''Armorial of Little Russia'' ( pre-reform Russian: ) is an

armorial A roll of arms (or armorial) is a collection of coats of arms, usually consisting of rows of painted pictures of shields, each shield accompanied by the name of the person bearing the arms. The oldest extant armorials date to the mid-13th centur ...

of noble

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

(

Little Russia Little Russia (russian: Малороссия/Малая Россия, Malaya Rossiya/Malorossiya; uk, Малоросія/Мала Росія, Malorosiia/Mala Rosiia), also known in English as Malorussia, Little Rus' (russian: Малая Ру� ...

n) families from the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War ...

. It was published in 1914, in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, by the

nobility Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy. It is normally ranked immediately below royalty. Nobility has often been an estate of the realm with many exclusive functions and characteristics. The character ...

of Chernigov Governorate. The ''Armorial'' was edited by Russian historian Vladislav Lukomski and Ukrainian historian Vadym Modzalevski, and illustrated by Ukrainian artist

Heorhiy Narbut Heorhiy Narbut ( uk, Георгій Іванович Нарбут, in Narbutivka — 23 May 1920 in Kyiv) was the most important Ukrainian graphic designer of the twentieth century. He is known for designing the Ukrainian National Republic's ...

. It contains images and description of 700

coats of arms A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement, which in i ...

of Ukrainian, predominantly

Cossack The Cossacks , es, cosaco , et, Kasakad, cazacii , fi, Kasakat, cazacii , french: cosaques , hu, kozákok, cazacii , it, cosacchi , orv, коза́ки, pl, Kozacy , pt, cossacos , ro, cazaci , russian: казаки́ or ...

, families.

Gallery

File:Armorial of Little Russia V-VI.jpg, Title page File:Armorial of Little Russia VIII.jpg, Arms of Chernigov Governorate File:Coat of Arms of Rozumovsky family (1914).png, Full achievement of Razumovsky

Sources

*В. К. Лукомскїй, В. Л. Модзалевскїй. Малороссїйский гербовnикъ. — Санкт-Петербургъ: типография С.Н. Тройницкого "Сириус", изданїε Черниговскаго дворѧнства, 1914.

External links

Armorial of Little Russia (Малороссийский гербовник (1914))
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