The Artamonov family (Russian: Артамоновы, the Artamonovs) is a Russian noble family of Scottish origin, descended from Art MacKeen (Russian: Арт Магин),[citation needed] a mercenary that was recruited to the regiment under the command of William Grim ( later under Captain-Rittmeister Jacob Shaw).[1] He first entered service to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but during the siege of the fortress of Bely in 1614, his regiment switched sides, surrendered the fortress and allied to Russia.[2][3] Later on, the regiment participated in several Russo-Crimean Wars during the period of Crimean–Nogai raids.[4][5] Ivan, son of Denis Artmanov, was mentioned as a pomeschik in Vologda.[6]
^Академия наук СССР, Отделение истории архив АН СССР. Приходно-расходные книги московских приказов 1619–1621 гг. Составитель академик С.Б. Веселовский. Издательство Наука, Москва 1983 г. РГАДА. Ф. 210. Столбцы Приказного стола.
^Scottish soldiers, Poland–Lithuania and the Thirty Years War, ed. by Steve Murdoch, Leiden, E.J., Brill, 2001, 191-212
^Babulin, I.B. The New Lines Regiments in the Smolensk War, 1632–1634 //Reitar, No.22, 2005
^A. Fisher, Muscovy and the Black Sea Slave Trade, Canadian-American Slavic Studies