Pereswetoff-Morath

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Pereswetoff-Morath, Swedish noble family of Russian origin (one of the so-called boyar families). First traceable to Vasilei Peresvet Ivanov in early-15th-century Dmitrov (NE Moscow), the family, in the person of Murat Alekseievich Peresvětov from Rostov Velikii, entered Swedish service in 1613-14 during the Ingrian War. Throughout the 17th century, family members were mainly active in the Swedish province of Ingria, near the Russian border. Immatriculated in 1652 at the Swedish House of Nobility (Riddarhuset), it remained for three centuries a family of officers and lawyers. In 1919, on the death of Carl Fredrik Pereswetoff-Morath, the unbroken male line was discontinued. However, Carl Fredrik had an adopted son, Carl-Magnus, the biological son of Magnus Dahlqvist and Ida Pereswetoff-Morath, and thus second cousin once removed of his adoptive father. All living family members are descendants of lieutenant-colonel Carl-Magnus Pereswetoff-Morath; the surviving line is not represented at the House of Nobility. Among notable members are colonel Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath (originally: Alexander Moraht Pereswetoff), d. 1687, commandant of Nyenskans (Ingria), and his son, general Carl Pereswetoff-Morath, 1665-1736, active on the Baltic front in the Great Northern War (prisoner of war in Moscow 1704-21).