What one may find interesting and unexpected in genealogy of the nobles of the Linevs kin, which was composed at the end of the 17th century but wasn’t sent to the Chamber of genealogy cases, and at our times discovered in the Archive of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS? Aleksey Vladimirovich Sirenov, Director of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, tells about this document.

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