| House of Rzhevsky Рже́вские | |
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| Ethnicity | Russian |
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| Place of origin |  Russian Empire |
| Parent House | Rurikids |
| Current Head | Vladislav I Iosifovich, Prince of Chernigov |
| Estate | Rzhev, Russian Empire |
The House of Rzhevsky (Russian: Рже́вские) is a Russian princely noble family descended from Smolensk Rurikids. They currently bear the titles Prince/Princess of Chernigov.
The Rzhevskys are descended from Prince Fyodor Fyodorovich of Rzhev, the son of Fyodor Konstantinovich the Younger, from the reigning family of the Fomin domain (now extinct), an appanage of the Smolensk principality. In 1315 Prince Fyodor Fyodorovich of Rzhev was sent by Prince Yury Danilovich of Moscow to Veliky Novgorod to defend it from the Grand Duke of Tver, Mikhail Yaroslavich. The Novgorodians gave him away to the Duke of Tver, who took over his domain. Since then, his descendants were non-titled.
However, after the Russian Civil War, and the victory of the Whites, the succeeding Tsar, Cyril I, crowned the House of Rzhevsky as a princely family in the Russian Autocratic State.
The Rzhevsky family is listed in the Part 6 (ancient nobility) of the genealogical books of Voronezh, Kostroma, Kursk, Moscow, Oryol, Ryazan, Saint-Petersburg, Tambov and Tver.
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