Category:Smerdyakov family

"Народжуваність і процвітання. (Fertility and prosperity.) - Motto of the Smerdyakov family" The Smerdyakov family was a small family with humble origins. According to Dmitri Smerdyakov, it was known to be the Line of Miracles because it was a long line of gypsies, performers, and carnival folk until Dmitri became a Shpion and Pierre became a Pravitel.

Servitude
"The Smerdyakov family were born to serve, not to rule. They were nobody's masters, just as they were everybody's servants. - Stefan's blunt impression on the Smerdyakov family" Due to their humble origins, the Smerdyakov family was known to live a life of servitude, and they tend to be content in their works. Before Dmitri, his mother Sonya Smerdyakov was a servant girl to the Kravinoff family until her affair with the Kravenoff patriarch, and Dmitri became a servant to Sergei Kravinoff in his early years due to his illegitimacy and the family's secrecy of his true parentage. Pierre became a servant for the Kravinoff family after being adopted by Alyosha and later for the Osborn family after being hired by Harold Osborn to tutor his son Norman Osborn II. Due to this history, the Smerdyakov family weren't in good terms with the heads of noble families like the Yaroslav and Trifonov families, in spite of their relations with them through marriage.

Despite the family's apparent lack of nobility over other known families in Mr. S and Mr. T, the Smerdyakov family was known to prioritize dedication and sacrifice for others over ambition and greatness for themselves, which was connected to their extensive history of servitude. They had immense value in diligence, perseverance, and resourcefulness as means of their service for a greater cause than themselves, which explained their humility in their labor (in contrast to the Trifonov family's desire for greatness and the Kravinoff family's desire for glory). It was shown through Dmitri's service to the Kravinoff family and the KGB and Pierre's service to the Kravenoff and Osborn families, the public, Kaiba Corporation, and Oscorp Industries.

Relations with Other Families
While the old family line was mixed with Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, and French blood, it was revealed that Pierre's paternal line was traced back to the Smerdyaschaya family line through the sister of Lizaveta Smerdyaschaya, the mother of Pavel Smerdyakov (a character in  The Brothers Karamazov ), and his maternal Yaroslav family was traced back to Alyosha Karamazov, the younger brother of Ivan Karamazov (the ancestor of the Chekov family). Because Ivan Karamazov's family line included the Chekov family, this made Pierre Smerdyakov distant cousins to the Chekov family.

The Smerdyakov family line was connected with the Kravinoff family line, which was followed by the births of respectable Agent Dmitri and his Intellectual son, Pierre. The Kravinoff family line was traced back to Dmitri Karamazov, the eldest son and half-brother of Ivan and Alyosha, but the family line came from the mother of Sergei Kravinoff and Dmitri and Sergei shared the same father.

Through Pierre's marriage to Sharon Trifonov and Dmitri's marriage to Katerina Yaroslav, the Smerdyakov family became related to a royal house and a governor family.

After the deaths of the heads of the Kravinoff family, Dmitri Smerdyakov, as written in the final will and testament of former Head of the Kravinoff family, Sergei Kravinoff, became the head of both the Smerdyakov and Kravinoff families until he declared Vladimir and Pierre to be separate heads and made them separate families.

Name Etymology
Some members of the Smerdyakov family had names deviated to personifications of wisdom and law, but some members had names deviated to the element of earth.
 * Sonya is a variation of Sophia, the personification of wisdom.
 * Dmitri means "of Demeter", the Greek goddess of agriculture, harvest, fertility, and sacred laws.
 * Pierre is the French form of Peter (like Apostle Peter), meaning "stone" or "rock".
 * Sharon means "plain (land)".
 * Proserfina is a variation of Persephone, the daughter of Demeter and the goddess of spring.
 * Daichi is coined from Japanese dai, which means big, great, and chi, which could either mean earth, land or wisdom, intellect.

Trivia

 * Each of the four main families of the series (Kravenoff, Smerdyakov, Chekov, and Trifonov families) correspond to a House in Hogwarts from the Harry Potter series. The Smerdyakov family corresponded to Hufflepuff House, which stands for diligence, perseverance, and fairness.
 * The Smerdyakov family, however, also valued cunning and resourcefulness, which was a trait of the Slytherin House (which was corresponded with the Trifonov family).
 * The Smerdyakov family is related to the classical Greek element of earth, which is also the element of Hufflepuff House.
 * Due to their distant relations in the Karamazov family line, the Smerdyakov and the Chekov families shared the Karamazov crest.