Kurakin

It is also a masculine surname, with the feminine counterpart of Kurakina (Russian: Куракина).

The Russian princely dynasty Kurakin, an originally Lithuanian dynasty, descended from the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, who ruled the then independent Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1315 to 1341 as the sovereign Lithuanian ruler.

Prince Andrei Ivanovich Bulgakov (documented in 1530) is descended from his son Georg, who took the nickname Kuraka, from which the name Kurakin was derived.

One of the greatest Gedyminid families of Muscovy, whose members were promoted straight to the rank of okolnichy, skipping lower ranks like the stolnik.

Russian nobility / Category:House of Kurakin (german)

Princely arms of the Gediminid Russian princely family of Kurakin