Goobi - e353d - 2020-08-02 20:03:17+0000
Goobi
1447/1915
The Oginskiai (Oginski) Family
CAH-0074
CAH
fre
ger
lat
pol
rus
heb
Textual material
good
LT
Lithuanian State Historical Archives
Lietuvos valstybės istorijos archyvas
lit
Gerosios Vilties g. 10, 03134 Vilnius
(8 5) 213 74 82
http://www.archyvai.lt/lt/lvia_naujienos.html
istorijos.archyvas@lvia.lt
f. 1177
archival reference number
Oginskiai
lit
Oginskiai Family
1447
1915
6,887 files
The family’s holdings included several towns with large Jewish populations: Ashmyany (now part of the Hrodna oblast of Belarus); Rietavas and Plunge (now in the county of Telsiai, Lithuania); Salantai (now in the county of Klaipeda, Lithuania); Lyubavichi (now in the Smolensk oblast of Russia) and Staroselye (now in the Mogilev oblast of Belarus).
The materials from these places include such documents as contracts with Jewish lessors, merchants and tavern-keepers (including a contract from 1784 with a Jewish lessor from Lyubavichi on the leasing of a mill and a tavern and court materials from the 1870s which refer to a Jewish leaseholder in Salantai); lists of Jewish and Christian inhabitants; property and taxation lists, chiefly from the 18th century (the lists mention the towns listed above and other areas and localities such as a Jurydyka, a privately owned area in the city of Vitebsk); and materials which refer to financial issues – invoices, promissory notes and other documents (including papers which refer to sums owed by Jewish lessors and communities in the vicinity of Rietavas in the 1740s). Some documents refer to financial disputes, such as that between the owner of a mill and tavern and a Jewish lessor from around 1760 and an accusation from 1745 against Jewish lessors in the border towns of Jurbarkas and Gargzdai (now in the counties of Taurage and Klaipeda in Lithuania) who allegedly collected illegal customs taxes.
Some of the material is in Old East Slavic.]]>
The Oginskiai (Oginski) family archive was transferred to Vilnius from the Central Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kiev in 1960. It was included in the Central State Historical Archive of the Lithuanian SSR, which became the State Historical Archive in the 1990s.
The Oginskiai (Oginski) family were magnates in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian empire. The family possessed estates in several areas of modern Belarus and its members occupied high state offices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and after the partition of Poland. The diplomat, politician and composer Mikhail Kleofas Oginski (Michał Kleofas Ogiński, 1765-1833) was an active participant in the Kościuszko uprising of 1792. After the suppression of the uprising he became a prominent émigré activist and in 1810 was appointed to the governing senate of Russia.
Lithuania
Poland
Oginski family
Trade and commerce
Real estate
Chabad
Personal records
Hospitality industry
Hospitality industry--Inns
Financial matters
Habad
Lubavitch
Pubs
Taverns
The archive is arranged on a geographical basis (by estates); the geographical sections are arranged on a chronological basis.
The collection is open for reference at LVIA.
Basic information is available online in Lithuanian. More detailed inventories, as well as an index, are available at the Lithuanian State Historical Archives. 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.
https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3001.jspx
A substantial part of the Jewish-related materials were microfilmed by the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem and is accessible there.
Alex Valdman, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2014
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People