Gantimurov family

The family comes from the eastern Siberian Dauriya and were already tribal chiefs of the siberian-transbaikalian Evenks and the Mongolian Daurian tribes in the 16th century.

Gantimur and his eldest son Katanai were baptized Russian Orthodox in 1684.

He and his descendants received the title of prince (Knyaz) and were exempt from the yasak tax.

[3] In 1686, Tsars Ivan V and Peter I confirmed the family's princely status with an ukase.

The titled branch of the family is recorded in Part V of the Noble Genealogy Book of the Irkutsk Province (February 1786).