Notes:

It is believed by many that Dmitry Scherbatoff escaped from captivity (through the help of servants and/or friends) after his family was arrested in 1921. That he fled to Siberia and changed his name to Vasily Kuzmich Shcherbakov, becoming a brilliant scientist and teacher, hiding his origins for sixty years while claiming to have been born in Ujeka Yenisei Provence as "a peasant" -- only revealing his true identity to his wife and children shortly before his own death in 1981.

Some branches of the family believe this to be true while others believe that he died with his mother and sister in Smolensk. I am including the wife and sons of Vasily Shcherbakov here for ease of research. To see some more information about this line, follow the link in the first source below.

Dmitry married Agnia Gavrilovna Lytkin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was an artist, no evidence of political position during his life. He suffered great mental stress when he saw a crowd going to kill a landowner during the first Russian revolution of 1905. For some time before his death, he lived in a Mental Hospital.

Sergei married Elizaveta Sergeyevna "Lily" Plaoutine on 01 Dec 1897 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Elizaveta (daughter of Lieut-General Sergei Nikolaevich Plaoutine and Eleanor Hester Mary Pringle) was born on 02 Mar 1875 in St. Petersburg, Russia; died in 1921 in Smolensk (Shot to Death). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Appointment: 1897, Maid of Honour to the Tsarina; Listed as Elizaveta Sergeevna Plautina

Notes:

--- "Les Familles Princières de l'ancien Empire de Russie en émigration" by Jaques Ferreand, 1980, page 54:
Prince Sergei Borisovich is Stcherbatov - St. Petersburg 01.21.1870 and 05.31.1919 Kharkov. He married in St. Petersburg 12.01.1897, Elisabeth Sergyevna Plaoutine, St. Petersburg 02.03.1875 Smolensk 1921 (shot to death).

--- "Nouvel Almanach du Corps Diplomatique: Ancien Almanach de Gotha" C.A. Starke, 1939, page 634:
(Stcherbatov, Scherbatow, Scherbatoff)
Serge, born in St Petersburg 21 Jan 1870 f Kharkov May 31, 1919, att. the min. the Russian interior, m. St Petersburg 12 Jan 1897 Elisabeth Plaoutine (Hered Russian nobility.), born in St. Petersburg March 2, 1875, f (shot to death) to Smolensk. . . 1921 Bridesmaid empresses of Russia
Children: 1 Prof. Boris born in St. Petersburg October 17, 1897 (rifles) has Archangel 1920 Russian apirant
2) Psse Elizabeth, born in St. Petersburg November 5, 1898
3) Psse Marie, born January 5, 1900 in Florence
4) Psse Irena, born September 2, 1901 in Lebanon (Executed) Smolensk 1921

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--- "A Numerous and Fashionable Audience: The Story of Elsie Swinton" by David Greer, Thames Publishing, 1997:
Page 15: At Peterhof there lived another of Elsie's friends, Elizabeth Plaoutine, known as Lily. The Plaoutine family was of Scottish origin and the name had originally been Plowden. In the time of Peter the Great many Scots families had settled in Russia and some had been elevated to the nobility. Lily's father, Lieutenant-General Sergey Nikolaevitch Plaoutine, had a post at the imperial court. Her mother was an English-woman whose maiden name had been Pringle. Lily and Elsie were apparently distantly related, for Lily claimed her friend as her fifth half cousin. Lily would drive over from Peterhof in a low carriage with a pair of ponies in Hungarian harness, with bunches of feathers on their heads. She, Elsie, Eleanore, Maria, and a few others had their own secret society of 'Bondfriends'.

Page 51: . . . on the journey they met Elsie's girlhood friend from St. Petersburg days, Lily Plaoutine. Elsie and Lily had not seen one another for at least six years, and in the meantime they had both married and had had two children. Lily, who was now a Lady-in-Waiting at the Russian court, was with her husband, Prince Sergey Sherbatov, and they all completed the journey to Dresden together.

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--- http://smolmitino.ru
Manor was founded in the late XVIII century. landowner GA Kakhovskii (Decembrist PG Kahovsky father), then to the middle of the XIX century. Lieutenant owned PE Sokolovsky, then - his son Colonel NP Sokolovsky and then his successors, with the end of the century - the book. Scherbatova, the last owner prior to 1917 kN. ES Shcherbatova. There was ruinirovannaya Transfiguration Church in 1795 in the classical style, it was badly damaged during World War II; She had about burial Sokolovsky. A two-storey main house of the palace-type in the style of classicism lost

Vyacheslav said:
03/29/2014 - 16:33

Tserkov Transfiguration during the Second World War was not damaged, it rabatala until 1960, and was destroyed by the communists and activists in front of me.

Alexander said:
07/28/2015 - 23:36

The village "Transfiguration", a manor house on the hill, garden, down to the river, a mill - a picture I have such a family.
Mom always said, "Transfiguration" - our estate. However, I did not specify exactly whose it: Raczynski, Deryuzhinsky, Kakhovskaya whether Shcherbatov ...
For all of them are close relatives. The brother of my great-grandfather Alexander Raczynski (1826-1877), writer, historian, diplomat, ending his diplomatic service he settled in the family estate in the village of Mitino, selling the rest of their possessions for the wife and daughter of his studies, to send his son to the military service, while continuing to host Bulgarians students.

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--- http://magazines.russ.ru/nj/2003/233/sherbat.html
In Smolensk, my family members were shot: my cousin Irina is 17 years old, my cousin Dmitry is 14 years old, my uncle Sergey Borisovich Shcherbatov with his wife Elizaveta, nee Plautina, aunt, Princess Khovanskaya. Her line after this "purge" ceased. I wrote down all the coordinates, but I did not immediately tell anyone. I arrived the next day alone, opened the first box, there were about 20 tons of documents. I did not get the Shcherbatov case, but it was supposed to be there. I doubt that I could find him alone. But here, one might say, was lucky: Alexander von Engelhardt helped me. From him I learned the history of the archive and details of the shooting of my family.

.. . The Cheka began to operate from the end of 1917. The former gendarmes and policemen, nobles, merchants and priests, cadets, schoolboys, students were exterminated. Shot not only adults but also children. "The Shcherbatov case" was found in documents for 1921: arrest, interrogation, sentence to be shot. Uncle's wife, who was very fond of Russia, was a half-English woman, and the reason for the arrest with the wording "English spies" was the family's affection for the English language. Something I was enchanted by Engelhardt, who himself interrogated my relatives: "Irina's cousin, she seemed to be afraid of nothing. She said: "I hate you. You are traitors to my homeland. " She was shot the next morning. There were also two Chekist brothers, Pavel and Grigory Neubergi, who at that time were twenty and twenty-one years old, then they changed their surname to Newberg. These two, after the Civil War, worked in Berlin with Rosengolz at the USSR Ministry of Trade. Both fled in the 28-29 years from Berlin to the West, capturing quite a lot of money. Paul married Olga Zhigalova, also from Smolensk, a well-known woman in America, who wrote an interesting book about her Smolensk life. Paul died in the United States. Little detail: my sister Elena accidentally met Olga in Switzerland, and they maintained close friendly relations for a long time, until I told Elena that Olga Zhigalova's husband had interrogated our sister Irina. The rupture somewhat spoiled the social status of Mrs. Zhigalova. Nevertheless, their son became a lawyer, married the daughter of the American millionaire Vanderbild.

And I remember Irina. Last time we met in Petersburg, she was then 15-16 years old, I was 6 or 7. Very beautiful and affectionate, always took me in my arms and kissed her head. I had such a special feeling for her. Uncle Sergey, a well-known artist, loved his estate near Smolensk, not far from the Goat Hills, and did not want to leave it. He gave them out as "British intelligence officers" Alexander Engelhardt. In the Goat Hills, with the shooting of my relatives, the GPU cemetery began, where five thousand Polish officers were destroyed many years later.

["The Goat Mountains" refers to Kozy Gory, a hamlet in the Smolensk area, close to Katyn.This was the site of the infamous massacre of Polish officers in WWII. GPU (Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie - State Political Directorate) was the official designation of the Cheka 1922 - 1923. Apparantly some or all of the Katyn Forest victims were buried in Kozy Gory.]

. . . He could not know that part of my family was left under Stalin's government, but I did not want to go into details. The fact is that two sisters from the Shcherbatov family who were shot, Tatyana and Elizabeth, were able to escape. Tatiana went to Petrograd. She was helped by the friends of her grandfather Shcherbatov's sister, the famous countess Uvarova, an archaeologist who had high prestige in Russia. The countess' husband, who was born Shcherbatova, Earl Uvarov was also a well-known archeologist, a specialist in Scythian burials. Many burial mounds were found by this couple. Uvarov by this time died, the countess went to Yugoslavia. Tatyana in Petrograd was helped by good acquaintances of the Uvarovs, just kind people. Tatiana painted beautifully, they sent her to Georgia, to Tiflis. She graduated there school and became a famous painter-restorer. She sketched the unique Georgian frescoes that adorned the Orthodox churches, which were preserved in the mountains from the 8th to the 9th centuries until the arrival of the Arabs. Now there's Muslim Chechnya. I have a magazine "Paris Match", dedicated to her work and life stories. She is considered the only expert in Georgian frescoes in Russia. Tatyana, undoubtedly, has done a tremendous historical work. Most of the drawings were in the Tiflis Museum, and many died in 1990-91 during a fire, during the riots in Georgia during the partition of the USSR. After that, in 92-93 she returned to Moscow, bought a house in the Moscow suburbs, and lives there. I saw her only once in 91, when I came to Moscow. Tatiana specially arrived for a meeting. Very sweet and intelligent, she did not want to talk about Smolensk: "We will not talk about this. I suffered so much. " Financially, she was helped from France, where money was left for her. My aunts - Mary and Anyuta (Golitsyna), born Shcherbatov, died. But before the revolution, Grandma Shcherbatova, the father's mother, had one of the famous diadems of Empress Josephine, the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1914, the diadem, after the restoration, was sold. Two sisters inherited money. Anyuta invested some money in a plot of land in the south of France, near Cannes. This property is actually owned by Tatiana and Elizabeth. I saw Elizabeth only in my childhood, at the age of six. I know that she, after parting with Tatiana, fled to Siberia and was teaching English in Krasnoyarsk, died there, and very early. Tatyana now should be about 96 years old. She was married to Kovalevsky, who was a student of the St. Petersburg Lyceum in the early 1930s. He was shot in a few years. From this marriage there was a daughter and a son. Daughter, known in Moscow as a professor of history. I saw her in Belgium when she came to visit my sisters, Olga and Anna, who, basically, and kept in touch with her. She seemed to me an interesting interlocutor, a competent historian, an intelligent, but somewhat exalted woman. And with her son, a pretty nice boy, but similar to a long-haired hippie, I could not find a common language. He is now about 40 years old, probably changed, turning into an elegant young man. Maybe I took a bit of a preoccupation with him? He was not an angel in his childhood. Recently, analyzing old papers, I found my letter, sent from Constantinople "dear aunt Anyuta." I was very surprised by my intelligence. I quote this funny document. On the other hand, it is clear from the written, what kind of sympathetic, kind and always ready to help was my father's sister. At all, Aunt Mary was no different from her in character. Therefore, my family members were calm for Tatiana and Elizabeth, confident that they are in a good financial situation.

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[THE FOLLOWING WAS TRANSLATED THROUGH GOOGLE TRANSLATE FROM A BLOG ENTRY THAT NO LONGER EXISTS. WHILE IT'S ROUGH, SOME OF THE FACTS ARE QUITE INTERESTING. THE ORIGINAL ENTRY WAS HERE: http://mitino-smol.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/blog-post_6732.html ]

Extensive complex of buildings in the classical forms is precisely princes Shcherbatov (not preserved.) In a. Transfiguration (near the station. Kolodny near Smolensk). Storey palace had a rather complex three-dimensional composition. It included a cupola crowned conch with six Ionic columns on the axis of the front facade on the sides two-storey wings and lower volumes on the flanks.

During WWII served as a hospital after the war - a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. Unfortunately, at the moment of the estate's nothing left.

Owners: Shcherbaty Sergey 1870-1919. ELIZABETH wife Plautin SERGEEVNA 1875-1921. Some of the children: BORIS 1897-1920, DMITRY 1903-1920, TATIANA 1905. Please note that all ended their lives around the same time. Shooting or intolerable living conditions?

Alas, the shot. book. Shcherbatova (eq. Plautin), Elizabeth S. (1875-1921), was shot along with his family and household, on charges of belonging to a "criminal counter-revolutionary organization People's Union defend our freedom."

book. Shcherbatova Irina (1901-1921), the daughter of the previous one, shot on charges of belonging to a "criminal counter-revolutionary organization People's Union defend our freedom."
Family Scherbatova ES, DS, TS Scherbatova (nee Plautin) Elizabeth S.. She was born in 1875. Princess (married Prince Sergei Borisovich Shcherbatova), 1919 - widow. Lived with his son Dmitri and daughters. May 14, 1921 - arrested with his son, daughter Tatyana and a second daughter, as a "counter-revolutionary conspiracy participants," and imprisoned. Soon available together with her daughters, son remained in prison. In 1921 - died. Russia Family Tree. www.vgd.ru / SCH / schrbatv.htm SARF. F. R-8419. Op.1. D. 276. Pp. 17, 50. Shcherbaty Dmitry. He was born in 1903. Prince (father, Prince Sergey Shcherbatov; Shcherbatova mother Elizabeth S.). RESIded in Smolensk, studied at the Institute. May 14, 1921 - arrested in his mother and sisters, was sentenced to imprisonment in a concentration camp and sent to Kholmogorsky camp. October 3, 1921 - a case of "counter-revolutionary conspiracy" has been discontinued, but was not released. In November, taken out of the camp in Arkhangelsk to Moscow, November 23 placed in Vologda county hospital with typhus, Dec. 23 placed in the provincial hospital, died in late December. Russia Family Tree. www.vgd.ru / SCH / schrbatv.htm SARF. F. R-8419. Op.1. D. 276. Pp. 17, 50. Scherbatova Tatjana. She was born in 1905. Princess (father, Prince Sergey Shcherbatov; Shcherbatova mother Elizabeth S.). Lived with his family Smolensk. May 14, 1921 - arrested with his mother, sister and brother Dmitry as "counter-revolutionary conspiracy participants," and imprisoned. Soon available. Poulchila higher education. Art critic, artist copyist, a member of the Union of Artists and Architects of Georgia, Honored Artist of Georgia. In 2000 - died in Smolensk. Russia Family Tree. www.vgd.ru / SCH / schrbatv.htm SARF. F. R-8419. Op.1. D. 276. Pp. 17, 50.

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Boris married Anna Nikolaevna Buturlin on 08 Apr 1866 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Anna was born on 23 Feb 1846; died on 02 Jun 1906. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1866, 14 Rue Massena, Nice, France
• Military Service: 30 Aug 1873, Major General
• Visiting: Sep 1874, Stanmore House, Burlington Place, Eastbourne; Gen. and Madame de Plaoutine and family
• Retired: 1883, Retired as Aide-de-Camp (A.D.C.) to H.M. the Tsar
• Military Service: 15 May 1883, Lieutenant-General

Notes:

Birth:
Russ. Date: 18 April 1837

Sergei married Eleanor Hester Mary Pringle on 30 Apr 1867 in Church of the Holy Trinity, Nice, France. Eleanor (daughter of John Henry Pringle and Georgiana Ramsbottom) was born on 14 Sep 1843 in London, England; was christened on 19 Nov 1843 in St. George's, Ramsgate, Kent; died on 01 Oct 1924 in Chateau St. Laurent, Nice, Alpes Maritimes, France; was buried in Ste Marguerite Anglo American Cemetery, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1851, 13 Kensington-gardens, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1861, 3 Queen's Gate Terrace, Kensington, London
• Court Presentation: 27 Jun 1861, Miss Eleanor Pringle Presented to Queen Victoria by Her Mother, Mrs. Pringle
• Probate: 08 May 1925, London, England (Limited Administration)

Notes:

Notes:

Married:
• "The Paisley Herald and Renfrewshire Advertiser" 11 May 1867, page 2:
One of the reigning blonde beauties of London, Miss Pringle, daughter of Colonel Pringle (formerly of the Guards) and Mrs. Pringle, was married on Tuesday week, at Nice, to a Russian nobleman, Count Plautine Serges, Aide de-Camp to the Csar. --- Court Journal

• "The Morning Post" 17 May 1867, page 8:
DE PLAOUTINE --- PRINGLE. --- On the 30th ult., at Nice, Colonel de Plaoutine, aide-de-camp to H.M. the Emperor of Russia, only son of the late General de Plaoutine, membre du Consel de l'Empire, late commandant of the Imperial Guard, A.D.C., general and general-en-chef de l'Armee Russe, to Eleanor, daughter of Colonel Pringle, late Coldstream Guards.