Nika Dmitrieva doch' Zvezdina

Magistra Nika Dmitrieva doch' Zvezdina lives in Novgorod, the daughter of a boyar family engaged in trade, in the year 1242. As she is literate, she often works as a scribe, both for her family's trading concerns and for others that might need her writing skills.

Alternate Persona

Nicolaa de Bracton of Leicester is a 13th-century Anglo-Norman woman, born in Leicester and currently living in London in the year 1250. Her family holds two manors from the Earl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort. She is a patroness of the Dominican Order and has given alms to fund the copying of manuscripts. Her uncle Henry is a famous compiler of English common law. She also occasionally may be seen in the clothing of her great-grandmother, a 12th century Anglo-Norman woman of the same name.

Whereabouts

Nika currently lives in Stoney Creek, ON. She plays with three Baronies (Septentria, Ben Dunfirth, Rising Waters) and regularly attend meetings in Eoforwic, where she works.

Heraldry

Offices and Appointments

Current Offices

Past Offices

She retired as Editor of the Pennsic Independent in 2018 after 19 years of work.

SCA History

Nika joined the Canton of Eoforwic in 1990. She spent four years in the Shire of Tirnewydd in the Middle Kingdom (1999-2003) before returning to the North.

Interests

Awards

Dependents

Nika's husband, Master Gunther Wahlstedt von Bremen, OP, shares an informal household with her. This household is known colloquially as House Herissony.

Her current dependents are:

Foster apprentice: Lady Fursto de Robyne

Out of Kingdom dependents:

Inactive dependents:

Former dependents, now Laurels:

Contact Information

Nika can be contacted by email.

Arms: Per pale gules and Or, five mullets two, two, and one counterchanged within a bordure sable, for augmentation on an inescutcheon overall sable, a pen bendwise sinister argent enfiling a coronet bendwise sinister Or.
Badge: (Fieldless) A comet fesswise gules bearded Or.
Badge: Counter-ermine, on a pall Or three crescents gules (former device)
Household Badge : Per pale Or and gules, a domestic cat herissony counterchanged and a bordure sable.
Laurel Badge: (Fieldless) A mullet of eight points per fess argent and gules distilling a goutte de sang.
Pelican Badge: On a mullet of six points azure four musical notes in saltire stems outward Or.
Badge: (Fieldless) A mullet of four points gules, overall a manul statant guardant Or.
Badge of the Ealdormere Scholar's Guild: Argent, a pale azure, overall a dog salient sable maintaining in its mouth a torch gules.
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