Golovkin
Golovkin: ГОЛОBКИН
On a Maltese Cross arg and encircled by the collar of the Order
of St John with its pendant:
Quarterly:
1. Az a dextrochère vambraced arg issuant from a cloud and holding a scimitar of
the same;
2. Or issuant from the dexter side a demi-eagle sa membered or crowned with a
royal crown;
3. Or issuant from the sinister side a demi-eagle sa membered or crowned with a
royal crown;
4. Az a senestrochère vambraced arg issuant from a cloud and holding a scimitar
of the same.
Overall ensigned with the coronet of a count ppr, an inescutcheon gu charged, on
a mount ppr, with a lion or.
On a chief gu a cross arg.¹
Note: The Counts Golovkin were Hereditary Knights with the rank of honorary Commander.
The Golovkin Family Achievement2
Sources (Blazon):
1. Rietstap, J.B.: ARMORIAL GÉNÉRAL [2éme ed., G.B van Goor Zonen, Gouda 1884]
2. Mandrich, Donald R. & Placek, Joseph A.: Russian Heraldry and Nobility [Dramco Publishers, Boynton Beach, Florida 1992]
3. Unattributed
