History and genealogy of the noble Konstantynowicz family

History and genealogy

of the noble
Konstantynowicz
family
from the Grand duchy of Lithuania

© author Bogdan Konstantynowicz

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Bartosz Paprocki of 1578 and 1584

Kojalowicz of 1648

"The Armorial of many houses in (...) the Grand duchy of Lithuania" by S. J. Dunczewski, edited in 1757

"The Armorial of the Orsa area" of 1775

"The Inventory of nobility in the Vilkmerge district" of 1795

"The Inventory of nobility of the Dzisna district" 1796

an armorial by Jan Dworzecki - Bohdanowicz and "The List of nobility of the Vilna district (...)" 1809

"The Record of rental (...) nobility from the Barysau district" of 1812

"The Inventory of nobility in the Lida district" of 1855

Stanislaw count Mieroszowski (Stanislaw count Grocyn pseudonym, 1827 - 1900 or Jan Stanislaw Mieroszowski), "(...) about Polish heraldry", Cracow 1887

N. Szaposznikow, "Heraldica" and "The List of landowners of the Minsk government" 1899

a manuscript of armorial by Boleslaw Starzynski and an armorial by Leszczyc of 1908 / 13

Jerzy count Dunin - Borkowski of 1909

Uruski of 1910

Andrzej Zajaczkowski, "Polish nobility", edit. by "Semper" 1993

Jan Ciechanowicz, "Knightly ancestries (...)", vol. 1 - 5, edit. Rzeszow 2001.

I concluded in my genealogical search that among families with Konstantynowicz surname which live in Poland are two or three separate groups:

The eldest information about a Konstantynowicz nickname, but not about the Fox coat of arms (crest), go back to 07 October 1515 (according to Jan Ciechanowicz) and to the Hrodna area:

Jakub (= Jakov) Konstantynowicz sued to a court his neighbour Tolloczko. His relative surely Olechno Konstantynowicz held a post in the Hrodna municipal tribunal in 1539. He sued his neighbour Dowtortowicz in 1542. The Konstantynowiczs - both of above mentioned - were the landowners of their Duke. Then the nest of them was in villages Toloczki, Ejsmonty and Jurewicze in the Hrodna region (probably since c. 1500) and they were knighted in 1578 with the Pielesz diverse coat of arms.

We are lacking information that they had the Fox coat of arms proper already and I don't know if the Konstantynowicz nickname was the surname in anyone case in the beginning of the 16th cent.! Or it maybe the Konstantynowicz name was only an "otchestvo" (by-name) id est a form deriving from Konstanty or Konstantyn names with oriental ending "wicz" (= vich). However it's not unlikely that Jakub was a father of Olechno and Michno Konstantynowicz but there is no probability on proved of the thesis. Michno and Olechno that's very popular form of Belorussian names with ending "-no" and "-ko" in the 15th and 16th cent.; I give others examples: Senko Miloszewicz from Ostryna 1528, Iwanko and Misko Miloszewicz in Podlasie, Mitko from Vicebsk = Vitsyebsk (or Witebsk) province in 1528, Michno Lyszczynski in 1528, Michno Polanski 1515, Mleczko from Vilkmerge 1467, Piotr Olechnowicz (surname from Christian name of father) 1501, Senko Mikolajewicz 1514, Szymko Mikolajewicz from Upita, Jacko son of Mikula Wasilkowicz A.D. 1525, Mitko (= Mikolaj) Mickiewicz with Fox arms et ceteri and also little villages exempli gratia Olechnowszczyzna in the Minsk province; besides I found out about Dmitrei son of Konstantin in the 15th century, Polut Konstiantinowic' mid 15th century, Kostiantinowic' Semen mid 15th century, Chebotko Konstiantinow in 1540 and Fedor Konstentinow son of Spits 1552, a clerk in Wisztyniec - Michal Konstantynowicz Sumorok A.D. 1571, Iwan Konstantynowicz from Kulbaczyna in 1572 (but with Mackowicz surname nicknamed Kulbaka or Mackiewicz), Jaroslaw Konstantynowicz (but with Lukomski surname 1595). I was faced with the difficult task of collecting information and differing interpretations about origin of our ancestry. One has to be careful with final claims and theses for some years and in passing judgement on first person with the Konstantynowicz surname. A person with a Konstantynowicz nickname in the first half of the 16th cent. didn't has to be the person with the Konstantynowicz surname. I called it purposely to the attention of you. The Konstantynowicz ancestry with the Fox coat of arms proper lived only in the Trakai district (i.e. district of Troki since c. 1550), the Samaites territory (since c. 1550) and in the Minsk province (since c. 1570) by c. 1600 (next in the Slonim area after c. 1600; also in Vilna / Wilno since c. 1640) as good as proves it all armorials. One of string evidences say us for example that the record of common noble movement A.D. 1528 doesn't point to persons with the Konstantynowicz surname in any districts of Lithuania (Grand Principality of Lithuania) according to all historical sources.

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A legend was about the beginning of the Konstantynowicz family. Many said that our family (ancestry) has come from the BALKANS according to "Gutenberg Encyclopaedia" (volume 8); many said that the ancestry had got to descent from Serbian ancestor (janczar), who was Turkish soldier 1455 - 1463, who was afterwards in Poland (that is since 1470 or 1471); he has written memoirs here (1490-1516 or rather 1496 - 1501) about title "(...) the Turkish chronicle (...)". A copy was in the Sapieha Archive. More inf. on the same Turkish soldier - Michal Konstantynowicz in F. Bujak, "Studia geograf.-hist.", p. 129 - 134. The main editions of "(...) the Turkish chronicle (...)" in 1828 and 1912 misleaded many of our ancestors. The Kibalczyc family i.e. Kibalcicas have got a legend that tell us about an ancestor from Serbia - the family moved out to the Chernigov province in the Grand duchy of Lithuania in the 17th century - the legend it's mistake, too.

Descendants of the Konstantynowicz family who derived from present Bukovina (Bukovina joined Austrian Empire in 1775 but it seems to be probable they moved house here from the Austria - Hungarys Volhynia after the 1st Partition of Poland, precisely in the eighties of the 18th century) at the border Ukraine on Roumania; it was the Greek church family in the 19th century perhaps and they (regarded as - in part, by authorities - Ukrainians) were displaced partially to the Mazury / East Prussia after 1945. Most of them live today in south - easterly Poland. You see also about village Zydowskie = Shydovskie where Michajlo Konstantynowicz lived and who was born 1790; his father was priest and mother - Maria Wapnicki - derived from Desznica i.e Deshnica; and about Emilian Konstantynowicz b. 1864, d. 1943, priest in 1887. They had own GRECUL (i.e. GREKUL armorial bearings but own GREK arms was Lithuanian origin, according to Mieroszowski) coat of arms in time of the Austria - Hungarys Galicia at the beginning of the 19th cent. (Bazyli and Michal Konstantynowicz 1803). I take note of them in ODESSA, Tschernowzy (= Chernovits) in 1939 - 1940 and in Kiev after the second World War and

besides e.g.

"Officials in 1876" note in Bukovina: "(...) Konopasek Emanuel, Konstantinowicz von Grekul Gedeon, Landes-Hauptmann Stellvertreter (...)" and "Franz Josef- Staatsgymnasium in Sereth": "(...) Kasriel Josef, Klocek Stanislaus Josef, Kohn Julius, Konstantinowicz, Ewald Ludwig Franz (...)". See: http://bukowina.info/FJSereth.pdf

Florin Konstantinowicz / Constantinovici from Roumania (Romania) was in Israel (the Tsafririm Holon team in 2001 - 2002).

In all probability our ancestry with the Konstantynowicz surname derived from belorussian Czyz family i.e. Senko Czyzewicz and his son Konstanty Czyz, I think. The Lithuanian - Byelorussian nobility was polonised as early as the 16th century (generally speaking, the ethnically non Polish noble families of Belarus adopted the Polish language and culture but only Byelorussian was official language of the Grand duchy of Lithuania in the 14th - 17th centuries till 1697) and converted from the Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism. The Czyz family used the coat of arms of FOX proper since

1534

id est Marcin Konstantynowicz Czyz from Nieciecza

either Marcin Czyz Konstantynowicz from Nieczyca

or Marcin Czyz Nieczycki (or Nietecki because different opinions have been passed upon him; more inf. on the Fox coat of arms in Lithuania and Belarus, see: the Fox crest) who was born probably c. 1495.

The royal courtier Marcin Konstantynowicz Czyz from Nieciecza according to:

Niesiecki 1839

Czarniecki 1875

Boniecki 1901

Leszczyc 1908/13, page 210

historical magazine of 1914

historical magazine of April 1938 (number 4/17, page 49)

Dymmel of 1995.

Konstantynowicz Czyz unknown of name (either Konstantinowicz who was born c. 1530 or the probability is that Michno Konstantynowicz / Miknos Konstantinoviciaus) was missed out in the last will and testament of his father

1547

and devoid of a legacy which daughter Margaret inherited; she had got some brothers. Another lawsuits were also at that time: lady Katarzyna Czyz - Boguszewski vs. her sons i.e. the sons of Stanislaw Wojciechowicz Czyzewicz or Czyz in 1546 and at the same time Jan Czyzewicz son of Jurij and his wife Hanna nee Narbut vs. Aleksander Czyzewicz son of Wojciech in 1547.

Part of the Czyz family from neighbourhood of Lida (either Nietiacz, Nieciecz, Nieciecza, Nieczyca or Nietiaz near to Dubrovny and farther Lipniszki, 9 km from Lida)

c. 1550

have accepted the Konstantynowicz surname (from Christian name of father according to Leszczyc of 1908/13; Konstiantin or Kostiantin = Konstantin that is "steadfast, constant") adopting the armorial bearings of FOX proper and moved out to the Samaites territory and also to the Trakai district, and after from here to the Minsk province circa

1570

I don't know surely where did Michno = Michal / Miknos Konstantinoviciaus come from. I don't know doubtless if exactly Michno was stripped of the assets by his sister in 1547.

But then Miknos Konstantinoviciaus / Konstantinovicius - nobleman from Zaleskovscizna / Zaleskowszczyzna - was founder of Roman Catholic church in

Krikstonys

1562

Settlement Krikstonys in Lithuania now, in subdistrict Norageliai, county Alytus / Olita, now the parish of Christ the King in Krikstonys 67252, phone 31847893; Post Office in Krikstonys, LT - 67014, Lazdijai / Lozdzee / Lozdzieje District Municipality. Krikstonys is 18,5 km SW of Alytus - near by Zilviciai, Gudonys, Dubravai and Lizdai; 2,5 km West of Nemunas and 5 km SE of Norageliai.

In reality just famous

Michno Konstantynowicz / Miknos Konstantinoviciaus / Michal Konstantinovicius

received a big estate, an arable ground and forested land from the king Sigismund Augustus on

04 January 1554

i.e. the Merkine farmland or

Merecz Michnowski

was situated in the Merkine area, Merkine parish (= Merecz, Meretium or Merken area in the Troki district in the ex-province of Troki; a chief officer for life of the Merkine area was Jan Janowicz Zabrzezinski / Zaberezenski since 1536; the Junowicz family lived close by Merkine - see also: the Pileszyszki estate), beside the Niemen river (Neman or Nemunas), next to estuary of Merkys = Mereczanka river

and the same Michno possessed a landed property

Zaleskowszczyzna / Zaleskovscizna

49 km N-W-N of Lida in the Troki or Trakai district, too (close by a south - easterly border of the former Trakai district) as early as

1552

and it seems he owned Merkine (2nd) farmland in addition id est

Merecz Michnowo

upstream of Merkys river in the Turgeliai parish, 38 km S-E-S of Vilnius. Zaleskowszczyzna, Merecz Michnowski, Ulkiszki, settlement Krikstonys and Merecz Michnowo are situated at the territory of independent, since 1918 (1940 - 1991 occupied), Republic of Lithuania. We set out to the authority in Vilna on 19 May 1842 original of the privilege edited by the king to MICHNO Konstantynowicz who was endowed with estate in the Merecz area on 04 January 1554 and many of documents of 18th cent.

c. 1550	Raseiniai region i.e. Rosienie / Rossienie in the Samaites territory: the Poszeszow estate in the middle of the 16th century
1598	Petrus Konstantynowicz in France and Perugia (a province of Umbrien in Italy) according to "Lista degli scolari (...)"
1600	The Konstantynowicz family used POCHOWICZ by-name (or Pohozy, Pohosha, Pohowicz, Rokoz, Rohoza and Pokoz nicknames, information of 1937) at first in the Minsk province since A.D. 1600. It was a certain Rohoza family in the Orsa district and Verchnjadzvinsk (i.e. Dryssa) region A.D. 1602/1643 but it's not our line
c. 25 August 1601	A certain judicial document from the district of Trakai (i.e. Troki) tell us about noblemen, Jan Sobolewski of Busilolisdy by Kraksznia river near by Urkiszki and Stanislaw Kiszka, who litigated against a neighbour from Lachowicze due to the same taken away a little ground in 1600; the landowner called Pavel i.e. Pawel Konstantynowicz, Matys Gozdziewski and Stefan Stankiewicz in evidence at the end of August 1601; we read in the document about neighbours: Koklin family and Jan Sowgowicz, and also about a functionary from Trakai, Jan Stanislawowicz from Bogdanowicze village; the document signed in Urkiszki, and above village Urkiszki i.e. Ulkiszki was situated only 1 km NW of Rudziszki (i.e. Rudiskes, Lithuania now).
07 March 1643	Mikolay Pohosha Konstantynowicz was rewarded a privilege in the Minsk province handed over to him by the king Vladislav IV Vasa. Bonifacy 1st Konstantynowicz derived from above mentioned Mikolay.

These facts noted down in armorials of the Grand duchy of Lithuania:

1578 Konstantinowicz who was born c. 1530

1584 Michal Konstantynowic / Miknos Konstantinoviciaus / Konstantinovicius

1648 Konstantinowicz or Konstantynowicz

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Just after

1661

they partially moved house to the EAST BELARUS in the MSCISLAU / Mstsislaw province near to:

KRYCAU / Kritschew by Sosh / Kritchev / Krychaw where we had eight hundred peasants c. 1700; neighbourhood: the Brujewicz family (in Krycau A.D. 1745), Czyz (Bazyli Czyz was an officer in Krycau in 1522), Danilowicz (Russians burned down Krycau in 1655 and all assets of Pawel Danilowicz, too), Holynski family (proprietors of towns Krychaw = Kritchev and Klimavici but after 1772), Jerzy Malachowski, Nowodworski, Petrazycki, dukes Polubinski or Polubenski (here as early as 1540), Siemaszko (Jan Siemaszko + wife Tomila Saprynowski at the castle of Kritchev / Krychaw in 1695), Siemienowicz (a priest Wasyl Siemienowicz in 1664), a certain Szalus (clerk in Krycau in 1568 - he fought against Russians in the Smolensk province), Mikolaj Shukovski (Nikolay Zhukovski i.e. Zukowski), Usakowski (in Zarubec since 1878), Weselowski (i.e. Wesolowski or Wiesiolowski in Kritschew as early as 1634 and next in 1663), Jan Zadanowicz (or Zdanowicz, Zdanavicius in Kritchev = Krychaw A.D. 1662, he came from the Orsa / Orscha district), Wacur (in Kritschew and nearby Zimonino or Zimonin) and others families,

MSCISLAU (= Mstsislaw, Mstislavl, Mstislawl)

(the effigy from http://www.kresy.co.uk/belo_costume.html)

and in the region northwards of MSCISLAU i.e. the villages Samava (either Szamowo by the Lejedna river or Chamovo at the map of 1834, Czamow at the map "Carte Des Frontieres de Pologne et de Russie (...)" by Rizzi Zannoni of 1772, only 3 km from present border of Russia), Kopceuka, Niesterevo or Niesterow - the Berezetnia estate, where Swedes looted their assets on 29 - 30 August (the battle near to Dobroje by White Natopa river 16 km SW of Mscislau) A.D.

1708

Those near and dear in the Mscislau / Mstsislaw territory, the Polish and others known and renowned families:

Brujewicz	of Boncza arms (or Boncz - Brujewicz, in Bohdanovka - i.e. Bogdanowka in Russia now - in the Mscislau ex-district since 1870 and here also Poplatyno since 1870; Petrulin in the region of Cerykau; Muryn - Bor or Bor near to Holynski's Michiejeviczi, 12 km NW of Klimavicy since 1870; and Sieliszcze 18 km E-S-E of Cavusy or Czausy - since 1876)
counties Puszkin / Pushkin	according to Szaposznikow, vol. 1, in Mscislau = Mstsislaw 1774; owned Kolodzicz / Oltuchow in the province A.D. 1560, next Sielec or Sjalec farm south of Mstsislaw (according to "Philip's Concise World Atlas", 2003) i.e. Mscislau, Novae Sjalo i.e. Nowosiolki SW of Mscislau in 1774 and Monachi from Suchodolski family; relations: Sokolowski, Konstantynowicz and Reutt family. The greatest Russian poet, founder of classical Russian poetry, Alexander Pushkin, born June 6, 1799, in Moscow, into the old noble family.
Dederko	of Dederkalo arms (the crest verified on 10 March 1798, they lived in the Mscislau province and possessed: Stare Siolo - 8 km NW of Mscislau, Nowe Siolo i.e. Novae Sjalo - 13 km SW of Mscislau, Hryckowo, Pisarzewszczyzna and Turowka - 14 km SW of Novae Sjalo / Nowoje Sselo / Nowe Siolo / Nowosiolki)
Holynski	relations: Chelchowski at the beginning of the 17th cent., Suryn before 1663, Kolski from Chlyszczewo by 1670; Ostankiewicz, Hurko, Konstantynowicz, Wojna, Karpilowicz, Anna nee Sutocki + Norbert Holynski from Janovek, Moskiewicz, Piszczal from Brakowiec, Kurzeniecki, counties Aleksandrowicz and Starosielski from Holedz at the beginning of the 18th cent.; Bojwid, Chodzkiewicz, Kaszyc, Mister(ow), Kirkor, Zyrkiewicz, Zukowski and Stachowski in the 18th cent.; Kotly, Issakowicz, Nagorski (i.e. Nagurski; pilot Jan I. Nagurskij did "the world first flight in Nesterov's flying boat on September 17th, 1916 twice with a passenger"; the international record was registered by the Airclub counsel on November 16th, 1916), Swatkowski (Swiatkowski) + Tekla nee Holynski at the end of the 18th cent.; Czudowski, Ciechanowiecki and Wieczor at the beginning of the 19th cent.
dukes Horski	places: Miksztyn or Miksztyno, Dudino, Liszki and Cerkowiszcze, and next here Ciechanowiecki, Hurko, Taran, Suchodolski families
Hurko	in Jurkowszczyzna - 1330 ha. - near to Soino, Russia now; the Hurko house related to Dabrowski family of the Abdank coat of arms, branch from the Siauliai and Kaunas territories; relations: the Konstantynowiczs
Jaroszewicz	Ludwik lived here in 1764
Korsak	Jozef Korsak, officer in the Mscislau province in 1611 - lived in Hlybokae, too; the others after 1667; possessed Holubicze in the Polack = Polatsk province and an estate in the Merkine parish - the Trakai district; in the Vicebsk / Vitsyebsk government related to the Lissowski house
Korzeniewski	or Korzeniowski with the Fox coat of arms or Kosciesza arms according to Piekosinski, derived from the Brest province; the house distinguished in the Vitsyebsk / Vicebsk province, the Polack / Polatsk province and Livonia since the beginning of the 18th cent.; the Korzeniewski house possessed village Usa (Usza or Staraja Usha) near by Kaluzyn, and also they possessed in the Minsk government in the end of the 19th cent.: Piorunov(y) Most together with Nieciejewski family, Krasny Brzeg and Hajdukowa Sloboda (Galdukova Sslobodka); Korzeniewski Jerzy + Konstancja nee Jablonski from the Mscislau province were owners of the Jurkowszczyzna farm in 1766 (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Grand Principality of Lithuania i.e. a federal monarchy-republic formed by the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania then, and Russia now http://www.szlachta.org/tomecki.htm); they verified themselves in Hrodna in 1835; related to Ulanowski family
Kurko	Jurkowszczyzna village, close by estates of the families Hurko, dukes Polubinski and Rajewski in the 19th cent.
Petryzycki	or Pietrazycki, Petrazycki, Petrazickis in the Orsa and Mahileu areas A.D. 1592, Mscislau 1648, farms in Suchanowo 1654, Koscielnik and Szamowszczyzna = Samauscyna 7 km NW of Mscislau; near to Krycau 1695, village Petrazyce or Pietryki by 1813
Polonicki	related to the Konstantynowicz family; they derived from Eustafi Polonicki who stayed in Kaniow in 1663
dukes Polubinski	Leo Polubinski in the first half of the 16th cent.; Wasil in Mstislawl A.D. 1535, Iwan was officer in Mscislau 1569, Konstantyn Polubinski in Mscislau 1627 - 1629, Karol was clerk in Mscislau in 1700; they possessed village Leszczynsk A.D. 1510, Slowuczany and next village Jurkowszczyzna since 1858 - 7 km NE of Soino i.e. Sojna at the map of 1859; the family was kinsman to the Fedorowicz house and Wolowicz i.e. Wollowicz - middle 16th century
Rajewski	or Rajewskij, Rajauskas with Nalecz and Radwan arms in Belarus as early as 1509, here in 1528 and after 1595, 1623, owned Kislowicze and Fenowszczyzna in 1663, Perany in 1664, Stajow from the Ipacewicz family and Jurkowszczyzna since 1858 - together with Polubinski; their neighbours: Komorowski from Mazyki, Ipacewicz, Strzyzewski, Zloczewski c. 1664
Sutocki	i.e. Sutockas of the Dolega coat of arms with Malkowicz nickname, numerous estates in the Mscislau district in the 19th cent., next in the Trakai district, related to: Kijacki, Holynski, Krzywicki, Kozuchowski, Kondratowicz, Ostankiewicz, Zubr, Platowski - vide the work of Jan Ciechanowicz ed. in Rzeszow 2001, vol. 5
counties Wollowicz	or Volovitch since 1590 in this territory, next of kin with the Szemiot family in 1700, owned A.D. 1778: Staje, Berezetnia, Horowatka, Ray - i.e. Bolschoj Raj in present Russia and near by border between Belarus and Russia, Miteykow i.e. Miljejkova close by current border, Kozuchowicze - i.e. Koshuchowitschi in Russia now, Polachowszczyzna, Jurginow and Pietrowicze i.e. Petrovici estate - 810 ha. and 10 km E of Soino - in Zahustyn area, the Klimavicy district A.D. 1784, Russia now; related to Kamienski - inf. of 1623; others in Mscislau in 1634, too. They came of Stanislaw Wissygina of 1413 with Bogorya arms according to Niesiecki of 1842, vol. 9, p. 414 - 421: and his son Jerzy Wyssyginowicz who accepted Wolowicz surname in 1454, and also his grandson Jerzy Wolowicz who fought in the battle near by Viedrussa in 1499, this last Jerzy had 3 sons (Niesiecki missed out a generation, I think): Bogdan, Grzegorz and third unknown; two sons came of this third unknown: Ostafiej - inf. of 1568 and Marcyan + wife nee Pac: they had 3 sons i.e. Dominik + wife nee Savicki, Jan Kazimierz + Katarzyna nee Narushevich - inf. of 1676 and Wincenty who died in 1698; above Dominik had 3 sons: Marcyan 2nd + Antonina nee Zahorovski in the Mscislau area in 1704, Krzysztof and Wincenty from the Mscislau province; Wincenty had daughter who had gotten married to Pac, and also six sons: Marcyan 3rd, Dominik 2nd, Aleksander, Krzysztof, Jerzy and Stanislaw who died in 1737 and had gotten married to Eleonora Racs; this last Stanislaw had two sons living in the Mscislau province in the middle of the 18th cent.
and others families. More inf. about the Mscislau province, see: http://us.geocities.com/konstantynowiczkonstantynowicz At margin: Russian army in the east Lithuania since 1657 till 1661 in Mstislawl; army of Saxony in Lithuania at first in 1708/1709, and next 1713 - 1717; the Russian army stationed in the east Lithuania: 1733-1736, 1743-1748, 1757-1763, 1764, 1767 - 1772.

Ancestors of ours

- Piotr Konstantynowicz who was born c. 1610 in the Minsk province; he lived in the Mscislau province A.D. 1669

- Augustin / Augustyn Rokoz Konstantynowicz (Augustyn was a clerk of the Lithuanian military confederation since 1661 by 1667 and after a special envoy of Michal Pac to Moscow to ask tsar Aleksei / Aleksey to put up his son Feodor / Fiodor III as a candidate to Polish election; the municipal and territorial writer in the Mscislau province, born c. 1635, had died 1713 or before 1713)

- Adam Konstantynowicz of 1697

- Krzysztof Konstantynowicz in 1697

- Adam Franciszek Konstantynowicz A.D. 1707

- Franciszek Rohoza Konstantynowicz near of kin with Holynski family from Soino (either Big Soino or Voronove Slobody near by a farm of Mielkovka = Mietkowka), and his siblings and Hurko family also (from Krotowsza otherwise called Krynki or Krotovshe that belonged to Romejko - Hurko family in the Orsa district) were in trouble for this reason with Holynski (Kazimierz son of Stefan Kazimierz Holynski from Chlyszczewo i.e. Chwostowo close by border between Belarus and Russia, from Soino and Uszpol) family after 1714.
The above Soino is situated 18 km east away from Mscislau, at territory of Russia now i.e. 7 km from present border; it was the Grand duchy of Lithuania 1359 - 1772 and next in Russia: the Mstislavl district, Soino region = "volost" that is similar to county, in a parish of Mscislau (archbishopric of Mahileu, in the Mscislau - Klimavicy catholic area were three parishes: Lozovica, Mscislau and Smolensk in the 19th cent.); one our leg lived in the territory of present Belarus, but the second one stood at the present land of Russia in borders after 1992. A fortunes of Poles in this remote easterly territories of the former Both Nations Republic turned out differently than by Vistula, because not a few Poles had got to choose military service in the Russian Army since the end of the 18th cent. or they worked as engineers in different corners of former Russia since second half of the 19th century.

- Antoni Konstantynowicz signed the Second Manifesto of Lithuanian Nobility in 1763

- Dominik Konstantynowicz was born in the Mahileu (either Mogiliow or Mogiljow by Dnepr, Mogilev = Mahilyow by Dnieper, Moghilev) Government in Russia near by Krycau / Krychaw c. 1805.

A certain Konstantynowicz was gotten married with Oktawia Piottuch - Kublicki from Kublicze (= Kublicy) in accordance with Boniecki; she was great-granddaughter of

Stanislaw Duke Radziwill at Nieswiez / Nyasvizh (b.1722) + Karolina nèe Pociej (b. 1732)

and daughter of Jozef Piottuch - Kublicki of the Ostoja coat of arms (Oktawia born c. 1810, and Kublicy = Kublicze is situated in Uszacz region = Ushachi, Usacy - that is west of Uszacz, the Witebsk / Vitsyebsk / Vicebsk province, in district of Lepel / Lyepyel). Mentioned Konstantynowicz that was Dominik born c. 1805, exceptionally well-off man, the second husband of Oktawia Piottuch - Kublicki because Jozef Szumski was the first one. It was plenty of conversations among families of Zarakowski and Konstantynowicz even in the middle of the twentieth century about wealth of Dominik.

These spouses were related with: dukes Radziwill (one of richest person of Poland and Lithuania in eighteenth century, Stanislaw duke Radziwill was an immediate descendant of Aleksander Ludwik duke Radziwill - born 1594 - with "Trumpets" coat of arms and his wife Tekla nèe Wollowicz; also the descendant of Mikolaj Krzysztof duke Radziwill called the "Black" born 1515 in Nieswiez - most influential man in Grand Principality of Lithuania in 16th cent. and an uncle of Barbara Radziwill), dukes Oginski, Szumski, Piottuch (- Kublicki), Smokowski, Soltan, Pociej and Benislawski.

Note about the Piottuch - Kublicki family:

Ferdynand Piottuch - Kublicki, who was an activist of 1863 in the East Belarus, was friend of Artemiusz Viaryha - Dareuski from the Vicebsk region and also Walerjan Weryho / Valerian Veryho (he was owner of the Stajki estate - South of Vicebsk, close to the Dymanowo station, where Russian police on 22nd April 1863 attempted to arrest him). Above Ferdynand Piottuch - Kublicki was neighbour of Wasilewski and relation of Staniewicz; he and duke Artemiusz Viaryha - Dareuski / Weryho stayed in Vicebsk in 1862 and in Stajki 1863. Artemiusz Viaryha - Dareuski was familiar to: Moniuszko, Odyniec, Syrokomla and with Aleksander Chodecki in Mohylew (Mahileu or Mogiliow) in 1859.

Note about the Benislawski family:

The Benislawskis from Polack / Polatsk / Polock, Vicebsk / Vitsyebsk / Witebsk, Lucyn / Ludza and Rzeczyce / Rzeczyca / Rezekne districts (here also in the thirties of the 20th cent.). The bishop of Mogilev (Mohylew, Mahileu or Mogiliow), Jan Benislawski who was in Rome 1783, consecrated new R.C. church in Aglona, in SE Latgale, 25 km SE of Preili and 40 km NE of Daugavpils, in 1800. The Kastyr estate i.e. Kastire was situated in this parish: 42,5 km NE of Daugavpils (Dunaburg, Dyneburg), and belonged to the noble Dunaburg marshal Jozef Brzezinski and next Zaba family.

All descendants with the Fox proper coat of arms (and probably with the Bowel(s), Three Crosses and Radwan armorial bearings, too) and with our Konstantynowicz surname in the 17th cent. came from Michno Konstantynowicz

region of Brest	1664 Jedrzej i.e. Andrew Konstantynowicz was the mayor of Brest and Roman Konstantynowicz was a priest of the Greek Church in Jelna A.D. 1667 - as far as I know Jelnia i.e. Jelna was situated about 12 km away from Scucyn
and Mscislau	above
in the SLONIM district	Hermogen Konstantynowicz wrote down in tribunal documents together with his neighbour Mizgier (Mizgier family lived also in Perepeczyn and Kolyszki in the Lida region A.D. 1608) in 1603, and also Michal Konstantynowicz - he signed the Olkienicka Alliance in 1698 and had Radwan coat of arms with Plavski by-name; the Arcimowicz family had also the Plavski nickname in a Braslau area, inf. of 1698 and 1763
the others of the Konstantynowicz family lived in the central MINSK province continuously	the Babianowszczyzna village i.e. Buchta, Little Loszyca (Loszyce) in the Koroliszczewice parish - region of Siennica (the estate of Siennica was pawned and at a later date also sold by Stefan Dostojewski to duke Piotr Gorski son of Hryhory at the end of 16th cent.), Koroleszczenicze (i.e. Koroliszczewice or Karoliszczewicze at the map of 1859) and others; Mikolay Pohosha Konstantynowicz as early as 1643 and Jan Konstantynowicz in 1698; following Jan Konstantynowicz was born in the Minsk province at the beginning of the 18th cent. and possessed here the village Buchta = Baguta at present
and PINSK	a certain Konstantynowicz called Rokoz i.e. Pokoz in 1674
in the province of VILNA	Jozef Konstantynowicz Master of Arts, published "Decisio controversiae juris canonici (...)" in 1647 and Stefan who was a member of the municipal board of Vilna in 1665 and information about him in 1669 and February the 06th, 1672 - in accordance with "The Records of the Lithuanian High Court" vol. XI, p. 319 about Iwan Pott; also Symon (= Szymon) Konstantynowicz was a deputy to the Warsaw general confederation in 1668; lady Maryna Konstantynowicz lived in the Vilna district in 1673; Franciszek Konstantynowicz lived in the Vilna town in 1686 and he witnessed a riot
in PORAZAVA and Vaukavysk district	the Konstantynowicz family with our coat of arms lived also at the Vaukavysk district in the 17th cent. in accordance with "The Town Court Records"; Porazava i.e. Porozov landed property = Porosow near Vaukavysk in 1669
in the Paszkowszczyzna - Kuranec region	Jan Konstantynowicz in the Asmjany ex-district 1690, 7 km north - east of Vilejka in the 17th century.
In the Hrodna district	Adam Konstantynowicz landowner near to Grodno with his neighbour Eysymont in 1646 and Bazyli Konstantynowicz who was a royal general in the Hrodna district 1664 - 1688. A certain Teodor Drozdowicz of Jastrzebiec arms was the royal general in this district also in 1682. The Ejsmont family (= counties Eysymont or Eysimont) owned a Cydzik farmland and they were a neighbourhood of Konstantynowicz house. The Eysmont house was related to Bylinski or Bilinskis family of Lodzia arms from Kleptowszczyzna and Koraziewo village in 1623. The Jurowski family or Jurauskas of Friend arms in an estate of Jurewicze also was a neighbourhood of them, and Tolloczko house who had relationship with Dworzecki - Bohdanowicz or Dvozeckas - Bagdanavicius. Kalenkiewicz family of Kotwicz arms from the Jurewicze estate was related to the Konstantynowicz noble house*. Andrzej, Marek and Konstantin / Konstanty Konstantynowicz* stayed at the Zydomlija region in space of 1630 / 1690. Tolloczko i.e. Toloczko or Talackas with the Pobog diverse coat of arms according to Gajl, p. 234 and the Godziemba arms derived from Podlasie area, and for the first time information of 1391, verified in 1800, possessed Nieprakszty in the Trakai district and Dobury in the Vilkmerge district; Toloczko noble family with Pobog arms in the Hrodna district, and for the first time information of 1619, 1632, 1648, 1672, 1674 and 1764; the Pobog diverse arms: shield - an arrow diagonally going out of horseshoe, with three feathers and crown above the shield. Kalenkiewicz lived in villages: Tereszki - Zygmuntowszczyzna, Zukiewicze, Niescierowskie, Filipowskie, Jurewicze, Kotra - Kalenkiewicze, Huszczyce and Piotrowszczyzna**, too.
In the Trakai (Troki) district	Krzysztof Konstantynowicz was a clerk of the district in 1669.

On active service during the war against Russia 1654 - 1667

- a certain Konstantynowicz with the Fox arms commanded a Cossack troops that occupied quarters in Krasiejewie and Iwaniki (the Pinsk district probably) villages; these places rifled on their stay on 15 January 1665; the above Konstantynowicz commanded the Tartar troops in 1666 and mister Fastowicz and Gasiewski (Gosiewski ) prosecuted the a.n. in the Mscislau court (the Mscislau province according to Jan Ciechanowicz)

- Augustyn Konstantynowicz (died 1713) was a clerk of the Lithuanian military confederation in the Mscislau province since 1661 by 1667 according to Jan Vladyslav Poczobutt - Odlanicki (the diarist was born in Pomornoki A.D. 1640, d. 1703, memorials 1640 - 1684, supporter of the Pac family and Vincenty Gosievski since 1659).

The Konstantynowicz ancestry lived in the 18th cent.

1.	in the Minsk province	Koroleszczenicze (= the parish of Koreliszczewicze / Koroleszczenicze) near to Minsk and the holding Little Loszyca next to Koroleszczenicze; we were in the Buchta estate (i.e. Bahuta at the map of 1859, Baguta or Babianowszczyzna in the parish of Luzki that is Lushki west of Smolewicze or Smaljavicy / Smolevichi), here Jan Konstantynowicz and his sons: Maciej, Pawel, Samuel, Bazyli, Antoni, Franciszek and Marcin in the first half of the 18th century. According to http://www.dresselgenealogy.us/XIX.htm (the Dressel / Dreszel Genealogy): in 1774 Jan Konstantynowicz was residing in Stashynki / Starzynki / Stashynek, and he witnessed to an attempt on Jerzy Dreszel = Dressel; he was giving the names of the people involved in it: Alexander and Konstancya HORAIN WOYSKI / Harain Wojski (they have told that the duce Woronecki tries to include Stashynek / Starzynek in the County of Koydanov / Kojdanow, SW of Minsk, and that he means to take over the estate by force from Horain Woyski). Jan Konstantynowicz was one of the willing to help for Dressel. His neighbours: Tadeusz Rutski / Rucki, Antoni Borowski, Jan Oskirka Zienkiewicz, Jan Daszkiewicz and Mikolaj Downar.
2.	near to Braslau	(or Braslaw) SE of Dyneburg; they were close to the family of Beynar - Bejnarowicz, with Novina - Zlotogolenczyk coat of arms
3.	next Mscislau	above
4.	near by Brzesc	or Brest = Brest - Litovsk
5.	at Volhynia	1729 with the "palatinus Kijoviensis" title to Bazyli Konstantynowicz but Volhynia is outside of the Grand duchy of Lithuania; "(...) two Konstantynowicz families have been (...) verified in (...) Podolyia (05. 12. 1841) and in Volhynia (04. 12. 1844)" according to Andrzej Bajor - this quotation without the Author's written permission
6.	in the Grodno (= Hrodna) province	an information was about Jozef Konstantynowicz on 19 April 1764 and the same Jozef in 1765; besides in 1765: Antoni, Jan, Dominik, Benedykt and Leon Konstantynowicz served their country; the Konstantynowicz families, owners of Tolloczki village in part, survived in the Hrodna area in the 18th cent. according to S. Koscialovski and they lived in parishes of Pojeziersk and Lawkowo = Lavkovo ("Antoni Tyzenhaus", volume 1, p. 646)
7.	in the Vilna (Wilno) area	Jan Konstantynowicz and Michal in 1779 (they lived in the Hrodna district, too). It hasn't signatures of persons with the Konstantynowicz surname from the Grand duchy of Lithuania (without the Polish Ukraine: Podolia and Volhynia) in a documents of the Sluck Protestant Confederation of 1767
8.	near to Perejaslav	somebody (owned Fox coat of arms according to an armorial of 1914; territory of Russia in the 18th cent., 78 km SE of Kiev) among Cossacks in 1756 and somebody pro tempore in Greater Poland afterwards in the 18th century, too.

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The Konstantynowicz family from eastern Belarus is my ancestry:

1772

this territory (Mscislau, Samava, near to Krycau) was already in Russia, as the Government of Mahileu (or Mogilev by Dnieper, Mogiljow by Dnepr) after the 1st Partition of Poland, I am afraid. Seventy years later on they partly have moved out to the easternmost parts of the Minsk government, to the Berezina parish circa

1842

id est in the villages BOROVINA and MIEZONKA (the village is situated 28 kilometres south - east of Berazino = Beresino, Berezyna, Berezina, Byerazino or Berezino).

Left - the German map of 1943, NE of Miezonka.

The place was the Radziwill estate to 1832 / 1842. More information about families and villages in the Berezina parish (i.e. Berezino) and the Ihumen district, see: http://us.geocities.com/bogdanbogdan2003d http://www.catholic.by/port/en/dioceses/minsk-mohilev/

The above Meshonka: here lived Antoni Konstantynowicz - was born c. 1833 - and his son Stanislaw; the same Stanislaw Konstantynowicz from Miezonka (i.e. Miezonki) and Anna nee Malkiewicz are foster parents of my grandfather; my great grandmother Anna nee Malkiewicz (Malkevicius) came from the Dryssa ujezd (= the Werchnedwinsk district; the place Asveja / Oswieja) in the Government of Vicebsk / Vitsyebsk; her ancestry was near related to the families:

Czyzewski (from the Dzisna district),

von Krey (i.e. German noble Krej family from Polish Livonia),

Ostrowski (derived from Piotr Ostrowski de Kaki of 1697; Kaki farm situated 16,5 km NW of Ludza / Ludsen in Polish Livonia),

Brzezinski :

1. the Brzezinski house of Doliva arms verified in Vilna on 08 November 1837; Jan Brzezinski was possessor of Zodziowo near by Ludsen (i.e. Ludza in Livonia) and Pudermoyze (i.e. Puderi or Pudereva according to Latvian atlas of 1931 ed. in Riga; 19 km E - N - E of Vilani and 12,5 km north - west of Rositten i.e. Rezekne, Latvia now; Vilani is located 25,5 km west of Rezekne, and Preili is 30,5 km S - W - S of Vilani; but R.C. church in Aglona in SE Latgale, is located 25 km SE of Preili and 40 km NE of Daugavpils), and he owned also Dyrwaniszki in the Vilkmerge (Ukmerge) district; the noble Brzezinski family of Doliva arms verified themselves in Kovno 1837, according to Uruski, vol. 2 (Franciszek son of Jan) and in Vilna 1858 (Kacper son of Kazimierz with sons of mentioned Kacper: Onufry, Jan, Ludwik, Jozef, and also Michal son of Kazimierz); part of the Brzezinski family emigrated from Livonia to the Austria - Hungarys Galicia after 1863

2. in the Vilkmerge (Ukmerge that is Wilkomir) district, the Kaunas government also: Lokiany Upper and Lower in the Pagirys area / Pogiry or Pogieloze in the Siesikai parish - 14 km W - N - W of Vilkmerge; the noble Brzezinski family of Trumpet arms in Lithuania as early as at the beginning of the 17th cent. and derived from Jan Brzezinski and his son Franciszek and grandson Ignacy Brzezinski - verification in Kovno 1850

3. Nacza Biedrzyca - Swaraszczyzna farm in the Lepel district, government of Vicebsk = Vitsyebsk

4. Kastyr estate i.e. Kastire in the Dunaburg district, the Vicebsk = Vitsyebsk government; it is located on the Jasa river, a tributary of the Dubna about 13 km south - east of Preili and 42,5 km NE of Daugavpils (Dunaburg, Dyneburg); 750 ha, here lived the noble Dunaburg marshal Jozef Brzezinski and next Zaba family.
Jozef Brzezinski owned also Pazemys estate (Pozejmie, Poshejmy) in the Dusetos parish, area of Antaliepte, district of Novoaleksandrovsk (Zarasai / Jeziorosy) - Poshejmy is located 15,5 km SW off ZZarasai; the noble Brzezinski family possessed also a big Wenusow (Venusovo) estate in the Novoaleksandrovsk district, the Kovno (Kaunas) government; Poshejmy and Venusovo are situated 39 and 38 km south - west of Daugavpils in current Lithuania; Brzezinski family of Swan coat of arms with Dunin nickname derived from Hieronim Brzezinski and stayed in Livonia since 1680

Juszkiewicz (or Jushkievich)

and Filipowicz (Pilipavicius or Pilipaitis with Pobog and Prawdzic coats of arms verified the armorial bearings in Vilna 1821: Jozef, Mateusz, Michal, Antoni, Szymon, Izydor, Benedykt and Joachim; the family related to Kisiel or Kiselius of the Kisiel coat of arms i.e. "the Camp Tent" in the Wilno / Vilna province and to Chodasiewicz family in the Dzisna district); family of my grandfather had next of kin Georgians.

Those near and dear in the Berazino parish in the middle of the 19th cent.:

Piotrovicz from Luboszany, Karp, Zywica (Shywica), Korbut from Hrynica (Grenica), Tatur (near of kin Zbieranovski), Dzierzynski i.e. Dzerzhinskii (Dzerzhinskii - according to "Imperial and Soviet Russia (...)", Melbourne 1986 by David Christian; named Dziershynski in the Ihumen district related to Tumilovich = Tumilowicz family; the Dzierzynski or Derzinskis house of Sulima arms was verified in Minsk 1819; a poorer members were administrators in the Wankowicz house; others were related to Bulhak family and held Pietrylowicze farm in the Asmjany district in 1838, also Podgaj farm in Barysau district at the end of the 19th cent.; Edmund Dzierzynski = Dzerzhinskii of Sulima arms who was father of Feliks, verified hereditary nobleness in Vilna on 14 June 1862), Nieciejevski (their coat of arms verified in the Minsk goverment in 1836), Milkiewicz (alone acquaintances and that's only accidental similarity with surname of Malkiewicz), Stankiewicz (or Stankivich, among other things Antoni, Walerian and Jan - the sons of Stepan).

The counties Czapski family from Stankov and Przyluki leased Miezonka (only nearby villages Cereszyn i.e. Tereschin and Jagaszkin = Jagodka were at the map of 1859) from

Stefania Radziwill - Wittgenstein (b. 1809 - died 1832)

in the first half of the 19th century to c. 1840 - information of 1995 from Mr Piotr Zbieranowski.

the picture from

http://www.berezino.com/index.html

author Siergiej Byczkovski; see also:

http://polonia.pap.net.pl/2005/10/20051007135902.html

Curiosity: Izrael Gelfond or Aleksander Izrael Lazariewicz Helphand, Alexander Israel Helphant i.e. Alexander Parvus was born in Berezino, the Minsk government in 1867, he was revolutionary, friend of Lejb Bronstein (i.e. Lew Trocki) and acted together in Sankt Peterburg = Petersburg A.D. 1905; Parvus served for the intelligence service of imperial German Army as some write and "produced" money to Lenin.

We were also in the ethnic Lithuania

we possessed in part a landed property Pileszyszki	in the Kaunas district / the Kovno region in the 18th cent. (1766 bequeathed by lady Junowicz), here lived Maciej Konstantynowicz; the same Maciej had brothers: Pavel / Pawel, Samuel, Bazyli, Antoni, Franciszek and Marcin Konstantynowicz. The brothers inherited from their parents (father Jan Konstantynowicz was born at the beginning of the 18th cent.) the Babianowszczyzna = Buchta estate in the Minsk province (government then) A.D. 1798; that family verified the nobleness in Vilna A.D. 1842
we lived in a district of RASEINIAI	Raseiniai region i.e. Rosienie / Rossienie in the Samaites territory: the Poszeszow estate in the middle of the 16th century. Also in the parish of Sartyniki (or Sartininkai) in the place Komcie where stayed Jan and his son Waclaw Konstantynowicz with Bowel (or Bowels) coat of arms, called Svarplovich i.e. nickname Szwarplowicz c. 1650 and others A.D. 1799. In Vilna (i.e. in Wilno A.D. 1841) authorized the arms of them. To this lineage were related the Konstantynowiczs with the Fox proper arms from Pileszyszki in the Kaunas (here in 1766) district; they derived from famous Michno Konstantynowicz. Only one of the Kaunas branch was verified in Vilna A.D. 1910 and information about four lines of this branch were lacking
Marijampole	i.e. Mariampole in the Augustov government in the forties of the 19th century; two of them were the members of the Democratic Polish Society
in Kaunas	Piotr Konstantynowicz
also in the Trakai area	a certain Konstantynowicz signed a manifesto of the Polish nobility on 26 July 1812 - according to Czeslaw Malewski - because of Napoleon conquered Kaunas on 24/25 June and Vilna on 28 June
the locality Chwiedziejowszczyzna	or Chwedziejowszczyzna in the Trakai district, the ex-parish Vysoki Dvor i.e. Aukstadvaris and at a later date other parish (Uzuguostis probably) in the 19th cent.; near to Vladipolis, Alesiskes, Beizionys, Mergiskes and Mackantiskes - 7 km east of Aukstadvaris; neighbouring families: Mackiewicz (they owned - in the Kaunas district or more truly in the Trakai district - a Klidzie farm by 1817 - from Tolloczko noble family and also from Jan Szteyn who came from the Butrimonys parish, and Mackiewicz family possessed also Zailgi i.e. Stecki in the Trakai district c. 1690 and here families at a later date: Krzywicki, Romansewicz, Poplawski A.D. 1757), Klidzianka and Jeleniewski
in Butrimonys	a certain Lucius Konstantynowicz was a teacher at high school in Butrimonys (more probable that is Butrimonys 18 km SW of Aukstadvaris in the independent Lithuania since 1918 and unlikely Butrymance i.e. Butrimonys 14 km NE of Eisiskes in the Butrimonys parish near by Jargance, Jundeiliszki, Kuze, Strzelce) in the thirties and forties of the 20th cent.
we possessed the Ustron estate	in the Kaunas district (= region of Kovno) in the 19th cent. and at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Konstantynowicz family moved house also in the 19th century period

- to St Petersburg / Sankt Peterburg in the middle of the 19th century (Michal or Michail son of Fiodor 2nd Konstantynowicz); a good many the Konstantynowiczs acted and lived in St Petersburg in past days, among other things state activists and also a senior military commandant	- to Minsk in the eighties of the 19th century (old *Bonifacy* *2nd* *Konstantynowicz with his sons: Semen, Jakov and Vincenty) - a documentation of the noble Konstantynowicz family with* the Fox coat of arms proper was being shown in Minsk on 15 December 1802 and A.D. 1853 in the Minsk government	- the Konstantynowicz family with the Fox coat of arms in the noble locality Nosewicze or Nosowicze near to LIDA in the 19th century; the village Nosewicze is situated 6 kilometres S-E-S from Radun or Radunsk, in the parish of Radun, the Vilna government, former district of LIDA; near to villages Kieniensze, Rackuny, Mozajki, Paszkowicze and Koszary; those neighbours: families Hryhorowicz or Hrehorowicz, Laskowski, Laskowicz or Leskowicz, Nossewicz or Nosewicz, Rouba, Stecewicz, Stecki, Wincza, Zapasnik and Zemojtel or Zomojtel
- we were near to HRODNA in the thirties of the 19th century (area of Skidal / Skidel, the places Jurevicze (the Konstantynowicz noble family lived here till 1952, the village Jurewicze = Jurevitshi is situated 1,2 km NW of Zuki = Shuki and 6 km E of Obuchowicze), Zytomlja = Jitomlia at the map of 1834 and Zydomlija now, Tolloczki / Toloczki: Jozef Konstantynowicz born c. 1842 and Adam born c. 1840/45; Ejsmonty: (i.e. Ejsymonty 4 km SW of Orechwicze = Orechowicze and 3 km NW of Toloczki; neighbourhood: families Lobaczewski, Lukaszewic of Fox arms, Obuchowicz and Eysymont i.e. the family Ejsmont, Eysmont, Ejsmunt, Eisimuntas, Eisimontas, Eysmat or Eysimont - for the first time information in 1539 and 1585 - area of Skidel, and in the Hrodna area 1632: a Ejsymonty Paszewicze farm; they were persecuted here in 1863; related to Czaykowski (Dorota nee Eysmont) house from the Trakai district in 1700, and also to Czarnecki family (Katarzyna nee Eysmont) from the Lida district in 1728 and to the Lobaczewski family in places Great Eysmonty and Siemionowka, to families Hlebowicz, Poljanowski, Konstantynowicz and Balewski from Bulewszczyzna; a certain Eysmont or Eysimont was related to Antoni Jelski son of Bazyli J. Jelski from Little Eysmonty Paszewicze in 1720; the noble Eysmont family lived in the Kovno district - village Mimale Panienie) here lived Kazimierz Konstantynowicz who was born c. 1850 near to Toloczki; Orechowicze: Walenty Konstantynowicz was born here A.D. 1870 and his brother Stefan)	- to Hrodna in the early eighties of the 19th century (Adam 2nd Konstantynowicz); and e.g. here in 1912 according to "Voters List Grodno Gubernia 1912" Konstantynowicz Wladyslaw son of Osip	- near to Kazlouscyna (the village Butlerowszczyzna / Butlerovshchisna; Napoleon Konstantynowicz lived here, born c. 1825, colonel of the January Insurrection 1863) after the November Insurrection, then in the thirties of the 19th century
- also near to Svencionys / Svencionus: the places Paragiszki / Paringis, Podciejkinie, Saule / Savuliai in the Zablociszki region = "volost", that is the Zacisze estate (by the small Ejsiata river near to Ceikiniai in the Daugeliskis parish; neighbours - Seyfert family of Hebryda arms in villages Zablociszki and Anastazow) by circa 1865 and at a later date property of Swiatecki family - information of 1886	- and to the Dryssa ujezd (i.e. in the district of Verchnjadzvinsk or Werchnedwinsk): villages Old Svolna and Svolna / Swolna (about here count Jozef Zarako Zarakowski) in the Vicebsk government	- the Konstantynowicz family also moved out to the "Polish Livland" (LATVIA today) in the parish of Malnov (the place Malnovskoi or Malnava in the district of Ludza = Ludsen and Kowalki farm or Kowali, about half square mile; 39,5 km north - east of Vilani and 35 km NW of Karsau i.e. Karsava) in the government of Vicebsk; many Roman Catholics persons laid off from bureaus in the Vicebsk government after 1863: Jan Konstantynowicz held a post of accountant, Kosma Konstantynowicz a hospital clerk, Wiktor Konstantynowicz the 1st writer
- following Konstantynowicz Konstantin, son of Alexandr / Aleksander Konstantynowicz, b. in Riga A.D. 1869 and died in Uzkoje estate ("Narrowly") near by Moscow = Moskva in 1924, he was member of the Ufa government office 1904 - 1917 in Baschkirische / Bashkortostan region, married Wiera Puszkin in 1894 - she was born 1871, daughter of Anatol Puszkin (1846 - 1905) and grandchild of Elzbieta Zagrazski (Russian noble house of Zagrashskije, for the first time information in 1493 - 1503) and Lev Puszkin (b. 1805 - died in Odessa 1852, who was brother of famous writer); the Uzkoje estate that was otherwise Uzkoje village, situated 15,5 km S-W-S of Moscow core in the suburbs of the capital i.e. 9 km from boundary of urban housing in 1917, and there are nowadays Litovskij bulvar Str. and Jasnogorskaja Str. near by Vitcevskij forest and also Tschertanovka river	- in the Estonia province (Wiktor Konstantynowicz the 2nd was born 1874 in Riga probably and died 1945 in Tallinn, the cemetery of Hiiu-Rahu Str. at Nomme area; was connected with Finland). Wiktor Konstantynowicz the 2nd got married to Alexandra nee Staroh - Siedoh / Sedoh (1877 - 1948 in Tallinn) and they lived in Nomme close to Tallinn - South of Tallinn nowadays - since 1918 (the Sëdoh / Sedoh / Siedoh family in Rakvere, Estonia and in Tatarstan now)	- Michail Konstantynowicz graduated from the Polack Orthodox Seminary in 1832
- the Zapole farm (in the POLACK / Polatsk ujezd, either the Polotsk or Polozk district, about 31 km N-W-N of Polatsk = Polack, near to villages Hyrlino and Ramosze at the map of 1859) in the government of Vicebsk; their neighbours: Kuzarewski, Newelski, Reutt (or Reut, Reutas of Gozdawa arms, known in 1655; in the Vicebsk province 1764, they were verified here in 1857; next of kin Rusiecki family in the Dzisna area; related to Kossakowski of Slepowron coat of arms and to Kukiel family of Leliwa arms from Horodcewicze and Horki in the Polack = Polatsk territory c. 1737; among other things Joanna Reut married to Michal Gano with by-name Lipski c. 1715 in the Vicebsk province - e.g. one of the Gano family, general Stanislaw Gano acted as a chief of the intelligence service of Polish Army 1943 - 1945; Romuald Reut - administrator of Chalopenicy estate in the Barysau district in 1812; Anna Reut (= Reutt) was related to Bortkiewicz family with Lubicz coat of arms, c. 1865) and Weryho either dukes Veryha, Veryha Darowski according to Kojalowicz, or Veriho - Darevski / Dareuski i.e. Verigas of Sreniawa / Szrzeniawa coat of arms in the Vicebsk A.D. 1420 and Polack provinces, also in Tver government in Russia; e.g. Franciszek Veriho - Darevski (i.e. Darewski Veryha who was an officer in Polack A.D. 1754) married Rozalia Koszyc, and next his daughter married Tadeusz Koziell Poklewski son of Michal Koziell Poklewski from Holowczyn i.e. Haloucyn = Holovsin 17 km NE of Bjalynicy, here the battle had taken place between Russians and Swedes in July 04th, 1708; and Benedykt Veryha in the Polack province A.D. 1764; persecuted in the Polack and Vicebsk districts after 1863; one of them, Ignacy duke Veryho / Weryho - who was born in Jekaterynburg A.D. 1876, in exile of his parents: Walerjan and Malwina Veryha / Weryho, insurgents of 1863 - was persecuted in U.S.S.R. and died at Solowezki Islands in 1930; the noble family related to Dauksza and Darowski	- they lived in BUDSLAU in the sixties of the 19th century (Jakov born c. 1810/1820 and his children Semen, Vikentij / Wincenty Konstantynowicz and Malwina Mancewicz), the district of Vilejka, too; the Mancewicz family came among other things from: Kiociszki, area of Eisiskes, the Lida district and Vilnius 1847/1858	- we were in the Smolensk government as early as the beginning of the 19th cent., thus Jewfimij Konstantynowicz finished the Smolensk Orthodox Clerical Seminary in 1825 (together with Czebotariev, Jeleniev, Cvietkov, Spiridonov). Also Konstantynowicz Elena daughter of Wasilij from the Smolensk region probably 18th cent., acc. to Shpilenko D. P. of 2006
- Chernigov: Sophia (Zofia) Konstantynowicz daughter of Alexander Konstantynowicz, married to Maksimowski; Sophia was born in 1852 and died in Cernihiv = Chernigov, south of Homel in 1878; was buried near by the Cernihiv orthodox church.	- Vilna remained the third capital of Polish culture for all 19th century long, thus here learnt also the Konstantynowiczs: 1. Iosafat Konstantynowicz finished the Lithuanian Orthodox Seminary in 1830 (complete with Govorski, Novicki, Ksavery Zdanovicz), 2. Josif Konstantynowicz here also in 1859 (together with Grinievicz, Kaliskij, Druzilowski, Dedevicz, Noskovicz, Stupnicki, Paszkievicz, Pavlovicz, Bursa, Jakutovicz and others), 3. Ignatij Konstantynowicz completed study here in 1863 (others: Bursa, Ivacevicz, Doroszevski, Timinski, Devaltovski, Szirinski), 4. Konstantin (3rd) Konstantynowicz here in 1890 (+ Malygin, Szirinski, Prigodinski, Mironovicz, Savicz, Sosnovski, Rozanovicz), 5. Vladymir Konstantynowicz educated himself in the Vilna Clerical Secondary School in 1913 (together with: Aristarch, Malevicz, Aleksandr Muczinski, Toszczakov, Michail Sollohub). I have derived the data on Orthodox schools from: http://www.petergen.com/spiskie.htm	- we were in Volhynia, the Russian Empire in the 19th century. I take note of them in a certain village near to Wlodzimierz Wolynski = Vladimir in the middle of the 19th cent. (Volodymyr Volyns'ky, Ukraine now), Horodlo next to above Vladimir after c. 1863 according to my correspondent of 2004, SOKAL (Austrian Empire formerly) and near to Wisniowiec in Volhynia (Russia in 1876 and what coat of arms ?) before the first World War. Adam Konstantynowicz was born in Vladimir c. 1800/1805, officer of the November Insurrection 1831 - that's a Volhynia Branch. The Ornatowski Volhynia armorial note: "(...) Konopnicki 1839-1873, Konsowicej 1862-67, Konstantinowicz 1838 - 55 (...)", see: http://www.ornatowski.com/index/herbarzwolynski.htm

The Konstantynowicz family verified noble descent in the nineteenth century

- a documentation of the noble Konstantynowicz family with the Fox coat of arms proper was being shown in Minsk on 15 December 1802 (Stanislaw Wankowicz was the government marshal in 1802); they derived from Mikolay Pohosha Konstantynowicz of the Minsk province; he had 3 sons: Stefan, Hrehory Dmitr and Jozef; they owned some farmlands in the province of Minsk and carried out positions in the first half of the seventeenth century; above Mikolay Pohosha Konstantynowicz received a privilege on 07 March 1643 handed over to him by the king Vladislav IV Vasa; Bonifacy 1st Konstantynowicz (who lived in the Minsk government in 1802, according to the Minsk State Archives) derived from a.m. Mikolay.

The Fox crest mean strategy, guile, stratagem defensive and intelligence - argued in 1997 Mr. Pavel Dudzinski in "Heraldic Alphabet" (p. 118 and plate 314).

The Fox crest is in eleven varieties according to Juliusz count Ostrovski in "Armorial Book of Polish ancestries" of 1897 ed. in Warsaw: 1st - shield and above fox, in shield: arrow upwards with two beams; 2nd - shield and above fox, in shield: golden arrow with two beams; 3rd - shield and above fox, arrow with two and half beams; 4th - three feathers instead of fox above of shield, with arrow and one beam in shield; 5th - arrow with three transversal beams upon the shield, and also three feathers above the shield; 6th - arrow with two beams on the shield, and also a duke cap with cross at the top; 7th - on the shield: horseshoe and above arrow with two beams, above of shield: crown with swan at the top; 8th - only in Poland in the thirteenth century: arrow with one beam on the shield without objects above of arms, and the arrow upwards; 9th - only shield, arrow downwards with one beam; 10th variety - of the 15th cent., shield with above helmet, and arrow diagonally downwards with two beams; 11th - variety of the 15th cent.: only shield with arrow upwards, and also two beams.

According to Tadeusz Gajl, "Noble crests of the Both Nations Republic", p. 127 and 128: seven kinds of the Fox coat of arms here and the Fox diverse arms of Liskowski family; 1. Fox (Mzura) - one arrow with two transversal rafters; 2. one golden arrow with two beams; 3. lack of image; 4. arrow with one transversal rafter and above three feathers; 5. three rafters on the arrow and three feathers; 6. a cap with cross above of shield, arrow with two beams; 7. shield and above crown with swan, in the shield: arrow with two beams and horseshoe below the arrow. The author write about the Konstantynowicz family of Intestines, Radwan and Fox arms only.

According to Alfred Znamierowski, "Polish regalia, symbols and arms", ed. in Warsaw 2003: discussion on a sword - p. 9; about Fox crest - p. 26 and 39: mainly double crossed "rogacina" i.e. arrows;

- we presented to the authority in Vilna on 19 May 1842 an original of privilege edited by the king Sigismund Augustus to Michno Konstantynowicz on 04 January 1554 who was endowed with estate in the Merecz area and set out many of documents of the 18th cent.; persons derived from the Minsk government i.e. from Babianowszczyzna = Buchta holding verified themselves (i.e. Baguta 15 km west of Smaljavicy, at the border of former Barysau distrtict on the Minsk district in the 19th cent.) at that time; they were in Pileszyszki in the Kovno region after 1766, too:

Jan Konstantynowicz and his sons Maciej, Pawel, Samuel, Bazyli, Antoni, Franciszek, Marcin and grandsons of the above Jan (i.e. two sons of Maciej): Jan II and Michal (childless); sons from Jan II: Adam (childless) and Michal (his sons: Walenty Stanislaw, Konstanty, Jan Stanislaw, Jozef Andrzej and Alfons Onufry - they were born by 1840)

- A.D. 1853 in the Minsk government (the Fox coat of arms)

- 1859 in the Vicebsk government (the Fox coat of arms)

- Antoni in Hrodna A.D. 1861 (Antoni son of Dominik derived from area of Krycau, with the Fox coat of arms)

The above map of 1740 from www.clas.ufl.edu/.../history_shepherd_1911.html i.e.
"Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd" (shepherd-c-130-131.jpg)
and it show to us where the Mscislau branch and relatives lived c. 1600 - 1917 in the Both Nations Republic - formerly the Grand duchy of Lithuania / Grand Principality of Lithuania, 1795 dissolution of the state but all the direct descendants are from there: Belarus /Belorussia /White Russia / Byelorussia thereafter - and in Russia.

- Aleksander Konstantynowicz who came from an Ukrainian military and landowning family, he lived in the government of Poltava (now in Ukraine), also in Kiev (Olga I. Konstantynowicz who was born 1860 in Kiev - since 1880 in Paris and USA at the beginning of the 20th cent. - his daughter) and verified the noble descent in Kishinev in 1893. He was general - lieutenant and war governor of the Turgai (Orenburg capital then and Arkalyk now) region in the 19th century. Next the Bessarabia governor.

His father Piotr Konstantynowicz (relation of Wlodzimierz Wernadskij) was Brigadier-General, too - Piotr was son of H. Konstantynowicz.

His sister Anna Petrovna Konstantynowicz was the second wife (1862) of Jan Wernadskij (that is Ivan Vernadski = Ivan Vasil'evich Vernadsky who was born in Kiev 1821, son of Vasilii; Ivan worked in Home Office 1856 - 1867, died 1884 in Sankt Peterburg = St Petersburg; her son Vladymir was born in St. Petersburg on February 28 / March 12, 1863, lived in Kharkov, where the family had moved when he was five and acted as a Soviet specialist in mineralogy - taught himself Ukrainian and Polish; her granddaughter married Fokin) and she worked as a music teacher in Petersburg just before 1862.

Michal or Michail - son of Fiodor 2nd Konstantynowicz - was his next of kin; Michal was born in 1812, died 1867; doctor after completion of the Kharkov University; served in the Russian army and at a later date assistant director of the medical - military department in 1862 in Petersburg; he wrote a lot of researches and theses - with F. Augustynowicz, Trappe, Lebiediew, too

- 04. 12. 1844 at Volhynia and verified the noble descent in Podolyia on 05. 12. 1841

- 1913 in the district of Dorohobuz (verified the Fox coat of arms in Smolensk, and they stayed near to Dorogobush / Dorohobuz)

- in Mahileu

- 1799 in the Kaunas territory and Samaites in the Russian Empire (other coat of arms thereabouts). Konstantynowicz ancestry with the Bowel coat of arms had the Poszeszow estate in the Raseiniai ex-district (the Samaites territory in the independent Lietuva i.e. Litwa or Litauen, Lithuania) in the middle of the 16th century. In Vilna (i.e. in Wilno A.D. 1841) authorized again the arms of them, and also nine generations and 57 male persons: Jan Konstantynowicz and his son Waclaw with the nickname Szwarplowicz c. 1650 and grandsons Jan and Michal - their sons: Krzysztof and Stanislaw; Christopher (i.e. Krzysztof) had a sons: Andrzej, Jan and Jerzy; the above named Michal had a son Stanislaw and grandson Jerzy; lived 13 persons at the end of the 18th cent. and 25 persons c. 1830: Nikodem, Jakub, Wincenty, Michal, Kasper, Teodor, Ludwik, Antoni, Kajetan and Teofil.

The Konstantynowiczs with the Fox proper arms from Pileszyszki in the Kaunas (here in 1766) district were related to this lineage; they derived from famous Michno Konstantynowicz who received the big estate from the king Sigismund Augustus on 04 January 1554; the farmland was in the Merkine = Merecz area, beside the Niemen river (Neman or Nemunas) by the Merkys = Mereczanka river. Only one line of the Kaunas branch was verified in Vilna A.D. 1910 and information about four lines of this branch were lacking

- 1817 in the Hrodna district and at a later date they verified privilege of 1578 handed over by the king Stephen Bathory but with another armorial bearings i.e. "two swords (some documents from Sankt Petersburg Archive - disclosure to Pavel in the beginning of August 2004; "the two swords might represent the military service of two brothers, and the star above might signify a successful military engagement", as somebody wrote in successive phase of public discussion about the noble Konstantynowicz family, that commenced on August 15th, 2004 in the web net, but the discussion is led by strange persons from feefhs.org, not from our roots) which constitute a cross, and a star above them, and feathers of ostrich below (above, I think) the helmet".

I explain the problem to you (on September 10th, 2004). Two naked crossing swords without golden hilts, this is fundamental Pielesz arms:

A. priest Wojciech Wijuk Kojalowicz, "Armorial of the Grand duchy of Lithuania knights, so-called Compendium" had written on the Pielesz / Pielesh crest c. 1650, ed. in Cracow 1897: two swords at red field of shield and three feathers from ostrich above - plate, p. 212; it were four families with the Pielesz arms: Ielskj i.e. Jelskij - some with cross among swords, inf. of 1620, 1632 in the Mscislau province and of 1648, Kwasnickj Golden i.e. Kvasnickij or Kwasnicki Golden ancestry derived from Moscow, Pieleszyc house in the Vicebsk province, and also Wloszek family from Podlasie - inf. 1584;

B. besides the Golocki family of the Golocki arms according to Kasper Niesiecki, vol. 4 ed. in Lipsk 1839, p. 174 - here effigy of the Golocki coat of arms, two swords on the shield, diagonally crossing with hilts upwards and a cap at the helmet - the shield is the same as the Pielesz one; the family came from Chelmno area in Poland; estates: Goloty, Sarnov near by Grudziadz, Melno, inf. of 1651;

C. moreover Golocki family also with the Pielesz diverse crest according to T. Gajl, p. 67: a cap and two feathers above crown, and beneath two swords with golden hilts upwards in the shield;

D. according to Seweryn Uruski, "Family. The Armorial of Polish nobility", vol. 13, 1916, p. 330: Pielesz family of the Pielesz arms in Lithuania, the district of Panevezys, near by Upita in 1580, also as Pieleszyc; Pieleszyc family with the Pielesz diverse arms - sabres instead of swords in the shield; it say that is the same family what Pielesz;

E. according to J. Ostrowski, p. 437 - here a plate of the Pielesz arms: two swords with hilts downwards in the shield and three feathers above crown.

The Wloszek arms:

A. Vloshek / Wloszek family according to Gajl, p. 246 - with the Pielesz diverse coat of arms, by turns from top to toe: bird above two hunting hornes, crown, shield - two swords with golden hilts and four roses between blades; Wloszek family with own Wloszek arms: coat of arms without helmet, and in the shield two crossing swords with golden hilts in palms and three roses between blades; the Wloszek arms come from the Pielesz crest;

B. Niesiecki, vol. 9, 1842, had written about Wloszek family of the Pielesz diverse arms - they added four white roses in red field; Bielski, Paprocki and Okolovich wrote, too.

The Wloszek arms resulted from link between the Pielesz arms and the Roses coat of arms (i.e. Poraj); the Pielesz coat of arms belong to a sword group (the Kownia arms, Herburt crest, three swords and Pielesz come from the sword group); the Swords are in 19 arms and variants joined with another objects.

Adding of one star extra to the Pielesz armorial bearings resulted in unknown arms for Mieroszowski (plate 10, pieces 1 - 15, ed. of 1887). It's a Pielesz diverse coat of arms according to me !

There was a certain Konstantynowicz branch from Russia in the Congress Poland after exile to Siberia (the exile to Irkutsk in 1864). They lived at a later date near by Makov and thereafter Ciechanov at the end of the 19th cent. and derived from Patrycjusz Konstantynowicz + Anastazja nee Mierzejewski. Gavryla Konstantynowicz born c. 1810 was father of Patrycjusz and Zenon, I think. The document relating to the grant of a certain estate upon this Konstantynowicz branch (territory of them was situated at the border on Russia, at Volhynia) was in Mikashovka vicarage till 1945. Patrycjusz i.e. Patrycy Konstantynowicz was born in 1831, the Roman Catholic, d. November 01st, 1908. A part of this branch is living in USA now. At present, on September the 15th, in yr. 2008 Michal has written off to me that Patrycjusz had got to arrive to the Congress Poland from Berezyna (from the parish of Berazino; at least the message needs to be precisely researched !) and what is more alongside (?) younger brother Zenon Konstantynowicz.

The following names of lines are according to my research work:

THE BUDSLAU BRANCH	FROM MALVINA AND WIKENTIJ
THE HRODNA BRANCHES	from KAZIMIERZ born c. 1850/52, JOZEF born c. 1842, ADAM born c. 1840/45, and also WALENTY from ORECHOVICZE or ORECHVICZE
THE BRANCH FROM IRKUTSK	FROM PATRYCJUSZ
A BRANCHES FROM THE MINSK GOVERNMENT	*earliest branch from* *Jan* *Konstantynowicz* *1698; earlier branches from* Bonifacy I, Gawryla, Jakow, Daniil (Daniel), Fiodor, Martin (Marcin) and from Leon; later branches from Bonifacy II, Antoni, Wilhelm, Pavel and from Jerzy II**
THE MSCISLAU BRANCH	(FROM DOMINIK and his brothers); my family from the Mscislau area derived from - according to the oral tale - a region by Mereczanka river (= Merkys river), thus from Michno Konstantynowicz with the Fox proper coat of arms, where the same possessed forest (1554) and the property of Zaleskowszczyzna (1552) but we weren't told that the Konstantynowicz family derived from Toloczki; the same Michno was put down in a judicial documents of the Troki district in 1552 (according to Jan Ciechanowicz, vol. 3). Searching for evidences last at present. All proofs show the Troki district by the Mereczanka river as the nest of our beginning and never point to the Hrodna district. All descendants with only the Fox proper coat of arms and with our Konstantynowicz surname come from the above Michno Konstantynowicz; see the Mscislau website: http://republika.pl/bkonstantynowicz
THE KAUNAS BRANCHES	PIOTR the 1st AND HIS SON VLADYSLAV BORN 1891 and others families
THE KAZLOUSCYNA BRANCH	FROM NAPOLEON KONSTANTYNOWICZ
the VOLHYNIA BRANCH	from Bazyli A.D. 1729 and what coat of arms? E.g. Kazimierz Konstantynowicz in Hrubieszow, 1934.
and UNKNOWN OTHERS BRANCHES or lineages	the Konstantynowiczs sealed themselves six armorial bearings: Fox proper, Bowel(s), Three Crosses, the Pielesz diverse, Radwan and Ours of the Konstantynowicz ancestry - Grekul

the picture of the Bjarezina river from beautiful book "Polska. Kresy wschodnie", Kluszczynski publishing house; author Roman Marcinek and photographer Sergiej W. Tarasow

1863

The poor nobility in the

East Belarus

in the first half of the 19th cent. lived in two clumps, west and east group. The west one, by the Druc' river (near by Sjanno, through Careja and Bobr, to Talacyn and southwards Bjalynicy and next Druc village) and the east one by the Soz river (from Mscislau, through Krycau and to Cacersk, here thickest). In the east group were a big localities, 40 - 850 persons. A fortunes of Poles in this furthest easterly territories of the former Both Nations Republic turned out differently than by Vistula, because not a few Poles had got to choose military service in the Russian Army since the end of the 18th cent. or they worked as engineers in different corners of former Russia since second half of the 19th century. We offer an example of the Czaplic family: Adam Eufemiusz Czaplic from the Mahileu government, Polish nobleman, friend of prince Potiomkin and Russian general fought against the Polish in 1792 and 1794, and also against Napoleon in 1812.

Nonetheless this country, the East Border, signaled to us attachment for Polish tradition during the January Insurrection in 1863, according to Edward Maliszewski (Edvard Malishevski), ed. in Warsaw in 1920. So in the Mahileu government was plan of the uprising on May 05th, 1863. There were 3.300 insurgents; in the district of Sjanno, at a farm of Slepce - here was a group of Tadeusz Chmurowicz (Tadeush Chmurovich) and W. Szlagier (V. Shlagier), 100 strong. Horki town was conquest by night 05/06 May 1863 (19 km from the present border of Russia and 22 km from Kopceuka). The Orsa group under command of Ignacy Budzilowicz (Budzilovich) fought on May 07th, 1863. In the Mahileu district commanded W. Korsak (or Korsach) and Mancewicz brothers (Mancevich); they got defeated at once in Czarnorucz (Tsharnoruch). Consecutive battle between Russians and Polish rebels took place by Leciachy near to Rahacou by Dnjapro on May 11th, 1863, but already on May 12th and 13th, 1863 all Mahileu insurgents surrendered to Russians near by Zurawicze (Shuravicy, 38 km NE of Rahacou on May, 12th) and in Propojsk (that is Slauhard by Soz = Sosh river now, 75 km E - N - E of Rahacou in the Bychau district) on May 13th, 1863. Besides we know about a battle near by Szczawry (Scadry) close to the border of the Minsk government on the Mahileu one. It was similarly in the Minsk government: as early as November 1862 a Convention of the Nobility in Minsk made a statement - summons for uprising. For the first time a fighting was close by Piotrowszczyzna village (Piotrowinka, 18 km West of Cerven in the Ihumen district). The group of rebels retreated towards the Mahileu government, through Kolbcza (i.e. Koubca 19 km SW of Miezonka). At the same time, on May 07th, 1863, a group 400 strong fought close by Podberezje (Podbereshje 26 km SW of Cerven) in the Ihumen district, too. Consecutive battle between Russians and Polish rebels near by Loczyn on June 14th, 1863 in the Ihumen district, too (Lucznoje now, 8 km southwards of Cerven). In consequence the estate of Gorki had confiscated from Kornel Peliksza in 1863 (21 km of Minsk) after suppressing of the rebellion; Kornel Peliksza acted as chief of the Minsk province during the January Insurrection. Pawel Dybowski (Pavel Dybovski) was a chief in the Minsk district with centre in Stankow (Stankava now, 36 km SW of Minsk); it was property of general and count Emeryk Czapski. In the middle of May 1863, a group from the Ihumen district which came from east side of the Berazino parish (Berezino) under command of Piotr Jesman, after skirmish close to Boguschewitschi, was smashed completely close by Marcjanowka village (Martjanovka north of Boguschewitschi). Melchior Wankowicz older was also the insurgent in 1863.

Notwithstanding the Polish nobility lived on and on in the Mahileu government, for instance in 1865: the west group by Druc' river - 12.188 adult persons in 521 viillages and places, among others 10.447 Roman Catholics; the east group by Soz river - 25.318 persons in 248 placess bbut only 5.927 Roman Catholics.

Only 3.700 Poles lived in the Mahileu province in 1989, after displacements and purges in 1918 - 21, 1928 - 37, 1940 - 44 and 1952 - 55.

You also can to see nodeworks according to Barancewicz : Wyzlacinski - Bujewicz (rus, pol) Giecewicz (eng,pol,rus) Konstantynowicz (eng) Leszkiewicz (bel,rus) Matusiewicz (eng,pol,rus) Lyczkowski (eng) Tumilowicz (eng)

We lived in the central and eastern Minsk government continuously in the middle of the 19th cent.

persons:

1. Iwan Konstantynowicz

2. Zenon Konstantynowicz

3. Marcin Konstantynowicz (dworianin = nobleman verified)

4. Iwan Konstantynowicz (dworianin = nobleman verified)

5. Patrycy Gawrylow Konstantynowicz

6. Wikentij Jakowlew Konstantynowicz

7. Semen Jakowlew Konstantynowicz

8. Kazimierz Daniilow Konstantynowicz

9. Iwan Fiodorow Konstantynowicz

10. Iwan Daniilow Konstantynowicz

11. Mikolaj Martinow Konstantynowicz

12. Iwan Leonow Konstantynowicz

13. Stefan Konstantynowicz the 1st in Dzmitrovichi, the Barysau district - the information of 1844;

localities:

Zamostocze	in the Minsk district (= uyezd), the region of Siennica, the parish of Koreliszczewicze; residents in this Polish noble locality at the end of the 19th cent.: Platowski, Narejko, Janczewski, Suchocki, Rzeczycki, Pawlowicz, Mazurkiewicz, Ancielewski and our family
Luzki = Lushki	(near to villages Skuraty, Donnarowka, Zadomlia, Zaluze in 1859, 7 km west of Smolewicze / Smaljavicy) in the Minsk government at the beginning of the 19th cent.; here was a teacher and priest Tadeusz Konstantynowicz in 1812 http://www.geocities.com/konstantynowiczkonstantynowicz Here you can to read about noble ancestries deriving from former Mscislau province i.e. from the Mahileu government, mainly there are Polish and Byelorussian families, e.g. about Holynski, Wollowicz, Puszkin, Brujewicz, Polubinski, Hurko and others. An information on Polish exiles in Siberia are at the website, too. Also about Polish rebellion near by the Lake Baikal in 1866. Here is description of the January Insurrection 1863 in the Ihumen (Cerven) district and also in the Mahileu government; and theory about the Fox and Pielesz coats of arms in the Grand duchy of Lithuania.
Ozeryszcze = Ozdryszcze	Oserischtsche in the Ihumen (= Igumen either Tscherwen or Cerven) district, NW of Ossipowitschi
Little Loszyca	small holding Male Loszyce in the Minsk district - 4 km NW of Koroleszczenicze (= Koreliszczewicze; neighbourhood of them in the 19th cent.: noble Poloniewicz family in a little village Zajameczno, noble houses Pawlowski, Niemorszanski, Bohdaszewski, Siemaszko, Lubanski, Proszynski, Kostrowicki and Narcyz Torczynski; the village was situated in the Siennica = Sienica region that is "volost", the parish of Koroleszczenicze, near to villages Kuroszczowszczyzna, Rylowszczyzna, Loszyce and Korziuki)
Barysau	Stefan Konstantynowicz the 2nd here in the early 20th century
Mar'ina Horka = Marina Gorka	Anton / Antoni Konstantynowicz son of Ivan / Jan; he was the first rector of a school in the little city (the Piareshyr street) in 1866
Konstantynov	(the noble small village near to the river Usza = Usa, 5 kilometres from Borovina north; close to border of the Ihumen district) in the Barysau district
BOROVINA	in the Ihumen district (i.e. Borowiny near to Zeremiec at the map of 1859), here Ludwik Konstantynowicz and his son Jan born 1888, who has gone into the army of Balachowicz 1920. http://us.geocities.com/bogdanbogdan2003d Here you can to acquaint with information about former Ihumen district and with data on the Polish in the parish of Berezino. Here there are details about Brzezinski family from Livland. It's a large part devoted to Polish senior officers in Tsarist Army and which next served for the 1st Polish Corps in Belarus in 1917 - 1918. Here you can to read about the Balachowicz's troops (Corps in 1920) - English version. The Balachowicz's Corps passed by Olszany and Remel by south bank of Pripjat (= Pryp'jat) on Polish side: on November 26th, 1920 ("Tula" and "Putwal" regiments with Jozef Balachowicz); on November 26th - 28th: soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd Byelorussian Divisions passed to Poland; by night 27/28 November 1920 - Gen. Stanislaw Balachowicz went on to Poland (with his aides: painter Artur Szyk i.e. Alexander Szykarenko, b. 1894, d. 1951 in USA, since 1921 lived in Lodz, and also Tadeusz Darmont); on November 30th - Gen. Adamowicz; the remainder on December 02nd - 04th, 1920 (on December 04th: unit 2100 strong from the 1st Byelorussian Division of colonel Peremykin after tough fightings on November 25th - 27th). The formal demobilization of the Balachowicz's Corps followed on December 03rd, 1920. And nonetheless Gen. Stanislaw Balachowicz was elected as "General Chieftain of Belarus" in Warsaw on December 23rd, 1920, according to Stanislaw Dowoyno - Sollohub. Byelorussian soldiers were interned near by Czestochowa in January 1921, and from here to Szczypiorno close to Modlin, to Tuchola, Aleksandrow Kujawski, Pikulice, Dabie, Torun, Strzalkow and Kalisz, till August 1924. A lot of the "Balachowiczs" were employed in Hajnowka, Bialowieza and Bielsk.
MIEZONKA	in the Ihumen district (the GOVERNMENT OF MINSK, the parish of BERAZINO or BERESINO, the POHOST or Pogost region = Pogostskaya "volost" that is similar to county; PRECINCT BERAZINO = Uchastok No 2: Uyrevichskaya, Pogostskaya and the Belichanskaya volost; near to villages DULEBO (= Duleby) and DRUCZANY; here Stanislaw Konstantynowicz born c. 1855 + Anna Malkiewicz daughter of Konstancja Brzezinski from the Polish Livland / Livonia).

I search for all information about the village MIEZONKA where my grandfather was born on 23 April 1898 either 1897 or 23 April 1900; at present Belarus: the Bjalynicy (= Belynichi) region in the Mahileu (= the Mogilev or Mahilyow province) "oblast"; the village is situated among grand forest and southwards was big marsh - Miezonka was at a territory of the Radzivilles enormous estates before A.D. 1840; ask you about information.

The Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party, the Union of Weapon in the Ihumen district and the Polish Military Organization conducted a contraband of weapon from Russia to Austria - Hungary at the beginning of the 20th century keeping in touch with Josef Pilsudski (b. 1867) and that track went out from Petersburg, among others across Miezonka and Lodz (the Tuvim street) in the direction to Galicia; a family of Andrzejak from Lodz involved in this activity occupied quarters in Miezonka and Moscow all over the first World War and thus they became technolators of aviation and the basis of the amateurish movement of aviation sports in Lodz (besides Henryk, Stefan and Wladyslaw Chlebowski - as early as 1910 in Paris and 1911 in Lodz - and also Zygmunt Dekler acted as air experts in Lodz before the First world war) after 1920;

the Polish school of Berazino precinct was here in 1918; farm - houses in Borovina and Miezonka estates were burned down and sequestered by the Soviets in November 1918 and many perished; displacement from here at Ural and Siberia (the governments of Perm and Omsk; Konstantynowicz Walery son of Zygmunt was born in Berezniki on March 01st, 1950 in the region of Perm, i.e. in Bieriezniki 155 km north of Perm and next graduated from the Moscow University, philosopher, he has been living and working in Omsk since 1975) in winter 1928/29; the Roman Catholic chapel was here on the German map of 1941; more:

http://us.geocities.com/bogdanbogdan2003d

the residents in this Polish noble locality at the beginning of the 20th cent.

Umecki	near by Lodz now
Tumilowicz	(Miezonka and neighbourhood) Jan and Florian sons of Jozef, Leon and Piotr sons of Foma, Wasyl and Felicjan sons of Ilin, Jakub and Maciej sons of Wincenty and others; close to Dzierzynski family (brother of Felix); one of them Boleslaw worked at the Monitz factory in Lodz, was born c. 1901 in Miezonka number 9, he had two sisters and brother Bronislaw, nowadays in Poland (near by Lodz, too)
Bronowicki	Lodz at a later date
madam Zaleski
Barszczewski	Adam the son of Wincenty and Jan the son of a.n. Adam
Soroko	= Soroka, Saroka of Leliwa and Suchekomnaty arms in the Brest province and at a later date in Vilkmerge area, Dzisna region since 1571; related to Bulhak noble family and Koziell house; some estates in the Trakai district in 1607; Siberia now
Konstantynowicz	among others Lodz now
Szostak	i.e. Sastakas with Dabrowa coat of arms and Tartars with Swan arms (they lived in the Lida and Vilna districts, for example A.D. 1764, and also in the Svencionys district A.D. 1835, derived from Tartar Szostak according to S. Dziadulewicz and verified in Minsk and Vicebsk); Stanislaw Szostak was from this family, person of the same age what my grandfather, he learnt at the "Nikolai - Ingenieurschule" (the air section was here during the First world war) in Petersburg by November 1917, defender of the Winter Palace on 07 November 1917, colonel of armoured weapon 1944 - 1947; among others Lodz now
Witkowski	= Vitovsky of 1860; among other things: Antoni and Wincenty the sons of Mikolaj and Jan who was son of Franciszek, in period of the January Insurrection 1863 - 1864
Malkiewicz	they had relatives in Paluse i.e. Pluszcze; information of 1958 according to Narcyz Soroko from Siberia; among others Lodz now
Zbieranowski	one from them, Mr. Aleksander Zbieranowski was convicted during "shahtynski" lawsuit of 1928 - he was radio engineer and the specialist - expert of a radio valves after completion of the Polytechnic of Berlin in 1914; other - Wladyslaw Zbieranowski was courier of the Polish Military Organization at the district of Babrujsk A.D. 1918; near by Lodz now
Huszcza	or Guscis (= Gustis); with Puchala and Horseshoe coats of arms in the Polack province and in Mahileu A.D. 1671 and next in the provinces Vilna and Minsk; they verified the arms in Minsk in 1825; the Huszcza and Tumilowicz families that is the rural "badger nobility", the Polish strongly. The Borsuki village (Badgers) is situated 15 km north - east from Miezonka, according to M. K. Pawlikowski who described history of Ipohorski - Irtenski family from the Berazino parish (proprietors of Backov estate 3 km E from the Berezina river); sons of Jerzy: Kazimierz, Hilary, Aleksander, Julian and Maciej Huszcza; peers of this Jerzy: Jan Huszcza, Semen, Fiodor and Kondrat Huszcza in the period of the January Insurrection; they've been living in Siberia and Belarus.

Comment on the Bonch - Bruevichs

the foremost expert in the radio valves in the tsarist Russia was Michail (2nd) Boncz Brujewicz (Bonch-Bruevich b. 1888 in Orjol - d. 1940; son of Aleksander (III) Boncz Brujewicz / Bonch - Bruevich who stayed in Kiev since 1896), electrician and engineer after completion of the "Nikolai - Ingenieurschule" in Petersburg 1914; he served in the Russian army as a professional officer, expert of electron lamps and radiolocation, 1915 - 1919 made a study of radio valves and organized the first production of one as chief of high - frequency's section in the Central laboratory of War Department in middle of 1917 (the first broadcast valves and valve sets appeared in Russian Air Force in 1917); director of the radio valves laboratory in 1918 - 1920 and author of the broadcasting station's project in Moskow of 1922; his son Aleksej Bonch - Bruevich (b. 1916) was the Soviet expert of electron tubes, too;

his relatives - actual originators of the November coup d'etat in 1917:

brothers Wladymir Boncz Brujewicz = Bonch-Bruevich (1873 - 1955, son of Dmitry Bonch-Bruevich; photo: W. Boncz - Brujewicz in Moscow, October 1918; Wladymir i.e. Vladimir Bonch - Bruevich was publisher and one of Lenin's closet associates; he had got a cabin in autonomous Finland and Lenin had hiding place there in period July - October 10th, 1917 [Old Style] i.e. to 23rd October; Vladimir Bruevich was administration manager at the Council of People's Commissars from November 1917; cf. F. Antoni Ossendowski, "Shadow of the bleak East", edition of 1919 and 1921, p. 57 - 58: he was known to sphere of Petersburg high society, Polish "old nobleman", secret chieftain of socialists; he concealed of Trocki - Bronstein in Petersburg A.D. 1905 and also directed Chrustalow - Nosar or Chrustalov - Nosari in 1905)

and general Michail (III) Boncz Brujewicz / Bonch - Bruevich either Bonch - Bruyevich Mikhail Dmitriyevich or Michal Bonc - Bruevic, see - if you read Russian - here: http://history.tuad.nsk.ru/index.html (b. 1870 - died 1956; son of Dmitry who stayed in Moscow) who was tsarist general and next chief of staff of the Supreme Commander after November 1917, the military director of the Supreme Military Council and chief of general field staff of the Red Army in 1918 - 1919; was the specialist in take a pictures from airplanes and organized the first technical office of aerial photograph in 1925; he wrote "The aerial photograph" in 1931 and similar book in 1934 (and Grigorij - his son Mikolaj (2nd) b. 1896 was general of the Soviet air force);

the family of Aleksander II Brujewicz or Bonc - Bruievicius of the Boncza arms lived in Zbyszyn or Sbychin near to Tschetschewitschi since 1876 / 1880, 39 km SE away from Miezonka and the big estate had 5548 hectares, he lived next door Gresmer or Greszner family (according to a map edited by A. Brantner of "K.u.k. militar - geographisches Institut" in Wien 1896) and Mr Witold Bulhak home (the Bulhak noble house of the Syrokomla arms, verified in Minsk A.D. 1802, possessed also in the government of Minsk: Matewitschi = Maciejewicze i.e. Macevicy 14 km SW of Miezonka, and Zuki, Budzilowka and Kondratowicze); villages Woncza / Vontcha, Borki and Rogi - which Florian Czarnyszewicz described in a book "Nadberezyncy" i.e. Berezyna's Riverside Inhabitants - were situated close by the Zbyszyn estate: 3 and 7 km; besides a certain Aleksander (IV ?) Brujewicz purchased village Mistow and neighbourhood in the Congress Poland on 25 January 1861 but I haven't yet any firm evidences if it's the same Aleksander (2nd) Brujewicz who settled himself in the Zbyszyn property - I am searching information; they derived from Michal I Brujewicz who was born 1762 and stayed in the Minsk province and all following generations (all his sons: Aleksander I, Mikolaj I, Bazyli, Wiktor, Piotr, Pawel, Fiodor) served in Russian army at a later date; the Brujewicz family was in Mahileu A.D. 1718 and in Krycau A.D. 1745, Sladzin or Sladziniec in Mahileu region in 1761.

In search of genealogy. It is of greatest importance to me.

I am looking for all information about my grandfather Marian or Jerzy Konstantynowicz and about his family from the parish of Berazino (Berezina, Berezino or Berezyna). He belonged to one of the old noble families from the farthest eastern reaches of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Those lands were also the first to be taken by tsarist Russia as the result of the partitions of Poland.

Those near and dear (families at the beginning of the 20th cent.) in the Berazino parish (Mother of God of Mercy catholic church), Riga, the Dryssa ujezd and elsewhere:

1.	Malkiewicz	Old Svolna, Miezonka and the Jauji farm (i.e. Jowce or Javci in LATVIA; 49 km north - east of Vilani in the Ludsen = Ludza district formerly) www.surnameweb.org/registry/m/a/l/malkiewicz.shtml
2.	Nieciejewski	in farms Hrynica / Griniza and Usochy in the Ihumen district, and also village Luszewska Slobodka in the Rahacou district (345 ha., here a family of Gorski lived, too) since 1881; the Russian and Soviet general, count Bronislaw Nieciejewski who was born c. 1870 in the Berazino parish came from Hrynica, and his daughter worked as translator and interpreter as early as November 1917 (after completion of the University of Paris) at the first Council of People's Commissars under direction of Wladymir (Vladimir) Boncz Brujewicz who was the chief of the Lenin's office 1917 - 1918; either Nieciejovski or Niecijevskij, Nicijewski and Nieciovski, too
3.	Uminski	or Uminskas with Cholewa arms in the Vilna and Vicebsk provinces (Manulki farm A.D. 1672*), Bruslevo* (**or Bryjelov, Brialewo in the Berezina parish) and Smolarnia - Florian Czarnyszewicz has written the book "Nadberezyncy" about this village; Smolarnia was situated next to Krasny Brzeg in the Babrujsk district, property of the Korzeniewski family and also of Wincenty Stanislaw Koziell Poklewski - he was born 1853 and died 1929, son of Alfons Koziell Poklewski 1810 - 1890, member of the State Administration of Trade 1907 - 1912 according to Tatiana Pietrovna Mosunov and he was related to Hotowski i.e. Gatovskij, Slotwinski from Ravanicy and Malkiewicz, too; Uminski family was related to Sarnecki (or Sarneckis from Skierniow estate in the Trakai district) family with Slepowron arms
4.	counties Zarako Zarakowski	i.e. the Zarokovskij family e.g. during war 1878 - 1879; properties: Holubovo palace, Kniazievo village and the great Svolna / Swolna estate - the chief military state prosecutor of communistic Poland (after 1939 P. O. W. in Russia and next Military Attorney in Warsaw / Attorney General) and Soviet general, count Stanislaw Zarako Zarakowski was born here in 1909 or November 1907; neighbourhood of them: Lipski Jan who was the noble marshal of the Vicebsk government, Alina Rykow, Maryia Zabiella, famous Czerski by 1835, Szczyt since 1725, Rudomin, Korsak, Dluzniewski; Jan Zaraka(o) - Zarakowski b. 21.02.1857, Russian general, stayed in Vicebsk in June 1918, next Polish division general 1923, d. in Warsaw before 1934 according to T. Kryska-Karski; Soviet and Polish general Boleslaw Zarako - Zarakowski was chief of the main staff of the Polish People Army in 1944, b. in Polack 1894
5.	Zbieranowski	Igumen, Berazino (Michal born Berezino in 1882 son of Jozef Zbieranowski and his wife Zofia nee Witkowski, after Bobrujsk, Sluck and Riga / Ryga 1899 - 1904), Riga and Miezonka; they were relations of Sarnecki (or Sarneckis) family with Slepowron arms
6.	Szostak	Miezonka and (acquaintances of Raczkiewicz) Babrujsk = Bobruisk or Bobruysk www.surnameweb.org/registry/s/z/o/szostak.shtml
7.	Konstantynowicz	Miezonka, Petersburg, Svolna = Svol'na or Swolna, Krycau, Daugavpils, Kovalki, Riga, Omsk, Borovina
8.	Pilecki	Pileckis with Leliwa arms in the Vilna region in 1632 and the Trakai district in 1648, Navahrudak in 1674; first information of 1484 and 1511; they verified the Swan coat of arms in Vilnius and Kaunas in 1807, and also the family possessed a farmland near by Lida and close to an estate of Marshal Edward Rydz Smigly west of Lida in the thirties of the 20th cent.
9.	Stankiewicz	The Stankiewicz ancestry with the Wadwicz coat of arms lived in the Minsk and Mscislau provinces, according to Kasper Niesiecki, vol. 8 (among others 1648 and 1661) as early as the 17th century; the Mazyr district, the province of Polack A.D. 1674. They were related to Kotowski and Oginski families. According to Jan Ciechanowicz, vol. 5, p. 134 - 135: Stankiewicz or Stankevicius of the Mogila, Boncza and Wadwicz coats of arms; they were near related to Bilewicz (or Billewicz) family from Samaites at the turn of the 16th century. There are information about Jan Stankiewicz in Samaites and Vilna A.D. 1635 and about Michal and Adam Mikolaj here in 1648; Jan Mikolaj from Raseiniai region in 1646, and also Kazimierz in 1658; about Stefan from the Minsk province in 1697 and Adam Stankiewicz in Samaites 1788. They verified the Mogila coat of arms on March 16th, 1835 and derived from Samaites territory in Lithuania. Here they owned Raseiniai in 1535 and next moved to Vilkmerge district (Kirbutiszki and Krekszle farms). The noble Stankiewicz family with the Wadwicz coat of arms came of the Orsa district, and next in the Asmjany one, also the Minsk province and the Mscislau one. They verified the Wadwicz coat of arms in Minsk on February 25th, 1828; besides they lived in the Braslau region. You can to see interesting website on the Stankiewicz family, http://republika.pl/aord/stankiewicz.htm among other things about: 1. Wladyslaw, Adam and Witold Stankiewicz from Vilna; 2. Antoni from the Minsk government (b. circa 1870, the member of the Civil Guard in Minsk in 1918); 3. Feliks b. 1927 in Babrujsk; 4. The Stankiewicz family from Przydrusk village near by Daugavpils was related to colonel Jan Stankiewicz. Przydrusk = Przydrujsk or Piedruja in the former Grand duchy of Lithuania, and Latvia now, 44 km West of Malkiewicz's Old Svolna = Stara Swolna; Jan Stankiewicz born 04.04.1862 in Vilna / Wilno as son of Franciszek Stankiewicz with the Mogila coat of arms and Pelagia nee Sienkiewicz, got married to Maria Odrowaz in 1886 and next as colonel served and lived in Riga / Ryga 1887 - 1909 / 1910 and possesed the Awocin property in Latvia to c. 1910; the friend of parents of minister Jozef Beck from Riga and acquaintance of Jozef Pilsudski in August 1919 in Wilno; the relation of Butrym family. Colonel Jan Stankiewicz was Polish educational activist and freedom fighter within the Pilsudski undercover movement before 1910 in Riga. Colonel Jan Stankiewicz had withdrawn from the Russian Army on 01.01.1918, and the Bolsheviks assented to this discharge on 28.02.1918; reunion with family in Smolensk after January 1918; and next after settled himself in Vilna / Wilno / Vilnius in 1918 or maybe spring 1919. But he served for the Polish Army just since April 1919 and as brigade-general in October 1923; died in Milanowek near to Warsaw in December 1945. He was mistaken for colonel Gustaw Stankiewicz son of Marian from the Siedlce government b. 1860 - 1918 who was maybe commandant of the 2nd Polish Corps in Ukraine in accordance with Nicman of 1995 and with a Moscow Archive of 2000, and Gustaw died in 1918 over a fight against "reds" somewhere in Ukraine; also he was mistaken with Sylwester Stankiewicz, according to Vronskya J. of 1992.. Sylwester Stankiewicz born 1866 and died in Taganrog close to Rostov-na-Don in March 1919; maybe since 10th January 1918 to 28th March 1918 as the commandant of the 2nd Polish Corps in Moldova and Ukraine; General-Lieutenant Sylwester Stankiewicz after served for general Anton Denikin in the Voluntary Army with 3000 Russian soldiers; maybe since January 1919 under command of general Piotr Vrangel. It's not plain statement seeing as turned up just now and come in from East surely. Entries in Wikipedia of September 2008 on Gustaw and Sylwester (!) have got only currently edited* references and there are mistakes in details.* Main former historians: Baginski H., Dowbor - Musnicki J., Holowko T. of 1931 and Michaelis E. of 1929 point out Russian General-Lieutenant Jan Stankiewicz as the commandant of the 2nd Polish Corps in Moldova and Ukraine during December 1917 - March 1918. Who was a Commander of the 2nd Polish Corps in Soroka (Soroca by Dnister in present north Moldova id est Soroki) and Iasi (east Romania now) in the end of January 1918 till March 08th, 1918? Colonel Jan Stankiewicz from Riga? General Jan Stankiewicz? Old Gustaw Stankiewicz or an unknown Stankiewicz? Sylwester Stankiewicz? Commander of the 2nd Polish Corps retreated front of Germans (a withdrawal of military forces after acceptance the Ukraine as ind. state by Germany on 09 February 1918 and 03 Mar. 1918) and after stayed in Iasi on March 02nd, 1918 and came into contact with Haller in Jaruga on March 05th, 1918; when Romania **on the same day March 05th, 1918** concluded an alliance with Germany - Haller and Stankiewicz with the 2nd Corps on 08th March 1918 launched a march east and crossed Dnister river going into Ukraine evading a disarmament in the then Romania. On the other hand General - Lieutenant Jan Stankiewicz went out from Czeczelnik to Kiev on March 25th, 1918, to Gen. Michaelis, and next he joined the White Russian Gen. Aleksiejew / Alekseev by the Kuban river in April 1918. He fought north of Stavropol in September - October 1918, e.g. battle near by Ternovka on October 14th, 1918 with White Russians against "reds". Stankiewicz took the offensive against Stalin's troops for Astrakhan in middle of November 1918, and after a retreat of the Voluntary Army, fought at Stavropol "White" Territory *in December 1918 and at the beginning of 1919. General Jan Stankiewicz evacuated himself from Novorossijsk and probably arrived close by* Odessa in March 1919. Note: the retreat of 3500 soldiers of the Voluntary Army from under Odessa commenced at the beginning of April 1919 towards Bessarabia - it was a province of the then Romania between 1918 and 1940/44 - where the Romanians had disarmed "white" Russians, and a part of this "Army" joined in General Zeligowski 4th Division transcending Dniestr / Dnister river on 10th April 1919; made Tschernowzy (= Chernovits, �ernivci) and Stanislavov in Poland in June 1919. See http://us.geocities.com/bogdanbogdan2003d 5. Bronislaw from Riga (b. 1913, his grandfather Nikodem was policeman in Riga).
10.	Spychalski	The Spychalski family from Lodz, worked in a garage of Andrzejak at the beginning of the 20th century and they were acquainted with Pilsudski.

my grandfather was a regular; at first he learnt in the secondary school in Mahileu by the river Dnjapro, next a real school in PÄRNU / Pernau / Parnawa (the Livland government, and Estonia present) and the Naval Corps (or at the Petrograd Naval College = the Naval War College; Course of Navigation Officers 1912 - December 1916) in St Petersburg and he first served in the Kronstadt Stronghold (the Bureau of Navy Transport - in a navigation ensign capacity, i.e. concretly "pra'porchik", this is a temporary rank, about equivalent to Sub-Lieut., R.N.R. in British Navy, one 1/2-inch gold stripe without curl - Dec. 1916 / March 1917); during the First World War he escaped on powerboat from the Kronstadt Stronghold to Tallinn (Reval = Revel, the capital of autonomous Estonia = Estland since March 1917) with Estonian engineer Jansen and stayed here since April by June of 1917; next in Petrograd by November 1917;

during the fighting between the "whites" and "reds" after the Bolshevik Revolution towards the end of 1917 (Minsk - here in December 1917 - and at a later date Bychau = Bychow) by summer 1918 my grandfather Marian or Jerzy Konstantynowicz served for

secret service of anti-revolutionary White Corps

under general Dowbor Musnicki (a troop under command of engineer Wroblewski - who later worked in an armoury in Pionki in the thirties of the 20th century keeping in touch with the Wankowicz family still - recognized Mahileu and Babrujsk) and fought (Orsa = Orscha, Rahacou - 4th infantry regiment, the 1st Division of Polish Rifles, Hradzianka / Grodsjanka - North of Ossipowitschi Mahilyow google satellite maps) against the Bolsheviks for freedom of this country; he carried out duties of courier (Minsk, Babrujsk, Barysau) for the Polish Women Rings; next in the

Civil Guard of the Minsk Government and the Government of Mahileu

- then met the family of Wankowicz (quod vide Appendix D about this family) in Old Kaluzyca = Kaluzyn because Mr. Witold "Tolo" Wankowicz was chief of the Union of Weapon in the Ihumen district -

autonomous section of the Polish Military Organization

- and my grandfather was courier between the Luboszany (= Libuschany) estate and Kaluzyca in fall 1918; see: http://us.geocities.com/bogdanbogdan2003d ; here you can to acquaint with information about former Ihumen district and with data on the Polish in the parish of Berezino; it's a large part devoted to Polish senior officers in Tsarist Army and which next served for the 1st Polish Corps in Belarus in 1917 - 1918;

my grandfather was near to general Wejtko (ensign of orderly in Minsk and Vilna 1918) in the

Self-defence of Lithuania and Belarus

- after the collapse of tsarist Russia, Poland regained its independence after 123 years of foreign rule and he was professional officer in the

intelligence service of Polish Army

(namely IInd Bureau of the General Staff - determination according to "The Secret Story of SOE (...)" by W. J. M. Mackenzie, U.K. 2000, p. 312; 04 December 1918 he owned document in Marian Konstantynowicz name but he wasn't this person surely over military service in voluntary Lithuanian - Byelorussian Division) 1918 - 1947; military oath in Vilna on December 29th, 1918 during defense of the town against Soviet troops; the 77th Kovno Regiment next; he served when Poland was fighting with the Bolsheviks in defense of its independence (1919 - 1920).

The LIDA garrison (the barracks had name of Marshal Edward Rydz Smigly; the 77th Infantry Regiment handed over an estate to the Marshal west of Lida near by a farmland of famous Pilecki family; a pilot and the pioneer of Polish air force Witold Worbek Lettaw from Lithuania (the Lettowt family was verified in the Kaunas government in 1844 - 1847 and in Vilna on 03.05.1827 as Letowt; also as Letovt Vorbek or von Lettow Vorbeck, v. Lettow-Vorbeck, Lettow von Vorbek) acted in this garrison) by morning 18 - 09 - 1939; my grandfather at the night 17 / 18 September 1939 co-organized burning of the LIDA garrison's documentation and next was in Landwarow (= Lentvaris) on September 19th, 1939, ZAWIASY, probably arrived at the Rudziszki (= Rudiskes) station and to Grodno 20th September 1939. He gone on Lithuania on September 21st (= Litauen; was interned and after registered at the Vievis station 21st September 1939; see more information about Polish September 1939: http://bkonstantynowicz.republika.pl/) 1939; he was in camps for prisoners of war in: Palanga, relocated to Vilkaviskis, Ponoj (= Ponoi in USSR Karta), Archangel / Archangelsk and Viazniki / at the Wjasniki station (here in August 1941; that is the Jusha camp = Jusk);

September 1941 - May 1947 Army of general Anders. 1947 -- 11948 émigré from Italy to ARGENTINA. I think he lived after in New Mexico, too. I am unclear about where he died; he used pseudonym Stankiewicz as though a second surname.

His particular personal signs (photo of 1934):

- his blood - group: A

- a scar under right knee

- he was 160 cm tall.

We stayed in

St Petersburg

"Duflon, Konstantynowicz & Co."

abbreviated as

DEKA

Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich - Sandro / Sasho was a key figure in the development of the Russian air force; well-bred in

Georgia / საქართველო / Sakartvelo

he was in France in 1909 and next established the Volunteer Aerial Association under his presidency (All Russian Aero Club) and set up the first military aviation school in Sebastopol in 1909 or 1910 - finally formed at Sevastopol (Sebastopol) for the winter 1912 and in Gatchina for the summer 1912; near to Russian military intelligence. The Duke, Freemason, Vice-Admiral was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Military Air Fleet in 1914 or 1915 and he became Inspector of Aviation; aide-de-camp to Nicholas II, an old friend of the Tsar and married to his sister Xenia.

1907	The beginning of a Duflon Company in Switzerland and France in 1904. Within a few months in Russia and in 1907 the beginning of the DEKA Joint Stock Society (Duflon, Konstantynowicz & Company JSC). In this year a business started to operate. The "Credit Lyonnais" Bank in Geneva has got records, assessments and accounts for the Swiss country with reference number DEEF 30136 relating to "Duflon, Konstantynowicz & Company", that is "Company of the Electromechanical Factories of Constructions" called DEKA of 1904 - 1916; researched in 1921. The DEKA Company produced agricultural machineries and tools, various machines, a cast iron; the factory in 1907 - 1911 (iron foundry) cast copper pieces and iron equipment. Ukraine organized a Celebration Committee in 2007 on the occasion of the one hundred anniversary of the "Motor Sich" Company / DEKA Joint-Stock Company. The joint stock company from St Petersburg was co-property of our Mscislau branch.
1912	Only five of airships had been built in Russia before 1914 and we exactly constructed (the fifth in order) to Russian Army in the plant of DEKA an airship named "Kobchik" type "Blimp" as early as 1912 (with two engines 45 hp, and length 48 m; speed 50 km/h according to "Taschenbuch der Luftflotten", 1st Issue 1914, Vol. 1 "Airships" by F. Rasch and W. Hormel, published in Germany, worked out by Thomas Heinz http://www.internetelite.ru/aircrafts/airships.html; the picture from: http://info.dolgopa.org). Airship i.e. an "aircraft that consists of a cigar-shaped gas bag, or envelope, filled with a lighter-than-air gas to provide lift, a propulsion system, a steering mechanism, and a gondola accommodating passengers, crew, and cargo. (...) NON-RIGID airships, now commonly known as blimps, are the most common type in use. The non-rigid airship has no frame and the envelope holds its shape due to the pressurized lifting gas inside." The DEKA company owned an infrastructure for airships i.e. a hangar, workshops and warehouses in St Petersburg before the First world war. War, revolution and civil war interrupted further development until 1920, when the Soviets built their first small blimp. June, 1912: Vote of 150 aeroplanes (140 to be built at home); November, 1912: Military trials results: 1. Sikorsky in a "Sikorsky"; 2. HABER in a "M. Farman"; 3. Boutmy (BUTMI) in a "Nieuport". December, 1912: Aeronautical school re-organised; 15 pupils per school at a time - course made seven months. A one month course in aeroplanes, aerial motors, etc. Of the pupils, 10 to be selected for aeroplanes. New flying school established at Tashkent in TURKESTAN. Only in Army Aviation in March, 1913: new schools established at Moscow, Odessa and OMSK. At the end of 1913: the number of actual military pilots was 72. There was a special volunteer corps of about 36 private aviators; total to 108 in Russia. In Navy Aviation: July, 1912 - Lieut. ANDREADI, did a flight from Sevastopol to Petersburg.
1914	We manufactured an electrical accessory and magnetos for aero engines in the beginning of the First world war. A Swiss / French share (since 1904) of DEKA Joint Stock Society with brand name "Duflon" in St Petersburg manufactured electric accessory for naval fleet of Russian army, but also for other defensive enterprises. The Russian - Japanese war in 1904 - 05 and the First world war were with the best years, according to http://konkretno.ru/ and shareholders had taken up the advantage of this prosperity. Total employees rose over 3 times only in "Duflon" proper in heyday 1914 - 1916, and the production - 6 times. The factory manufactured radio sets and broadcasting stations (see about the Boncz Brujewicz family), engines for automobiles and for planes. The "Duflon" had opened a branch in *Aleksandrovsk /* Zaporozhye that later on manufactured the "Zaporozhets" cars in "Zaporozhskiy Avtomobilnyi Zavod" (Auto Works of Zaporozhye in Ukraine)! I will take pains to collect information on all and somebody who reads need to know about. You don't need to thank me; I'm happy to help whenever I can. I think that we are all agreed in this matter, and therefore there needs no more words about it.
1915	DEKA JSC in December 1915 bought buildings and equipment in a town *Aleksandrovsk* in order to changeover of activity
1916	The Deka built up the military manufactory of aeroengines in a town Aleksandrovsk (i.e. in Zaporozh'e or Zaporizhzhya / Zaporozhye) in 1916. The Stavka (Supreme High Command of the Russian Military) and Russian military intelligence were interested in such experimental production with advanced technology in actuality and this headquarters laid down actual line of research into the Deka mechanical powers for aircraft, e.g. general P. W. Pniewski ordered to enforce norms of special steel for aeroengines in Petrograd at the end of 1916. The "Main war - technical board" under W. A. Semkowski concluded a big contract with joint stock company of electrical firms (i.e. particular, separate businesses from Duflon / Dyuflon, Konstantynowicz and Co. abbreviated as DEKA) from Petrograd on 01 February 1916 in order to construct in the plant of DEKA two experimental aircrafts of professor Gheorghe Botezat by 01 October 1917 (with aeroengine "Renault" and with a gyroscope - wheel which, when spinning fast, keeps steady the object in which it is fixed - the first automatic pilot) but the professor has been gone abroad earlier. The stock society DEKA received twice considerable government subsidies on research & development in 1916 but the magnetos to aero engines produced here continuously in co-operation with the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute (magneto i.e. electric apparatus for producing sparks in the ignition system of an internal combustion engine). And it was soon built the section of aero engines in Zaporozhye = Zaporizhzhya under the general chief N. R. Brilling; an area of the factory had got 39 millions m² according to "History of building airplanes in the USSR" by B. V. Shavrov of 1985. The Mersedes (i.e. Mercedes) aero engines manufactured here in the second half of 1916 and expected 10 - 15 engines monthly (e.g. the Mercedes - type 100 hp from DEKA factory and "Deka M-100" in Zaporozh'e as early as 28 September 1916, at a later date DEKA 166/168/170 hp and it were produced here ten aero engines DEKA 129 hp with six cylinders monthly in the end of 1916, and DEKA M-170 hp in 1917; extra the "Benz" and "Mercedes" aero engines manufactured here also in 1917; the DEKA Company learned production of the piston engines since September 1916: M-6, M-11, M-22, M-85, M-86, M-87, M-88, Ash-87FN, Ash-62JR, often superior and better than foreign engines). Major General Pniewski said in parliament about the DEKA company in November 1916: "This is the first aeroengine as a whole from Russian materials of experimental line of 5 pieces by 100 hp". The day of complete success - DEKA M-100, the first Russian six-cylinder water cooled engine constructed 28 September 1916. So incompetent paralleled researches into the Mercedes engines conducted Anthony Fokker in Germany who was from Holland and Heinrich Focke b. 1890. About details and photos of the MERCEDES aviation engines or on the Mercedes-Daimler Motorengesellschaft from Stuttgart-Unterturkheim, see: "Jane's fighting Aircraft of World War I", by John W. R. Taylor, England 1919 and London 1990 ("Studio Editions").

"The area covered by brick-made production buildings of this factory exceeded any of then available engine works in the tsarist Russia and it was equipped as one of the best; the Mercedes-type 100 hp single-row water-cooled six-cylinder engine assembled here in September 1916 and designated Deka M-100 became the firstling of the company; the date of its manufacture was accepted as the birthday of the Company (i.e. in Zaporozh'e = Aleksandrovsk or Zaporozhye / Zaporizhzhya); later on the engine power has been increased to 129 hp and then to 168 hp due to efforts of Deka experts who managed to do this" (quotation from Vyacheslav Boguslayev, Chairman of Board and Director General Motor Sich JSC of 2001; this quotation without the Author's written permission, so see: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/ukraine/motor-sich.htm); the engine was installed to power several modifications of four-engine "Ilya Muromets" aircraft (with the Argus engine too; for the first time attempted to produce "Benz" and "Argus" engines in the Russian Baltic Railroad Car Works that evacuated from Riga to Petersburg in 1915 but 10 months waited for steel in 1915/16; more than 70 military versions of the "Ilia Mourometz" were built for use as bombers within 1913 - 1917; in all, 75 bombers were delivered, and roughly half of them saw combat; twenty similar airplanes had been produced in 1916 and five built in September 1916 were not noticed by military command - were probably with engines of experimental line of 5 pieces Deka M-100; 15 March 1916 the 1st Aero Squadron begins operations) developed by the famous Polish aircraft designers Igor I. Sikorsky and his collaborator eng. Witold Jarkowski; outliving the fires of Civil War - sequestration by the Bolshevik authorities in January 1918 - "the factory has commenced to repair and then to manufacture the parts for Renault aircraft engines" after 1921. The section of aero engines in Zaporozhye = Zaporizhzhya employed as workers for years: in 1916 - 191 employees, 1917 - 420, and at the beginning of 1918 - 416 persons.

Employees of ours

Nikolaj Romanowicz Brilling elaborated aeroengine with two opposite pistons when acted as chief in DEKA factory (Duflon either Duflou or Dufflon & Konstantynowicz) in Zaporozhye 1916 - 1918.
Brilling i.e. Briling; Russian, b. 1876, Russian and Soviet expert of aeroengines after completion of the Moscow Polytechnic, twice under arrest due to distribution of Lenin's "Iskra", 1907 doctor in field of engines, 1908 - 1915 professor of the Moscow Polytechhnic and chief of a special engine lab here, 1911 wrote thesis about internal combustion engines; "the Soviet Council of Labor and Defense issued instructions for the creation of a Commission for Organization of the Design of the Aerosled = KOMPAS in 1919, and the membership of the commission included such leading designers as N. E. Zhukovskiy - its scientific director and N. R. Briling, who was selected (according to Valeriy Potapov; this quotation without the Author's written permission) as director of KOMPAS - it was Briling himself who had laid the foundation for aerosled design shortly before World War I in 1912 - mass production of transport aerosleds was begun in the Russo-Balt i.e. Russian-Baltic Plant in Tsarist Russia"

Wladymir Jakowlewicz Klimow after completion of the Moscow Polytechnic in 1917 worked as trainee in DEKA factory in Zaporozhye, he designed a certain aero engine of his own here in 1917 and received an award at professor N. R. Brilling's hands (Klimow i.e. Klimov; Russian, b. 1892, main constructor of the Soviet aeroengines since 1935)

Bedrich Urban

(born 1880, d. 1940?)

signed on with the Konstantynowiczs in year 1908 and he worked for "Duflon & Konstantynowicz" 1908 - 1911 in St Petersburg. Urban has got experience from "Tallinn Volta" 1904 - 1908.

Bedrich Urban was engineer constructor and after 1911 - 1918 worked for Siemens - Schuckert factory in St Petersburg as director manager according to Rain Vaikla.

According to JOHN SPARGO an author of "RUSSIA AS AN AMERICAN PROBLEM", ed. NEW YORK and LONDON in 1920 by Harper & Brothers: "The four principal manufacturers of electrical machinery in Russia were Siemens - Schuckert, General Electric Company, Siemens & Halske, and Duflon, Konstantynowicz & Co. These companies made practically all the generators and transformers produced in Russia, the first two companies named producing two-thirds of the whole. Of the four companies named three were simply Russian branches of German concerns, the last named, the Duflon-Konstantynowicz firm, being French. These factories were quite unable to meet the demand for generators, transformers and other electrical machinery even before the war."

Comment on Gheorghe Botezat

Gheorghe Botezat either doctor George, Geogrij, Georges A. de Bothezat or Georg A. Botezat, Botezatu, was born in Iasi i.e. Jassy in Romania 1883 or 1882 - died in Dayton, Ohio in USA 1940 (photo from http://www.hill.af.mil/museum below). Botezat learnt in Sereth, next in Sorbona and was a doctor in field of aviation; a Russian aeronautical engineer and mathematician; professor of the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute in the beginning of the First world war; worked for DEKA in Petrograd / St Petersburg 1914 - 1917 and next he stayed in Iasi at the turn of 1918; wrote (1918) letter and report "General Theory of the Screw" (air-screw i.e. propeller of an aircraft); at a later date he wrote off to Subcommittee on Buildings, Laboratories and Equipments in Feb. 1919 and ( by http://avia.russian.ee/vertigo/bothezat-r.html ) the US Army Air Corps awarded a contract in January 1921 to Dr. George de Bothezat and Ivan Jerome (i.e. Eremeeff, Jeromiejew or Jerome - after a millionaire inventor from Long Island and next owner of the Massapequa Farmers Market, the 59-year old Jerome was arrested in 1955, freed on $100,000 bond, he jumped bail and disappeared; there were reports he had been seen everywhere from Russia to South America, but he was never found; by http://www.newsday.com/extras/lihistory) to develop a vertical flight machine; this helicopter, designated the Engineering Division H-1 and designed by George De Bothezat and Ivan (Eremeeff) Jerome, made its first public flight on December 18, 1922; George de Bothezat's Army Helicopter Number 1, nicknamed "The Flying Octopus", possessed 1 x the 180 hp Le Rhone radial engine (Rhone 134 kW)

Cooperant of our factories
Igor I. Sikorsky (or Sikorski) born 1889, he spent three years at the Naval College in St. Petersburg 1903 - 1906; Sikorsky's success helped win him a job as head of the airplane division of the Russian Baltic Railroad Car Works in Petersburg 1912 - 1917, that is where he developed hiis first major new airplane design. The R-BVZ manufactured trains, airplanes, engines and automobiles, and it was run by M. W. Szydlowski, who had insight into the importance of aviation's future; the engineering and technical staff at the R-BVZ was expanded by Sikorsky who brought many of them along with him from Kiev; the first airplane built by Sikorsky and his staff at the R-BVZ was the S-6B which was a modified version of the S-6A (by Carl Bobrow - this quotation without the Author's written permission).

1917

Comment on Zaporozhye / Zaporizhzhya

Announcement on autonomy of Ukraine in April 1917 and the first Declaration of independence by Ukraine on 20 November 1917 involved Zaporozhye but shortly assumption of power by the Soviets in January 1918. "The Peace of Bread" concluded by Germany, Austria - Hungary and Turkey with the Ukraine: acceptance of the Ukr. state on 09 February 1918, and Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 03 Mar. 1918 recognized the Ukraine as ind. state and thus the Austria - Hungarys Army occupied Zaporozhye since April by November 1918, next Skoropadsky and the Ukrainian Directory since November 1918 by March 1919, general Denikin since May 1919 by December 1919; general Vrangel by October 1920 and conquered by the Red Army then.

Around that time many others the Polish in Russia were involved in studying flights

1. eng. Theodor Kalep / Kalepa or Kalepas, Estonian by birth, in "Motor" works which evacuated from Riga to Moscow in 1915 (by http://latvianaviation.com/Pioneers.html here constructed the first Soviet aeroengine in 1919),
2. Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovski i.e. Zukowski (1847 - d. 17 March 1921) called "the father of Russian aviation" wrote about stability of motion and hydraulic shock in water pipe, one of the world first wind tunnel was built in 1902 at Moscow University under his supervision and First Europe Aerodynamics Inst. was established in Kuchino in 1904,
3. Stefan Drzewiecki (1844 - 1938) son of Karol, worked in Paris (here edited a handbook in 1916, and died in 1938) and Petersburg,
4. L. Z. Markowicz who edited handbook in St Petersburg in 1911/1913,

5. major general P. W. Pniewski, chief of the Russian air force who kept in touch with the Supreme High Command of the Russian Military and chief officer of the "board of directors of aerial - war fleet" in 1916 (the Pniewski family of Rola arms verified themselves in Kaunas A.D. 1799: Maciej son of Stanislaw, and also in 1861: sons of brothers Augustyn and Stanislaw; Ignacy Pniewski son of Szymon possessed Tarucie estate in the Kaunas government in 1889);

6. W. F. Adamienko, owner of an air factory in Moscow,

7. O. W. Olechnowicz (lieutenant Alechnovitch) has beaten many records on the small Sikorsky aeroplane; see www.alexanderpalace.org/.../flyingmen.html,

Stanislaw Dorozynski (the first flight of Russian Naval Aviation at Kulikovo Pole airfield near Sebastopol with pilot S.F.Dorozhinski on 16 September 1910),

Dybowski, Sredinski, Heyne, Makowiecki, Malynski, Bronislaw Matyjewicz - Maciejewicz (he studied in France in 1910, died 01.05.1911 near Sebastopol),

Grzegorz Piotrowski (or Petrovski, he studied in France in 1910),

Michal Scipio del Campo (or Campo - Scipio, b. at Polesie area in 1883, did a degree in Polytechnic of Lille, his first flight was here in 1905, he studied in France still in 1910, Scipio flew on a plane constructed by Czeslaw Zbieranski & Cywinski in summer 1911),

Otto Segno (or Henryk Segno, he studied in France by the end of 1910),

and at a later date B. J. Rossinski, M. G. Lerch, A. J. Rajewski / A. E. Raievsky (the first Pole to fly in a Bleriot monoplane was a young student, Raievsky) and G. W. Jankowski / Yankovsky (when Sikorsky started to build machines of his own, Yankovsky became his pilot) - experimental pilots (the Polish were 33 % of Russian pilots in 1911, and besides Lew Maciewicz died in 1910; the others Polish pilots in Russia who served under general Dowbor Musnicki 1917/1918: Norvid Kudlo in Babrujsk 1918, captain Zygmunt Studzinski in Minsk 1917 - 1918; besides Stanislaw Jakubowski in Odessa 1917 - 1918 and lieutenant Waldemar Narkiewicz in Odessa 1918 - 1919);

8. W. Hurko - chief of the Committee in matters of Air Force since 1915 and the member of the imperial State's Cabinet,

9. eng. Butmi, Giedrojc and eng. W. W. Bartoszewicz (i.e. V. V. Bartoshevich, chief of the assembly of aeroplanes; Farman-IV aircraft was built in series under supervision of engineer Bartoshevich) at "Dux" factory in Moscow,

10. eng. Pozezinski elaborated project of aeroengine in September 1915,

11. M. Adam Haber - Wlynski (i.e. Gaber - Vlynskij, b. 1883 - died 1921 in Lublin, he studied in France by the end of 1910 and worked in "Dux" factory near by Alexander station in Moscow; he flown the most common modification of Russian Farman - IV and had set several ceiling records e.g. April 13th, 1913; next fought in the Poznan province 1919),

12. Nagorski (i.e. pilot J. I. Nagurskij did the world first flight in Nesterov's flying boat on September 17th, 1916 twice with a passenger; the international record was registered by the Airclub counsel on November 16th, 1916),

13. Raczynski - in his big estate in the Smolensk government constructed an airplane factory in 1917,

14. patents for aeroengines received during the First world war: D. Wiszniewiecki, captain Jablonski, colonel P. A. Gelwach, lieutenant Fajwiszewicz;

15. W. A. Semkowski was in command (1916) of the "Main war - technical board of directors" where was an air section; the section was the base of the "board of directors of aerial - war fleet" under major general P. W. Pniewski (war supply and orders) in 1916,

16. major general Michal Szydlowski (Sydney Gibbes - who was after appointed English tutor to the Tsar's children in 1908 - spent the summer of 1901 with a family called SHIDLOVSKY = Szydlowski; he was taken on as tutor to two boys and lived in St Petersburg and in their country "dacha" according to "The Romanovs & Mr Gibbes (...)" by Frances Welch, ed. London 2002; see also below) an ex-navy man with connections to the Russian military and who was near connected with W. Hurko in 1916, died 1918;

17. Feliks J. Biske or Biskie was born in Plonsk 13.11.1874 and next lived in Warsaw 1912, physicist and air expert in 1915, in Rostov by Don 1916, Izum in Ukraine 1924,

18. Stanislaw Ziembinski manager of aerodynamics lab near by Kiev and director of "Gnome" aeroengines factory in Moscow by June 1915; here captain Wojtkiewicz, lieutenant Radawski and captain Golubicki also worked in May 1916,

19. W. J. Sredniewski, expert of aerial photograph,

20. eng. Wladyslaw Zalewski (chief of the Central air constructional office in Warsaw since 1925) and Franciszek Kaczynski carried out designes of planes in 1915,

21. Jerzy Jankowski and S. Czerwinski acted as air experts,

22. Hipolit Lossowski after completion of the Aerial Navigation School (since 1907) commanded the School of Pilots in Moscow since 1916 and the 7th Air Park in 1917, served under general Dowbor Musnicki 1917/1918,

23. Gustaw Macewicz after completion of the first Course of pilotage in 1911 commanded the 7th Air Squadro since 1914, served under general Dowbor Musnicki 1917/1918, the Polish general 1919,

(The White Corps of General Dowbor Musnicki (Dovbor - Mus'nicki) was composite of the Polish from Russian Army. Polish society had known in 1918 only about nine tsarist Generals, Poles - according to Baginski: Gen. Michaelis, Dowbor Musnicki, Bylewski, Symon, Latour, Jacyna, Lesniewski, Olszewski and Osinski. According to Olechowski, during the First world war in the tsarist Army served 800.000 Poles (20.000 officers and 102 Generals in November 1917) but only a couple of a dozen or so had gone through to Polish Corps (the 1st, 2nd and 3rd) in 1917 - 1918. According to Szczesny in Lithuanian Army (in 1919) as many 60 % officers came from the 1st Polish Corps, e.g. commands and orders in the Birzai regiment made in Polish (spring 1919). According to Gen. Bylewski (data of April 01st, 1917) 119 Generals - Catholics - mainly the Polish, 20.000 ooffficers and 480.000 - 700.000 private soldiers served in Russian Army and besides 100.000 prisoners of war - Poles. According to Alexander Lednicki in June 1917 in Russian Army served only 314.000 Poles, and according to Gen. Dowbor Musnicki were 300.000 the Polish)

24. eng. Wsiewolod Jan Jakimiuk next acted in Poland,

25. Jerzy Rudlicki carried out designes of plane in Odessa in 1910 and Tadeusz Heyne in Kiev 1910, too,

26. colonel Aleksander Wankowicz was expert in balloons in Russia;

27. the eldest Pole among above military figures was general Jan Jacyna who served in a "Main technical committee" of Navy Ministry in St Petersburg since 1891; at a later date he acted (1901 - 1917) as member on "the board of directors of government armouries" of the Navy Ministry (next War and Navy Ministry) in Petersburg; since then he was near to problems of war industry in Russia, especially during (1914 - 1917) the First world war; then (since 1915) he co-operated with "Military - industrial committee" composite of war industry's representatives and he ran up against suggestions of aeroplanes deliveries and aerial inventions (confer Jan Jacyna memoirs, vol. 1, p. 71); he was the most known general in all Polish environments of St Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th cent., amidst military and industrial activists, social workers after the Bolshevik revolution, and also among the Polish active politicians in Russian parliament since 1905/06; he was near to the imperial Russian court; general Jan Jacyna evaluated figure of Wladymir Boncz Brujewicz wholy negative when paid a call on Lenin at the end of January 1918;

(general Jan Jacyna kept in touch with e.g. Michal Szydlowski and Karol Jaroszynski = Karol Yaroshinsky, who managed with a big loans especially during the First world war; about Jaroszynski see Shay McNeal, "The Plots to Rescue the Tsar", ed. London 2001 [Karol Yaroshinsky "(...) died in near poverty in 1928. His last years were spent in pain as a result of a poison needle having been jabbed into him at the opera in Paris at almost the same time as Sidney Reilly disappeared in the Soviet Union (in the 1920s). (...) Before the Revolution, he had fallen in love with one of the Tsar's daughters (...). Near to Krivoshein - the man who brought Yaroshinsky into the Allied banking scheme. (...) Yaroshinsky was the financial benefactor to the Romanov family during the last days of their captivity in Tobolsk and Ekaterinburg in 1918. The man was involved with Henry Armitstead and Jonas Lied, who had been paid through the British Secret Service for activities in Northern Russia (1918)."]);

28. Eng. professor Witold Jarkowski born 1875 - died 1918, took a degree in Paris, he next worked in the St Petersburg Technological Institute; and Jan Jarkowski i.e. engineer Jan T. J. Jarkowski son of Jozef who verified himself with his sons: Aleksander, Witold, Jan and Wladyslaw M. Jarkowski in MINSK in November 1894 (they owned village Rusaki - near by Hlybokae in the Dzisna district - since 1840 and they were related to the Szendzikowski family);

29. naval general Aleksander Fedorowicz Mozajski (Russian, 1825 - 1890; probably from Polish-speaking Ukrainian nobility, who were Roman Catholics; "the Russian nobles, named Mozhaysky (and alike), have originated from the ancient Volhynian Mozhayski-Mozarowski family" according to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mozhayski/teksty/fammemb.html) began to design an aircraft in 1880 and he constructed it in 1883;

30. Captain Zabski i.e. Shabskij constructed in 1908 the blimp called "Uchebnyj" (1500 m cub.) belonged to the Russian Army.

1918

"The Russo-Baltic Wagon Company had a director Michal Szydlowski who was an ex-navy man with connections to the Russian military and he managed to convince the Imperial Russian Air Force (IRAF) to utilize the "Murometz" for reconnaissance and bombing purposes; in December 1914 Szydlowski himself, with the rank of Major General, took over command of the "Squadron of Flying Ships" known as the EVK (Aleksander Serednicki; captain Jozef Baszko died in Riga 1946 - son of Stanislaw from the Vicebsk government; captain Robert Nizewski b. 02.05.1885 as Catholic and captain Kazimierz Zagorski were pilots here, according to my research work); Szydlowski (...) brought Sikorsky to his base and together they managed to overcome the teething problems; (...) the pre-war Murometz was designed to use German-built engines, which obviously were not available and Sikorsky experimented with a range of Russian (DEKA aeroengine according to me) and British engines, but never achieved the desired level of performance; these problems, together with the low level of Russian manufacturing, meant that only 75 (or 70 - 80) of this outstanding aircraft were produced during the war; Szydlowski decided, after the revolution, that he had no future in Russia, and he convinced Sikorsky to leave also; Szydlowski together with his son, was captured trying to cross the border into Finland and they were shot, Sikorsky was luckier and from Murmansk he managed to escape by ship to London" (quotation from ARI UNIKOSKI; this quotation without the Author's written permission).

Russia also had the first aviation research center in the world, the Kouczynski (i.e. Kuczynski) Institute and B.C. Steczkin was the author of the theory of the jet-engine.

Curiosity: the first plant which the Germans built in the Soviet Russia was "Junkers - Werke" in File near by Moscow in 1922; operated till 1925. The Junkers company activated its branches in Rostov by Don and Turkestan in 1925 and also airline "Deruluft". The Soviets increased import of the BMW aeroengines from Munich in Germany after 1925, and in 1928 bought a licence on production of the BMW aeroengines, which the German engineers - from Technische Hochschule in Berlin - assembled in Russia after 1931 (according to professor Andrzej Peplonski of 1996).

Do you know? In Poland after second world war was a proverb about DEKA Company that any bad car with defective engine is "deka- wka / dekawka / decavca", i.e. proverbial junk! By all means! ... in an imagination of our "worshippers"...

the early 20th century

Ferdynand Konstantynowicz studied in Dorpat / Tartu (University of Dorpat - term No 160, Second part in 1907), he was born 1883 in Riga. Wiktor / Viktor Konstantynowicz the 2nd lived in Tallin / Tallinn, the Nomme area since 1918.

We lived in Vilna / Vilnyus (the early 20th century Piotr the 2nd Konstantynowicz son of Gustav - Piotr was married to Maria W.);

in Pinsk (Konstantynowicz Konstantyn the 4th) and Grodno (Hrodna) and near to Dzjatlava / Zdzieciol (the village Gronsk) and west of LIDA (the places Maluki, Zabalac / Zabalac' either Zabolot or Zablot', Przevoza, Volejsze, Kascjaneva) at the beginning of the 20th cent.; according to Mr Ejsmont from Poland of 2006: 1. Piotr Konstantynowicz son of Adam and Wiktoria nee Cydzik; 2. Konstancja Konstantynowicz died in Kozlowicze - the parish of Jeziorsko; sons of her: Jan and Michal; 3. Wincenty Konstantynowicz died in Toloczki - parish of Jeziorsko, SE of Grodno; his parents - Adam Konstantynowicz and Melanja nee Doroszkiewicz; 4. Kazimierz Konstantynowicz died in Toloczki; his son Jan Konstantynowicz; 5. Stefan Konstantynowicz, died in Toloczki, son of Ksawery and Antonina nee Toloczko; 6. Piotr Konstantynowicz, son of Aleksander and Jadwiga nee Obuchowicz, lived in Toloczki; next of kin Wladyslaw and Anna Konstantynowicz;

in Minsk (Konstantynowicz Andrzej; brothers Jakov, Vincenty and Semen; Semen the 2nd (or Szymon) son of Jerzy the 2nd; Konstantynowicz Antoni; Adolf son of Wilhelm; Mikolaj son of Pavel) at the beginning of the 20th cent. and Daugavpils (or Dunaburg = Dyneburg, Dvinsk);

in the government of Smolensk (district i.e. ujezd of Dorohobuz 1913) and Vicebsk = Vitebsk (Jozef Konstantynowicz in September 1918) by their own account, too;

from a Azerbaijan list of executed generals in Baku July 1920 by Soviets according to zerbaijan M. E. Rasulzade "Azerbaycan Cumhuriyeti": tsarist General Konstantynowicz;

in St Petersburg (Peterburg) Sergiej Konstantynowicz son of Michail - PUBLIC PROSECUTOR in this city 1907 -1918 according to the "St Petersburg Centralnyj Istoritcheskij Archiv";

and near by Moscow (the Uzkoje estate i.e. otherwise Uzkoje village, situated about 15 km S-W-S of Moscow core in the suburbs of the capital, near by Vitcevskij forest and Tschertanovka river) in the beginning of the 20th cent.

Jan Konstantynowicz had died in the Karpaty mount as senior officer being in the Russian army in winter 1914/1915. According to "Prisoners in 'Donbas' and Saratov" - Aleksander Stanislaw Konstantynowicz; The "Big Illustrated Universal Encyclopaedia", vol. 29 / 30, edit. in Warsaw - Aleksander Konstantynowicz; note: the author also looking for information about Alexander Konstantynowicz - we know now that he was a painter of the 19th century (the painting "Guitar player" 1917); among persons convicted and arrested for political causes there were Jan Niekrasz and Jan Konstantynowicz who died in 1922 from typhus among Polish prisoners in Kovno, according to "The Lithuanian - Polish Dispute", s. 30;

Michail Konstantynowicz according to "Antologija russkoj poezji w Pol'she" in Warsaw 1937.

The Konstantynowicz family lived in Vilnius (or Wilno, Wilniuja, Wilnia, Vilna), Vaukavysk, Ivacevicy, Hrodna, Bransk - Jan Slawomir Konstantynowicz son of Jan was born 1931 here in accordance with Karolina Horoszko of 2007 - and Lida in Poland, and also the Konstantynowiczs and their relatives in Riga, Daugavpils, Vilani (25,5 km west of Rezekne), near by Preili (30,5 km S - W - S of Vilani) and Jekabpils in Latvia and Plunge in Lithuania in the thirties and the forties of the 20th cent. by all accounts.

Henryk and Franciszek Konstantynowicz fought against Soviet troops near to Krzywda, Kock and Helenowek in

October 1939

A certain Jerzy Konstantynowicz died in Mecklenburg province (Malchov in Germany on February 24th, 1944, during a compulsive works) and buried here during the Second world war, according to the Polish Red Cross. Konstantynowicz Pawel b. 1896 in Marcinkowka near by Druskienniki, died October 17th, 1941 in Tockoje (Russia) and buried here (according to Henryk Sokolowski).

Key note

Among relatives and next of kins of our Mscislau branch appeared the Zarako Zarakowski family in the second half of 19th cent. and in the 20th cent.;

the Spychalski family from Lodz was related to kinsmen of our lineage at the turn of the 20th century and in the middle of the 20th cent.;

the Jaroszewicz family had connection to our line in the middle of the 20th cent. (the Jaroszewicz house derived from the Vicebsk province and had Prus the 1st arms, they possessed here the Ostupiszcze estate from Gruzewski family since 1710 to the end of the 18th cent.; Jerzy Piotr Jaroszewicz with Kwaczynski nickname was an officer here in 1713 - 1714 and somebody here in 1716; related to Kownacki, Rymaczewski and Kopakowski according to Jan Ciechanowicz, vol. 3; among others several of the Jaroszewiczs died in Old Bychow in 1655; priest Manuel Jaroszewicz in Sluck A.D. 1666, Roman Jaroszewicz in Mahileu in 1682, and Jan Jaroszewicz in Vilna 1720 - 1722, another Jan Jaroszewicz and also his son Jan lived in Szaule near by Mejszagola in 1753, Ludwik Jaroszewicz lived in the Mscislau province in 1764; the Jaroszewiczs were related to Jankowski, Olszewski and Chodasiewicz families in the Dzisna district and also they served Radzivill family in the Minsk government at the turn of the 20th cent.; Dmitrij Jaroszewicz son of Konstantin, Russian admiral);

the Swierczewski family was near socially associated with us, for instance in the sixtieth of the 20th century.

Some Generals, Prime Minister, the Head of State and one marshal of the communistic Poland - creators of the Soviet transitory administration 1943 / 1990 - derived from these families. Relatives of our Konstantynowicz branch kept in touch with Jozef Pilsudski, Michal Zymierski and Wladyslaw Sikorski at the moment in the first half of the 20th century - marshals and General with different political views.

It wonder that three Marshals and General - military prosecutor died with natural death but three remaining Generals died with tragic one. Generals of communistic People Polish Army: Karol Swierczewski, Piotr Jaroszewicz and Marian Spychalski (later on the Marshal) in the fourties of the 20th century were deputies of Michal Zymierski - Marshal and communistic Minister of Defense. The genealogy of my Mscislau "inlet" of the Konstantynowicz ancestry point out long and strong connections with the Imperial Russian Army and Russian military intelligence since the seventies of the nineteenth century and after when they served in tsarist Georgia / Sakartvelo but especial at the turn of the 20th century. It was the tsarist military technology intelligence at the beginning of the 20th century.

This connections fade away probably at the end of the 20th century?

the present

The Konstantynowicz family moved to the new Polish west and north territories after

1945

1. as a result of the Yalta Conference 1945 - the eastern regions of Poland were incorp. into the U.S.S.R. for the Curzon Line became Poland's eastern border, and the western border of Poland was to be fixed in a peace treaty; 2. as a result of the Potsdam Conference and the Potsdam Agreement of 1945 that sanctioned the expulsion of almost all Germans from the Ger. territories in the East, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and also resettlement of the depopulated areas in the East with eastern Poles (besides exile of 1,6 - 2 mil. eastern Poles to northern Russia and to Siberia 1939 - c. 1955) mainly compulsive displaced persons among others from Vilna, Volhynia and White Russia in 1945 - 1947; 3. as a result of the Treaty of Border (ex-line Oder - Neiße) between Poland and Germany of 1990.

I can't give many more information about this period after 1945 for the sake of secret data. But we can to check up on ourselves at © "Moikrewni.pl" website - to the right »

I am looking for all persons with KONSTANTYNOWICZ surname whose ancestors (as a whole 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th cent.) are from:

1. BELARUS : Governments of Minsk, Vicebsk (Vitebsk) and Mahileu (Mogilev or Mahilyow by the river Dniepr = Dnjapro)

2. RUSSIA: Government of Smolensk, St Petersburg and Moscow

3. LATVIA (Livland): Governments of Vicebsk and Riga (i.e. Livlandskaja gubernija = the government of Livland).

Outside of Poland now

Many of them stayed in BELARUS	Belorussian peacekeeping veteran Konstantine Konstantynowicz inf. 11 April, 2003; Andrzej, Pawel and Roman Konstantynowicz in Mahileu by the river Dnjapro according to Sergiusz Marszalkowski of 2004; in village Toloczki close to Hrodna; an area of Starossalje / Starosjelo NE of Miezonka; at Asipovicy region: Tatarkow primary school; Zabalac close to Lida; and a first deputy chairman (the vice-president in 2003) of the Belarusian Union of Architects, Anatoliy (i.e. Anatol) M. Konstantynowicz in Minsk; A. A. Konstantynowicz acted in Acad. Agric. Sci. of Belarus in 1992; Sh. V. Konstantynowicz from Belarus at SECOND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC - TECHNICAL CONGRESS "MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES ". Now in Lida: G. F. Konstantynowicz tel. 53109 Tuchachevski Str. and now in Minsk: Who tel. Str. No Apt. Konstantynowicz A. A. 2267105 Tanka Str. 30/2 Apt. 53, Konstantynowicz A. M. 2344451 Chorushej Str. 19 134, Konstantynowicz A. M. 2625139 Kolcova Str. 23 66, Konstantynowicz A. N. 2302864 Vaniejeva Str. 8 72, Konstantynowicz G. A. 2733456 Altajskaja Str. 64/5 68, Konstantynowicz G. V. 2445007 Shabany Str. 13 56, Konstantynowicz E. T. 2432695 Gierasimienko Str. 29 74, Konstantynowicz Sh. D. 2955986 Zilunovicha Str. 27 23, Konstantynowicz I. E. 2429894 Niesterova Str. 4 153, Konstantynowicz I. M. 2165503 Jesenina Str., No 19 Apt. 166, Konstantynowicz K. F. 2382929 Ilimskaja Str., 29 226, Konstantynowicz L. G. 2810745 P/O Stiepianka Korwata Str. 34 Apt. 33, Konstantynowicz L. K. 2356986 2 Bagrationa Court (Pier.) No 19 Apt. 789, Konstantynowicz M. A. 2738872 Angarskaja Str. 20/2 44, Konstantynowicz M. S. 2495360 Pliechanowa 56/3 166, Konstantynowicz N. I. 2475314 Jakubova 30 5, Konstantynowicz N. N. 2499679 Pliechanova 52/1 9, Konstantynowicz N. P. 2502878 Orlovskaja 86/3 14, Konstantynowicz O. V. 2268756 Tanka Str., 30/2 Apt. 71, Konstantynowicz O. F. 2997217 Shossejnaja 9 17, Konstantynowicz T. I. 2968379 Bajkalskaja 45 28, Konstantynowicz T. I. 2998379 Bajkalskaja Str. No 45 Apt. 28, Konstantynowicz F. I. 2431028 Angarskaja 13/2 6, according to: http://www.nomer.org/minsk/
settled themselves in Russia	Krasnojarsk in the sixties of the 20th cent. and the Krasnojarsk area after 2nd world war, Archangelsk = Arkhangelsk: Yury Konstantynowicz now, Moscow: Aleksandr Konstantynowicz and Oleg Konstantynowicz now, Dmitrij Konstantynowicz in Togliatti near to Samara; in 1918 Abram Ioffe [b. 1880, son of Fedor; completion of the St. Petersburg Technological Institute in 1902] became a head of Physics and Technology division in State Institute of Roentgenology and Radiologythe i.e. Physico - Technical Institute where a group of young physicists worked: B. P. Konstantynowicz, I. V. Kurczatow = Kurchatov, Lev Landau [son of David, born 1908 in Baku; his father was an engineer who worked in the Baku oil industry; since 1927 he continued research at the Leningrad Physico - Technical Institute], P. L. Kapitsa [Piotr = Pyotr Kapica was born July 08/June 26, 1894 in Kronstadt; he was son of Leon or Leonid Kapica - a military engineer, lieutenant general in the Russian engineers corps, Pole with the Kapica i.e. Jastrzebiec diverse coat of arms, see: http://www.jurzak.pl/gendyna.pl?kd=1&hb=0504 - and Olga Stebnicki who was daughter of Hieronim Stebnicki, Pole with the Przestrzal coat of arms, see: http://www.przodkowie.com/niesiecki/s/stebnicki/5915.php?lit=s; grandson of Piotr Kapica senior; received his preparatory education in Kronstadt and next educated at the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute, "he graduated in 1918 with a degree in electrical engineering" (or 1919) on Electromechanics Department; he remained there as a lecturer until 1921; he went to England and there he worked with Ernest Rutherford; in 1934, Kapica went to Soviet Union] and others [quantum electronics, electromagnetic waves] - see http://depts.washington.edu/hssexec/newsletter/1997/graham.html; in Moscow *- Konstantynowicz Nikolaj son of Konstantin (Zjabon nickname, inf. of 2004) and my family in* Omsk after 1929: Viktoria born 1870/71 - daughter of Antoni Konstantynowicz, and Konstantynowicz Walery (i.e. Valerij) son of Zygmunt (i.e. Sigizmund) and also Evgenij / Jewgenij Konstantynowicz in Omsk, born 06. 12. 1982; Orenburg: Vasilij Konstantynowicz - Deputy Head on Agricultural Administration in Orenburg; and also somebody exiled at Solowezki Islands in the White Sea after 1923, but we lost touch with them. In St Petersburg now Pavel Konstantynowicz, tel. 8-911-295-70-06. Wsiewolod / Vsievolod Konstantynowicz at the 10th Conference of Young Scientists (study "Moskovskij Institut Elektronnoj Techniki"). Konstantin Konstantynowicz - musician and composer ("Zvuki Mu"). Elena Konstantynowicz daughter of Vladimir - the Club of "Viedomosti" Readers. In Moscov / Moscow now: Konstantynowicz Boris son of Ivan, tel. 9080498, Altufievskoje shosse No 100 Apt. 312, born 23. 02. 1942; Konstantynowicz Galina daughter of Michail, 9300585, Leninskij prospekt 72, 473 - born 29. 10. 1933; Konstantynowicz Elena daughter of Michail - tel. 4324419, Novatorov Str. No 14 / 2, Apt. 191 - born 21. 05. 1939; Konstantynowicz Jekaterina 1841744 Anadyrskij Prospekt 3, 48 - born 02. 04. 1965; Konstantynowicz Pietr, son of Gavril, 3260037, Birjulevskaja 12 / 2, 198 - born 16. 06. 1935; Konstantynowicz Lidija - tel. 4745859, Tajninskaja 16 / 2, Apt. 131 - born 11. 03. 1920; Konstantynowicz Jurij son of Pietr, tel. 3260037, Birjulevskaja Str. 12 / 2, 198 - born 06. 01. 1968; Konstantynowicz Olga daughter of Siergiej, tel. 3260037, Birjulevskaja 12 / 2, 198 - born 14. 06. 1968; Konstantynowicz G. V. 3227945 Proletarskij Prospekt No 35 apt. 21; Konstantynowicz L. L. tel. 3260306 Birjulevskaja Str. 12 / 2, 177; Konstantynowicz K. M. tel. 9300585 Leninskij Prospekt 72, 473; Konstantynowicz Aleksander 1241454 born 09. 09. 1948; Konstantynowicz Andrew / Andrzej son of Stanislaw 1115257 Starokashirskoje shosse No 4 / 2 Apt. 120; Konstantynowicz Vladimir son of Aleksandr tel. 5233572, Valashiha G. Kalinina No 2, 106 - born 13. 10. 1949; according to: http://www.nomer.org/minsk/
Ukraine	A. V. Konstantinowicz and I. A. Konstantinowicz - experts of ionization energies in Ukraine, unknown ancestry. Sergiej / Sergej Konstantynowicz - born 1984, stay in Kijev where he studiiedd "Kijevskij Politechniczeskij Institut" to 2004.
Uzbekistan	Pavel / Pawiel Konstantynowicz in Taskient, area of Czilonzar C-17-51, unknown ancestry; was born in 18. 09. 1986
France ?	Nicholas and Pierre Konstantynowicz *- personal members of the "Friends of the Russian Museum International Society",* unknown ancestry
settled themselves in CANADA	Vancouver - Karen Konstantynowicz; College of Medicine in Regina - B. Konstantynowicz
in Denmark	at the beginning of the 20th cent.; Maria H. and T. Konstantynowicz now
USA	OHIO and Ellis Island in the beginning of the 20th cent.: Peter (or Piotr the 2nd probably) Konstantynowicz who was married to Mary G.; Olga I. Konstantynowicz who was born 1860 in Kiev - after 1880 in Paris - daughter of Alexander Konstantynowicz; Bronislaw Konstantynowicz in Philadelphia, PA (1915 - 1918) and his wife Stella nee Marcinkiewicz; Mary (i.e. Maria born 1863) Konstantynowicz died in Princeton, NJ on July 26th, 1916; Leon Konstantynowicz who was born in Baldwinville on April 28th, 1911 and resided in Baldwinville, MA; in the thirties of the 20th cent.: Konstantynowicz Michael (= **Michal), Konstantynowicz Jacob (Jakov = Jakub) and Casmir (**Kazimierz), Konstantynowicz Boleslauf and Eugene (Eugeniusz in the Detroit area - WJLB radio; discussions about thee KKatyn Forest Massacre etc.) H. (R.) Konstantynowicz, and also Anthony; now in USA: KONSTANTINOWICZ MATTHEUS from RUSSIA according to US District Court in BOSTON, MA; MARY P. born c. 1934, Brandon Konstantynowicz, REGINA born c. 1925, EDWARD born c. 1924, Steven Konstantynowicz; DIANE S. born c. 1942 http://www.pmi-chicagoland.org/membership/; WALTER born c. 1968 (inf. 01 APR 2001 - 15 FEB 2004 from FORT BRAGG); K. Konstantynowicz born c. 1955; Konstantynowicz Aleksei - an unknown line - write in "Military Review" and "Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press"; MARGARET; ROBERT; Andrew Konstantynowicz located in St. Petersburg - Florida; Casey Konstantynowicz in the Franklin Park School; JOHN W.; TED P. Konstantynowicz born c. 1921; Chief Operations Officer in Philadelphia or Newton's Vice President of Finance and Operations (Newton Resource Group, a digital media company based in Pennington, NJ) Tom Konstantynowicz; T. Konstantinowicz in Columbia, Aliso Viejo, CA; FRANK; BECKY; Josephine Konstantynowicz of Youngstown; EDWARD M.; EDYTHE M.; D. Konstantynowicz and WENDY born c. 1969; Lee Michaels born Nov. 2nd, 1942, in Chicago, and died on March 2nd, 2003 in Maywood, son of Margaret and Vincent Konstantynowicz, lived in Palatine (his sisters, Bernice Harker and Mary Lund; brother, Edward Konstantynowicz); Chris Konstantynowicz acted as CFO; according to "Social Security Death Index Search Results" RUTH KONSTANTOWIC or probably Konstantynowicz b. Jun. 1919 and d. 1994 in New Castle, Pennsylvania and JOHN KONSTANTOWIC b. Oct. 1923, d. 1988; you see more details: http://www.ancestry.com/
England	*Alice Konstantinowicz, chiropractor; Maciej Konstantynowicz* - Consulting Systems Engineer in Computer Networking; *Michael Konstantynowicz* at Manchester**
Australia	Konstantynowicz Michal, departure port: Genoa, Italy on 27 Apr. 1949 - arrival port: Sydney - Australia on 27 May 1949, details are lacking. According to "Database = Australian Records" KONSTANTYNOWICZ Martha Emma d. Jan. 02nd, 1992 in Minto
ARGENTINA	Argentine Republic
Norway	Marek Konstantynowicz - "The Source and Different Cikadas", viola
The others in the world at present:	I had been told about (details are lacking) Pyotr and Helena Konstantinowicz - unknown ancestry and also KONSTANTYNOWICZ Cyryl who wrote "W obronie slowa"; dr. Feliks (Felix) Konstantynowicz - Soviet expert of Chernobyl explosion; in Barnaul (that is near to Novosibirsk = Nowonikolajewsk in the middle of the 20th cent.) where Basil Konstantinowicz - rather ancestry of the Konstantynowiczs who derived from present BUKOVINA or from Volhynia - and his wife Olga.

Appendix D

The Wankowicz family from the Berazino parish

Melchior from Kaluzyca was born c. 1775 in the Minsk province

his sons:

Stefan (his son Teodor Bej, the January Insurrection 1863 - 1864; 1864 - 1905 emigre),

Otton,

Walenty painter,

Zygmunt from Slepianka (his son Piotr from Slepianka was the activist of independence) and

Karol who was born c. 1800, died 1854 in Kaluzyca

the sons of Karol above named:

Stanislaw from Rudakovo, naval engineer,

Bohdan, Joachim, Florjan, and

Melchior was born 1843 in Kaluzyca, died in March of 1892, the January Insurrection 1863, 1863 - 1873 at Siberia, the Minsk Agricultural Society at a later date

the children of above Melchior Wankowicz:

Czeslaw (1882 - 1912),

Renata,

Witold "Tolo" Wankowicz born 1877 Kaluzyca, 1917 commissioner in Berazino, 1917 - 1918 the chief of Union of Weapon (i.e. "United Arms" at http://derela.republika.pl/austin2.htm; Mr. Witold Wankowicz was chief of the Union of Weapon, autonomous section of the Polish Military Organization, in the Ihumen district; The Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party conducted a contraband of weapon from Russia to Austria - Hungary at the beginning of the 20th century keeping in touch with Josef Pilsudski and that track went out from Petersburg among other things across Miezonka and Lodz in the direction to Galicia), the commander of the Polish Military Organization in the Berazino region till 1920, afterwards in Poznan area (his son Jur),

Melchior writer was the last son of Melchior senior: was born January of 1892, died 1975, member of the Polish Military Organization. His two daughters:

Krystyna, died 1944 in Warsaw;

Marta call TILI married to Erdman, Switzerland before 1939, emigrant after 1945. Her two daughters:

Anna Krystyna Erdman, born 1946 and

Eva Erdman - Lazarewicz born in New Jersey, married to Tadeusz Walendowski from USA; their son:

David Walendowski who worked in a Dutch bank in Warsaw. More inf., see: http://us.geocities.com/bogdanbogdan2003d

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http://www.nara.gov/	historychannel/
http://Genealogy.ru	www.familysearch.org/Eng/Share/Collaborate/frameset_share.asp
http://genealog.toplista.pl/dodaj.php	http://www.CyndisList.com/whatsnew.htm
http://jurfak.spb.ru/ Appendix A: photos http://siekierski50zbigniew.w.interia.pl © author Bogdan Konstantynowicz	HISTORY OF THE POLISH SEPTEMBER 1939 IN THE WILNO PROVINCE Author Bogdan Konstantynowicz from Lodz Appendix C since 22 March 2003; text - Polish language http://strony.wp.pl/wp/berezynabogdan http://berezynabogdan.webpark.pl/
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