Pereswetoff-Morath (; or just ) is a Swedish noble family of

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n origin, one of the so-called '' bayor'' families. Varyingly traced to the Blessed

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(died 1380) and to a certain Vasiliy Ivanovich Peresvet in early-15th-century

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(NW of

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), the family, in the person of Murat Alekseyevich Peresvetov (died 1640) from Rostov Velikij, entered

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service in 1613-14 during the

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. Throughout the 17th century, family members were mainly active in the Swedish province of

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, near the Russian border. Immatriculated in 1652 at the Swedish House of Nobility (

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), it remained for three centuries a family of officers and lawyers. In 1919, on the death of Carl Fredrik Pereswetoff-Morath, the unbroken male line was discontinued. However, Carl Fredrik had an adopted son, Carl-Magnus (1896–1975), the biological son of Magnus Dahlqvist (d. 1895) and Ida Pereswetoff-Morath in their marriage, and thus second (and third) cousin once removed of his adoptive father. All living family members are descendants of lieutenant-colonel Carl-Magnus Pereswetoff-Morath; the surviving line is not represented at the House of Nobility. Among notable members are Colonel Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath (originally Alexander Moraht Pereswetoff, d. 1687), commandant of

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skans (

), and his son, General Carl Pereswetoff-Morath, 1665–1736, active with his two brothers on the Baltic front in the

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(

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in Moscow 1704–21). Among the descendants of lieutenant-colonel Carl-Magnus Pereswetoff-Morath are the former general secretary of the Swedish Civil Defence Association, Magnus Pereswetoff-Morath (b. 1921), and the

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, Professor Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath (b. 1969). The 16th-century Muscovite publicist Ivan Semyonovich Peresvetov has been believed to have belonged to another, west Russian, family. However, the historian Andrei Kuzmin recently made a case for regarding these as branches of one family.

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, ''Den introducerade Svenska adelns ättartavlor'', Vol. 5, Stockholm 1930. * Lind, J. H., ‘De ingermanlandske «Ryss-Bajorer»: Deres sociale og genealogiske baggrund’, in: ''Gentes Finlandiae'', vol. 6, 1984. * ''

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2000'', Stockholm 2000. * Зимин, А.А., ''И.С. Пересветов и его современники: очерки по истории русской общественно–политической мысли середины XVI века'', М. 1958. * Кузьмин, А.В., ‘Андрей Ослебя, Александр Пересвет и их потомки в конце XIV - первой половине XVI в.’, in: ''Н.И. Троицкий и современные исследования историко-культурного наследия Центральной России: сборник научных статей'', T. II, Тула 2002. * Пересветов-Мурат, А.И., ‘Из Ростова в Ингерманандию: М.А. Пересветов и другие русские ''baijor ы’, in: ''Новгородский исторический сборник'', вып. 7 (17), 1999, http://norroen.info/articles/peresvetov/bajors.html. * https://www.swedesintexas.com/descend.php?personID=I838780&tree=sit0001&display=compact&generations=9 Ingria Swedish noble families Swedish people of Russian descent {{Sweden-bio-stub

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