Metadata: Debt Analysis Commission of the Radziwill Princes
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos valstybės istorijos archyvas
- Postal address:
- Mindaugo g. 8, 03107 Vilnius
- Phone number:
- +370 5 219 5320
- Email:
- istorijos.archyvas@lvia.lt
- Reference number:
- 459
- Title:
- Debt Analysis Commission of the Radziwill Princes
- Title (official language):
- Radvilų skolų nagrinėjimo komisija (Комиссия по разбору долгов князей Радзивиллов)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Debt Analysis Commission of the Radziwill Princes
- Date(s):
- 1434/1937
- Language:
- Polish
- Latin
- Russian
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 6,815 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains 16 inventories and sources about the management of the estates owned by Prince Dominik Radziwill until his death in 1813. After his death, they were transferred to the management of a special administration appointed by the Tsarist Government - the Radziwill Procuratoria. The collection contains various materials about the economic life of residents on these estates and many records relating to legal disputes with the Radziwill Family and the Procuratoria. In addition, the collection contains similar materials about the estates of the Sapieha and Tyszkiewicz noble families.
The collection contains numerous valuable Jewish-related records concerning the economic activities of the Jews on the territories of the Radziwill Family estates including inventories, accounting records, papers on taxation of residents, data on grain incomes and expenses, and papers on lease-holding and particularly the monopoly on the production and sale of alcohol (propinacja). Many documents relate to Jewish lease-holders on these estates and monopoly rights. For example, a file from 1689-1715 contains contracts for the leasing of estates by Israel Itskovich, Berka Girshovich and others (inventory 1, file 2166). A file from 1752 contains an inventory of receipts referring to monetary settlements of Shmuilo, a leaseholder from Koden’ (inventory 1, file 1548). A file from 1756 includes registers of revenues and expenditures regarding a lease in the town of Biala leased by Notka Trebelsky and Vol’f Shpetny (inventory 1, file 927). A file from 1804-1825 contains a contract for a monopoly lease on the production and sale of alcohol in Keidanovo by Aron Davidivich and Shmuilo Leibovits (inventory 1, file 3550). An undated file relates to the rejection of Shaia Rusakovsky and Iankel’ Vainer from renewing a lease for a tavern following tardiness in lease payments (inventory 2, file 1749). A file from 1882-1888 contains an application by David Karlin to transfer to him a lease for the Viliampol’ estate in Kovno province (inventory 1, file 84). It also includes papers regarding the lease-holding of the estate by Vol’f.
The collection also includes documents about Jewish employment in the wool and timber trades. For instance, a file from 1833-1835 includes papers on monetary settlements by the administration on the Borisov estate with Jewish merchants Lipman and Iankel’ Shklovsky concerning the sale of timber (inventory 1, file 2012). Another file from 1831-1832 relates to abuses of the merchants Lipman and Man in dealing with timber on the Borisov estate (inventory 1, file 2015). The collection contains a contract between Leon Radziwill and the merchant Lipman on the sale of timber (inventory 1, file 2017). The collection includes a contract made in 1801 by Dominik Radziwill with Movsha Leibovich for the construction of ships (inventory 1, file 1305).
The collection contains documents about the Jewish population and Jewish communities found in cities and towns owned by the Radziwill Family. A file from 1779-1780 includes a register of incomes and expenditures of the Olyka kahal (inventory 1, file 2455). The collection includes a schedule from 1759 on the collection of rent (czynsz) from residents of Borisov (inventory 1, file 2520). A file dated 1811-1813 includes a register for collection of arrears on Jewish owned shops in Nesvizh (inventory 1, file 1290). The collection also includes documents regarding a dispute over a demand for payments for animal slaughter (shechita) from the Jews of Domachev (inventory 2, file 1740). The collection includes debt obligations of Jews and many documents surrounding monetary claims and legal disputes between Jews, the management of the estates, and non-Jews. For instance, a file from 1811 contains records on a monetary dispute between Prince Dominik Radziwill and Abram Shlemovich (inventory 1, file 1469). Judicial materials from 1784-1810 relate to a dispute between the Radziwill Family and Shimsha and Gitta Morduhovich, Gilim Shimshovich, Rohman Movshovich and others (inventory 1, file 3534).
- Archival history:
- Information about history of the collection is not available.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Radziwill family was a powerful and distinguished magnate Polish-Lithuanian noble family who played a significant role in Polish-Lithuanian history. Members of the family were chancellors, governors, hetmans of Lithuania, and some of them continued to play important roles in Polish history into the 20th century. Prince Dominik Radziwill (1786–1813) was Ordynat of Nesvizh and Olyka and owner of extensive estates in Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine and Poland. He took part in Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and died of wounds after the Battle of Hanau (1813). After his death, his estates were supervised by special prokuratoria established by the Russian government. In 1814 the Russian Senate ordered the establishment of a commission to review his debts. It was decided to hand over most of the Prince's property to his minor daughter Stefania (later Countess Wittgenstein), but some of the estates were transferred to Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł (1775-1833). The commission operated in Nesvizh until 1838.
- Access points: locations:
- Borisov
- Koden’
- Olyka
- Viliampol’
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of 16 inventories.
- Finding aids:
- Brief information on the collection and detailed inventories are available on the website of the Lithuanian Chief Archivist Service.
- 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; 2021