Putin's paternal and maternal ancestors (Putins, Shelomovs, Chursanovs, Buyanovs, Fomins and others) for at least 300 years were peasants in Tver County. The earliest known ancestor of Putin was mentioned in 1627-1628 in the scribe book of the Tver district - Yakov Nikitin, a peasant of the Borodino village of the parish of the village Turginovo, patrimony of boyar Ivan Romanov, the uncle of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich.