The Giżyckis

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Київ

Scope and content:: Documents housed in the fond shed light on economic relations between Jews and members of the Giżycki family. These include information on complaints by Jewish townspeople of various towns of Zhitomir county regarding violations of contracts by stewards of Giżycki estates or nonpayment for work performed, and the contracts themselves (in particular, for the rental of inns); a request by Jewish townspeople of Zhitomir, migrants from Medzhibozh, to the Volhynia civil governor B. Giżycki to look into the reason that payments promised them had been delayed; and correspondence of Jewish merchants with representatives of the Giżycki family regarding delivery to the latter of food items and industrial goods. There is also an excerpt from a statement by the Volhynia civil governor to the minister of finance regarding the possibility of granting Jewish merchants of the city of Brody the right to engage in wholesale trade in Berdichev and take part in local fairs; a memo to the effect that a Senate edict was to be strictly observed; the edict stipulated that Jews residing in Kremenets, Vladimir, Starokonstantinov, Lutsk, Rovno, Ostrog, and Zaslav counties were to be removed such that they did not live within fifty versts of the state border; etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: The Giżyckis, a Polish gentry family originating in Mazowia, were well-known from the latter half of the fifteenth century on. Representatives of this family occupied important positions in entities of state power and the Catholic Church. In the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries the Giżyckis owned estates in the Volhynia and Podolia provinces.

Access points: locations:: Berdichev; Brody; Kremenets county; Rovno county; Starokonstantinov county; Vladimir county; Volhynia; Zaslav county; Zhitomir

Subject terms:: Correspondence; Financial matters; Hospitality industry; Hospitality industry--Inns; Legal matters; Residency issues of Jews; Trade and commerce

System of arrangement:: The fond includes a single unstructured inventory, supplemented by several auxiliary indexes.