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Volkonsky is a famous Russian from Rurikid princely house. It inherited some Rurikid land along the Volkona river sometime in the dark centuries of Mongol disturbances in Russia and it is not totally clear what was the route of the inheritance. According to Almagro Rurikid princes disputed for centuries the legitimacy of the Volkonski claim to the princely rank. The Volkonski -although well-established in Moscow already since the 16th century- are not listed in the Velvet Book as Rurikids.
