Dolgorukov

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Dolgoroukov (Долгоруков) is the name of a princely Russian family of Rurikid stock. Descendants of Mikhail of Chernigov, they took their name from one prince of Obolensk, whose sobriquet was Dolgorouky, or "Long-Armed" in Russian. Among its members are:

Maria Vladimirovna Dolgoroukov (d. 1625), first wife of Michael I
Prince Vasili Vladimirovich Dolgorukov (1667-1746), Russian Field Marshal
Vasily Lukich Dolgoroukov (1672-1739), Russian diplomat and minister
Argutinskiy-Dolgoroukov, Moisey Zakharovich (1797-1855), Russian general
Helene Pavlovna Dolgoroukov (1790-1860), grandmother of Blavatsky and Sergei Witte
Vasily Andreyevich Dolgoroukov (1804-68), Russian minister of war
Catherine Dolgoroukov (1847-1922), Princess and morganatic wife of Alexander II
Pavel Dolgoroukov (1866-1927), prominent liberal politician prior to 1917