Countess Natalia G. Chernyshev

Countess Natalia Grigorievna Chernysheva (1711 - 1760), the eldest child of Gen. Grigory Chernyshev, married the Prince Mikhail Andreevitch Belosselsky (1702–1755) and their descendants became the wealthy and famous Beloselsky-Belozersky family.  Her son, Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Beloselsky served as Russian ambassador to Saxony and became a close friend to Tsar Paul I.

As Grandmaster of the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (the Knights of Malta), Tsar Paul I made Alexander Mikhailovich and the Belosselsky-Belozersky family hereditary "Protectors" of his newly constituted Russian Priory of the Order of Malta.

Like the Chernyshevs, for whom an avenue in St. Petersburg is named, the Beloselsky-Belozersky family built a great mansion, known before the revolution as the Palace of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, the Sergei Palace and the Dmitri Palace.

 

Above: The Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace, Nevsky-Prospekt No. 41, St. Petersburg
See more photographs of the palace here. 

DESCENDANTS OF COUNTESS NATALIA CHERNYSHEVA AND MICHAEL BELOSELSKY

1. First son (unknown)

2. Second son (unknown)

3. Alexander Mikhailovich Beloselsky (1752 - 1809) who married to Anna Kozitzky and had one daughter: Elizabeth Beloselsky-Belozersky (1803 - 1824).

4. First daughter (unknown)

5. Second daughter (unknown)

6. Third daughter (unknown)


One may find a copy of the family's pedigree of descent to the present time here.