The Famintsyn family () is the Russian noble family of Scottish origin. Descendants descents of Kristof Tobias Tomson-Hominsky, first in the service of the PolishâÂÂLithuanian Commonwealth later a soldier in Russian service.
Notable members
- Andrei Famintsyn () (1835, Moscow â 1918, Petrograd) was a Russian botanist, public figure, and academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1884). Grand-grand-grandson of Egor Famintsyn, an Ober-Commandant of the Petropavlovkaya Fortress.
- Alexander Famitsin (, (1841 â 1896) was a renowned Russian musical writer, critic and musicologist, professor at Saint Petersburg Conservatory, pupil of Ignaz Moscheles, Moritz Hauptmann and Ernst Richter and friend of Alexander Serov.
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