| Famintsyn | |
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| Parent house | Clan MacThomas |
| Country | Russian Empire |
The Famintsyn family (Russian: Фаминцыны) is the Russian noble family of Scottish origin. Descendants descents of Kristof Tobias Tomson-Hominsky, first in the service of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth later a soldier in Russian service.
Notable members
- Andrei Famintsyn (Russian: Андрей Серге́евич Фаминцын) (1835, Moscow – 1918, Petrograd) was a Russian botanist, public figure, and academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1884). Grand-grand-grandson of Egor Famintsyn, an Ober-Commandant of the Petropavlovkaya Fortress.[1]
- Alexander Famitsin (ru) (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Фаминцын, (1841 — 1896) was a renowned Russian musical writer, critic and musicologist, professor at Saint Petersburg Conservatory, pupil of Ignaz Moscheles, Moritz Hauptmann and Ernst Richter and friend of Alexander Serov.[2]
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