Metadata: The Tyszkiewicz 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:
- 716
- Title:
- The Tyszkiewicz family
- Title (official language):
- Tiškevičiai
- Creator/accumulator:
- Tyszkiewicz family
- Date(s):
- 1451/1915
- Language:
- Polish
- Latin
- Russian
- Hebrew
- German
- French
- Italian
- English
- Extent:
- 6,705 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection includes materials from the personal archives of the Tyszkiewicz family from the 15th-20th century, including genealogical records, papers related to science and culture, correspondence on political and financial issues, extensive materials on the family's estates and property, documents related to judicial inquiries, statistical data related to residency within the family's estates, inventories, data on grain incomes and expenses, and information on revenues related to their monopoly on the production and sale of alcohol (propinacja).
The collection contains many valuable Jewish-related records regarding the economic activities of Jews in the territories of their estates, on the life within different Jewish communities and on the kahal. A file from 1672 contains materials regarding Jews in Kovno (inventory 2, file 20), and a file from 1819-1830 includes complaints of Jews in Vilkia, Kovno province (inventory 2, file 30). Complaints of Jews from the years 1693-1778 regarding activities on the Bialopole estate of the Tyszkiewicz family are also included in the collection (inventory 4, file 74).
There are numerous papers related to the kahal in Birzhi, Kovno province. The collection includes a cash book belonging to the Birzhi kahal from 1829-1830 (inventory 3, file 460) and a schedule from 1834 on the ten-year taxation plan of Jews in Birzhi (inventory 3, file 529). A file from 1747-1749 deals with financial claims and legal proceedings between the kahals of Birzhi and Pompiany (inventory 3, file 60). A file from 1791-1810 also includes various materials relating to the Jews of Birzhi and their kahal. These include legal decisions, complaints and applications, and slips related to recruiting into the army (inventory 3, file 95). Materials from 1809-1857 deal with a dispute that developed between the kahal of Birzhi and the Tyszkiewicz family who owned the town. The kahal filed complaints and requests regarding the oppression and overtaxing of Jews (inventory 3, file 185). A file from 1832 also includes materials related to the kahal's complaint about the Tyszkiewicz family and on the deteriorating situation of the Jews in the town in comparison to when the town belonged to the Radziwill family (inventory 3, file 492). The collection includes a register from 1820 on the fate and finances of the Jewish benevolent fund in Svisloch (inventory 4, file 154).
Many of the records in the collection relate to the business activity of Jews in leasing the estates' infrastructures, sale of vodka, and trade in timber. For example, the collection includes a contract from 1838 according to which timber from the Tyszkiewicz estate in the Kovno district was sold to Jews Leibovitch and Orelevich (inventory 1, file 401). A file from 1847-1849 includes invoices for timber purchased by the Jewish timber merchant Meir Mortkelevich (inventory 1, file 1996). A file from 1670 deals with a complaint by Vladislav and Sophia Val’kovich against a former leaseholder of a tavern in the estate of Dzevialtov, Iahim Iuzefovich, regarding non-return of money for grain, horses and more (inventory 1, file 4733). Materials from 1777-1833 contain lease contracts and requests connected to a dispute between Jews in Birzhi and the Tyszkewicz family regarding the lease of taverns and the sale of alcohol (inventory 3, file 81). The collection includes a request from the Jews of Belverzhishki to the owner T Tyszkewicz on redistribution of income from the slaughterhouse and grain production (inventory 4, file 67). A file from 1868-1871 contains accounts with O Rosenblum - the leaseholder for the sale of alcohol (propinacja) (inventory 1, file 4490).
Some of the records relate to the activities of Jewish artisans. For example, a file from 1584 includes an invoice for the work of tinsmith Shai Kopel in the Blagoslavenstvo estate (inventory 1, file 2712). Materials from 1817-1818 contain complaints and court decisions regarding a legal proceeding that took place between silk artisan Kastrel’ Itsikovich and count M. Tyszkiewicz (inventory 1, file 4625). A file from 1828 includes a court decision in the case of a Jewish merchant Abram Rafalovsky against Iuzef and Tadeush Tyszkiewicz and Leon Pototsky regarding monetary claims (inventory 1, file 4795). The collection includes a contract made in 1828 for the 15-year lease of a Jewish hospital and pharmacy in Vilkomir by pharmacists Reingard (inventory 3, file 447).
- Archival history:
- Information about the archival history of the collection is unavailable.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Tyszkiewicz [Tishkevich] family was part of the Polish-Lithuanian nobility who played a significant role in Polish-Lithuanian history. Members of the family held important political positions, key positions in the Catholic Church, were military commanders, scientists, historians and archaeologists. Theodore Tishkevich was ambassador to Moscow in 1577 and Novgrud's voevoda in 1590. Janusz Tyszkiewicz (1572-1642) held the positions of voevoda of Trakai, voevoda of Vilnius, starosta of Novogrud and Jurbarg. He was a member of the Polish Sejm in 1607. Anthony Tyszkiewicz (1709-1762) was a bishop, and Evstafii (1814-1873) was a founder of the Museum of the Antiquities in the Western Region. The Tyszkiewicz family owned extensive estates in the Western Provinces of the Russian Empire.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Itsikovich, Kastrel’
- Iuzefovich, Iahim
- Kopel, Shai
- Leibovitch
- Mortkelevich, Meir
- Orelevich
- Rafalovsky, Abram
- Reingard
- Rosenblum, O
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of four inventories that are arranged in thematic-chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Brief information on the collection and detailed inventories are available 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, 2020