The Artamonov family (, the Artamonovs) is a Russian noble family of Scottish origin, descended from Art MacKeen (Russian: Арт Магин), a mercenary that was recruited to the regiment under the command of William Grim ( later under Captain-Rittmeister Jacob Shaw).Академия наук СССР, Отделение истории архив АН СССР. Приходно-расходные книги московских приказов 1619–1621 гг. Составитель академик С.Б. Веселовский. Издательство Наука, Москва 1983 г. РГАДА. Ф. 210. Столбцы Приказного стола. He first entered service to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but during the siege of the fortress of Bely in 1614, his regiment switched sides, surrendered the fortress and allied to Russia.Scottish soldiers, Poland–Lithuania and the Thirty Years War, ed. by Steve Murdoch, Leiden, E.J., Brill, 2001, 191-212Babulin, I.B. The New Lines Regiments in the Smolensk War, 1632–1634 //Reitar, No.22, 2005 Later on, the regiment participated in several Russo-Crimean Wars during the period of Crimean–Nogai raids.A. Fisher, Muscovy and the Black Sea Slave Trade, Canadian-American Slavic Studies Ivan, son of Denis Artmanov, was mentioned as a pomeschik in Vologda.http://www.hist.vsu.ru/cdh/Articles/part8/08-05table.htm Official list of landlords from regiment of William Grim and Jacob Shaw in Russian Service
See also Artamonov, list of people with the surname
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