NIZHNY NOVGOROD NOBLEMEN LYAPUNOVS. IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS
The article presents the results of research on the Lyapunov’s genealogy. There were many outstanding people among the Nizhny Novgorod nobles of Lyapunov. There are many points still not observed, despite the fact that the Lyapunov’s genealogy well known. The author represents an attempt to reconstruct the life representatives of the genus in the late XVIII – first half of the XIX century. The article describes the common ancestors of such outstanding people as mathematicians, academician Alexander Mikhailovich Lyapunov, musician and composer Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov, philologist academician Boris Mikhailovich Lyapunov, shipbuilder, academician Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov, professor of organic chemistry of Adeksandr Mikhailovich Zaitsev, professor of physics and chemistry Viktor Alekseevich Henri and the founder of cybernetics Alexei Andreevich Lyapunov. Rare archival materials were considered in this article. Some new facts of Lyapunov’s genealogy were established in the process of work.