SEP. 14, 2005

 

I have just published a family tree of Gavrila Semenovich Mozhayski. It contains roughly 1400 of his male descendants. I can now provide complete family trees to approx. 100 living Mozarowski families (also to families named Demczuk, Omelczuk, Solocha, Panuchnik, and many others) who live in Mozhary and in the neighbourhood. The problem is that noone in Mozhary has an access to the internet, and, currently, I am not in touch with these families.

 

JULY 27, 2004

 

A couple of documents have been found, which, however, indirectly, are suggesting that the LEWKOWSKI family might also be descending from the ancient Mozhayski princes.

 

JULY 6, 2004

 

The NIEWMIERZYCKI (also NIEUMIERZYCKI, NIEMIERZYCKI) family descents from MOZHAYSKI princes !!!

 

A couple of documents have been found proving that the Niewmierzycki family descents from the Mozhayski princes. The prince Ivan Andreevich Mozhayski had four sons : Vasily, who died childless; Andrei, who was married to the princess Eudoksja (Ovdotiya) Czartoryska, and who had a son Fedor (he also died childless); Semen, who had two sons : Vasily Starodubowski (Starodubski), and Gavrila, who is an ancestor of the Mozarowskis and the Mozhayskis; and Martin, who is an ancestor of the Niewmierzyckis. Martin had a son, Grzegorz, who had two sons : Sitko and Gridko. Sitko had two sons : Gryn (Hryn) and Onisiy (Dionizy), while Gridko had five : Fedor, Andrei, Ivan, Sachno, and Stepan. They are the ancestors of the Niewmierzyckis, also known as the Sitkiewicz-Niewmierzycki and the Gridkiewicz-Niewmierzycki.

 

Members of the Niewmierzycki family, who by incidence will see this record, are kindly requested to get in touch with Grazyna Nieumierzycka from Canada ([email protected]) , who is working on history and genealogy of the Niewmierzycki family.

 

DESCENDANTS of RURIK

 

(here in this file I will be informing of (up to 10) living M-M families, who can prove by documents all their ancestors since Rurik)

 

1.    CONGRATULATIONS !!!

 

The Mozhay-Mozharovsky family from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, is the first one to have proved by documents ALL their male ancestors since Rurik. They descent from Saint Dmitri Ivanovich Donskoy, the grand prince of Muscovy, in the following way :

1.     Saint Dmitri Donskoy, married to St. Yevdokiya, the princess of Suzdal

2.     Andrei Dmitrievich Mozhayski, m. princess Agrypina of Starodub

3.     Ivan Andreevich Mozhayski, m. princess Feodosia Vorotynska

4.     Semen Ivanovich Mozhayski,

5.     Gavrila Semenovich Mozhayski, m. princess Anna Soltan

6.     Ivan Gavrilovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Prakseda Maslow(ska)

7.     Semen Ivanovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Maria Zubr

8.     Gavril Semenovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Anna Chochr

9.     Ivan Gavrilovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski,

10. Yakim Ivanovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Anna Hanska

11. Yakov Yakimovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Paraskovia

12. Vasily Yakovlevich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Charitina

13. Ignatiy Vasilievich Mozhay-Mozharovsky, m. Paraskovia Zajaczkowska

14. Kallinik Ignatievich Mozhay-Mozharovsky, m. Yekaterina Shevagina

15. Konstantin Kallinovich Mozhay-Mozharovsky.

General in the tsarist army. General-Governor in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (formerly Russian Turkestan). In October revolution of 1919 he escaped from Tashkent with his daughter Olga to Yugoslavia. He had three children : Leonid (officer in the Russian army, later colonel in the Soviet army, died at Tashkent); Ivan (father of Zinaida, Mikhail, and Lidia), and Olga. In Tashkent there are still living three daughters of Mikhail Ivanovich, namely Maria, Elena, and Irina, as well as grandchildren of Leonid Konstantinovich. (10 May, 2004)

 

2.    CONGRATULATIONS !!

 

The Mozarowski family from Poland, USA and Ukraine, is the second one to have proved by documents ALL their male ancestors since Rurik. They descent from Saint Dmitri Ivanovich Donskoy, the grand prince of Muscovy, in the following way :

1.     Saint Dmitri Donskoy, married to St. Yevdokiya, the princess of Suzdal

2.     Andrei Dmitrievich Mozhayski, m. princess Agrypina of Starodub

3.     Ivan Andreevich Mozhayski, m. princess Feodosia Vorotynska

4.     Semen Ivanovich Mozhayski,

5.     Gavrila Semenovich Mozhayski, m. princess Anna Soltan

6.     Andrei Gavrilovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Martyna

7.     Ivan Andreevich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Elena Maslov

8.     Jozef Ivanovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Eudoksja Bolsunowska

9.     Ivan Josifovich Mozhayski-Mozarovski, m. Marianna

10. Joachim Ivanovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski

11. Jakub Joachimovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski

12. Joachim (Yakim) Jakubovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski

13. Dionizy (Denis) Yakimovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Anna

14. Fedor Dionisovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski

15. Savvatiy Fedorovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski. He had three sons : Mikhail, Fedor (Teodor), whose descendants are living in Poland and in USA, and Ivan, whose descendants are living in Ukraine. (June 21, 2004)

 

3.     CONGRATULATIONS !

 

The Mozariwskyj family from USA is the 3rd one to prove their descent from Rurik by documents.

They descent from Saint Dmitri Ivanovich Donskoy, the grand prince of Muscovy, in the following way :

 

1.     Saint Dmitri Donskoy, married to St. Yevdokiya, the princess of Suzdal

2.     Andrei Dmitrievich Mozhayski, m. princess Agrypina of Starodub

3.     Ivan Andreevich Mozhayski, m. princess Feodosia Vorotynska

4.     Semen Ivanovich Mozhayski,

5.     Gavrila Semenovich Mozhayski, m. princess Anna Soltan

6.     Andrei Gavrilovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Martyna

7.     Ivan Andreevich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Elena Maslov

8.     Jozef Ivanovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Eudoksja Bolsunowska

9.     Ivan Josifovich Mozhayski-Mozarovski, m. Marianna Mozarowska

10. Vasily Ivanovich Mozhayski-Mozarowski

11. Vasily Vasilievich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Feodosia

12. Filip Vasilievich Mozhayski-Mozarowski, m. Maria

13. Stefan Filipovich Mozarowski, m. Anastasia

14. Malachiy Stefanovich Mozarowski, m. Julia

15. Luka Malachievich Mozarowski, m. Olena Werpowska

16. Ivan Lukin Mozarivski, m. Uliana Werpowska

17. Nick Ivanovich Mozariwskyj, m. Jacqueline Chrzanowski

 

Mr. Anatoly Sergeevich Mozarowski of Mozhary is a 2nd generation cousin to the above mentioned Nick Mozariwskyj of USA.

 

 (12 JULY, 2005)

 

4. The deceased Aleksy Mozarowski (1921 - 2002) is the 4th one having a complete family tree since Rurik. He came from a well educated family, which was a unique case in 19th century. His great grandfather Tomasz (b. 13.10.1821) was a Russian official (gubernski  sekretar), and was taking care of the orphans in Zhitomir. His g-g-g-grandfather Joachim (b. 1693), who was a Roman Catholic, all of his life was struggling against the Roman Catholic Chapter of Wilno (Vilnius). He was even kept in prison in Wilno and died in Slovechno (12.02.1755) on the return trip from Wilno to Mozhary.

          Aleksy is also the 1st one in the (Mozhayski)-Mozarowski family having a complete family tree on mother’s side. His mother Ksenia (Oxana) Yakovlevna Payentko (b. 1896) was a descendant of Rurik in 30th generation (like his father Tymofiey Grigorievich Mozarowski). However, on father’s side Aleksy comes from Ivan Yosifovich M-M (23rd generation), i.e. from the same line of which Teodor Tymofiey M-M descended. Teodor Tymofiey (Polish-speaking attorney-at-law at Krzemieniec, Volhynia) had collected so many documents associated with his family line, that all of his descendants and relatives could prove their noble descent by documents, and were officially recognized by the Russian authorities as being the noble Mozarowskis. Unfortunately, the Payentkos descent from Artiom Yakimovich M-M (also 23rd generation, and the 1st cousin to Ivan Yosifovich M-M), and they couldn’t prove their noble descent by documents. Grandson of Artiom Yakimovich, namely Grzegorz Szymonowicz, was termed as being the Pietko-Mozarowski. Later, the family was termed as Payentko-Mozarowski, and finally, Payentko. The Payentko family since approx. the year 1834 had been officially regarded as the peasants by the tsarist govt. (15 JULY, 2005)

          Aleksy Mozarowski (Canada) was a cousin in the 7th generation to the above mentioned Nick Mozariwskyj (USA).

 

5. Professor Andrew Victorovich Solocha of the University of Toledo, USA, is the 5th one to know all his ancestors since Rurik. (14 SEP. 2005)

 

6. Volodimir Ivanovich Mozarowski of Mozhary (now in Lutsk, Ukraine) is the 6th one to know all his ancestors since Rurik. (14 SEP. 2005)

 

10 NOVEMBER 2003

            In October I was visiting Zhitomir, Ukraine, and had spent 8 days at the local archive to search for documents on history and genealogy of the Mozarowski family.

There were the following censuses (revizskiye skazki) in tzarist Russia : 1768, 1775, 1788, 1795, 1811, 1816, 1834, 1850, 1858, ..., etc., i.e. they have been repeated every 8 years until October revolution. If someone knows the location (town, village) where his ancestors have lived, by tracing back these registers one is therefore always able to complete his family tree until at least the middle of 18th century. Unfortunately, spending approx. 60 hours at the archive, I was able to see the registers of the years 1795, 1857 and 1865 for the county of Ovruch only. Moreover, I have checked approx. 30 volumes of the so-called "Pamiatnaya kniga Volhynskoi Gubernii" (Memory yearbooks of the Volhynian Gubernia), as well as the two volumes of 1912 and 1913 (only those have survived) of the so-called "ispovednyie vedomosti" (registers of members of the Russian Orthodox Church) for the county of Zhitomir and for the city of Zhitomir itself. I have made notes and numerous photocopies, especially of the registers of people of Mozhary and the nearby villages (including very many Mozarowskis). However, I can estimate that I have checked only 10-15 % of all the documents I should see to complete my studies on history and genealogy of the Mozarowski family. I will be in Zhitomir next year once again.

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On the photo below I am working at the archive (temperature in the lecture room was falling down to 3-6 deg. Centigrade).

 

5 JUNE 2003

            On Jewish webpages a message has appeared about a (Russian orthodox) priest, namely Nikolai Mozharovsky, who in the year 1905 was organizing a pogrom of the Jews in Rechitsa (Rzeczyca), Belarus. www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/Rechista.pdf

 

18 APR. 2003

          Thanks to Grazyna Nieumierzycka from Canada I have received a record on a Mozarowski from the County of Mozyr in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (now in Belarus) :

“Symeon Mozarowski, a Greekcatholic priest in the village of Bojnowicze, son of Lukash (who was also a Greekcatholic priest), born in 1741, has been repelled from his parish on decision of Her Empress Catherine II. Married to Maria, b. 1749, daughter of a Walenty, he had three sons : Melecjusz (b. 1783), Bazyli (b. 1789), and Jozef (b. 1794), as well as three daughters : Fatima (b. 1786), Serafina (b. 1791), and Juliana (b. 1793).”

 

“Symeon’s sister (Lukash’s daughter), b. 1755, was married to a Greekcatholic priest in the town of Barbarow, namely Martymian Ignatovich Krotkowski, who, like Symeon, was also repelled from his parish. He had a son, Adam, b. 1781, and two daughters : Prakseda (b. 1783), and Marianna (b. 1794).”

 

17 FEB. 2003

            A record on a Mozarowski has been found in Hipolit Stupnicki’s “Imionospis poleglych i straconych ofiar powstania roku 1863 i 1864” (Record of the victims of the (January) upprising of the years 1863 and 1864), Lwow 1865, p. 316.

          It reads : “Mozarowski, padl pod ciosami rozhukanego chlopstwa pod Solowijowka na Wolyniu d. 10 maja 1863.” (Mozarowski has been murdered by peasants near Solowijowka (Solovievka) in Volhynia on 10th May, 1863.”

 

16 FEB. 2003

          The Giergielewicz-Mozajski and the Pyzel-Mozajski families from Poland have nothing to do with the ancient Mozajski (Mozajski-Mozarowski) family.

          A Giergielewicz during the WW II in order to escape some real troubles from the German police, had started to use his friend’s surname, a Mozajski, who, unfortunately, has not been recognized by his descendants. This Giergielewicz after the WW II for a reason known only to him, has declared himself as being the Giergielewicz-Mozajski.