Kravtsov family (Orenburg)
The Kravtsov family of Orenburg is a Russian noble family with Scottish roots. They are listed in the records of the Orenburg Cossacks Host and in the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. Their coat of arms shows a blue shield with a special cross over a crescent between two stars, a crowned helmet with three ostrich feathers bearing a star, and the motto Virtute et Armis (By Valor and Arms). Their estate is Gorbatovka in Balakhna uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate.
The family traces back to Dunaghe Mangarmov, a Scottish mercenary who joined Russian regiments in the early 1600s. He fought first for Poland-Lithuania, then switched to Russia during the 1614 siege of Bely fortress. His regiment took part in Russo-Crimean Wars.
Some historians think he may be the same person as Major Macgermerie/Montgomery, a Scottish officer who served in Swedish service from 1629 and possibly fought at the Battle of Wittstock (1636). He later held infantry and other regimental roles and may have served in the Army of the Solemn League and Covenant in 1644.
From 1655 he fought again for Poland-Lithuania at Thorn with Colonel Cranston, and later served in Russia with Patrick Gordon's Regiment of Horse. There is a note that Major Macgermerie-Montgomery once dueled at Patrick Gordon’s house.
His son Yakov (Jacob) Kravtsov moved to the Samara Fortress, a frontline post protecting eastern Russia from nomadic raids, under voivode Afanasii von Vissinov.
In 1789 Dmitri Kravtsov asked the Orenburg Host Administration for land. He wrote that his grandfather had led about a hundred men from a Volga garrison to a new frontier line in Orenburg.
Dmitri’s eldest son, Ivan Kravtsov, received land in Vozdvizhenskaya Fortress on the Orenburg Cossack Host lands and owned the Gorbatovka manor in Balakhna uyezd after 1829. The estate cost 23,000 gold rubles and included a house in Orenburg’s Vorstadt.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 14:02 (CET).