Chelishchev family
The Chelishchevs are a family of Russian nobility, known from the end of the 15th century. Origin. The surname may come from the Turkic (Kazan–Tatar) nickname Chalysh, which means "oblique". In the 16th and 17th centuries, many of the Chelishchev nobles clearly had Turkic nicknames (such as, for example, Alai, Bulysh, Enaklych, Kulush, Sarmak, etc.), which may indicate an eastern origin. The knowledge of the Turkic languages is also indicated by the fact that in the years 1533–1542 the Chelishchev brothers were constantly sent to the Crimean Khanate for negotiations. In the eighteenth century, when compiling the  Herbovnik, the families of the Chelishchevs, Pantsyrevs and Glazatovs invented a common origin from the Welfs through the fictional "William of Luneburg from the generation of King Otto IV" who allegedly went "to the Grand Duke Alexander Yaroslavich to the Battle of the Neva" and adopted Orthodoxy with the name of Leon. At the same time, Mikhail Brenko, a favorite of Dmitry Donskoy, who laid down his head during the Battle of Kulikovo, was included in the number of ancestors of the Chelishchevs. Coat of arms description. In the Herbovnik of Anisim Titovich Knyazev of 1785 there is an image  of two seals with the arms of representatives of the Chelishchev family: Service people of the 16th–17th centuries. Boris Fedorovich Chelishchev, in 1498–99, the ambassador of Ivan III to the Crimean Khan Meñli Giray; in 1492, the Lithuanians burned his estate Alexino near Novgorod. Toropetsk landowners. Osip Ivanovich Postnikov Kulush, landowner of Toropets, governor in Dankov in 1620–21. Kaluga landowners. Pyotr Semenovich Chelishchev, in 1600–02, the bypass head in Moscow, the grand-nephew of Ilya Mikulych. Nikita Dmitrievich, second cousin of Pyotr Semyonovich and grand-nephew of Ilya Mikulych. Metropolitan aristocracy. Alexander Ivanovich (d. 1821), son of the court adviser  Ivan Petrovich, lieutenant general; under Paul I, the chief chief of the Artillery Department of the Military College; Married to Maria Nikolaevna Ogaryova.