History and genealogy of the noble Konstantynowicz family

References: see: Fox coat of arms

1939

Warszawa

Duflon

Berezyna

Bartosz Paprocki of 1578 and 1584

Kojalowicz of 1648

"The Armorial of many houses in (...) the Grand duchy of Lithuania" by S. J. Dunczewski, edited in 1757

"The Armorial of the Orsa area" of 1775

"The Inventory of nobility in the Vilkmerge district" of 1795

"The Inventory of nobility of the Dzisna district" 1796

an armorial by Jan Dworzecki - Bohdanowicz and "The List of nobility of the Vilna district (...)" 1809

"The Record of rental (...) nobility from the Barysau district" of 1812

"The Inventory of nobility in the Lida district" of 1855

Stanislaw count Mieroszowski (Stanislaw count Grocyn pseudonym, 1827 - 1900 or Jan Stanislaw Mieroszowski), "(...) about Polish heraldry", Cracow 1887

N. Szaposznikow, "Heraldica" and "The List of landowners of the Minsk government" 1899

a manuscript of armorial by Boleslaw Starzynski and an armorial by Leszczyc of 1908 / 13

Jerzy count Dunin - Borkowski of 1909

Uruski of 1910

Andrzej Zajaczkowski, "Polish nobility", edit. by "Semper" 1993

Jan Ciechanowicz, "Knightly ancestries (...)", vol. 1 - 5, edit. Rzeszow 2001.

Smolensk 10 kwietnia 2010 katastrofa samolotu

Bogdan Konstantynowicz, History of the lineage from Lithuania as compiled by Bogdan Konstantynowicz. Includes the surnames Malkiewicz, Zbieranowski, Szostak, Brzezinski and Zarakowski. 2003 / 2010

I concluded in my genealogical search that among families with Konstantynowicz surname which live in Poland are two or three separate groups:

The eldest information about a Konstantynowicz nickname, but not about the Fox coat of arms (crest), go back to 07 October 1515 (according to Jan Ciechanowicz) and to the Hrodna area:

Jakub (= Jakov) Konstantynowicz sued to a court his neighbour Tolloczko. His relative surely Olechno Konstantynowicz held a post in the Hrodna municipal tribunal in 1539. He sued his neighbour Dowtortowicz in 1542. The Konstantynowiczs - both of above mentioned - were the landowners of their Duke. Then the nest of them was in villages Toloczki, Ejsmonty and Jurewicze in the Hrodna region (probably since c. 1500) and they were knighted in 1578 with the Pielesz diverse coat of arms.

We are lacking information that they had the Fox coat of arms proper already and I don't know if the Konstantynowicz nickname was the surname in anyone case in the beginning of the 16th cent.! Or it maybe the Konstantynowicz name was only an "otchestvo" (by-name) id est a form deriving from Konstanty or Konstantyn names with oriental ending "wicz" (= vich). However it's not unlikely that Jakub was a father of Olechno and Michno Konstantynowicz but there is no probability on proved of the thesis. Michno and Olechno that's very popular form of Belorussian names with ending "-no" and "-ko" in the 15th and 16th cent.; I give others examples: Senko Miloszewicz from Ostryna 1528, Iwanko and Misko Miloszewicz in Podlasie, Mitko from Vicebsk = Vitsyebsk (or Witebsk) province in 1528, Michno Lyszczynski in 1528, Michno Polanski 1515, Mleczko from Vilkmerge 1467, Piotr Olechnowicz (surname from Christian name of father) 1501, Senko Mikolajewicz 1514, Szymko Mikolajewicz from Upita, Jacko son of Mikula Wasilkowicz A.D. 1525, Mitko (= Mikolaj) Mickiewicz with Fox arms et ceteri and also little villages exempli gratia Olechnowszczyzna in the Minsk province; besides I found out about Dmitrei son of Konstantin in the 15th century, Polut Konstiantinowic' mid 15th century, Kostiantinowic' Semen mid 15th century, Chebotko Konstiantinow in 1540 and Fedor Konstentinow son of Spits 1552, a clerk in Wisztyniec - Michal Konstantynowicz Sumorok A.D. 1571, Iwan Konstantynowicz from Kulbaczyna in 1572 (but with Mackowicz surname nicknamed Kulbaka or Mackiewicz), Jaroslaw Konstantynowicz (but with Lukomski surname 1595). I was faced with the difficult task of collecting information and differing interpretations about origin of our ancestry. One has to be careful with final claims and theses for some years and in passing judgement on first person with the Konstantynowicz surname. A person with a Konstantynowicz nickname in the first half of the 16th cent. didn't has to be the person with the Konstantynowicz surname. I called it purposely to the attention of you. The Konstantynowicz ancestry with the Fox coat of arms proper lived only in the Trakai district (i.e. district of Troki since c. 1550), the Samaites territory (since c. 1550) and in the Minsk province (since c. 1570) by c. 1600 (next in the Slonim area after c. 1600; also in Vilna / Wilno since c. 1640) as good as proves it all armorials. One of string evidences say us for example that the record of common noble movement A.D. 1528 doesn't point to persons with the Konstantynowicz surname in any districts of Lithuania (Grand Principality of Lithuania) according to all historical sources.

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In all probability our ancestry with the Konstantynowicz surname derived from belorussian Czyz family i.e. Senko Czyzewicz and his son Konstanty Czyz, I think. The Lithuanian - Byelorussian nobility was polonised as early as the 16th century (generally speaking, the ethnically non Polish noble families of Belarus adopted the Polish language and culture but only Byelorussian was official language of the Grand duchy of Lithuania in the 14th - 17th centuries till 1697) and converted from the Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism. The Czyz family used the coat of arms of FOX proper since

or Marcin Czyz Nieczycki (or Nietecki because different opinions have been passed upon him; more inf. on the Fox coat of arms in Lithuania and Belarus, see: the Fox crest) who was born probably c. 1495.

The royal courtier Marcin Konstantynowicz Czyz from Nieciecza according to:

Konstantynowicz Czyz unknown of name (either Konstantinowicz who was born c. 1530 or the probability is that Michno Konstantynowicz / Miknos Konstantinoviciaus) was missed out in the last will and testament of his father

and devoid of a legacy which daughter Margaret inherited; she had got some brothers. Another lawsuits were also at that time: lady Katarzyna Czyz - Boguszewski vs. her sons i.e. the sons of Stanislaw Wojciechowicz Czyzewicz or Czyz in 1546 and at the same time Jan Czyzewicz son of Jurij and his wife Hanna nee Narbut vs. Aleksander Czyzewicz son of Wojciech in 1547.

Part of the Czyz family from neighbourhood of Lida (either Nietiacz, Nieciecz, Nieciecza, Nieczyca or Nietiaz near to Dubrovny and farther Lipniszki, 9 km from Lida)

Michno Konstantynowicz / Miknos Konstantinoviciaus / Michal Konstantinovicius

received a big estate, an arable ground and forested land from the king Sigismund Augustus on

was situated in the Merkine area, Merkine parish (= Merecz, Meretium or Merken area in the Troki district in the ex-province of Troki; a chief officer for life of the Merkine area was Jan Janowicz Zabrzezinski / Zaberezenski since 1536; the Junowicz family lived close by Merkine - see also: the Pileszyszki estate), beside the Niemen river (Neman or Nemunas), next to estuary of Merkys = Mereczanka river

49 km N-W-N of Lida in the Troki or Trakai district, too (close by a south - easterly border of the former Trakai district) as early as

upstream of Merkys river in the Turgeliai parish, 38 km S-E-S of Vilnius. Zaleskowszczyzna, Merecz Michnowski, Ulkiszki, settlement Krikstonys and Merecz Michnowo are situated at the territory of independent, since 1918 (1940 - 1991 occupied), Republic of Lithuania. We set out to the authority in Vilna on 19 May 1842 original of the privilege edited by the king to MICHNO Konstantynowicz who was endowed with estate in the Merecz area on 04 January 1554 and many of documents of 18th cent.

c. 1550	Raseiniai region i.e. Rosienie / Rossienie in the Samaites territory: the Poszeszow estate in the middle of the 16th century
1598	Petrus Konstantynowicz in France and Perugia (a province of Umbrien in Italy) according to "Lista degli scolari (...)"
1600	The Konstantynowicz family used POCHOWICZ by-name (or Pohozy, Pohosha, Pohowicz, Rokoz, Rohoza and Pokoz nicknames, information of 1937) at first in the Minsk province since A.D. 1600. It was a certain Rohoza family in the Orsa district and Verchnjadzvinsk (i.e. Dryssa) region A.D. 1602/1643 but it's not our line
c. 25 August 1601	A certain judicial document from the district of Trakai (i.e. Troki) tell us about noblemen, Jan Sobolewski of Busilolisdy by Kraksznia river near by Urkiszki and Stanislaw Kiszka, who litigated against a neighbour from Lachowicze due to the same taken away a little ground in 1600; the landowner called Pavel i.e. Pawel Konstantynowicz, Matys Gozdziewski and Stefan Stankiewicz in evidence at the end of August 1601; we read in the document about neighbours: Koklin family and Jan Sowgowicz, and also about a functionary from Trakai, Jan Stanislawowicz from Bogdanowicze village; the document signed in Urkiszki, and above village Urkiszki i.e. Ulkiszki was situated only 1 km NW of Rudziszki (i.e. Rudiskes, Lithuania now).
07 March 1643	Mikolay Pohosha Konstantynowicz was rewarded a privilege in the Minsk province handed over to him by the king Vladislav IV Vasa. Bonifacy 1st Konstantynowicz derived from above mentioned Mikolay.

1584 Michal Konstantynowic / Miknos Konstantinoviciaus / Konstantinovicius

they partially moved house to the EAST BELARUS in the MSCISLAU / Mstsislaw province near to:

KRYCAU / Kritschew by Sosh / Kritchev / Krychaw where we had eight hundred peasants c. 1700; neighbourhood: the Brujewicz family (in Krycau A.D. 1745), Czyz (Bazyli Czyz was an officer in Krycau in 1522), Danilowicz (Russians burned down Krycau in 1655 and all assets of Pawel Danilowicz, too), Holynski family (proprietors of towns Krychaw = Kritchev and Klimavici but after 1772), Jerzy Malachowski, Nowodworski, Petrazycki, dukes Polubinski or Polubenski (here as early as 1540), Siemaszko (Jan Siemaszko + wife Tomila Saprynowski at the castle of Kritchev / Krychaw in 1695), Siemienowicz (a priest Wasyl Siemienowicz in 1664), a certain Szalus (clerk in Krycau in 1568 - he fought against Russians in the Smolensk province), Mikolaj Shukovski (Nikolay Zhukovski i.e. Zukowski), Usakowski (in Zarubec since 1878), Weselowski (i.e. Wesolowski or Wiesiolowski in Kritschew as early as 1634 and next in 1663), Jan Zadanowicz (or Zdanowicz, Zdanavicius in Kritchev = Krychaw A.D. 1662, he came from the Orsa / Orscha district), Wacur (in Kritschew and nearby Zimonino or Zimonin) and others families,

and in the region northwards of MSCISLAU i.e. the villages Samava (either Szamowo by the Lejedna river or Chamovo at the map of 1834, Czamow at the map "Carte Des Frontieres de Pologne et de Russie (...)" by Rizzi Zannoni of 1772, only 3 km from present border of Russia), Kopceuka, Niesterevo or Niesterow - the Berezetnia estate, where Swedes looted their assets on 29 - 30 August (the battle near to Dobroje by White Natopa river 16 km SW of Mscislau) A.D.

Those near and dear in the Mscislau / Mstsislaw territory, the Polish and others known and renowned families:

Brujewicz	of Boncza arms (or Boncz - Brujewicz, in Bohdanovka - i.e. Bogdanowka in Russia now - in the Mscislau ex-district since 1870 and here also Poplatyno since 1870; Petrulin in the region of Cerykau; Muryn - Bor or Bor near to Holynski's Michiejeviczi, 12 km NW of Klimavicy since 1870; and Sieliszcze 18 km E-S-E of Cavusy or Czausy - since 1876)
counties Puszkin / Pushkin	according to Szaposznikow, vol. 1, in Mscislau = Mstsislaw 1774; owned Kolodzicz / Oltuchow in the province A.D. 1560, next Sielec or Sjalec farm south of Mstsislaw (according to "Philip's Concise World Atlas", 2003) i.e. Mscislau, Novae Sjalo i.e. Nowosiolki SW of Mscislau in 1774 and Monachi from Suchodolski family; relations: Sokolowski, Konstantynowicz and Reutt family. The greatest Russian poet, founder of classical Russian poetry, Alexander Pushkin, born June 6, 1799, in Moscow, into the old noble family.
Dederko	of Dederkalo arms (the crest verified on 10 March 1798, they lived in the Mscislau province and possessed: Stare Siolo - 8 km NW of Mscislau, Nowe Siolo i.e. Novae Sjalo - 13 km SW of Mscislau, Hryckowo, Pisarzewszczyzna and Turowka - 14 km SW of Novae Sjalo / Nowoje Sselo / Nowe Siolo / Nowosiolki)
Holynski	relations: Chelchowski at the beginning of the 17th cent., Suryn before 1663, Kolski from Chlyszczewo by 1670; Ostankiewicz, Hurko, Konstantynowicz, Wojna, Karpilowicz, Anna nee Sutocki + Norbert Holynski from Janovek, Moskiewicz, Piszczal from Brakowiec, Kurzeniecki, counties Aleksandrowicz and Starosielski from Holedz at the beginning of the 18th cent.; Bojwid, Chodzkiewicz, Kaszyc, Mister(ow), Kirkor, Zyrkiewicz, Zukowski and Stachowski in the 18th cent.; Kotly, Issakowicz, Nagorski (i.e. Nagurski; pilot Jan I. Nagurskij did "the world first flight in Nesterov's flying boat on September 17th, 1916 twice with a passenger"; the international record was registered by the Airclub counsel on November 16th, 1916), Swatkowski (Swiatkowski) + Tekla nee Holynski at the end of the 18th cent.; Czudowski, Ciechanowiecki and Wieczor at the beginning of the 19th cent.
dukes Horski	places: Miksztyn or Miksztyno, Dudino, Liszki and Cerkowiszcze, and next here Ciechanowiecki, Hurko, Taran, Suchodolski families
Hurko	in Jurkowszczyzna - 1330 ha. - near to Soino, Russia now; the Hurko house related to Dabrowski family of the Abdank coat of arms, branch from the Siauliai and Kaunas territories; relations: the Konstantynowiczs
Jaroszewicz	Ludwik lived here in 1764
Korsak	Jozef Korsak, officer in the Mscislau province in 1611 - lived in Hlybokae, too; the others after 1667; possessed Holubicze in the Polack = Polatsk province and an estate in the Merkine parish - the Trakai district; in the Vicebsk / Vitsyebsk government related to the Lissowski house
Korzeniewski	or Korzeniowski with the Fox coat of arms or Kosciesza arms according to Piekosinski, derived from the Brest province; the house distinguished in the Vitsyebsk / Vicebsk province, the Polack / Polatsk province and Livonia since the beginning of the 18th cent.; the Korzeniewski house possessed village Usa (Usza or Staraja Usha) near by Kaluzyn, and also they possessed in the Minsk government in the end of the 19th cent.: Piorunov(y) Most together with Nieciejewski family, Krasny Brzeg and Hajdukowa Sloboda (Galdukova Sslobodka); Korzeniewski Jerzy + Konstancja nee Jablonski from the Mscislau province were owners of the Jurkowszczyzna farm in 1766 (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Grand Principality of Lithuania i.e. a federal monarchy-republic formed by the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania then, and Russia now http://www.szlachta.org/tomecki.htm); they verified themselves in Hrodna in 1835; related to Ulanowski family
Kurko	Jurkowszczyzna village, close by estates of the families Hurko, dukes Polubinski and Rajewski in the 19th cent.
Petryzycki	or Pietrazycki, Petrazycki, Petrazickis in the Orsa and Mahileu areas A.D. 1592, Mscislau 1648, farms in Suchanowo 1654, Koscielnik and Szamowszczyzna = Samauscyna 7 km NW of Mscislau; near to Krycau 1695, village Petrazyce or Pietryki by 1813
Polonicki	related to the Konstantynowicz family; they derived from Eustafi Polonicki who stayed in Kaniow in 1663
dukes Polubinski	Leo Polubinski in the first half of the 16th cent.; Wasil in Mstislawl A.D. 1535, Iwan was officer in Mscislau 1569, Konstantyn Polubinski in Mscislau 1627 - 1629, Karol was clerk in Mscislau in 1700; they possessed village Leszczynsk A.D. 1510, Slowuczany and next village Jurkowszczyzna since 1858 - 7 km NE of Soino i.e. Sojna at the map of 1859; the family was kinsman to the Fedorowicz house and Wolowicz i.e. Wollowicz - middle 16th century
Rajewski	or Rajewskij, Rajauskas with Nalecz and Radwan arms in Belarus as early as 1509, here in 1528 and after 1595, 1623, owned Kislowicze and Fenowszczyzna in 1663, Perany in 1664, Stajow from the Ipacewicz family and Jurkowszczyzna since 1858 - together with Polubinski; their neighbours: Komorowski from Mazyki, Ipacewicz, Strzyzewski, Zloczewski c. 1664
Sutocki	i.e. Sutockas of the Dolega coat of arms with Malkowicz nickname, numerous estates in the Mscislau district in the 19th cent., next in the Trakai district, related to: Kijacki, Holynski, Krzywicki, Kozuchowski, Kondratowicz, Ostankiewicz, Zubr, Platowski - vide the work of Jan Ciechanowicz ed. in Rzeszow 2001, vol. 5
counties Wollowicz	or Volovitch since 1590 in this territory, next of kin with the Szemiot family in 1700, owned A.D. 1778: Staje, Berezetnia, Horowatka, Ray - i.e. Bolschoj Raj in present Russia and near by border between Belarus and Russia, Miteykow i.e. Miljejkova close by current border, Kozuchowicze - i.e. Koshuchowitschi in Russia now, Polachowszczyzna, Jurginow and Pietrowicze i.e. Petrovici estate - 810 ha. and 10 km E of Soino - in Zahustyn area, the Klimavicy district A.D. 1784, Russia now; related to Kamienski - inf. of 1623; others in Mscislau in 1634, too. They came of Stanislaw Wissygina of 1413 with Bogorya arms according to Niesiecki of 1842, vol. 9, p. 414 - 421: and his son Jerzy Wyssyginowicz who accepted Wolowicz surname in 1454, and also his grandson Jerzy Wolowicz who fought in the battle near by Viedrussa in 1499, this last Jerzy had 3 sons (Niesiecki missed out a generation, I think): Bogdan, Grzegorz and third unknown; two sons came of this third unknown: Ostafiej - inf. of 1568 and Marcyan + wife nee Pac: they had 3 sons i.e. Dominik + wife nee Savicki, Jan Kazimierz + Katarzyna nee Narushevich - inf. of 1676 and Wincenty who died in 1698; above Dominik had 3 sons: Marcyan 2nd + Antonina nee Zahorovski in the Mscislau area in 1704, Krzysztof and Wincenty from the Mscislau province; Wincenty had daughter who had gotten married to Pac, and also six sons: Marcyan 3rd, Dominik 2nd, Aleksander, Krzysztof, Jerzy and Stanislaw who died in 1737 and had gotten married to Eleonora Racs; this last Stanislaw had two sons living in the Mscislau province in the middle of the 18th cent.
and others families. More inf. about the Mscislau province, see: Deka Company At margin: Russian army in the east Lithuania since 1657 till 1661 in Mstislawl; army of Saxony in Lithuania at first in 1708/1709, and next 1713 - 1717; the Russian army stationed in the east Lithuania: 1733-1736, 1743-1748, 1757-1763, 1764, 1767 - 1772.

- Piotr Konstantynowicz who was born c. 1610 in the Minsk province; he lived in the Mscislau province A.D. 1669

- Augustin / Augustyn Rokoz Konstantynowicz (Augustyn was a clerk of the Lithuanian military confederation since 1661 by 1667 and after a special envoy of Michal Pac to Moscow to ask tsar Aleksei / Aleksey to put up his son Feodor / Fiodor III as a candidate to Polish election; the municipal and territorial writer in the Mscislau province, born c. 1635, had died 1713 or before 1713)

- Franciszek Rohoza Konstantynowicz near of kin with Holynski family from Soino (either Big Soino or Voronove Slobody near by a farm of Mielkovka = Mietkowka), and his siblings and Hurko family also (from Krotowsza otherwise called Krynki or Krotovshe that belonged to Romejko - Hurko family in the Orsa district) were in trouble for this reason with Holynski (Kazimierz son of Stefan Kazimierz Holynski from Chlyszczewo i.e. Chwostowo close by border between Belarus and Russia, from Soino and Uszpol) family after 1714.
The above Soino is situated 18 km east away from Mscislau, at territory of Russia now i.e. 7 km from present border; it was the Grand duchy of Lithuania 1359 - 1772 and next in Russia: the Mstislavl district, Soino region = "volost" that is similar to county, in a parish of Mscislau (archbishopric of Mahileu, in the Mscislau - Klimavicy catholic area were three parishes: Lozovica, Mscislau and Smolensk in the 19th cent.); one our leg lived in the territory of present Belarus, but the second one stood at the present land of Russia in borders after 1992. A fortunes of Poles in this remote easterly territories of the former Both Nations Republic turned out differently than by Vistula, because not a few Poles had got to choose military service in the Russian Army since the end of the 18th cent. or they worked as engineers in different corners of former Russia since second half of the 19th century.

- Antoni Konstantynowicz signed the Second Manifesto of Lithuanian Nobility in 1763

- Dominik Konstantynowicz was born in the Mahileu (either Mogiliow or Mogiljow by Dnepr, Mogilev = Mahilyow by Dnieper, Moghilev) Government in Russia near by Krycau / Krychaw c. 1805.

A certain Konstantynowicz was gotten married with Oktawia Piottuch - Kublicki from Kublicze (= Kublicy) in accordance with Boniecki; she was great-granddaughter of

Stanislaw Duke Radziwill at Nieswiez / Nyasvizh (b.1722) + Karolina nèe Pociej (b. 1732)

and daughter of Jozef Piottuch - Kublicki of the Ostoja coat of arms (Oktawia born c. 1810, and Kublicy = Kublicze is situated in Uszacz region = Ushachi, Usacy - that is west of Uszacz, the Witebsk / Vitsyebsk / Vicebsk province, in district of Lepel / Lyepyel). Mentioned Konstantynowicz that was Dominik born c. 1805, exceptionally well-off man, the second husband of Oktawia Piottuch - Kublicki because Jozef Szumski was the first one. It was plenty of conversations among families of Zarakowski and Konstantynowicz even in the middle of the twentieth century about wealth of Dominik.

These spouses were related with: dukes Radziwill (one of richest person of Poland and Lithuania in eighteenth century, Stanislaw duke Radziwill was an immediate descendant of Aleksander Ludwik duke Radziwill - born 1594 - with "Trumpets" coat of arms and his wife Tekla nèe Wollowicz; also the descendant of Mikolaj Krzysztof duke Radziwill called the "Black" born 1515 in Nieswiez - most influential man in Grand Principality of Lithuania in 16th cent. and an uncle of Barbara Radziwill), dukes Oginski, Szumski, Piottuch (- Kublicki), Smokowski, Soltan, Pociej and Benislawski.

Ferdynand Piottuch - Kublicki, who was an activist of 1863 in the East Belarus, was friend of Artemiusz Viaryha - Dareuski from the Vicebsk region and also Walerjan Weryho / Valerian Veryho (he was owner of the Stajki estate - South of Vicebsk, close to the Dymanowo station, where Russian police on 22nd April 1863 attempted to arrest him). Above Ferdynand Piottuch - Kublicki was neighbour of Wasilewski and relation of Staniewicz; he and duke Artemiusz Viaryha - Dareuski / Weryho stayed in Vicebsk in 1862 and in Stajki 1863. Artemiusz Viaryha - Dareuski was familiar to: Moniuszko, Odyniec, Syrokomla and with Aleksander Chodecki in Mohylew (Mahileu or Mogiliow) in 1859.

The Benislawskis from Polack / Polatsk / Polock, Vicebsk / Vitsyebsk / Witebsk, Lucyn / Ludza and Rzeczyce / Rzeczyca / Rezekne districts (here also in the thirties of the 20th cent.). The bishop of Mogilev (Mohylew, Mahileu or Mogiliow), Jan Benislawski who was in Rome 1783, consecrated new R.C. church in Aglona, in SE Latgale, 25 km SE of Preili and 40 km NE of Daugavpils, in 1800. The Kastyr estate i.e. Kastire was situated in this parish: 42,5 km NE of Daugavpils (Dunaburg, Dyneburg), and belonged to the noble Dunaburg marshal Jozef Brzezinski and next Zaba family.

All descendants with the Fox proper coat of arms (and probably with the Bowel(s), Three Crosses and Radwan armorial bearings, too) and with our Konstantynowicz surname in the 17th cent. came from Michno Konstantynowicz

region of Brest	1664 Jedrzej i.e. Andrew Konstantynowicz was the mayor of Brest and Roman Konstantynowicz was a priest of the Greek Church in Jelna A.D. 1667 - as far as I know Jelnia i.e. Jelna was situated about 12 km away from Scucyn
and Mscislau	above
in the SLONIM district	Hermogen Konstantynowicz wrote down in tribunal documents together with his neighbour Mizgier (Mizgier family lived also in Perepeczyn and Kolyszki in the Lida region A.D. 1608) in 1603, and also Michal Konstantynowicz - he signed the Olkienicka Alliance in 1698 and had Radwan coat of arms with Plavski by-name; the Arcimowicz family had also the Plavski nickname in a Braslau area, inf. of 1698 and 1763
the others of the Konstantynowicz family lived in the central MINSK province continuously	the Babianowszczyzna village i.e. Buchta, Little Loszyca (Loszyce) in the Koroliszczewice parish - region of Siennica (the estate of Siennica was pawned and at a later date also sold by Stefan Dostojewski to duke Piotr Gorski son of Hryhory at the end of 16th cent.), Koroleszczenicze (i.e. Koroliszczewice or Karoliszczewicze at the map of 1859) and others; Mikolay Pohosha Konstantynowicz as early as 1643 and Jan Konstantynowicz in 1698; following Jan Konstantynowicz was born in the Minsk province at the beginning of the 18th cent. and possessed here the village Buchta = Baguta at present
and PINSK	a certain Konstantynowicz called Rokoz i.e. Pokoz in 1674
in the province of VILNA	Jozef Konstantynowicz Master of Arts, published "Decisio controversiae juris canonici (...)" in 1647 and Stefan who was a member of the municipal board of Vilna in 1665 and information about him in 1669 and February the 06th, 1672 - in accordance with "The Records of the Lithuanian High Court" vol. XI, p. 319 about Iwan Pott; also Symon (= Szymon) Konstantynowicz was a deputy to the Warsaw general confederation in 1668; lady Maryna Konstantynowicz lived in the Vilna district in 1673; Franciszek Konstantynowicz lived in the Vilna town in 1686 and he witnessed a riot
in PORAZAVA and Vaukavysk district	the Konstantynowicz family with our coat of arms lived also at the Vaukavysk district in the 17th cent. in accordance with "The Town Court Records"; Porazava i.e. Porozov landed property = Porosow near Vaukavysk in 1669
in the Paszkowszczyzna - Kuranec region	Jan Konstantynowicz in the Asmjany ex-district 1690, 7 km north - east of Vilejka in the 17th century.
In the Hrodna district	Adam Konstantynowicz landowner near to Grodno with his neighbour Eysymont in 1646 and Bazyli Konstantynowicz who was a royal general in the Hrodna district 1664 - 1688. A certain Teodor Drozdowicz of Jastrzebiec arms was the royal general in this district also in 1682. The Ejsmont family (= counties Eysymont or Eysimont) owned a Cydzik farmland and they were a neighbourhood of Konstantynowicz house. The Eysmont house was related to Bylinski or Bilinskis family of Lodzia arms from Kleptowszczyzna and Koraziewo village in 1623. The Jurowski family or Jurauskas of Friend arms in an estate of Jurewicze also was a neighbourhood of them, and Tolloczko house who had relationship with Dworzecki - Bohdanowicz or Dvozeckas - Bagdanavicius. Kalenkiewicz family of Kotwicz arms from the Jurewicze estate was related to the Konstantynowicz noble house*. Andrzej, Marek and Konstantin / Konstanty Konstantynowicz* stayed at the Zydomlija region in space of 1630 / 1690. Tolloczko i.e. Toloczko or Talackas with the Pobog diverse coat of arms according to Gajl, p. 234 and the Godziemba arms derived from Podlasie area, and for the first time information of 1391, verified in 1800, possessed Nieprakszty in the Trakai district and Dobury in the Vilkmerge district; Toloczko noble family with Pobog arms in the Hrodna district, and for the first time information of 1619, 1632, 1648, 1672, 1674 and 1764; the Pobog diverse arms: shield - an arrow diagonally going out of horseshoe, with three feathers and crown above the shield. Kalenkiewicz lived in villages: Tereszki - Zygmuntowszczyzna, Zukiewicze, Niescierowskie, Filipowskie, Jurewicze, Kotra - Kalenkiewicze, Huszczyce and Piotrowszczyzna**, too.
In the Trakai (Troki) district	Krzysztof Konstantynowicz was a clerk of the district in 1669.

- a certain Konstantynowicz with the Fox arms commanded a Cossack troops that occupied quarters in Krasiejewie and Iwaniki (the Pinsk district probably) villages; these places rifled on their stay on 15 January 1665; the above Konstantynowicz commanded the Tartar troops in 1666 and mister Fastowicz and Gasiewski (Gosiewski ) prosecuted the a.n. in the Mscislau court (the Mscislau province according to Jan Ciechanowicz)

- Augustyn Konstantynowicz (died 1713) was a clerk of the Lithuanian military confederation in the Mscislau province since 1661 by 1667 according to Jan Vladyslav Poczobutt - Odlanicki (the diarist was born in Pomornoki A.D. 1640, d. 1703, memorials 1640 - 1684, supporter of the Pac family and Vincenty Gosievski since 1659).

1.	in the Minsk province	Koroleszczenicze (= the parish of Koreliszczewicze / Koroleszczenicze) near to Minsk and the holding Little Loszyca next to Koroleszczenicze; we were in the Buchta estate (i.e. Bahuta at the map of 1859, Baguta or Babianowszczyzna in the parish of Luzki that is Lushki west of Smolewicze or Smaljavicy / Smolevichi), here Jan Konstantynowicz and his sons: Maciej, Pawel, Samuel, Bazyli, Antoni, Franciszek and Marcin in the first half of the 18th century. According to http://www.dresselgenealogy.us/XIX.htm (the Dressel / Dreszel Genealogy): in 1774 Jan Konstantynowicz was residing in Stashynki / Starzynki / Stashynek, and he witnessed to an attempt on Jerzy Dreszel = Dressel; he was giving the names of the people involved in it: Alexander and Konstancya HORAIN WOYSKI / Harain Wojski (they have told that the duce Woronecki tries to include Stashynek / Starzynek in the County of Koydanov / Kojdanow, SW of Minsk, and that he means to take over the estate by force from Horain Woyski). Jan Konstantynowicz was one of the willing to help for Dressel. His neighbours: Tadeusz Rutski / Rucki, Antoni Borowski, Jan Oskirka Zienkiewicz, Jan Daszkiewicz and Mikolaj Downar.
2.	near to Braslau	(or Braslaw) SE of Dyneburg; they were close to the family of Beynar - Bejnarowicz, with Novina - Zlotogolenczyk coat of arms
3.	next Mscislau	above
4.	near by Brzesc	or Brest = Brest - Litovsk
5.	at Volhynia	1729 with the "palatinus Kijoviensis" title to Bazyli Konstantynowicz but Volhynia is outside of the Grand duchy of Lithuania; "(...) two Konstantynowicz families have been (...) verified in (...) Podolyia (05. 12. 1841) and in Volhynia (04. 12. 1844)" according to Andrzej Bajor - this quotation without the Author's written permission
6.	in the Grodno (= Hrodna) province	an information was about Jozef Konstantynowicz on 19 April 1764 and the same Jozef in 1765; besides in 1765: Antoni, Jan, Dominik, Benedykt and Leon Konstantynowicz served their country; the Konstantynowicz families, owners of Tolloczki village in part, survived in the Hrodna area in the 18th cent. according to S. Koscialovski and they lived in parishes of Pojeziersk and Lawkowo = Lavkovo ("Antoni Tyzenhaus", volume 1, p. 646)
7.	in the Vilna (Wilno) area	Jan Konstantynowicz and Michal in 1779 (they lived in the Hrodna district, too). 1788 - Szymon Konstantynowicz deputy "a communitate" of Wilno city to the 4-years Polish Parliament. It hasn't signatures of persons with the Konstantynowicz surname from the Grand duchy of Lithuania (without the Polish Ukraine: Podolia and Volhynia) in a documents of the Sluck Protestant Confederation of 1767
8.	near to Perejaslav	somebody (owned Fox coat of arms according to an armorial of 1914; territory of Russia in the 18th cent., 78 km SE of Kiev) among Cossacks in 1756 and somebody pro tempore in Greater Poland afterwards in the 18th century, too.

this territory (Mscislau, Samava, near to Krycau) was already in Russia, as the Government of Mahileu (or Mogilev by Dnieper, Mogiljow by Dnepr) after the 1st Partition of Poland, I am afraid. Seventy years later on they partly have moved out to the easternmost parts of the Minsk government, to the Berezina parish circa

id est in the villages BOROVINA and MIEZONKA (the village is situated 28 kilometres south - east of Berazino = Beresino, Berezyna, Berezina, Byerazino or Berezino).

Ostrowski (derived from Piotr Ostrowski de Kaki of 1697; Kaki farm situated 16,5 km NW of Ludza / Ludsen in Polish Livonia),

1. the Brzezinski house of the Doliva coat of arms verified in Vilna on 08 November 1837; the noble Brzezinski family of Doliva arms verified themselves in Kovno 1837, according to Uruski, vol. 2 (Franciszek son of Jan) and in Vilna 1858 (Kacper son of Kazimierz with sons of mentioned Kacper: Onufry, Jan, Ludwik, Jozef, and also Michal son of Kazimierz);

2. in the Vilkmerge (Ukmerge that is Wilkomir) district, the Kaunas government also: Lokiany Upper and Lower in the Pagirys area = Pogiry or Pogieloze in the Siesikai parish - 14 km W - N - W of Vilkmerge; the noble Brzezinski family of Trumpet arms in Lithuania as early as at the beginning of the 17th cent. and derived from Jan Brzezinski and his son Franciszek and grandson Ignacy Brzezinski - verification in Kovno 1850. Jan Brzezinski / Bžezinskis was possessor of Zodziowo near by Ludsen (i.e. Ludza in Livonia) and Pudermoyze (i.e. Puderi or Pudereva according to Latvian atlas of 1931 ed. in Riga; 19 km E - N - E of Vilani and 12,5 km north - west of Rositten i.e. Rezekne, Latvia now), and he owned also Dyrwaniszki in the Vilkmerge (Ukmerge) district. Part of the Brzezinski family emigrated from Livonia to the Austria - Hungarys Galicia after 1863

3. Nacza Biedrzyca - Swaraszczyzna farm in the Lepel districtt, government of Vicebsk

4. Kastyr estate i.e. Kastire, in the Dunaburg district, the Vicebsk government; it is located on the Jasa river, a tributary of the Dubna about 12,5 km south - east of Preili and 42,5 km NE of Daugavpils (Dunaburg, Dyneburg); 750 ha, the noble Dunaburg marshal Jozef Brzezinski lived here and next Zaba family; Jozef Brzezinski owned also Pazemys estate (Pozejmie, Poshejmy) in the Dusetos parish, area of Antaliepte, district of Novoaleksandrovsk (Zarasai = Jeziorosy) - Poshejmy is located 15,5 km SW of Zarasai; the noble Brzezinski family possessed also a big Wenusow (Venusovo) estate in the Novoaleksandrovsk district, the Kovno (Kaunas) government; Poshejmy and Venusovo are situated 39 and 38 km south - west of Daugavpils in present Lithuania; Brzezinski family of the Swan coat of arms with Dunin nickname derived from Hieronim Brzezinski and stayed in Livonia since 1680

5. Ssenkovo i.e. Sienkowo, Senkowo farm in the Mogilew district, 315 ha since 1882, it is located on the Lachwa river about 13 km W - N - W of Mahileu (Mogilew)

6. Zapole farm and Maniakowo in the Vilejka district, government of Vilna, about 11 km of Krajsk

7. Podlasie territory before 1648 and the Nur area before 1704, they verified themselves in Hrodna 1852 - 1863 (the Lubicz coat of arms).

and Filipowicz (Pilipavicius or Pilipaitis with Pobog and Prawdzic coats of arms verified the armorial bearings in Vilna 1821: Jozef, Mateusz, Michal, Antoni, Szymon, Izydor, Benedykt and Joachim; the family related to Kisiel or Kiselius of the Kisiel coat of arms i.e. "the Camp Tent" in the Wilno / Vilna province and to Chodasiewicz family in the Dzisna district); family of my grandfather had next of kin Georgians.

Piotrovicz from Luboszany, Karp, Zywica (Shywica), Korbut from Hrynica (Grenica), Tatur (near of kin Zbieranovski), Dzierzynski i.e. Dzerzhinskii (Dzerzhinskii - according to "Imperial and Soviet Russia (...)", Melbourne 1986 by David Christian; named Dziershynski in the Ihumen district related to Tumilovich = Tumilowicz family; the Dzierzynski or Derzinskis house of Sulima arms was verified in Minsk 1819; a poorer members were administrators in the Wankowicz house; others were related to Bulhak family and held Pietrylowicze farm in the Asmjany district in 1838, also Podgaj farm in Barysau district at the end of the 19th cent.; Edmund Dzierzynski = Dzerzhinskii of Sulima arms who was father of Feliks, verified hereditary nobleness in Vilna on 14 June 1862), Nieciejevski (their coat of arms verified in the Minsk goverment in 1836), Milkiewicz (alone acquaintances and that's only accidental similarity with surname of Malkiewicz), Stankiewicz (or Stankivich, among other things Antoni, Walerian and Jan - the sons of Stepan).

The counties Czapski family from Stankov and Przyluki leased Miezonka (only nearby villages Cereszyn i.e. Tereschin and Jagaszkin = Jagodka were at the map of 1859) from

in the first half of the 19th century to c. 1840 - information of 1995 from Mr Piotr Zbieranowski.

we possessed in part a landed property Pileszyszki	in the Kaunas district / the Kovno region in the 18th cent. (1766 bequeathed by lady Junowicz), here lived Maciej Konstantynowicz; the same Maciej had brothers: Pavel / Pawel, Samuel, Bazyli, Antoni, Franciszek and Marcin Konstantynowicz. The brothers inherited from their parents (father Jan Konstantynowicz was born at the beginning of the 18th cent.) the Babianowszczyzna = Buchta estate in the Minsk province (government then) A.D. 1798; that family verified the nobleness in Vilna A.D. 1842
we lived in a district of RASEINIAI	Raseiniai region i.e. Rosienie / Rossienie in the Samaites territory: the Poszeszow estate in the middle of the 16th century. Also in the parish of Sartyniki (or Sartininkai) in the place Komcie where stayed Jan and his son Waclaw Konstantynowicz with Bowel (or Bowels) coat of arms, called Svarplovich i.e. nickname Szwarplowicz c. 1650 and others A.D. 1799. In Vilna (i.e. in Wilno A.D. 1841) authorized the arms of them. To this lineage were related the Konstantynowiczs with the Fox proper arms from Pileszyszki in the Kaunas (here in 1766) district; they derived from famous Michno Konstantynowicz. Only one of the Kaunas branch was verified in Vilna A.D. 1910 and information about four lines of this branch were lacking
Marijampole	i.e. Mariampole in the Augustov government in the forties of the 19th century; two of them were the members of the Democratic Polish Society
in Kaunas	Piotr Konstantynowicz
also in the Trakai area	a certain Konstantynowicz signed a manifesto of the Polish nobility on 26 July 1812 - according to Czeslaw Malewski - because of Napoleon conquered Kaunas on 24/25 June and Vilna on 28 June
the locality Chwiedziejowszczyzna	or Chwedziejowszczyzna in the Trakai district, the ex-parish Vysoki Dvor i.e. Aukstadvaris and at a later date other parish (Uzuguostis probably) in the 19th cent.; near to Vladipolis, Alesiskes, Beizionys, Mergiskes and Mackantiskes - 7 km east of Aukstadvaris; neighbouring families: Mackiewicz (they owned - in the Kaunas district or more truly in the Trakai district - a Klidzie farm by 1817 - from Tolloczko noble family and also frroom Jan Szteyn who came from the Butrimonys parish, and Mackiewicz family possessed also Zailgi i.e. Stecki in the Trakai district c. 1690 and here families at a later date: Krzywicki, Romansewicz, Poplawski A.D. 1757), Klidzianka and Jeleniewski
in Butrimonys	a certain Lucius Konstantynowicz was a teacher at high school in Butrimonys (more probable that is Butrimonys 18 km SW of Aukstadvaris in the independent Lithuania since 1918 and unlikely Butrymance i.e. Butrimonys 14 km NE of Eisiskes in the Butrimonys parish near by Jargance, Jundeiliszki, Kuze, Strzelce) in the thirties and forties of the 20th cent.
we possessed the Ustron estate	in the Kaunas district (= region of Kovno) in the 19th cent. and at the beginning of the 20th century.

- a documentation of the noble Konstantynowicz family with the Fox coat of arms proper was being shown in Minsk on 15 December 1802 (Stanislaw Wankowicz was the government marshal in 1802); they derived from Mikolay Pohosha Konstantynowicz of the Minsk province; he had 3 sons: Stefan, Hrehory Dmitr and Jozef; they owned some farmlands in the province of Minsk and carried out positions in the first half of the seventeenth century; above Mikolay Pohosha Konstantynowicz received a privilege on 07 March 1643 handed over to him by the king Vladislav IV Vasa; Bonifacy 1st Konstantynowicz (who lived in the Minsk government in 1802, according to the Minsk State Archives) derived from a.m. Mikolay.

The Fox crest mean strategy, guile, stratagem defensive and intelligence - argued in 1997 Mr. Pavel Dudzinski in "Heraldic Alphabet" (p. 118 and plate 314).

- we presented to the authority in Vilna on 19 May 1842 an original of privilege edited by the king Sigismund Augustus to Michno Konstantynowicz on 04 January 1554 who was endowed with estate in the Merecz area and set out many of documents of the 18th cent.; persons derived from the Minsk government i.e. from Babianowszczyzna = Buchta holding verified themselves (i.e. Baguta 15 km west of Smaljavicy, at the border of former Barysau distrtict on the Minsk district in the 19th cent.) at that time; they were in Pileszyszki in the Kovno region after 1766, too:

- Antoni in Hrodna A.D. 1861 (Antoni son of Dominik derived from area of Krycau, with the Fox coat of arms)

The above map of 1740 from www.clas.ufl.edu/.../history_shepherd_1911.html i.e.
"Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd" (shepherd-c-130-131.jpg)
and it show to us where the Mscislau branch and relatives lived c. 1600 - 1917 in the Both Nations Republic - formerly the Grand duchy of Lithuania / Grand Principality of Lithuania, 1795 dissolution of the state but all the direct descendants are from there: Belarus /Belorussia /White Russia / Byelorussia thereafter - and in Russia.

His father Piotr Konstantynowicz (relation of Wlodzimierz Wernadskij) was Brigadier-General, too - Piotr was son of H. Konstantynowicz.

His sister Anna Petrovna Konstantynowicz was the second wife (1862) of Jan Wernadskij (that is Ivan Vernadski = Ivan Vasil'evich Vernadsky who was born in Kiev 1821, son of Vasilii; Ivan worked in Home Office 1856 - 1867, died 1884 in Sankt Peterburg = St Petersburg; her son Vladymir was born in St. Petersburg on February 28 / March 12, 1863, lived in Kharkov, where the family had moved when he was five and acted as a Soviet specialist in mineralogy - taught himself Ukrainian and Polish; her granddaughter married Fokin) and she worked as a music teacher in Petersburg just before 1862.

Michal or Michail - son of Fiodor 2nd Konstantynowicz - was his next of kin; Michal was born in 1812, died 1867; doctor after completion of the Kharkov University; served in the Russian army and at a later date assistant director of the medical - military department in 1862 in Petersburg; he wrote a lot of researches and theses - with F. Augustynowicz, Trappe, Lebiediew, too

- 04. 12. 1844 at Volhynia and verified the noble descent in Podolyia on 05. 12. 1841

- 1913 in the district of Dorohobuz (verified the Fox coat of arms in Smolensk, and they stayed near to Dorogobush / Dorohobuz)

- 1799 in the Kaunas territory and Samaites in the Russian Empire (other coat of arms thereabouts). Konstantynowicz ancestry with the Bowel coat of arms had the Poszeszow estate in the Raseiniai ex-district (the Samaites territory in the independent Lietuva i.e. Litwa or Litauen, Lithuania) in the middle of the 16th century. In Vilna (i.e. in Wilno A.D. 1841) authorized again the arms of them, and also nine generations and 57 male persons: Jan Konstantynowicz and his son Waclaw with the nickname Szwarplowicz c. 1650 and grandsons Jan and Michal - their sons: Krzysztof and Stanislaw; Christopher (i.e. Krzysztof) had a sons: Andrzej, Jan and Jerzy; the above named Michal had a son Stanislaw and grandson Jerzy; lived 13 persons at the end of the 18th cent. and 25 persons c. 1830: Nikodem, Jakub, Wincenty, Michal, Kasper, Teodor, Ludwik, Antoni, Kajetan and Teofil.

The Konstantynowiczs with the Fox proper arms from Pileszyszki in the Kaunas (here in 1766) district were related to this lineage; they derived from famous Michno Konstantynowicz who received the big estate from the king Sigismund Augustus on 04 January 1554; the farmland was in the Merkine = Merecz area, beside the Niemen river (Neman or Nemunas) by the Merkys = Mereczanka river. Only one line of the Kaunas branch was verified in Vilna A.D. 1910 and information about four lines of this branch were lacking

- 1817 in the Hrodna district and at a later date they verified privilege of 1578 handed over by the king Stephen Bathory but with another armorial bearings i.e. "two swords (some documents from Sankt Petersburg Archive - disclosure to Pavel in the beginning of August 2004; "the two swords might represent the military service of two brothers, and the star above might signify a successful military engagement", as somebody wrote in successive phase of public discussion about the noble Konstantynowicz family, that commenced on August 15th, 2004 in the web net, but the discussion is led by strange persons from feefhs.org, not from our roots) which constitute a cross, and a star above them, and feathers of ostrich below (above, I think) the helmet".

I explain the problem to you (on September 10th, 2004). Two naked crossing swords without golden hilts, this is fundamental Pielesz arms:

A. priest Wojciech Wijuk Kojalowicz, "Armorial of the Grand duchy of Lithuania knights, so-called Compendium" had written on the Pielesz / Pielesh crest c. 1650, ed. in Cracow 1897: two swords at red field of shield and three feathers from ostrich above - plate, p. 212; it were four families with the Pielesz arms: Ielskj i.e. Jelskij - some with cross among swords, inf. of 1620, 1632 in the Mscislau province and of 1648, Kwasnickj Golden i.e. Kvasnickij or Kwasnicki Golden ancestry derived from Moscow, Pieleszyc house in the Vicebsk province, and also Wloszek family from Podlasie - inf. 1584;

B. besides the Golocki family of the Golocki arms according to Kasper Niesiecki, vol. 4 ed. in Lipsk 1839, p. 174 - here effigy of the Golocki coat of arms, two swords on the shield, diagonally crossing with hilts upwards and a cap at the helmet - the shield is the same as the Pielesz one; the family came from Chelmno area in Poland; estates: Goloty, Sarnov near by Grudziadz, Melno, inf. of 1651;

C. moreover Golocki family also with the Pielesz diverse crest according to T. Gajl, p. 67: a cap and two feathers above crown, and beneath two swords with golden hilts upwards in the shield;

D. according to Seweryn Uruski, "Family. The Armorial of Polish nobility", vol. 13, 1916, p. 330: Pielesz family of the Pielesz arms in Lithuania, the district of Panevezys, near by Upita in 1580, also as Pieleszyc; Pieleszyc family with the Pielesz diverse arms - sabres instead of swords in the shield; it say that is the same family what Pielesz;

E. according to J. Ostrowski, p. 437 - here a plate of the Pielesz arms: two swords with hilts downwards in the shield and three feathers above crown.

A. Vloshek / Wloszek family according to Gajl, p. 246 - with the Pielesz diverse coat of arms, by turns from top to toe: bird above two hunting hornes, crown, shield - two swords with golden hilts and four roses between blades; Wloszek family with own Wloszek arms: coat of arms without helmet, and in the shield two crossing swords with golden hilts in palms and three roses between blades; the Wloszek arms come from the Pielesz crest;

B. Niesiecki, vol. 9, 1842, had written about Wloszek family of the Pielesz diverse arms - they added four white roses in red field; Bielski, Paprocki and Okolovich wrote, too.

The Wloszek arms resulted from link between the Pielesz arms and the Roses coat of arms (i.e. Poraj); the Pielesz coat of arms belong to a sword group (the Kownia arms, Herburt crest, three swords and Pielesz come from the sword group); the Swords are in 19 arms and variants joined with another objects.

Adding of one star extra to the Pielesz armorial bearings resulted in unknown arms for Mieroszowski (plate 10, pieces 1 - 15, ed. of 1887). It's a Pielesz diverse coat of arms according to me !

There was a certain Konstantynowicz branch from Russia in the Congress Poland after exile to Siberia (the exile to Irkutsk in 1864). They lived at a later date near by Makov and thereafter Ciechanov at the end of the 19th cent. and derived from Patrycjusz Konstantynowicz + Anastazja nee Mierzejewski. Gavryla Konstantynowicz born c. 1810 was father of Patrycjusz and Zenon, I think. The document relating to the grant of a certain estate upon this Konstantynowicz branch (territory of them was situated at the border on Russia, at Volhynia) was in Mikashovka vicarage till 1945. Patrycjusz i.e. Patrycy Konstantynowicz was born in 1831, the Roman Catholic, d. November 01st, 1908. A part of this branch is living in USA now. At present, on September the 15th, in yr. 2008 Michal has written off to me that Patrycjusz had got to arrive to the Congress Poland from Berezyna (from the parish of Berazino; at least the message needs to be precisely researched !) and what is more alongside (?) younger brother Zenon Konstantynowicz.

THE BUDSLAU BRANCH	FROM MALVINA AND WIKENTIJ
THE HRODNA BRANCHES	from KAZIMIERZ born c. 1850/52, JOZEF born c. 1842, ADAM born c. 1840/45, and also WALENTY from ORECHOVICZE or ORECHVICZE
THE BRANCH FROM IRKUTSK	FROM PATRYCJUSZ
A BRANCHES FROM THE MINSK GOVERNMENT	*earliest branch from* *Jan* *Konstantynowicz* *1698; earlier branches from* Bonifacy I, Gawryla, Jakow, Daniil (Daniel), Fiodor, Martin (Marcin) and from Leon; later branches from Bonifacy II, Antoni, Wilhelm, Pavel and from Jerzy II**
THE MSCISLAU BRANCH	(FROM DOMINIK and his brothers); my family from the Mscislau area derived from - according to the oral tale - a region by Mereczanka river (= Merkys river), thus from Michno Konstantynowicz with the Fox proper coat of arms, where the same possessed forest (1554) and the property of Zaleskowszczyzna (1552) but we weren't told that the Konstantynowicz family derived from Toloczki; the same Michno was put down in a judicial documents of the Troki district in 1552 (according to Jan Ciechanowicz, vol. 3). Searching for evidences last at present. All proofs show the Troki district by the Mereczanka river as the nest of our beginning and never point to the Hrodna district. All descendants with only the Fox proper coat of arms and with our Konstantynowicz surname come from the above Michno Konstantynowicz; see the Mscislau website: http://republika.pl/bkonstantynowicz
THE KAUNAS BRANCHES	PIOTR the 1st AND HIS SON VLADYSLAV BORN 1891 and others families
THE KAZLOUSCYNA BRANCH	FROM NAPOLEON KONSTANTYNOWICZ
the VOLHYNIA BRANCH	from Bazyli A.D. 1729 and what coat of arms? E.g. Kazimierz Konstantynowicz in Hrubieszow, 1934.
and UNKNOWN OTHERS BRANCHES or lineages	the Konstantynowiczs sealed themselves six armorial bearings: Fox proper, Bowel(s), Three Crosses, the Pielesz diverse, Radwan and Ours of the Konstantynowicz ancestry - Grekul

the picture of the Bjarezina river from beautiful book "Polska. Kresy wschodnie", Kluszczynski publishing house; author Roman Marcinek and photographer Sergiej W. Tarasow

in the first half of the 19th cent. lived in two clumps, west and east group. The west one, by the Druc' river (near by Sjanno, through Careja and Bobr, to Talacyn and southwards Bjalynicy and next Druc village) and the east one by the Soz river (from Mscislau, through Krycau and to Cacersk, here thickest). In the east group were a big localities, 40 - 850 persons. A fortunes of Poles in this furthest easterly territories of the former Both Nations Republic turned out differently than by Vistula, because not a few Poles had got to choose military service in the Russian Army since the end of the 18th cent. or they worked as engineers in different corners of former Russia since second half of the 19th century. We offer an example of the Czaplic family: Adam Eufemiusz Czaplic from the Mahileu government, Polish nobleman, friend of prince Potiomkin and Russian general fought against the Polish in 1792 and 1794, and also against Napoleon in 1812.

Nonetheless this country, the East Border, signaled to us attachment for Polish tradition during the January Insurrection in 1863, according to Edward Maliszewski (Edvard Malishevski), ed. in Warsaw in 1920. So in the Mahileu government was plan of the uprising on May 05th, 1863. There were 3.300 insurgents; in the district of Sjanno, at a farm of Slepce - here was a group of Tadeusz Chmurowicz (Tadeush Chmurovich) and W. Szlagier (V. Shlagier), 100 strong. Horki town was conquest by night 05/06 May 1863 (19 km from the present border of Russia and 22 km from Kopceuka). The Orsa group under command of Ignacy Budzilowicz (Budzilovich) fought on May 07th, 1863. In the Mahileu district commanded W. Korsak (or Korsach) and Mancewicz brothers (Mancevich); they got defeated at once in Czarnorucz (Tsharnoruch). Consecutive battle between Russians and Polish rebels took place by Leciachy near to Rahacou by Dnjapro on May 11th, 1863, but already on May 12th and 13th, 1863 all Mahileu insurgents surrendered to Russians near by Zurawicze (Shuravicy, 38 km NE of Rahacou on May, 12th) and in Propojsk (that is Slauhard by Soz = Sosh river now, 75 km E - N - E of Rahacou in the Bychau district) on May 13th, 1863. Besides we know about a battle near by Szczawry (Scadry) close to the border of the Minsk government on the Mahileu one. It was similarly in the Minsk government: as early as November 1862 a Convention of the Nobility in Minsk made a statement - summons for uprising. For the first time a fighting was close by Piotrowszczyzna village (Piotrowinka, 18 km West of Cerven in the Ihumen district). The group of rebels retreated towards the Mahileu government, through Kolbcza (i.e. Koubca 19 km SW of Miezonka). At the same time, on May 07th, 1863, a group 400 strong fought close by Podberezje (Podbereshje 26 km SW of Cerven) in the Ihumen district, too. Consecutive battle between Russians and Polish rebels near by Loczyn on June 14th, 1863 in the Ihumen district, too (Lucznoje now, 8 km southwards of Cerven). In consequence the estate of Gorki had confiscated from Kornel Peliksza in 1863 (21 km of Minsk) after suppressing of the rebellion; Kornel Peliksza acted as chief of the Minsk province during the January Insurrection. Pawel Dybowski (Pavel Dybovski) was a chief in the Minsk district with centre in Stankow (Stankava now, 36 km SW of Minsk); it was property of general and count Emeryk Czapski. In the middle of May 1863, a group from the Ihumen district which came from east side of the Berazino parish (Berezino) under command of Piotr Jesman, after skirmish close to Boguschewitschi, was smashed completely close by Marcjanowka village (Martjanovka north of Boguschewitschi). Melchior Wankowicz older was also the insurgent in 1863.

Notwithstanding the Polish nobility lived on and on in the Mahileu government, for instance in 1865: the west group by Druc' river - 12.188 adult persons in 521 viillages and places, among others 10.447 Roman Catholics; the east group by Soz river - 25.318 persons in 248 placess but only 5.927 Roman Catholics.

Only 3.700 Poles lived in the Mahileu province in 1989, after displacements and purges in 1918 - 21, 1928 - 37, 1940 - 44 and 1952 - 55.

We lived in the central and eastern Minsk government continuously in the middle of the 19th cent.

13. Stefan Konstantynowicz the 1st in Dzmitrovichi, the Barysau district - the information of 1844;

Zamostocze	in the Minsk district (= uyezd), the region of Siennica, the parish of Koreliszczewicze; residents in this Polish noble locality at the end of the 19th cent.: Platowski, Narejko, Janczewski, Suchocki, Rzeczycki, Pawlowicz, Mazurkiewicz, Ancielewski and our family
Luzki = Lushki	(near to villages Skuraty, Donnarowka, Zadomlia, Zaluze in 1859, 7 km west of Smolewicze / Smaljavicy) in the Minsk government at the beginning of the 19th cent.; here was a teacher and priest Tadeusz Konstantynowicz in 1812 Duflon & Konstantinovich Company Here you can to read about noble ancestries deriving from former Mscislau province i.e. from the Mahileu government, mainly there are Polish and Byelorussian families, e.g. about Holynski, Wollowicz, Puszkin, Brujewicz, Polubinski, Hurko and others. An information on Polish exiles in Siberia are at the website, too. Also about Polish rebellion near by the Lake Baikal in 1866. Here is description of the January Insurrection 1863 in the Ihumen (Cerven) district and also in the Mahileu government; and theory about the Fox and Pielesz coats of arms in the Grand duchy of Lithuania.
Ozeryszcze = Ozdryszcze	Oserischtsche in the Ihumen (= Igumen either Tscherwen or Cerven) district, NW of Ossipowitschi
Little Loszyca	small holding Male Loszyce in the Minsk district - 4 km NW of Koroleszczenicze (= Koreliszczewicze; neighbourhood of them in the 19th cent.: noble Poloniewicz family in a little village Zajameczno, noble houses Pawlowski, Niemorszanski, Bohdaszewski, Siemaszko, Lubanski, Proszynski, Kostrowicki and Narcyz Torczynski; the village was situated in the Siennica = Sienica region that is "volost", the parish of Koroleszczenicze, near to villages Kuroszczowszczyzna, Rylowszczyzna, Loszyce and Korziuki)
Barysau	Stefan Konstantynowicz the 2nd here in the early 20th century
Mar'ina Horka = Marina Gorka	Anton / Antoni Konstantynowicz son of Ivan / Jan; he was the first rector of a school in the little city (the Piareshyr street) in 1866
Konstantynov	(the noble small village near to the river Usza = Usa, 5 kilometres from Borovina north; close to border of the Ihumen district) in the Barysau district
BOROVINA	in the Ihumen district (i.e. Borowiny near to Zeremiec at the map of 1859), here Ludwik Konstantynowicz and his son Jan born 1888, who has gone into the army of Balachowicz 1920. Berezyna Here you can to acquaint with information about former Ihumen district and with data on the Polish in the parish of Berezino. Here there are details about Brzezinski family from Livland. It's a large part devoted to Polish senior officers in Tsarist Army and which next served for the 1st Polish Corps in Belarus in 1917 - 1918. Here you can to read about the Balachowicz's troops (Corps in 1920) - English version. The Balachowicz's Corps passed by Olszany and Remel by south bank of Pripjat (= Pryp'jat) on Polish side: on November 26th, 1920 ("Tula" and "Putwal" regiments with Jozef Balachowicz); on November 26th - 28th: soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd Byelorussian Divisions passed to Poland; by night 27/28 November 1920 - Gen. Stanislaw Balachowicz went on to Poland (with his aides: painter Artur Szyk i.e. Alexander Szykarenko, b. 1894, d. 1951 in USA, since 1921 lived in Lodz, and also Tadeusz Darmont); on November 30th - Gen. Adamowicz; the remainder on December 02nd - 04th, 1920 (on December 04th: unit 2100 strong from the 1st Byelorussian Division of colonel Peremykin after tough fightings on November 25th - 27th). The formal demobilization of the Balachowicz's Corps followed on December 03rd, 1920. And nonetheless Gen. Stanislaw Balachowicz was elected as "General Chieftain of Belarus" in Warsaw on December 23rd, 1920, according to Stanislaw Dowoyno - Sollohub. Byelorussian soldiers were interned near by Czestochowa in January 1921, and from here to Szczypiorno close to Modlin, to Tuchola, Aleksandrow Kujawski, Pikulice, Dabie, Torun, Strzalkow and Kalisz, till August 1924. A lot of the "Balachowiczs" were employed in Hajnowka, Bialowieza and Bielsk.
MIEZONKA	in the Ihumen district (the GOVERNMENT OF MINSK, the parish of BERAZINO or BERESINO, the POHOST or Pogost region = Pogostskaya "volost" that is similar to county; PRECINCT BERAZINO = Uchastok No 2: Uyrevichskaya, Pogostskaya and the Belichanskaya volost; near to villages DULEBO (= Duleby) and DRUCZANY; here Stanislaw Konstantynowicz born c. 1855 + Anna Malkiewicz daughter of Konstancja Brzezinski from the Polish Livland / Livonia).

I search for all information about the village MIEZONKA where my grandfather was born on 23 April 1898 either 1897 or 23 April 1900; at present Belarus: the Bjalynicy (= Belynichi) region in the Mahileu (= the Mogilev or Mahilyow province) "oblast"; the village is situated among grand forest and southwards was big marsh - Miezonka was at a territory of the Radzivilles enormous estates before A.D. 1840; ask you about information.

The Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party, the Union of Weapon in the Ihumen district and the Polish Military Organization conducted a contraband of weapon from Russia to Austria - Hungary at the beginning of the 20th century keeping in touch with Josef Pilsudski (b. 1867) and that track went out from Petersburg, among others across Miezonka and Lodz (the Tuvim street) in the direction to Galicia; a family of Andrzejak from Lodz involved in this activity occupied quarters in Miezonka and Moscow all over the first World War and thus they became technolators of aviation and the basis of the amateurish movement of aviation sports in Lodz (besides Henryk, Stefan and Wladyslaw Chlebowski - as early as 1910 in Paris and 1911 in Lodz - and also Zygmunt Dekler acted as air experts in Lodz before the First world war) after 1920;

the Polish school of Berazino precinct was here in 1918; farm - houses in Borovina and Miezonka estates were burned down and sequestered by the Soviets in November 1918 and many perished; displacement from here at Ural and Siberia (the governments of Perm and Omsk; Konstantynowicz Walery son of Zygmunt was born in Berezniki on March 01st, 1950 in the region of Perm, i.e. in Bieriezniki 155 km north of Perm and next graduated from the Moscow University, philosopher, he has been living and working in Omsk since 1975) in winter 1928/29; the Roman Catholic chapel was here on the German map of 1941; more:

the residents in this Polish noble locality at the beginning of the 20th cent.

Umecki	near by Lodz now
Tumilowicz	(Miezonka and neighbourhood) Jan and Florian sons of Jozef, Leon and Piotr sons of Foma, Wasyl and Felicjan sons of Ilin, Jakub and Maciej sons of Wincenty and others; close to Dzierzynski family (brother of Felix); one of them Boleslaw worked at the Monitz factory in Lodz, was born c. 1901 in Miezonka number 9, he had two sisters and brother Bronislaw, nowadays in Poland (near by Lodz, too)
Bronowicki	Lodz at a later date
madam Zaleski
Barszczewski	Adam the son of Wincenty and Jan the son of a.n. Adam
Soroko	= Soroka, Saroka of Leliwa and Suchekomnaty arms in the Brest province and at a later date in Vilkmerge area, Dzisna region since 1571; related to Bulhak noble family and Koziell house; some estates in the Trakai district in 1607; Siberia now
Konstantynowicz	among others Lodz now
Szostak	i.e. Sastakas with Dabrowa coat of arms and Tartars with Swan arms (they lived in the Lida and Vilna districts, for example A.D. 1764, and also in the Svencionys district A.D. 1835, derived from Tartar Szostak according to S. Dziadulewicz and verified in Minsk and Vicebsk); Stanislaw Szostak was from this family, person of the same age what my grandfather, he learnt at the "Nikolai - Ingenieurschule" (the air section was here during the First world war) in Petersburg by November 1917, defender of the Winter Palace on 07 November 1917, colonel of armoured weapon 1944 - 1947; among others Lodz now
Witkowski	= Vitovsky of 1860; among other things: Antoni and Wincenty the sons of Mikolaj and Jan who was son of Franciszek, in period of the January Insurrection 1863 - 1864
Malkiewicz	they had relatives in Paluse i.e. Pluszcze; information of 1958 according to Narcyz Soroko from Siberia; among others Lodz now
Zbieranowski	one from them, Mr. Aleksander Zbieranowski was convicted during "shahtynski" lawsuit of 1928 - he was radio engineer and the specialist - expert of a radio valves after completion of the Polytechnic of Berlin in 1914; other - Wladyslaw Zbieranowski was courier of the Polish Military Organization at the district of Babrujsk A.D. 1918; near by Lodz now
Huszcza	or Guscis (= Gustis); with Puchala and Horseshoe coats of arms in the Polack province and in Mahileu A.D. 1671 and next in the provinces Vilna and Minsk; they verified the arms in Minsk in 1825; the Huszcza and Tumilowicz families that is the rural "badger nobility", the Polish strongly. The Borsuki village (Badgers) is situated 15 km north - east from Miezonka, according to M. K. Pawlikowski who described history of Ipohorski - Irtenski family from the Berazino parish (proprietors of Backov estate 3 km E from the Berezina river); sons of Jerzy: Kazimierz, Hilary, Aleksander, Julian and Maciej Huszcza; peers of this Jerzy: Jan Huszcza, Semen, Fiodor and Kondrat Huszcza in the period of the January Insurrection; they've been living in Siberia and Belarus.

the foremost expert in the radio valves in the tsarist Russia was Michail (2nd) Boncz Brujewicz (Bonch-Bruevich b. 1888 in Orjol - d. 1940; son of Aleksander (III) Boncz Brujewicz / Bonch - Bruevich who stayed in Kiev since 1896), electrician and engineer after completion of the "Nikolai - Ingenieurschule" in Petersburg 1914; he served in the Russian army as a professional officer, expert of electron lamps and radiolocation, 1915 - 1919 made a study of radio valves and organized the first production of one as chief of high - frequency's section in the Central laboratory of War Department in middle of 1917 (the first broadcast valves and valve sets appeared in Russian Air Force in 1917); director of the radio valves laboratory in 1918 - 1920 and author of the broadcasting station's project in Moskow of 1922; his son Aleksej Bonch - Bruevich (b. 1916) was the Soviet expert of electron tubes, too;

brothers Wladymir Boncz Brujewicz = Bonch-Bruevich (1873 - 1955, son of Dmitry Bonch-Bruevich; photo: W. Boncz - Brujewicz in Moscow, October 1918; Wladymir i.e. Vladimir Bonch - Bruevich was publisher and one of Lenin's closet associates; he had got a cabin in autonomous Finland and Lenin had hiding place there in period July - October 10th, 1917 [Old Style] i.e. to 23rd October; Vladimir Bruevich was administration manager at the Council of People's Commissars from November 1917; cf. F. Antoni Ossendowski, "Shadow of the bleak East", edition of 1919 and 1921, p. 57 - 58: he was known to sphere of Petersburg high society, Polish "old nobleman", secret chieftain of socialists; he concealed of Trocki - Bronstein in Petersburg A.D. 1905 and also directed Chrustalow - Nosar or Chrustalov - Nosari in 1905)

and general Michail (III) Boncz Brujewicz / Bonch - Bruevich either Bonch - Bruyevich Mikhail Dmitriyevich or Michal Bonc - Bruevic, see - if you read Russian - here: http://history.tuad.nsk.ru/index.html (b. 1870 - died 1956; son of Dmitry who stayed in Moscow) who was tsarist general and next chief of staff of the Supreme Commander after November 1917, the military director of the Supreme Military Council and chief of general field staff of the Red Army in 1918 - 1919; was the specialist in take a pictures from airplanes and organized the first technical office of aerial photograph in 1925; he wrote "The aerial photograph" in 1931 and similar book in 1934 (and Grigorij - his son Mikolaj (2nd) b. 1896 was general of the Soviet air force);

the family of Aleksander II Brujewicz or Bonc - Bruievicius of the Boncza arms lived in Zbyszyn or Sbychin near to Tschetschewitschi since 1876 / 1880, 39 km SE away from Miezonka and the big estate had 5548 hectares, he lived next door Gresmer or Greszner family (according to a map edited by A. Brantner of "K.u.k. militar - geographisches Institut" in Wien 1896) and Mr Witold Bulhak home (the Bulhak noble house of the Syrokomla arms, verified in Minsk A.D. 1802, possessed also in the government of Minsk: Matewitschi = Maciejewicze i.e. Macevicy 14 km SW of Miezonka, and Zuki, Budzilowka and Kondratowicze); villages Woncza / Vontcha, Borki and Rogi - which Florian Czarnyszewicz described in a book "Nadberezyncy" i.e. Berezyna's Riverside Inhabitants - were situated close by the Zbyszyn estate: 3 and 7 km; besides a certain Aleksander (IV ?) Brujewicz purchased village Mistow and neighbourhood in the Congress Poland on 25 January 1861 but I haven't yet any firm evidences if it's the same Aleksander (2nd) Brujewicz who settled himself in the Zbyszyn property - I am searching information; they derived from Michal I Brujewicz who was born 1762 and stayed in the Minsk province and all following generations (all his sons: Aleksander I, Mikolaj I, Bazyli, Wiktor, Piotr, Pawel, Fiodor) served in Russian army at a later date; the Brujewicz family was in Mahileu A.D. 1718 and in Krycau A.D. 1745, Sladzin or Sladziniec in Mahileu region in 1761.

I am looking for all information about my grandfather Marian or Jerzy Konstantynowicz and about his family from the parish of Berazino (Berezina, Berezino or Berezyna). He belonged to one of the old noble families from the farthest eastern reaches of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Those lands were also the first to be taken by tsarist Russia as the result of the partitions of Poland.

Those near and dear (families at the beginning of the 20th cent.) in the Berazino parish (Mother of God of Mercy catholic church), Riga, the Dryssa ujezd and elsewhere:

1.	Malkiewicz	Old Svolna, Miezonka and the Jauji farm (i.e. Jowce or Javci in LATVIA; 49 km north - east of Vilani in the Ludsen = Ludza district formerly) www.surnameweb.org/registry/m/a/l/malkiewicz.shtml
2.	Nieciejewski	in farms Hrynica / Griniza and Usochy in the Ihumen district, and also village Luszewska Slobodka in the Rahacou district (345 ha., here a family of Gorski lived, too) since 1881; the Russian and Soviet general, count Bronislaw Nieciejewski who was born c. 1870 in the Berazino parish came from Hrynica, and his daughter worked as translator and interpreter as early as November 1917 (after completion of the University of Paris) at the first Council of People's Commissars under direction of Wladymir (Vladimir) Boncz Brujewicz who was the chief of the Lenin's office 1917 - 1918; either Nieciejovski or Niecijevskij, Nicijewski and Nieciovski, too
3.	Uminski	or Uminskas with Cholewa arms in the Vilna and Vicebsk provinces (Manulki farm A.D. 1672*), Bruslevo* (**or Bryjelov, Brialewo in the Berezina parish) and Smolarnia - Florian Czarnyszewicz has written the book "Nadberezyncy" about this village; Smolarnia was situated next to Krasny Brzeg in the Babrujsk district, property of the Korzeniewski family and also of Wincenty Stanislaw Koziell Poklewski - he was born 1853 and died 1929, son of Alfons Koziell Poklewski 1810 - 1890, member of the State Administration of Trade 1907 - 1912 according to Tatiana Pietrovna Mosunov and he was related to Hotowski i.e. Gatovskij, Slotwinski from Ravanicy and Malkiewicz, too; Uminski family was related to Sarnecki (or Sarneckis from Skierniow estate in the Trakai district) family with Slepowron arms
4.	counties Zarako Zarakowski	i.e. the Zarokovskij family e.g. during war 1878 - 1879; properties: Holubovo palace, Kniazievo village and the great Svolna / Swolna estate - the chief military state prosecutor of communistic Poland (after - see http://konstantynowicz.info/September_1939 - 1939 P. O. W. in Russia and next Military Attorney in Warsaw / Attorney General) and Soviet general, count Stanislaw Zarako Zarakowski was born here in 1909 or November 1907; neighbourhood of them: Lipski Jan who was the noble marshal of the Vicebsk government, Alina Rykow, Maryia Zabiella, famous Czerski by 1835, Szczyt since 1725, Rudomin, Korsak, Dluzniewski; Jan Zaraka(o) - Zarakowski b. 21.02.1857, Russian general, stayed in Vicebsk in June 1918, next Polish division general 1923, d. in Warsaw before 1934 according to T. Kryska-Karski; Soviet and Polish general Boleslaw Zarako - Zarakowski was chief of the main staff of the Polish People Army in 1944, b. in Polack 1894
5.	Zbieranowski	Igumen, Berazino (Michal born Berezino in 1882 son of Jozef Zbieranowski and his wife Zofia nee Witkowski, after Bobrujsk, Sluck and Riga / Ryga 1899 - 1904), Riga and Miezonka; they were relations of Sarnecki (or Sarneckis) family with Slepowron arms
6.	Szostak	Miezonka and (acquaintances of Raczkiewicz) Babrujsk = Bobruisk or Bobruysk www.surnameweb.org/registry/s/z/o/szostak.shtml
7.	Konstantynowicz	Miezonka, Petersburg, Svolna = Svol'na or Swolna, Krycau, Daugavpils, Kovalki, Riga, Omsk, Borovina
8.	Pilecki	Pileckis with Leliwa arms in the Vilna region in 1632 and the Trakai district in 1648, Navahrudak in 1674; first information of 1484 and 1511; they verified the Swan coat of arms in Vilnius and Kaunas in 1807, and also the family possessed a farmland near by Lida and close to an estate of Marshal Edward Rydz Smigly west of Lida in the thirties of the 20th cent.
9.	Stankiewicz	The Stankiewicz ancestry with the Wadwicz coat of arms lived in the Minsk and Mscislau provinces, according to Kasper Niesiecki, vol. 8 (among others 1648 and 1661) as early as the 17th century; the Mazyr district, the province of Polack A.D. 1674. They were related to Kotowski and Oginski families. According to Jan Ciechanowicz, vol. 5, p. 134 - 135: Stankiewicz or Stankevicius of the Mogila, Boncza and Wadwicz coats of arms; they were near related to Bilewicz (or Billewicz) family from Samaites at the turn of the 16th century. There are information about Jan Stankiewicz in Samaites and Vilna A.D. 1635 and about Michal and Adam Mikolaj here in 1648; Jan Mikolaj from Raseiniai region in 1646, and also Kazimierz in 1658; about Stefan from the Minsk province in 1697 and Adam Stankiewicz in Samaites 1788. They verified the Mogila coat of arms on March 16th, 1835 and derived from Samaites territory in Lithuania. Here they owned Raseiniai in 1535 and next moved to Vilkmerge district (Kirbutiszki and Krekszle farms). The noble Stankiewicz family with the Wadwicz coat of arms came of the Orsa district, and next in the Asmjany one, also the Minsk province and the Mscislau one. They verified the Wadwicz coat of arms in Minsk on February 25th, 1828; besides they lived in the Braslau region. You can to see interesting website on the Stankiewicz family, http://republika.pl/aord/stankiewicz.htm among other things about: 1. Wladyslaw, Adam and Witold Stankiewicz from Vilna; 2. Antoni from the Minsk government (b. circa 1870, the member of the Civil Guard in Minsk in 1918); 3. Feliks b. 1927 in Babrujsk; 4. The Stankiewicz family from Przydrusk village near by Daugavpils was related to colonel Jan Stankiewicz. Przydrusk = Przydrujsk or Piedruja in the former Grand duchy of Lithuania, and Latvia now, 44 km West of Malkiewicz's Old Svolna = Stara Swolna; Jan Stankiewicz born 04.04.1862 in Vilna / Wilno as son of Franciszek Stankiewicz with the Mogila coat of arms and Pelagia nee Sienkiewicz, got married to Maria Odrowaz in 1886 and next as colonel served and lived in Riga / Ryga 1887 - 1909 / 1910 and possesed the Awocin property in Latvia to c. 1910; the friend of parents of minister Jozef Beck from Riga and acquaintance of Jozef Pilsudski in August 1919 in Wilno; the relation of Butrym family. Colonel Jan Stankiewicz was Polish educational activist and freedom fighter within the Pilsudski undercover movement before 1910 in Riga. Colonel Jan Stankiewicz had withdrawn from the Russian Army on 01.01.1918, and the Bolsheviks assented to this discharge on 28.02.1918; reunion with family in Smolensk after January 1918; and next after settled himself in Vilna / Wilno / Vilnius in 1918 or maybe spring 1919. But he served for the Polish Army just since April 1919 and as brigade-general in October 1923; died in Milanowek near to Warsaw in December 1945. He was mistaken for colonel Gustaw Stankiewicz son of Marian from the Siedlce government b. 1860 - 1918 who was maybe commandant of the 2nd Polish Corps in Ukraine in accordance with Nicman of 1995 and with a Moscow Archive of 2000, and Gustaw died in 1918 over a fight against "reds" somewhere in Ukraine; also he was mistaken with Sylwester Stankiewicz, according to Vronskya J. of 1992.. Sylwester Stankiewicz born 1866 and died in Taganrog close to Rostov-na-Don in March 1919; maybe since 10th January 1918 to 28th March 1918 as the commandant of the 2nd Polish Corps in Moldova and Ukraine; General-Lieutenant Sylwester Stankiewicz after served for general Anton Denikin in the Voluntary Army with 3000 Russian soldiers; maybe since January 1919 under command of general Piotr Vrangel. It's not plain statement seeing as turned up just now and come in from East surely. Entries in Wikipedia of September 2008 on Gustaw and Sylwester (!) have got only currently edited* references and there are mistakes in details.* Main former historians: Baginski H., Dowbor - Musnicki J., Holowko T. of 1931 and Michaelis E. of 1929 point out Russian General-Lieutenant Jan Stankiewicz as the commandant of the 2nd Polish Corps in Moldova and Ukraine during December 1917 - March 1918. Who was a Commander of the 2nd Polish Corps in Soroka (Soroca by Dnister in present north Moldova id est Soroki) and Iasi (east Romania now) in the end of January 1918 till March 08th, 1918? Colonel Jan Stankiewicz from Riga? General Jan Stankiewicz? Old Gustaw Stankiewicz or an unknown Stankiewicz? Sylwester Stankiewicz? Commander of the 2nd Polish Corps retreated front of Germans (a withdrawal of military forces after acceptance the Ukraine as ind. state by Germany on 09 February 1918 and 03 Mar. 1918) and after stayed in Iasi on March 02nd, 1918 and came into contact with Haller in Jaruga on March 05th, 1918; when Romania **on the same day March 05th, 1918** concluded an alliance with Germany - Haller and Stankiewicz with the 2nd Corps on 08th March 1918 launched a march east and crossed Dnister river going into Ukraine evading a disarmament in the then Romania. On the other hand General - Lieutenant Jan Stankiewicz went out from Czeczelnik to Kiev on March 25th, 1918, to Gen. Michaelis, and next he joined the White Russian Gen. Aleksiejew / Alekseev by the Kuban river in April 1918. He fought north of Stavropol in September - October 1918, e.g. battle near by Ternovka on October 14th, 1918 with White Russians against "reds".

- to St Petersburg / Sankt Peterburg in the middle of the 19th century (Michal or Michail son of Fiodor 2nd Konstantynowicz); a good many the Konstantynowiczs acted and lived in St Petersburg in past days, among other things state activists and also a senior military commandant	- to Minsk in the eighties of the 19th century (old *Bonifacy* *2nd* *Konstantynowicz with his sons: Semen, Jakov and Vincenty) - a documentation of the noble Konstantynowicz family with* the Fox coat of arms proper was being shown in Minsk on 15 December 1802 and A.D. 1853 in the Minsk government	- the Konstantynowicz family with the Fox coat of arms in the noble locality Nosewicze or Nosowicze near to LIDA in the 19th century; the village Nosewicze is situated 6 kilometres S-E-S from Radun or Radunsk, in the parish of Radun, the Vilna government, former district of LIDA; near to villages Kieniensze, Rackuny, Mozajki, Paszkowicze and Koszary; those neighbours: families Hryhorowicz or Hrehorowicz, Laskowski, Laskowicz or Leskowicz, Nossewicz or Nosewicz, Rouba, Stecewicz, Stecki, Wincza, Zapasnik and Zemojtel or Zomojtel
- we were near to HRODNA in the thirties of the 19th century (area of Skidal / Skidel, the places Jurevicze (the Konstantynowicz noble family lived here till 1952, the village Jurewicze = Jurevitshi is situated 1,2 km NW of Zuki = Shuki and 6 km E of Obuchowicze), Zytomlja = Jitomlia at the map of 1834 and Zydomlija now, Tolloczki / Toloczki: Jozef Konstantynowicz born c. 1842 and Adam born c. 1840/45; Ejsmonty: (i.e. Ejsymonty 4 km SW of Orechwicze = Orechowicze and 3 km NW of Toloczki; neighbourhood: families Lobaczewski, Lukaszewic of Fox arms, Obuchowicz and Eysymont i.e. the family Ejsmont, Eysmont, Ejsmunt, Eisimuntas, Eisimontas, Eysmat or Eysimont - for the first time information in 1539 and 1585 - area of Skidel, and in the Hrodna area 1632: a Ejsymonty Paszewicze farm; they were persecuted here in 1863; related to Czaykowski (Dorota nee Eysmont) house from the Trakai district in 1700, and also to Czarnecki family (Katarzyna nee Eysmont) from the Lida district in 1728 and to the Lobaczewski family in places Great Eysmonty and Siemionowka, to families Hlebowicz, Poljanowski, Konstantynowicz and Balewski from Bulewszczyzna; a certain Eysmont or Eysimont was related to Antoni Jelski son of Bazyli J. Jelski from Little Eysmonty Paszewicze in 1720; the noble Eysmont family lived in the Kovno district - village Mimale Panienie) here lived Kazimierz Konstantynowicz who was born c. 1850 near to Toloczki; Orechowicze: Walenty Konstantynowicz was born here A.D. 1870 and his brother Stefan)	- to Hrodna in the early eighties of the 19th century (Adam 2nd Konstantynowicz); and e.g. here in 1912 according to "Voters List Grodno Gubernia 1912" Konstantynowicz Wladyslaw son of Osip	- near to Kazlouscyna (the village Butlerowszczyzna / Butlerovshchisna; Napoleon Konstantynowicz lived here, born c. 1825, colonel of the January Insurrection 1863) after the November Insurrection, then in the thirties of the 19th century
- also near to Svencionys / Svencionus: the places Paragiszki / Paringis, Podciejkinie, Saule / Savuliai in the Zablociszki region = "volost", that is the Zacisze estate (by the small Ejsiata river near to Ceikiniai in the Daugeliskis parish; neighbours - Seyfert family of Hebryda arms in villages Zablociszki and Anastazow) by circa 1865 and at a later date property of Swiatecki family - information of 1886	- and to the Dryssa ujezd (i.e. in the district of Verchnjadzvinsk or Werchnedwinsk): villages Old Svolna and Svolna / Swolna (about here count Jozef Zarako Zarakowski) in the Vicebsk government	- the Konstantynowicz family also moved out to the "Polish Livland" (LATVIA today) in the parish of Malnov (the place Malnovskoi or Malnava in the district of Ludza = Ludsen and Kowalki farm or Kowali, about half square mile; 39,5 km north - east of Vilani and 35 km NW of Karsau i.e. Karsava) in the government of Vicebsk; many Roman Catholics persons laid off from bureaus in the Vicebsk government after 1863: Jan Konstantynowicz held a post of accountant, Kosma Konstantynowicz a hospital clerk, Wiktor Konstantynowicz the 1st writer
- following Konstantynowicz Konstantin, son of Alexandr / Aleksander Konstantynowicz, b. in Riga A.D. 1869 and died in Uzkoje estate ("Narrowly") near by Moscow = Moskva in 1924, he was member of the Ufa government office 1904 - 1917 in Baschkirische / Bashkortostan region, married Wiera Puszkin in 1894 - she was born 1871, daughter of Anatol Puszkin (1846 - 1905) and grandchild of Elzbieta Zagrazski (Russian noble house of Zagrashskije, for the first time information in 1493 - 1503) and Lev Puszkin (b. 1805 - died in Odessa 1852, who was brother of famous writer); the Uzkoje estate that was otherwise Uzkoje village, situated 15,5 km S-W-S of Moscow core in the suburbs of the capital i.e. 9 km from boundary of urban housing in 1917, and there are nowadays Litovskij bulvar Str. and Jasnogorskaja Str. near by Vitcevskij forest and also Tschertanovka river	- in the Estonia province (Wiktor Konstantynowicz the 2nd was born 1874 in Riga probably and died 1945 in Tallinn, the cemetery of Hiiu-Rahu Str. at Nomme area; was connected with Finland). Wiktor Konstantynowicz the 2nd got married to Alexandra nee Staroh - Siedoh / Sedoh (1877 - 1948 in Tallinn) and they lived in Nomme close to Tallinn - South of Tallinn nowadays - since 1918 (the Sëdoh / Sedoh / Siedoh family in Rakvere, Estonia and in Tatarstan now)	- Michail Konstantynowicz graduated from the Polack Orthodox Seminary in 1832
- the Zapole farm (in the POLACK / Polatsk ujezd, either the Polotsk or Polozk district, about 31 km N-W-N of Polatsk = Polack, near to villages Hyrlino and Ramosze at the map of 1859) in the government of Vicebsk; their neighbours: Kuzarewski, Newelski, Reutt (or Reut, Reutas of Gozdawa arms, known in 1655; in the Vicebsk province 1764, they were verified here in 1857; next of kin Rusiecki family in the Dzisna area; related to Kossakowski of Slepowron coat of arms and to Kukiel family of Leliwa arms from Horodcewicze and Horki in the Polack = Polatsk territory c. 1737; among other things Joanna Reut married to Michal Gano with by-name Lipski c. 1715 in the Vicebsk province - e.g. one of the Gano family, general Stanislaw Gano acted as a chief of the intelligence service of Polish Army 1943 - 1945; Romuald Reut - administrator of Chalopenicy estate in the Barysau district in 1812; Anna Reut (= Reutt) was related to Bortkiewicz family with Lubicz coat of arms, c. 1865) and Weryho either dukes Veryha, Veryha Darowski according to Kojalowicz, or Veriho - Darevski / Dareuski i.e. Verigas of Sreniawa / Szrzeniawa coat of arms in the Vicebsk A.D. 1420 and Polack provinces, also in Tver government in Russia; e.g. Franciszek Veriho - Darevski (i.e. Darewski Veryha who was an officer in Polack A.D. 1754) married Rozalia Koszyc, and next his daughter married Tadeusz Koziell Poklewski son of Michal Koziell Poklewski from Holowczyn i.e. Haloucyn = Holovsin 17 km NE of Bjalynicy, here the battle had taken place between Russians and Swedes in July 04th, 1708; and Benedykt Veryha in the Polack province A.D. 1764; persecuted in the Polack and Vicebsk districts after 1863; one of them, Ignacy duke Veryho / Weryho - who was born in Jekaterynburg A.D. 1876, in exile of his parents: Walerjan and Malwina Veryha / Weryho, insurgents of 1863 - was persecuted in U.S.S.R. and died at Solowezki Islands in 1930; the noble family related to Dauksza and Darowski	- they lived in BUDSLAU in the sixties of the 19th century (Jakov born c. 1810/1820 and his children Semen, Vikentij / Wincenty Konstantynowicz and Malwina Mancewicz), the district of Vilejka, too; the Mancewicz family came among other things from: Kiociszki, area of Eisiskes, the Lida district and Vilnius 1847/1858	- we were in the Smolensk government as early as the beginning of the 19th cent., thus Jewfimij Konstantynowicz finished the Smolensk Orthodox Clerical Seminary in 1825 (together with Czebotariev, Jeleniev, Cvietkov, Spiridonov). Also Konstantynowicz Elena daughter of Wasilij from the Smolensk region probably 18th cent., acc. to Shpilenko D. P. of 2006
- Chernigov: Sophia (Zofia) Konstantynowicz daughter of Alexander Konstantynowicz, married to Maksimowski; Sophia was born in 1852 and died in Cernihiv = Chernigov, south of Homel in 1878; was buried near by the Cernihiv orthodox church.	- Vilna remained the third capital of Polish culture for all 19th century long, thus here learnt also the Konstantynowiczs: 1. Iosafat Konstantynowicz finished the Lithuanian Orthodox Seminary in 1830 (complete with Govorski, Novicki, Ksavery Zdanovicz), 2. Josif Konstantynowicz here also in 1859 (together with Grinievicz, Kaliskij, Druzilowski, Dedevicz, Noskovicz, Stupnicki, Paszkievicz, Pavlovicz, Bursa, Jakutovicz and others), 3. Ignatij Konstantynowicz completed study here in 1863 (others: Bursa, Ivacevicz, Doroszevski, Timinski, Devaltovski, Szirinski), 4. Konstantin (3rd) Konstantynowicz here in 1890 (+ Malygin, Szirinski, Prigodinski, Mironovicz, Savicz, Sosnovski, Rozanovicz), 5. Vladymir Konstantynowicz educated himself in the Vilna Clerical Secondary School in 1913 (together with: Aristarch, Malevicz, Aleksandr Muczinski, Toszczakov, Michail Sollohub). I have derived the data on Orthodox schools from: http://www.petergen.com/spiskie.htm	- we were in Volhynia, the Russian Empire in the 19th century. I take note of them in a certain village near to Wlodzimierz Wolynski = Vladimir in the middle of the 19th cent. (Volodymyr Volyns'ky, Ukraine now), Horodlo next to above Vladimir after c. 1863 according to my correspondent of 2004, SOKAL (Austrian Empire formerly) and near to Wisniowiec in Volhynia (Russia in 1876 and what coat of arms ?) before the first World War. Adam Konstantynowicz was born in Vladimir c. 1800/1805, officer of the November Insurrection 1831 - that's a Volhynia Branch. The Ornatowski Volhynia armorial note: "(...) Konopnicki 1839-1873, Konsowicej 1862-67, Konstantinowicz 1838 - 55 (...)", see: http://www.ornatowski.com/index/herbarzwolynski.htm

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