Metadata: The Druckiai-Liubeckiai Family
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos valstybės istorijos archyvas
- Postal address:
- Gerosios Vilties g. 10, 03134 Vilnius
- Phone number:
- (8 5) 213 74 82
- Web address:
- http://www.archyvai.lt/lt/lvia_naujienos.html
- Email:
- istorijos.archyvas@lvia.lt
- Reference number:
- f. 598
- Title:
- The Druckiai-Liubeckiai Family
- Title (official language):
- Druckiai-Liubeckiai
- Creator/accumulator:
- Druckiai-Liubeckiai family
- Date(s):
- 1436/1914
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Latin
- Polish
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 2,075 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The Druckiai-Liubeckiai (Drutskie-Liubetskie) family archive includes a wide range of official, commercial and private documents. The Jewish-related materials of the collection contain materials on various economic and social topics.
The files include data and documents on different economic activities, such as trade and leasing taxation, in the Jewish communities of Lida and Shchuchin (now in the Hrodna province of Belarus) and several other localities. These materials include such documents as contracts with Jewish distillers, merchants and tavern-keepers (for instance, a contract with Abraham Nakhimovich on the leasing of an estate and a ferry crossing from the 1800's); lists of property and equipment in several estates and facilities (such as the distilleries in the area of Shchuchin); lists of Jewish and Christian inhabitants and taxation lists; and invoices and promissory notes.
Many files refer to issues in the Jewish communities of several localities: papers from Shchuchin mention, among other issues, the construction of a prayer house in the Jewish cemetery in 1727 and the community's debts to a monastery. Documents from 1827 mention the conscription of recruits to the Russian army.
Other papers mention legal and criminal affairs, which range from business and financial disputes (such as a complaint from a tavern-keeper about losses sustained to his business due to the ploughing of a previously paved road between Hrodna and Slonim) to complaints about cases of theft or violence (such as a complaint from a Jewish inhabitant of Shchuchin who was beaten by his landlord in the mid-1740s).
Some documents are in Old East Slavic.
- Archival history:
- From 1957, together with other pre-revolutionary materials, the Druckiai-Liubeckiai (Drutskie-Liubetskie) family archive was included in the Central State Historical Archive of the Lithuanian SSR, predecessor of the current State Historical Archive. Another part of the archive, which includes materials on estates in the area of Minsk, is kept in the National Archives of Belarus (NIAB), Minsk.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Druckiai-Liubeckiai (Drutskie-Liubetskie) family were magnates in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian empire; the family was a branch of the broader Russian nobility house of Drutskie. The family possessed estates in several areas of today's Belarus and its members occupied high state offices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and in post-partition Poland. Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki (1778-1846) served from 1821 to 1830 as a treasury minister in the Kingdom of Poland and later became a member of the Russian Imperial State Council.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Druckiai-Liubeckiai family
- System of arrangement:
- The archive is arranged on a geographical basis (by estates); the geographical sections are arranged on a chronological basis.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at LVIA.
- Finding aids:
- Basic information is available online in Lithuanian. More detailed inventories, as well as an index, are available at the Lithuanian State Historical Archives (for online data see the Lithuanian Archives' website). Records and descriptions of the Jewish-related materials of the collection are also available at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3001.jspx?_afPfm=-7dec7f9e.6
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Alex Valdman, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2014
