MAIN PAGE
Main russian paige for everybody who is interested in genealogy. Add it to your FAVORITES list righ now!
READING RUSSIAN
Page describes how to work with russian historical documents and this web-site. GENEALOGICAL KNOWLEGE BASE (RUS)
Structured information on surnames, ancestors, historical events, russian genealogists contacts, information about russian archives and genealogical articles.
RUSSIAN GENEALOGICAL FORUM (RUS)
Forum for an ancestors search, live discussions on history. Useful genealogixal practices etc...
FAREWELL TO RUSSIA
"Farewell to Russia" is the autobiography of Princess Lydia Volkonsky. Book is an eyewitness account of historical events from 1905 to 1946: : World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Russian Civil War, the Soviet-Polish War of 1920 and World War II. Nothing is fictionalized.

All Russia Family Tree

All Russia Family Tree is a kind of "Who is (and was) who in Russia" site with display of family links. There will be more later. Eventually, links, homepages and e-mail addresses and everything that relates to will be turned into one united network. Our goal is to create a database with all the family links. Now it is just the beginning of such a long way. One can think it unbeleivable and unreachable, but everyone knows that not long ago most the families in Russia had not less than 10 children. Judging this information, how many people, do you think, were living in Russia in the 15th century. We are all relatives, one way or another...

Browse the database

Browse the database by selecting the beginning letters of the surname and then jumping from one surname to another. Russian alphabet and pronunciation of Russian letters is on the page "Surname list" Everything is in Russian, but no one stops you to learn to read it.
If you can read Russian (or have a friend who can), have cyrillic fonts installed on your computer, you are welcome.
If you don't know Russian and have no Russian-speaking friends you can use this site the same way: every letter of the alphabet opens with a table, where the beginnings of surnames are shown both in Russian and in English. Go to the part you look for, where needed surname is located, select and copy the part needed and then use online translation service: it opens in a new window and you can use it on any page you like. There is a translation service at www.translate.ru. If you register there (its free) you can translate whole web-pages.

Or you can use simple online translator just by choosing proper language and clicking "ok" button. Test it right now! Check if russian text situated left from the translation box became translated it means that magic works!

Добро пожаловать в русскоязычную часть интернет-сайта проекта "Всероссийское генеалогическое древо". Если вы можете прочитать этот текст на своем родном языке значит теперь вам доступна вся информация размещенная на сайте - смело переходите на главную страницу и жмите на любые ссылки!

ALTHOUGH LOTS OF INFORMATION IS IN RUSSIAN YOU SURE CAN WORK WITH IT!

Add information about yourself

Add information about yourself, your ancestors and your search. The best way to do it is to email us directly or to use online translator for a russian forum and knowlege base user interfaces.

Post your search message on the messageboard

Easy to understand that it is difficult for a person who don't know Russian (there is a Russian interface there), but you can try.
When you get there, you can push the left red-brown square button: 
In the upper line you are to write the head of your message. On the third line you are to write your name, or you can leave the word Guest there. Write nothing on the fourth line. And write you message in the lowest square. The message will be posted when you'll push the left lower square gray button on which it is written something like OTIIPABNTL. Don't forget to write your contact information, so that people could answer you somehow. Or you can remember the address of your message (when it appears) and vizit it to look if somebody answered.
If you won't manage or will want to correct your message, write to support team (vgdadv@gmail.com).

Things we offer on payment basis

Genealogy research

Really if you are ready to pay, understand that Russia is very big (there are more then 10 million people only in Moscow) and we can't know anything about your relatives and ancestors before we make some research, we can work with archives for you. It is very slow, one search takes not less then 3 months, a lot of people have to look through the documents. To work with archives in Russia one has to know exact name, patronime and surname, date and place of birth of at least one person from the investigated family. It often happens that information is not enough or archives were damaged during the Second World War and nothing can be done.
To find out if an archive search in Russia can be done you have to send to Serguei Kotelnikov a letter about your needs (kotela@yandex.ru).

Coat of arms pictures

Also we can make a picture with a  coat of arms of a Russian noble family for you. It will be big enough to be printed on the T-shirt, have a text about the noble family and this exact coat of arms in ancient Russian letters.  The picture will be sent by e-mail. It can be done only if we have the surname needed on the list which is situated on the separate page. It costs 100 dollars for the coat of arms, and don't forget that you will have to pay for the money transfer too.

 

About us (Contacts)

We are - Sergey Kotelnikov and Ludmilla Birukova from Moscow, Russia. Sergey deals with offline things and Ludmilla is responsible for the Internet part. 

Payments are made to the bank account or by Western Union cheque.

If you are interested, connect with us by e-mail or call. I'll tell you our bank account or a viza card information only if you'll need it, you can write to Sergey and ask - kotela@yandex.ru.

Also you can pay by cash, using Western Union, WebMoney, Yandex.Money and RuPay.

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Attention! We don't check the information that is posted to our messageboard.  We beleive only the facts that were written and/or registered in books and documents. This database is only a starting point for a deeper research.