Revealing Watermarks by Ian Christie-Miller;

Author:Ian Christie-Miller; [Неизв.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2021-10-20T21:00:00+00:00

Images of Warburg Institute copy taken by the author CGL 1200 Bay 236

As to the form of the crown itself, Alexander Khmelevsky, in a personal message dated 3 January 2019, helpfully wrote:

This crown has no exact name—neither in Russian nor in English. Usually in Russia in the coats of arms of Sheremetev and other descendants of Andrei Kobyla, as well as in the coat of arms of Danzig (Gdańsk), it is traditionally depicted as an ancient Royal crown.

In the blazon of Sheremetev it literally says: ‘a Golden crown, i.e. the crest of the ancient Rulers of the Prussian’ (in Russian «золотая корона, т.е. герб древних владетелей Прусских».)

Catechismusa Prasty Szadei, with its distinct open, Danzig style, crown, appeared in 1547. Alexander Khmelevsky also states, as noted above, that ‘All Russian heraldry arose in the seventeenth and developed in XVIII–XIX centuries’. When the family Sheremetew adopted the Danzig arms the Danzig open crown was replaced by the enclosed crown shown above. The Danzig coat of arms (essentially the golden crown—some with two stars adjacent, some without stars—and the twin white crosses) was however adopted not only by the Sheremetews but also by the following families: Boborykin, Kolychev, Konovnitsyn, Lodygin, Neplyuev and Yakovlev, as shown below:31

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