Meshchersky

[1] According to the Velvet Book of the 17th century, Bakhmet Husein,[2] the Prince of Shirin, after some disagreement in the Great Horde (according to Dmitry Ilovaysky princes of Shirin had a disagreement with Tsar of the Great Horde[3][a]), moved to Volga region and later conquered the land of Meschera in 1298.

[4][3] He had a son by the name of Beklemish who in Andreev Gorodok [ru][5] (Andrew's City) was baptized as Mikhail.

[4] A grandson of Beklemish, Yuriy Fedorovich, joined with his regiment the Great Prince of Moscow Dmitriy Donskoy at the Kulikovo Battle.

The neighboring Tatar kingdom subjugated lords of the Meshchera tribe under its suzerainty, and some of them converted to Islam and bore Muslim-like first names; but soon, under Russian subjugation, subsequent generations converted to the Eastern Orthodox faith and used Slavic Christian names.

The Meshcherskys had estates particularly in Ukraine, examples of their lands being at: Pokrovskoe, Petrovskoe, Lotoshino, and the Vesholi-Podol Palace in Poltava.