Rodziny szlacheckie na Litwie w XIX wieku. Powiaty lidzki, oszmiański i wileński
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė (LDK; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; GDL); Rusijos imperija (Russian Empire); Vilniaus gubernija; Vilniaus pavietas; Bajorija; Žemėvalda; Genealogija; Giminystė; Herbai; Onomastika; Russian Empire; Vilnius governorate; Vilnius powiat; Nobility; Land management; Geneology; Kinship; Coats of arms; Onomastics.
ENThe 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 19th 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. Aft er 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 (certifi cates 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 verifi cation of the nobility. I have also used property inventories compiled for landed estates in the mid-19th century. The collected material is arranged in the alphabetical order according to the last name of the described families. Individual entries include the following information (there are some entries, however, which contain only some of these data, as it was impossible to fi nd the rest): Last name; Coat of arm (Coats of arm – some of the families used more than one); Date of the verifi cation of nobility; Places, where the family members lived (or owned lands there); Year (or years) for which the presence (ownership) of the family was verifi ed for the places in question; First and last names of the landowners; Information about the number of their subjects (peasants) in their landed estates; Names of the peasants (subjects) inhabiting their estates; Information about the area of their estates. The footnotes contain brief biographical accounts of more widely known members of the families. An annex include a list of the biggest landowners of the Vilnius Guberniya for the mid-1880s, taken from the LVIA collection of the Registry of the Vilnius Noble Deputation. The book is supplemented by a DVD with the full text of the study which makes it possible to use the search functions within the whole book. [From the publication]
