The Russian Branch
Christoph August von Schmidt was ennobled by Tsar Aleksandr I of Russia. He erected the Hof memorial stone and was created "Baron of the Russian Empire" and awarded knighthoods in the orders of Sts. Ann-and-Vladimir and the Order of St. Stanislaus, Russia's highest order, after serving as Kollegianrat (Provost) of the University of St. Petersburg. His daughter by his second marriage (1824) to Eudoxia Bruce, Eudoxia Schmidt von Altenstadt (born 1825, a goddaughter of Czar Alexander I shortly before his death), married a Russian nobleman (Alexander Gordon) and his grandsons, Peter and Paul Gordon lived at Neva Beach, St. Petersburg, Russia. Theresien Schmidts Gedenkstein is an important monument in the city of Hof, Bavaria.
The municipality of Gattendorf elected to adopt a version of the coat of arms posthumously in 1974 to commemorate the family.
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