Metadata: Podberezski family
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos valstybės istorijos archyvas
- Postal address:
- Mindaugo 8, 03107 Vilnius
- Phone number:
- +370 5 219 5320
- Email:
- istorijos.archyvas@lvia.lt
- Reference number:
- 1040
- Title:
- Podberezski family
- Title (official language):
- Podbereskiai
- Creator/accumulator:
- Podberezski family
- Date(s):
- 1543/1869
- Language:
- Polish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 305 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises documents from the personal archives of the Podberezski family. It primarily contains records of economic and legal circumstances regarding the family’s estates, such as court decisions, summons, estate inventories and papers on purchases. Some of the materials are personal documents, correspondence, and documents on political and career issues. Other Jewish-related materials in the collection consist of records related to the economic activities of Jews on Polish landowners’ estates. There are materials on the activities of Jews as traders and tavern landlords. A file from 1778-1782 contains materials on monetary claims between Jezy Podberezsky and Shlomo Shmerkovich regarding tavern leases on the Smolva estate (inventory 1, file 51). These materials are comprised of a lease-holding agreement, summons, debt obligations, etc. The lease-holding agreements are particularly important because they include a partial transfer of the serfs’ labour obligations to the benefit of the leaseholder. The contracts provide information on tense relations between Jewish leaseholders and local peasants. The collection also documents the participation of Jews in trade. There are registers of goods delivered to the Podberezsky family by the Jewish merchant Shlomo Maliatsky in 1769 (inventory 1, file 201), a payroll of the Vilna merchant Klechko from 1818 (inventory 1, file 233), and debt obligations of Abram Khatzkel and Shmuilo Rafalovich to Ferdinand Rebinder from 1737-1739 (inventory 1, file 279). The registers of goods provide valuable information about the role of Jewish trade for Polish noble estate owners. The collection also includes materials from the early 19th century on Jews renting real estate belonging to members of the Podberezski family in Vilna (inventory 1, files 169, 170).
- Archival history:
- No information
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Podberezski noble family was established in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in the Kingdom of Poland from the 15th century. The family members were politically and religiously active in Poland. In the later 15th century Mikhail Podberezski was Bishop of Smolensk and later became Metropolitan of Kiev. In the 16th century Grigorijus Kazimieras Podbereski was appointed Voivode of Smolensk, and in 1765 Jezy Samson Podberezski was elected as the judge (Sąd ziemski) in the Braslav powiat. The Podberezski family owned vast estates in the Kovno, Vilkomir and Braslav regions.
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of one inventory that is arranged in thematic-chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Detailed inventories are available for free online access on the website of the Lithuanian Chief Archivist Service.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3001.jspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Ilya Vovshin, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2019. Edited by Aaron Lasaine, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2019
