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| DNA to track UK-Russia migration
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | DNA to track UK-Russia migration Quote:
A DNA survey has been launched to trace the descendants of Britons who settled in Russia hundreds of years ago.
Though largely unknown in the UK, this eastward history of British migration is well acknowledged in Russia.
Russians bearing the surname Lermontov, for example, claim descent from a Scottish soldier captured in the 17th Century. The new survey will test whether this story, along with similar ones, are backed up by genetic data.Apart from Lermontov, surnames to be analysed during the course of the project will include the Greig and Crichton families in Moscow, a family of Reads in St Petersburg (a Nikolai Read was commander of Russian forces in the Caucusus during the mid-19th Century), and Smytovs.
The surname Lermontov supposedly derives from the Scottish surname Learmonth (or one of its variants such as Learmont, Learmond or Learmouth). One notable bearer was Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), one of Russia's foremost poets.
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