The House of Glinski (Polish: Gliński) was an ancient Russian princely family, part of the

Russian nobility The Russian nobility or ''dvoryanstvo'' () arose in the Middle Ages. In 1914, it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members, out of a total population of 138,200,000. Up until the February Revolution of 1917, the Russian noble estates staffed ...

, originted in the

Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 Partitions of Poland, ...

, whose ancestors were members of the

Lipka Tatar The Lipka Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group and minority in Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus who originally settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the beginning of the 14th century. The first Tatar settlers tried to preserve their Pagan tradi ...

clan who claimed descent from the Mongol ruler

Mamai Mamai (Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet, Mongolian Cyrillic: Мамай, ; 1325?–1380/1381) was a powerful Turco-Mongol tradition, Turko-Mongol military commander in Beylerbey rank of the Golden Horde from Kiyat clan. Contrary to popular misconcep ...

.'' Трепавлов В. В.'' Предки «Мамая-царя». Киятские беки в «Подлинном родослове Глинских князей» // Тюркологический сборник 2006. — М.: Восточная литература, 2007. — С. 319—341.

Surname

Glinski, Glinskii, Glinsky, or Glinskiy (, , ), is also a

family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...

. Feminine form: Russian: Glinskaya (Глинская), Polish: Glińska.

Notable people

* Anna Glinskaya (died 1553), Russian noble, mother of

Elena Glinskaya Elena Vasilyevna Glinskaya (; – 4 April 1538) was the grand princess consort of Moscow as the second wife of Vasili III of Russia, and '' de facto'' regent of Russia from 1533 until her death in 1538. She was the mother of the first crowned ...

(c. 1510–1538), Russian regent, daughter of Anna Glinskaya *

Michael Glinski Michael Lvovich Glinsky (; ; ; 1460s – 24 September 1534) was a noble from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of distant Tatar extraction, who was also a tutor of his grand-nephew, Ivan the Terrible. Glinsky was born in Turov. He was a son of princ ...

(died 1534), uncle of Tsar Ivan the Terrible *

Mikhail Iosifovich Glinsky Mikhail Iosifovich Glinsky (; 21 November 1901 – 30 December 1991) was a Soviet military leader. Biography Mikhail Iosifovich Glinsky was born to ethnic Russian peasant parents in the village of Malaya Kamenka in the Minsk Governorate of the ...

(1901–1991), Soviet Union general * Frank J. Glinski (1909–1983), New York politician *

Wieńczysław Gliński Wieńczysław Gliński (10 May 1921 – 8 July 2008) was a Polish stage and film actor. He was a member of the Polish resistance movement Home Army during World War II. He was also a prisoner in the Nazi German concentration camp Majdanek. ...

(1921–2008), Polish actor *

Juozas Glinskis Juozas Glinskis (born October 15, 1933, Sindriūnai, Pasvalys district) is a Lithuanian playwright. Works Juozas Glinskis marked a new stage in the development of Lithuanian theatre in the second half of the 20th century. He broke the tradition ...

(born 1933), Lithuanian playwright *

Albert Glinsky Albert Glinsky (born December 9, 1952) is an American composer and author. His music has been performed internationally by soloists, ensembles, and dance companies. His book, ''Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage'' won the 2001 ASCAP Deems Tayl ...

(born 1952), United States composer & author *

Piotr Gliński Piotr Tadeusz Gliński (; born 20 April 1954) is a Polish sociologist, professor, university lecturer and politician. He served as president of the Polish Sociological Association from 2005 to 2011. He was the nominee of Law and Justice (Poland), ...

(born 1954), Polish sociologist *

Robert Gliński Robert Ignacy Gliński (born 17 April 1952 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director and screenwriter. A graduate of the National Film School in Łódź. He won the Golden Lions at the Gdynia Film Festival in 1992 with his film '' Wszystko, co najw ...

(born 1952), Polish film director *

Vladislav Glinskiy Vladislav Vitalyevich Glinsky (; ; born 29 May 2000) is a Belarusian professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association foot ...

(born 2000), Belarusian footballer *Władysław Gliński, the inventor of

Gliński's hexagonal chess Hexagonal chess is a group of chess variants played on boards composed of hexagon . The best known is Gliński's variant, played on a symmetric 91-cell hexagonal board. Since each hexagonal cell not on a board edge has six neighbor cells, there ...

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