Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy

Nicholas Filonov or Filonoff

Male 1891 - 1945  (53 years)


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  • Name Nicholas Filonov or Filonoff 
    Born 23 Dec 1891  Kharkiv, Ukraine Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 19 Mar 1945  Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Caucade Cemetery, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I97  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Nicolai Lvovich Filonov,   b. Abt 1836, Kharkiv, Ukraine Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Aleksandra Vasilevna,   b. Abt 1866, of Kharkiv, Ukraine Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Abt 1882  of Kharkiv, Ukraine Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F21  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Catherine Werblowsky or Verblovski,   b. 8 Oct 1893, Saint Petersburg, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jan 1972, Nice, Alpes Maritimes, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 1932  Nice, Alpes Maritimes, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Living
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F48  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Research report prepared by Dennis & Mariya Baranov for Konnor Petersen dated 20 Feb 2019. They note: "In some very accidental way, a local researcher has found a volume where all Filonov noblemen were listed, for different time periods, with stating the dates when they were ennobled. This helped me together with the information that we already had from the very beginning from all the reports (I have worked through them once more), and all Filonovs that we have previously found (almost all of them) were united in a family tree that I also attach." This tree provides us our family ancestry for five generations with our most immediate ancestor marked with (*):

      A-Nikiti Filonov (1735), Kharkiv
      .. .. B-Andrey Nikitovich Filonov (1760), Kharkiv
      .. .. .. ..C-Ivan Andreyev Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. D-Aleksandr Ivanov Filonov -- Ekaterina Alekseyevna
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Aleksandra Aleksandrov (21.07.1876), Kharkiv
      .. .. .. .. .. D-Mikhail Ivanov Filonov -- Kleopatra
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Aleksandra Mikhailovna Filonova
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Vasiliy Mikhailovich Filonova
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Petr Mikhailovich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Elisaveta Petrovna Filonova (1845 - 30.12.1882), Kharkiv
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Valentina Petrovna Filonova
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Nataliya Mikhailovna Filonova
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Anna Mikhailovna Filonova
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Vladimir Mikhailovich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Vsevolod Vladimirovich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Antonina Vladimirovna Filonova
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Lidiya Vladimirovna Filonova
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Aleksey Mikhailovich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Lyudmila Alekseyevna Filonova
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Sergey Mikhailovich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Nikolay Sergeyevich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Andrey Mikhailovich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Dmitriy Mikhailovich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Nikolay Dmitriyevich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Mikhail Dmitriyevich Filonov
      .. .. .. ..C-Vasiliy Andryeyev Filonov -- Mariya
      .. .. .. .. .. D-Elisaveta Visilyeva Filonova
      .. .. .. .. .. D-Ttattiyana Visilyeva Filonova
      .. .. .. .. .. D-Pavel Vasiliyev Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Afanasiy Pavlovich Filonov
      .. .. .. ..C-Nicolay Andreyevich Filonov (1785), Kharkiv
      .. .. .. .. .. D-Ignatiy Nikolayev (1804), Kharkiv -- Agripina Alekseyevna Zelenskaya (1822), Kharkiv
      .. .. .. .. .. D-Grigoriy Nikolayeich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..-- Marfa Yakovleva Limanova
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. E-Anna Filonov (born out of wedlock - 25.011853), Kharkiv
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. E-Matrona Filonova (born out of wedlock - 17.031855), Kharkiv
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..-- Aleksandra
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. E-Mariya Grigoriyevna Filonova
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. E-Boris Grigoriyevich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. D-Vladimir Nikolayevich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. D-Lev Nikolayevich Filonov -- Mariya(1810), Kharkiv
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Andrey Lyovich Filonov (1841), Kharkiv -- Elisaveta Petrova (1841), Kharkiv
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Elisaveta Andreyevna Filonova
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Nikolay Andreyevich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Vladimir Andreyevich Filonov
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Ekatyerina Lvovna Filonova (1845), Kharkiv
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Dmitriy Lvovich Filonov (1847), Kharkiv
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Yakov Lvovich Filonov (1850), Kharkiv
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Elisaveta Lvovna Filonova (06.09.1879), Kharkiv
      .. .. .. .. .. .. ..E-Nikolay Lvavich Filonov -- Alyeksandra Vasiliyeva (1866)
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Georgiy Nikolyev Filonov (1883)
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Sofiya Nikolayeva Filonova (1890)
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Nikolay (Nicholas) Nikolayev Filonov (23.12.1891 - 19.03.1959), Kharkiv (*
      .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. F-Alyeksandra Nikolayeva Filonova (10.02.1894 - 10.12.1894), Kharkiv

      The same researchers report:
      A. No Filonovs found in the following: Records group 40, inventory 121, volume 39. Kharkov Krestovozdvizhenskaya church. Birth, Marriage, Death records 1888-1892. No needed records found.
      B. No Filonovs found in the following: Records group 40, inventory 121, volume 38. Kharkov Ioanno-Bogoslovskaya church. Birth, Marriage, Death records 1888. No needed records found.
      C. The State Archive of Kharkov. Genealogy books alphabet. Records group 14, inventory 11, volume 12. The following is in six columns labeled as follows: 1. Names of noblemen who were put to the Genealogy book. 2. To what part of the book they were put. 3. Date of putting to the Genealogy book. 4. Sum paid to be listed in the book. 5. When the money were received. 6. Noblemen of what uezd (district). 7. Notes.
      -- 1. Pages 89 back of the page - 90. Filonov Vasily Andreev, warrant officer, his wife Marya, their son Pavel, daughters Tatyana and Elisaveta.
      2. 2
      3. December 1, 1787
      6. Kharkov
      7. By the Decree of the Temporal Heraldry Attendance from June 4, 1841 #1931 is not admitted to noble rank (the decree is in the volume). The Decree is in the volume about admitting of the warrant officer Vasily and Nikolay 1787 (year)
      -- 1. Page 91 back of the page - 92. Filonov Ivan Andreev, sergeant
      2. 2
      3. January 16, 1792
      6. Kharkov
      -- 1. Pages 107 back of the page - 108. Filonov Vladimir Nikolayev, major
      2. 3
      3. July 31, 1840
      4. 5 silver rubles
      6. Kharkov
      7. These volumes are united in the volume from 1787. [Researcher notes that this note applies to this entry and to the next as well.]
      -- 1. Filonov Mikhail Ivanov, headquarters captain and cavalier, his wife Kleopatra
      2. 3
      3. September 10, 1840
      4. 3 silver rubles
      6. Akhtyrsky By the
      7. Decree of the Heraldry Department from March 22, 1850 #2114 is admitted to noble rank with transferring to the second part. Decree is in the volume 1849 (year) Alexandra, children Boris not serving, daughter Marya
      -- 1. Page 109 back of the page - 110, Filonov Grigory Nikolayev, Collegiate Assessor, his wife
      2. 3
      3. July 20, 1844
      6. Kharkov
      7. By the Decree of the Heraldry from November 30, 1844 #234553 is admitted to noble rank. The Decree is in the volume.
      -- 1. Page 110 back of the page - 111. Filonov Lev Nikolayevich, Titular Counselor, his wife Marya, his sons Andrey and Nikolay
      2. 1
      3. January 19, 1846
      4. 10 rubles
      6. Kharkiv
      7. Lev Filonov is admitted to the rights of the hereditary nobility by the decree of the Temporal Heraldry Attendance from September 27, 1845 #6498. This decree is united with the volume about Vasily. There is a decree of the Temporal Heraldry Attendance from May 30, 1846 #2741 about admitting of Filonov children. The volume is united with the volume from 1787.
      -- 1. Pages 113 back of the page - 114. Filonov: Dmitry and Andrey, sons of headquarters captain Mikhail Filonov
      2. 3
      3. August 18, 1849
      6. Akhtyrsky
      7. By the Decree of the Heraldry Department from March 22, 1850 #2114 were admitted to noble rank with transferring to the second part. The decree is in the volume.
      -- 1. Page 117 back of the page - 118. Filonova Elisaveta, daughter of the Court Counselor Lev Nikolayevich Filonov
      2. 1
      3. October 29, 1858
      6. Kharkov
      7. By the Decree of the Heraldry from March 10, 1859 #2981 was admitted to noble rank, the volume
      is united with the volume from 1858.
      -- 1. Filonov: Sergiy, Alexey, Vladimir, Anna and Nataliya - children of headquarters captain Mikhail Ivanov Filonov
      2. 2
      3. July 22, 1859
      4. 3
      5. December 21, 1862
      6. Akhtyrsky
      7. By the Decree of the Heraldry from November 16, 1859 #10323. Admitted to noble rank.
      -- 1. Filonov Dmitry, Jakov and Ekaterina - children of the Court Counselor Lev Nikolayev Filonov.
      2. 1
      3. August 26, 1859
      4. 5
      5. August 30, 1859
      6. Kharkov
      7. By the Decree of the Heraldry from January 26, 1860 #1189. Admitted to noble rank.
      -- 1. Pages 118 back of the page - 119. Filonov Petr and Vasily, children of the headquarters captain Mikhail Ivanov Filonov
      2. 2 June 30, 1861
      6. Akhtyrsky
      7. The copy of the volume is not presented to the Senate according to the decree of the Heraldry Department from February 20, 1861 #1840 as a volume about persons born after this clan was admitted to noble rank.
      -- 1. Page 119 back of the page - 120. Filonova Alexandra, daughter of headquarter’s captain Mikhail Ivanov Filonov
      2. 2
      3. May 18, 1861
      4. Nothing
      6. Akhtyrsky
      7. The copy of the volume is not presented to the Senate according to the decree of the Heraldry Department from February 20, 1861 #1840
      -- 1. Page 123 back of the page - 124. Filonova Ekaterina Alexeeva, daughter of the Provincial Secretary Boris Grigoryev Filonov
      2. 3
      3. June 21, 1873
      4. 20
      6. Kharkov
      7. The copy of the volume is not presented to the Senate according to the decree of the Heraldry Department from February 20, 1861 #1840
      -- 1. Page 126 back of the page - 127. Filonov widow of Andrey Lvovich Filonov - Elisaveta Pertova and her children Vladimir, Nikolay and Elisaveta
      2. 1
      3. September 6, 1879
      4. Nothing
      6. Kharkov
      7. The copy from this volume is not presented to the Senate on the basis of the 2nd paragraph of 284th article of the IX volume, 1876
      -- 1. Page 127 back of the page - 128. Filonov Mikhail, son of the major Dmitry Mikhailovich Filonov
      2. 2
      3. August 18, 1881
      4. 5 rubles
      6. Akhtyrsky
      7. The copy from this volume is not presented to the Senate on the basis of the 2nd paragraph of 284th article of the IX volume, 1876
      -- 1. Page 134 back of the page - 135. Filonov Georgy, Sophia and Nikolay, children of the nobleman Nikolay Lvovich Filonov
      2. 1
      3. June 25, 1892
      6. Kharkov
      7. Is not presented to the Senate either
      -- 1. Filonova Nadezhda Mikhailovna, daughter of the nobleman Boris Grigoryevich Filonov
      2. 3
      3. February 10, 1893
      6. Kharkov
      7. The copy from this volume is not presented to the Senate on the basis of the 2nd paragraph of 284th article of the IX volume, 1876
      -- 1. Page 136 back of the page - 137. Filonova Lyudmila, daughter of the lieutenant colonel Alexey Mikhailovich Filonov
      2. 2
      3. May 24, 1896
      6. Akhtyrsky
      7. The copy from this volume is not presented to the Senate on the basis of the 2nd paragraph of 284th article of the IX volume, 1876
      -- 1. Filonova Valentina, daughter of the nobleman that does not serve Petr Mikhailovich Filonov
      2. 2
      3. May 30, 1896
      6. Akhtyrsky
      7. The copy from this volume is not presented to the Senate on the basis of the 2nd paragraph of 284th article of the IX volume, 1876
      -- 1. Page 137 back of the page - 138. Filonov Lidiya and Antonina, children of the captain Vladimir Mikhailovich Filonov
      2. 2
      6. Akhtyrsky
      7. The copy from this volume is not presented to the Senate on the basis of the 2nd paragraph of 284th article of the IX volume, 1876
      -- 1. Page 138 back of the page - 139. Filonov Vsevolod, son of the captain Vladimir Mikhailovich Filonov
      2. 2
      3. January 20, 1905
      6. Akhtyrsky
      7. The copy from this volume is not presented to the Senate on the basis of the 2nd paragraph of 284th article of the IX volume, 1876
      -- 1. Page 141 back of the page - 141, Filonov Nikolay, son of the lieutenant Sergey Mikhailovich Filonov
      2. 2
      3. March 18, 1907
      6. Akhtyrsky
      7. On the basis of the 2nd paragraph of the 359 article, IX volume, 1899. It was not due to make a Revision.

      2. Nicholas Filinov/Filinoff, is believed to have been born about December 23, 1891 in Kharkiv; however, Irene his daughter remembers him as being age 56 at the time death which would make a birth year of approximately 1889. He died March 19, 1945 in Nice, France. His parents may be a father of the same name of Nicholas and a mother named Alexandra Vassilieva/Wassiliev. He may have had a sister named Sonia [turns out to Sophia upon further research]. He may have been married before with a son from this marriage, who may have been killed around the time of the Revolution. There is a street named Filonoff in Kharkiv that may associated with his family. Additionally, his grandfather or other close relative may have been somewhat famous as a General in the Tatars. One of his identification cards said that he was a "Russian combatant." In France, he was Russian Orthodox and sang in the choir at the main church in Nice. Last job he had was working for Conso Company, Blvd. Raimbaldi delivering coal to people's appartments and I met him on that Blvd. and that was the last time I saw him as he died that week March 1945. I turned 12 the next Aug 9th.

      3. Irene remembers Nicholas missing part of one finger with another finger bent due to an accident. On one of his ID photos that Irene has, it mentions "Combatant Russe" (Russian Combatant, but which war is uncertain and may have been either WWI or the Bolshevik Revolution. She also remembers him rolling his own cigarettes or picking up cigarette butts during the War years. He had a wine drinking problem always buying the cheapest wine available; this eventually killed him. When drunk, Nicholas tended towards being a mean drunk and physically abusive. He would soak stale bread and feed it to the pigeons. Catherine and Irene moved away from him about 1938 to live with Catherine's mother across from the Nice Rail station at 38, Av. Aubert, apt. 68 on the third floor. As of 2015, the building is still there. During the War, Nicholas went to central France working with the German-occupied government. He eventually died in Nice at the Palladium Apartments where he had a groundfloor apartment.

      4. Email from Natailia Naumova dated 30 Oct 2016 regarding her efforts to find Filonoff:
      "Good afternoon, my dear sister, Irina!
      Sorry for the long silence.
      I posted your photos in several departments Rossiyskogot genealogical site. Look for the name "Yfnf"
      1. Family navigator http://forum.vgd.ru/199/41878/950.htm
      2. Old photographs. Maybe someone will find a family (at the bottom) http://forum.vgd.ru/86/52990/1480.htm?a=stdforum_view&o =
      3. Search for photos http://forum.vgd.ru/49/31618/240.htm?a=stdforum_view&o =
      4. Kharkiv region http://forum.vgd.ru/23/3700/440.htm?a=stdforum_view&o =
      People are responding, but their Filonov live in other places, not in Kharkov.
      I am looking for at least some clue about Filonov in Kharkov, to make a request to the archive. I looked on the basis of the Kharkov archive. They have very little digitized documents indexed, and even less indexed documents that will not help find Filonov Nikolai Nikovaevicha. If there is no indexing, searching by name is not possible. It is necessary to search by hand all the parish registers of the city of Kharkiv. For such a request, it would be for a fantastic high price without guaranteeing anything. We need to find something else about Filonov Nikolai Nikolaevich, and then make a request.
      I'm looking for on the Internet Address Kharkov Calendars of the late 19th - early 20th century, which refers to all the famous people of the city. Maybe you're lucky and find something about Filonov. Unfortunately, not everything is on the Internet.
      As for the information that you gave a Russian lady in Nice, then it says that on the Volga railway, if you go from Moscow to Volgograd, there is a city and the station called "Filonov." This can be in the mind, but now it does nothing.
      With love, Natalya Naumova."

      5. Email date 7 Jan 2018 from Natalya Georgiyeva addressed to Irene Petersen:
      "Happy New Year and Merry Christmas in Ukraine. I am sorry I haven't written to you for so long. Life was crazy busy. I want to tell you that I found that there were indeed rich family in Kharkiv with the last name Filonov. They were in manufacturing some type of business and one of them was a famous collector of books and paintings, they also made donations for cultural and educational events. I cannot state that your father is connected to this family but as to me it can be high possibility. Simple people (I mean workers and peasants wouldn't have gone to France). I found the book written in 1905 about history of Kharkiv by a professor of history and it gives the history of the city for 250 years from 1765. Maybe I can find something there but I think it is necessary to actually go to check documents in the archive to firm such connection. Hopefully everything will work out."

      6. Prior to the discovery of the Filonov Nobility Tree delineated above, the following note was a progress note which led to the later conclusion of the same mentioned Nobility Tree:
      Research report dated May 8, 2018 under the direction of Konnor Petersen into nine Christian Church records of Kharkiv, Ukraine for the years 1890-1892:
      Fund 40, register 121, item 59 Архангело-Михайловская церковь (Archangel Michael Church)
      Fund 40, register 121, item 50 Благовещенская церковь (Blagoveshenskay Church)
      Fund 40, register 121, item 64 Благовещенская церковь (Blagoveshenskay Church)
      Fund 40, register 121, item 64 Христорождественская церковь (Christ’s Birth Church)
      Fund 40, register 121, item 64 Александра Невского церковь (Alexander Nevsky Church)
      Fund 40, register 121, item 43 Вознесенская церковь (Church of the Ascension) Records 198 reverse side –199. A petty bourgeois, Ivan Nikitovich Gamirni (Иван Никитович Гамирный) was born on 24.02.1890, and was baptized on the 4 th of March was baptized. The godmother was Pelageya Illarionovna (Пелагея Илларионовна), the wife of the nobleman Afanasy Pavlovich Filonov (Афанасий Павлович Филонов),
      Fund 40, register 121, item 39 Мироносицкая церковь (Church of the Myrrh Bearer)
      Fund 40, register 121, item 33 Николаевская церковь (St. Nikolai’s Church)
      Fund 40, register 121, item 33 Иоанно-Богословская церковь на Ивановке (John the Beloved’s
      Church.
      Total 9 churches * 3,000 rubles = 27,000

      7. Prior to the discovery of the Filonov Nobility Tree delineated above, the following note was a progress note which led to the later conclusion of the same mentioned Nobility Tree:
      Research reports dated Sep. 11, 2018, under the direction of Konnor Petersen:
      "Last year, during the summer of 2017, I, Konnor, had the opportunity to spend some time in Moscow and St. Petersburg. I decided to work on finding records of Irene’s biological father and his family. I contacted a sister named Nadezhda Karezina, who lives in Omsk, Russia, and whom I knew on my mission, and asked her for help in finding our ancestors. She found some records, through posts on Facebook pages that the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Russia and Ukraine use to communicate with each other about family history, that contain information about a noble family that lived outside of Kharkiv in a place called Dergachi from the late 1700s to the mid-late 1800s. It recounts how they became nobles and were given their estate. This was as far as she was able to help us.
      Nadezhda referred us to Dennis Baranov. I had met him that summer at a Russia-wide YSA conference.. He and his wife were genealogy specialists in their church callings, but have recently, at the beginning of 2018, begun their own business as genealogy researchers in Sochi, Russia. I got into contact with him and we began to find out how he could help us. He found someone, a researcher, that would go into the archives in Kharkiv for us. We began to pay Dennis for his consulting services and he in turn pays the researcher for his work in the archives.
      So far we have paid him four different times for searching four different sets of church registers in Kharkiv. The first order covered a random search across 9 churches in Kharkiv for the year 1891, which is a possible birth year of Nicholas Filonov. We hoped that we would find a record of his birth. We didn’t find anything related to Nicholas Filonov. Those results are contained in the Order 1 folder. We did find record of a woman and her husband who had the last name Filonov, in the records of the Вознесенская church. She was recorded as the godmother of a peasant. We decided to search that church since it was the only one that had a record of a Filonov that we had found so far.
      Our second order searched the Вознесенская church from 1888 to 1895, which resulted in nothing. Dennis asked the researcher to look into records of nobles in the Kharkiv region. The researcher found, free of charge, the original records of the noble family, that Nadezhda Karezina had found for us through her Facebook search. The records mention that the family lived in a village outside of Kharkiv by the name of Dergachi. Dennis Baranov took the liberty to search the church of that village for the year 1890. It may be worth it to search more years of that church at some future date. Those records, and their translation, are contained in the Order 2 folder.
      If you are interested in seeing that noble family line, I have them in FamilySearch. You can use this ID: LT54-JX1 or this link: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/LT54-JX1
      Around the same time, the researcher came across the record of a Filonov from 1876 in the Благовещенская church while doing work for another client. That record is also contained in the Order 2 folder.
      Thus, our third order focused on the Благовещенская church. We ordered a search for the years 1886-1888 and 1892. The results from searching those years at that church were very positive. We found several people with the last name Filonov, including a couple people that were mentioned in the record of the noble family from Nadezhda and Order 2. Also, contained in the findings were peasants who had similar names to the Russian name of Filonov: the Ukrainian names Filonenko and Filonenkova. These peasants could possibly be related if we go back far enough in the records. It’s possible that since the noble Filonov family in the Order 2 record were not always nobles that they were once peasants and had one of those last names. Only searching the records will reveal if there is any relation. For now, we will continue to pay attention to these peasant family lines.
      However, we have not yet found any record related to Nicholas Nikolaevich Filonov, Irene’s biological father. We decided that we would continue the search at the Благовещенская church for information about his family. I realized that I forgot to search that church for 1890, so that was at the top of the list of years to search for. We continued our search by seeking to find a marriage record of Nicholas’ parents, Nicholas Filonov and Alexandra Vassilieva. However, the researcher is only looking for the last name of Filonov, so it is unlikely that we will receive any record about the Vassilieva line unless we find a their marriage record. In searching for a marriage record and filling in the birth year gaps, Order 4 covers the years 1880 to 1885, and 1890 of the Благовещенская church. This is the path and direction of our search so far.
      Perhaps we should go back and search all available churches in Kharkiv from 1887 to 1893, since we only searched 1891 for 9 of the churches.
      Dennis suggests that we search the church that we have been finding Filonovs in and searching all available records going back to the 1700s.
      In the same report, Konnor answered some of my questions as follows:
      May 8, 2018
      Q: Did the researcher in fact look a couple years either way of 1891 (or Order 1) in each of the nine churches?
      A: The researcher looked only at 1891. The record from 1890 was recorded in 1891, so it is in the register of that church for 1891. This is one of the difficulties with searching archives; something might be missed from a certain year, especially if it is at the end of the year because it might end up in the next year’s register. Pretty much all of the church records are in governmental archival institutions across Russia and Ukraine.
      Q: Is the researcher in fact using one archival depository rather than going to each separate church?
      A: Yes. The researcher is going to one archival repository. I believe that it is the State Archives of Kharkiv region/Oblast. I will double check with Dennis Baranov.
      Q: Have I looked at this all-Ukrainian website? https://pra.in.ua/en
      A: I just did. It didn’t have any Filonov’s from Kharkiv. Also, the site has been developed a bit more. There is more English available.
      Q: How many churches are there in Kharkiv? Did we cover all of them when we did our 9 church search (Order 1)?
      A: We did not cover all of them. We started with 9 churches because that seemed like a good number and a good price. I’m not sure how many churches there are with records for 1891. I asked Dennis and he gave me a list of all the churches in Kharkiv that have records for 1890:
      Благовещенский собор 1881-1901
      Дмитревская церковь 1888-1896
      Церковь Иоанна Богослова 1879-1895
      Кирилло-Мифодиевская кладбищенская церковь 1885-1897
      Церковь Озерянской Божей матери 1834-1901
      Церковь Рождества Христова 1880-1900
      Пантелеймоновская церковь 1885-1898
      Озерянская трапезная церковь 1892-1898
      You might be able to notice that we only searched a couple of the churches for 1891. We didn’t even touch the other ones, even though most of them have records for that year.
      Q: What years are there records available to search for the Благовещенская church (where we have found the records of the Filonovs so far)?
      A: These are the list of years for which there are records for: 1779-1780, 1800-1802,1804,1808-1810,1813,1816,1820,1822,1823,1829,1831-1833,1837,1846,1850-1853,1855-1856,1866-1868,1870,1872-1885.
      The following are the results Konnor has had thus far sorted by Church in Kharkiv, Year, Item, Record #, Result, and his Research Order number:
      -Ascension/ Вознесенская; 1891; Фонд 40 опись 121 дело 43; Листы 198 оборот - 199; "Name: Ivan Nikitovich Gamirnyi / Date of birth: 2/24/1890 / Date of christening: 3/04/1890 / Info: bourgeois / His godmother was the wife of the nobleman Afanasyi Pablovich Filonov: Pelageya Illarionovna / 1
      -Annunciation Cathedral/ Благовещенская; 1881; Фонд 40 опись 121 дело 27; 17; Date of birth: February, 8
      Name: Feodor (male) / Parents: Peasant of Kharkov uezd, Rogansky volost, Rogan village Ivan / Pavlov Filonenko and his lawful wife Mariya Mikhailova. Witnesses: Scribe soldier of Kharkov military district Ivan Romanov Shtapov and peasant girl of Poltava province, Kobyletsk uezd, Ivanovka village Evdokiya Ivanova Torbapekova. / 3
      -Annunciation Cathedral/ Благовещенская; 1887; Фонд 40 опись 121 дело 27; 14; "Marriage Date: August, 23. Groom: Bourgeois of Poltava province, Konstantinograd city Feodor Grigoryev Filonenko, of Orthodox belief, 1st marriage, 20 years old. Bride: Peasant girl of Kharkov province, Volgansky uezd, Novo-Belgorodsky volost, N.Belgorod village Dariya Vlasieva Kolubenkova, of Orthodox belief, 1st marriage, 22 years old. / 3.
      -Annunciation Cathedral/ Благовещенская; 1888; Фонд 40 опись 121 дело 27; 43; Date of birth: May, 30
      Name: Elena (female). Parents: Bourgeois of Poltava province, Konstantinopol city Feodor Grigoryev Filonenko and his lawful wife Dariya Vlasieva. / 3.
      -Annunciation Cathedral/ Благовещенская; 1888; Фонд 40 опись 121 дело 27; 28; Date of birth: May, 30
      Name: Elena (female). Parents: Bourgeois of Poltava province, Konstantinopol city Feodor Grigoryev Filonenko and his lawful wife Dariya Vlasieva. / 3.
      -Annunciation Cathedral/ Благовещенская; 1888; Фонд 40 опись 121 дело 27; 44; Date of death: August, 25. Person: Court Counselor Lev Nikolaev son Filonov. Age: 74. Cause of death: old age / 3.
      -Annunciation Cathedral/ Благовещенская; 1888; Фонд 40 опись 121 дело 27; 44; Date of birth: May, 1
      Name: Varvara (female). Parents: Retired soldier of Kharkov province, Rogan village Ivan Pavlov Filonenko who died on January 22, 1889 and his lawful wife Mariya Mikhailova. / 3.
      -Annunciation Cathedral/ Благовещенская; 1888; Фонд 40 опись 121 дело 27; 52; Date of birth: May, 28
      Name: Feodosiya (female) - born out of wedlock. Parents: Soldier girl of Kharkov province, Rogansky volost, Ekaterina Ivanovna Filonenkova, of Orthodox belief. Witnesses: Personal honorable citizen Alexandr Ivanov Mikhailovsky and peasant girl of Kursk province, Belgorod uezd, Nikolsky volost Khristina Ivanova Kovylyova. / 3.
      -Annunciation Cathedral/ Благовещенская; 1892; Фонд 40 опись 121 дело 70; 6; Date: February, 2
      Groom: Personal honorable citizen, former acting psalm-reader by Pokrovsky church of Staraya Vozolaga village of Volkovsky uezd Andrey Antoniev Bogoslovsky, of Orthodox belief, 2nd marriage, 41 years old. Bride: Kharkov bourgeois girl Mariya Bogdanova Vasilyeva, of Orthodox belief, 1st marriage, 22 years old. Witnesses of the groom: Kharkov bourgeois Alexandr Bogdanov Vasilyev and nobleman Ivan Lvovich Rogachevsky. Witnesses of the bride: nobleman Vasily Mikhailov Filonov and Kharkov bourgeois Andrey Semenovich Savostyanov. / 3.
      -Annunciation Cathedral/ Благовещенская; 1892; Фонд 40 опись 121 дело 70; 8; "Date of death: March, 7
      Person: Widow of the Court Counselor Aleksandra Iosifova Filonova. Age: 84. Cause of death: old age. Burried at Kholodnogorsky cemetery. / 3.

      8. Prior to the discovery of the Filonov Nobility Tree delineated above, the following note was a progress note which led to the later conclusion of the same mentioned Nobility Tree:
      Research report for Konnor Petersen dated Feb. 2019 prepared by Dennis Baranov, rusgen.info@gmail.com from research in the Kharkov Archives. Source: Records group 40, inventory 110, volume 906 а. Kharkov Panteleimonovskaya church:
      Confession lists 1892
      Page 26 (back of the page)
      Household No 162 temporarily living state
      Filonov Nikolay Lvovich 56 (was not at confession)
      His wife Aleksandra Vasiliyeva 26
      Their children: Georgiy 9, Sofiya 2
      Confession lists 1893
      Page 78 (back of the page)
      Household No 169 temporarily living state
      Filonov Nikolay Lvovich 57
      His wife Aleksandra Vasiliyeva 27
      Their children: Georgiy 10, Sofiya 3
      Confession lists 1894
      Page 120 (back of the page)
      Household No 169 temporarily living state
      Filonov Nikolay Lvovich 58
      His wife Aleksandra Vasiliyeva 28
      Their children: Georgiy 11, Sofiya 4
      Confession lists 1895
      Page 169 (back of the page)
      Household No 176 temporarily living state
      Filonov Nikolay Lvovich 59
      His wife Aleksandra Vasiliyeva 29
      Their children: Georgiy 12, Sofiya 5
      Confession lists 1896
      Page 217 (back of the page)
      Household No 175 temporarily living state
      Filonov Nikolay Lvovich 60
      His wife Aleksandra Vasiliyeva 30
      Their children: Georgiy 13, Sofiya 6, Nikolay 5
      (Written down in pencil between lines. Before this in 1892-1895 he was not listed. In 1896 and 1897 his age is the same - 5 years old.)
      Confession lists 1897
      Page 213 (back of the page)
      Household No 214 temporarily living state
      Filonov Nikolay Lvovich 61
      His wife Aleksandra Vasiliyeva 31
      Their children: Georgiy 14, Sofiya 7, Nikolay 5
      Confession lists 1898
      Page 312 (back of the page)
      Household No 214 temporarily living state
      Filonov Nikolay Lvovich 62
      His wife Aleksandra Vasiliyeva 32
      Their children: Georgiy 15, Sofiya 8, Nikolay 6
      It turns out that they belonged to Panteleimonovskaya church during these years, but in church books of this church births of Sofiya and Nikolay were not found. The local researcher is sure that Sofiya could not have been missed because she did the research thoroughly especially that she knew that there must be Sofiya there. Besides she has looked up all Sofiya’s who were born at that time.

      QUESTIONS:
      1. Deathdate is either the 17 or 19 March?