Subtitle:

Noble families in Lithuania in the 19th century : district of Lida, Oshmiana and Vilnius

Contributor:

Epsztein, Tadeusz (1959- ) : Pref.

Publisher:

Instytut Historii PAN

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

958 p., [1] c. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm ; Eng. abstract. ; Contains map. ; Bibliography p. 888-956. ; Publication subsidized by the Lanckoronski Foundation.

Abstract:

The book is the fruit of archival search conducted in the Lithuanian State Historical Archives (Lietuvos valstybės istorijos archyvas – LVIA) for almost twenty years. The first result of the search was a study on the nobility of the old district (powiat) of Lida of Vilnius Guberniya. Encouraged by positive feedback I received to my Noble Families in Lida Distrcit in Lithuania in the 19 th Century, I decided to continue my search and broaden the scope of my interest, to include two more districts (powiats) of the former Guberniya of Vilnius, i.e. districts of Vilnius and Oshmiana. I have also included the improved and expanded chapter on of the Lida Districts. In the Commonwealth, the area which later was enclosed by the borders of Vilnius Guberniya, in general spanned the territory of three provinces or voivodeships: of Vilnius, Troki (Trakai), and Polotsk, and parts of it was included in two other voivodeships: of Minsk and Novahrudak. After the second and third partition of Poland in 1793 and 1795 the region was under Russian rule. My interest focuses on the nobility of the former territories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. But I have neither possibility, nor sources to examine the whole noble estate of Lithuania. And for this reason I limited my search to the landowning and settled nobility. I am interested both in landowners of noble origins, and in urban elites, the clergy, the military or students of noble birth. My main source basis is formed by various handwritten documents, in their majority kept in the LVIA. The most important source to draw a map of the noble settlement in the 19th-century districts of Lida, Orsha and Vilnius are Church registers (certificates of birth, baptism, marriage, and death), and also lists of parish inhabitants. Another very important source for the studies into the history of the Lithuanian nobility is materials preserved in the collection of the Registry of the Vilnius Noble Deputation (Vilniaus gubernijos bajorų deputatų susirinkimo kanceliarija) – an institution formed in 1795 with the purpose to supervise the process of verification of the nobility. I have also used property inventories compiled for landed estates in the mid-19 th century.

Detailed Resource Type:

Book

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:61441 ; ISBN 978-83-63352-75-2

Source:

IH PAN, call no. III.3263 Podr. ; IH PAN, call no. III.3264 ; click here to follow the link ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

Lanckoronski Foundation

Access:

Open