 The family was listed in the first part of the Registers of the Nobility of Russia, which became formalized in the 19th century or earlier.The book "Notice sur les principales familles de la Russie" does not mention the Meshchersky family at all, which may be attributable to the well-established animosity towards the Meshcherskys of its author, Prince Pyotr Vladimirovich Dolgorukov.The Meshcherskys had estates particularly in Ukraine, examples of their lands being at