Editing House of Romanov (section)

===Origins===
[[File:Romanov boyar residence.jpg|thumb|A 16th-century residence of the Yuryev-Zakharyin boyars in [[Zaryadye]], near [[the Kremlin]]]]
[[File:1 ruble Nikolai II - 1913.png|thumb|250px|[[Silver coin]]: '''1 ruble [[Nikolai II]] [[Romanov dynasty]] – 1913''' – On the obverse of the coin features two rulers: left Emperor [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nikolas II]] in military uniform of the life guards of the 4th infantry regiment of the Imperial family, right [[Michael of Russia|Michael I]] in Royal robes and [[Monomakh's Cap]]. Portraits made in a circular frame around of a Greek ornament.]]
The Romanovs share their origin with two dozen other Russian noble families. Their earliest common ancestor is one [[Andrei Kobyla]], attested around 1347 as a [[boyar]] in the service of [[Simeon of Moscow|Simeon]], the [[prince of Moscow]] and [[grand prince of Vladimir]].<ref name="gotha"/> Later generations assigned to Kobyla an illustrious [[pedigree chart|pedigree]]. An 18th-century [[genealogy]] claimed that he was the son of the [[Old Prussians|Old Prussian]] prince Glanda Kambila, who came to Russia in the second half of the 13th century, fleeing the [[Prussian Crusade|invading Germans]]. Indeed, one of the leaders of the [[Old Prussians|Old Prussian]] rebellion of 1260–1274 against the [[Teutonic order]] was named Glande. This legendary version of the Romanov's origin is contested by another version of descent from a boyar family from Novgorod.<ref>{{cite book| author=Веселовский С.Б.| title=Исследования по истории класса служилых землевладельцев|pages=140–141}}</ref>

His actual origin may have been less spectacular. Not only is ''Kobyla'' Russian for "[[mare]]", some of his relatives also had as nicknames the terms for horses and other domestic animals, thus suggesting descent from one of the [[Konyushy|royal equerries]].{{citation needed|date=May 2013}} One of Kobyla's sons, [[Feodor Koshka|Feodor]], a member of the [[boyar duma]] of [[Dmitry Donskoy]], was nicknamed Koshka ("cat"). His descendants took the surname Koshkin, then changed it to Zakharin (descendants of [[Zakhary Ivanovich Koshkin|Zakhary]]), which later split into two branches: Zakharin-Yakovlev (descendants of Yakov Zakharyevich) and Zakharin-Yuriev (descendants of Yuri Zakharyevich).<ref name="gotha"/> During the reign of [[Ivan the Terrible]], the former became known as Yakovlev ([[Alexander Herzen]] among them), whereas the grandchildren of [[Roman Yurievich Zakharyin-Yuriev]] changed their name to "Romanov".<ref name="gotha"/>

[[Feodor Nikitich Romanov]] was descended from the [[Rurik dynasty]] through the female line. His mother, Evdokiya Gorbataya-Shuyskaya, was a Rurikid princess from the [[Shuysky]] branch, daughter of [[Alexander Gorbatyi-Shuisky]]. A ninth generation ancestor of [[Michael I of Russia|Michael I Romanov]] is [[Dmitry of Suzdal|Dimitri Konstantinovich]].