali and Abduveli Murzas (1846)
  • Gasprinskij, [Mustafa], wife Fatema Sultan, son Smail, daughter Idosia (1854)
  • Gaziev (1844)
  • Kantakuzin, Megmetcha Bey (1815)
  • Karashaj, Kurt Murza and his sons Sefersha Murza and Abduveli Murza, wife Devlet Sultan; Badyn Murza and his wife Bek Sultan; Muratcha Murza and his wife Akhil Sultan; Memetsha Murza and his wife Urzie Sultan and son Adim Murza; Bulatsha Murza and his wife Afi Sultan and son Er Murza (1850)
  • Khodzhaev, Abduraim Aga, his wife Kutlu Sultan, son Amet Aga, and daughter Galisha Sultan (1851)
  • Khunkalov, Khadzhi Osman Pasha, and his sons Pirmegmet Bey, Isliam Bey and Osman Bey (1860)
  • Kipchat, Dzhelial Murza and son Mamet (1854)
  • Kipchat, Suin Aga (1860)
  • Krym Girey, Aleksandr Ivanov (1839)
  • Krym Girey, [?] (1839)
  • Krymtaj, [Batyr Aga?] (1815)
  • Krymtaj, Megmet Murza's sons Seliamet Murza, Adzhi Temir Murza, Ali Murza (1843)
  • Shirin, Sefersha Murza and his son Sitiaga Murza (1845)

For detailed discussion of the fate of various Crimean clans under Russian rule, see O'Neill, Between Subversion and Submission. On the question of Russia's multiethnic nobility see O'Neill, "".