Chelyadnins
Chelyadnins is an old Russian boyar family of Radsha and St Varlaam lineage via Akinfovs, extinct in the 16th century.Boyar Andrey Fyodorovich Chelyadnin , the first of Chelyadnins who gained the title of konyushy, governor of Novgorod. He was Commander-in-Chief during the Russo-Swedish War. In 1500 he defeated the Lithuanians at the Lovat River and captured the city of Toropets.
Boyar Ivan Andreyevich Chelyadnin, konyushy at the court of Vasili III of Russia, voyevoda. He took part in a number of battles with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, after the defeat of Russia at the Battle of Orsha he was taken into captivity and died in a prison in Vilnius.
