200px, The family coat of arms, "Wukry", in the version of 1784, 1876['' Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser'' IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018, p. 487, , .] and 1889
Wysoczański plural: Wysoczańscy (with by-names such as “de Weryha”, “Minkowicz” or “Pietrusiewicz”) is the surname of a Polish
szlachta
The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in the ...
(
nobility) family, which traces its lineage back to
Comes Vane Valachus
[ Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, ''A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański'', Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 1, , .] who was granted land in 1431 by Polish King
Ladislaus II. Jagiełło. Hereditary Chevaliers of
Galicia
Galicia may refer to:
Geographic regions
* Galicia (Spain), a region and autonomous community of northwestern Spain
** Gallaecia, a Roman province
** The post-Roman Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallaecia
** The medieval King ...
(“
Ritter”) since 1782.
Notable family members
* Albin Kazimierz Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, 1st Hereditary Chevalier of
Galicia
Galicia may refer to:
Geographic regions
* Galicia (Spain), a region and autonomous community of northwestern Spain
** Gallaecia, a Roman province
** The post-Roman Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallaecia
** The medieval King ...
1782,
landowner, Member of the Galician Parliament
['' Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser'' IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018, p. 487, , .]
*
Basil Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (1816-1891), 1st Hereditary Chevalier of
Galicia
Galicia may refer to:
Geographic regions
* Galicia (Spain), a region and autonomous community of northwestern Spain
** Gallaecia, a Roman province
** The post-Roman Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallaecia
** The medieval King ...
, wholesale merchant,
landowner, town property owner
[''Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser'' IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018, p. 497, , .] and philanthropist in
Odessa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...
about whom a biography was published in 1892 and a novel in 1930
[Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, ''A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański'', Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 8, , .]
* Wilhelmine Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz, only child of Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, heiress apparent to her father's fortune, died prematurely at age 19 in
Cannes in 1884, married to a
Swiss
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* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
*Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss Internation ...
rentier
Rentier may refer to:
* Rentier capitalism, economic practices of gaining profit by monopolizing access to property
* Rentier state, a state which derives national revenues from the rent of indigenous resources
* Operation Rentier, a German milita ...
[''Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser'' IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018, p. 498, , .]
* Bronisław Eugeniusz de Minkowicz Wysoczański (born 1881), 3rd and last Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Ph.D., novelist, industrialist, Honorary Consul of the
Yugoslavian Kingdom, Commander of the
Order of Saint Sava[Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, ''A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański'', Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 4, , .]
* Jakub Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (born 1974), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Executive Board Member of
Gemius S.A., President of the Board of Gemius Polska
[''Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser'' IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018, p. 497, , .]
*
Barbara Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz (born 1949), Madame, Olympic Bronze Medallist and Vice World Champion in fencing, wife of Chevalier Ryszard Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, Ph.D.
*
Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (born 1950), 6th Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, artist
*
Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (born 1975), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Ph.D., writer, art historian
[''Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser'' IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018, p. 493, , .]
In popular culture
Geography
* In
Sokal, a town in the
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...
, “one of the prettiest streets” was named after Eugenius, 1st Chevalier de Minkowicz Wysoczański.
[Bronislas, Chevalier de Minkowicz-Wysoczański, ''Wysoczańscy – Gniazdo i Ród 1380-1943'', Lwów 1944, vol I, p. 329.]
Literature
* In
Ivan Fylypchak's biographical novel ''Willpower'' (Lwów 1930; second edition Sambor 1999) the book depicts the life of
Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz[Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, ''A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański'', Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 8, , .] who is going by his real name in the book, although some facts were changed for dramatic reasons.
* In
Józef Dunin Karwicki's ''Memoirs of a Volyn Man'' (Lwów 1897) the author makes mention of
Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz.
* In
Janina Kościałkowska's memoir ''Beech Boat'' (Columbia 1993) the author mentions Hedwig de Minkowicz-Wysoczańska as the girl with "the whole Mikolasch Arcade in her dowry". Hedwig was the daughter of Bronislas, 3rd and last Chevalier, she married Stanislas Longchamps de Bérier.
The
Mikolasch Arcade was
Lwów
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...
's most famous shopping arcade with a length of 120 metres and a glass roof of some 18 metres width.
* In
Konstantin Paustovsky's six part autobiographical novel cycle ''Story of a Life'' the first part ''Distant Years'' (London 1964) is to a big part made up of the description of his Wysoczański relatives, as for example the three brothers of his mother who, according to Paustovsky, all attended the
Kyiv Cadet Corps and were all inscribed into the Kyiv Register of the Nobility.
[''Spisok dworian kijewskoj gubernii'', Kyiv 1906, p. 42.] Out of these Alexey was a tsarist
Colonel and "Uncle Kolja" was a
Major General who was murdered by the Soviets in 1929. The book includes a description of a ball in a country house as well as going fishing with Uncle Kolja in the dramatic Russian country side.
* In
Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański's memoirs ''A Chevalier from Poland'' (Kibworth Beauchamp 2016) the first chapter of the book recalls the history and notable members of the family.
* In
Demeter Więckowski's biography (Lwów 1892) the author describes the life of
Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz and the erection of the church he donated to his village of birth. The writer and poet Demeter Więckowski was married to Anna de Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz, a niece of Basil, 1st Chevalier.
[''Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser'' IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018, p. 498, , .] Their son was
Yaroslav Yaroslavenko
Yaroslav Yaroslavenko (March 30, 1880 – June 26, 1958) was a Ukrainian composer who wrote the music for " Za Ukrainu" and a son of Ukrainian writer and poet Demeter Więckowski and Anna de Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz.
He studied at the ...
, the composer, for whom Basil, 1st Chevalier, stood sponsor.
References
Sources
* ''Almanach. Polska towarzyska 1926 La Pologne mondaine'' (Warsaw 1926), Wyr-Wysz.
* ''Czy wiesz kto to jest?'' (Warsaw 1938), ''Uzupełnienia i sprostowania'', p. 200, pp. 352-353.
*
Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczanski, ''A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański'' (Kibworth Beauchamp 2016).
* Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczanski,
Tomasz Lenczewski
Tomasz Bogumil Lenczewski (born 28 December 1960 in Lodz), is a Polish heraldist, genealogist, canonist and second-hand bookseller. He is the continuator of the genealogies of the titled houses of Poland (following in the steps of Count Jerzy Sewer ...
, ''Genealogy of the de Weryha-Wysoczański Family'', in: ''
Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser'' XXX, vol 145 (Limburg an der Lahn 2008), pp. 412–420.
* Count Jerzy Sewer Dunin-Borkowski, ''Spis nazwisk szlachty polskiej'' (Lwów 1887), p. 518.
* ''Encyklopedia polskiej emigracji i Polonii'' 5 (Toruń 2005), pp. 234-235.
* Baron Georg von Frölichsthal, ''Der Adel in den historischen Ländern der Habsburgermonarchie vom 19. bis 21. Jahrhundert: Index zu seinen Genealogien'' (Vienna 2020), p. 366, p. 373, 2nd, revised and enlarged edition of ''Der Adel der Habsburgermonarchie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Index zu seinen Genealogien'' (Insingen 2008), p. 350, p. 356.
* Jan Gawron, ''Locators of Settlements Under Wallachian Law in the Sambor Starosty in XVth and XVIth C. Territorial, Ethnic and Social Origins'', in: ''Balcanica Posnaniensia. Acta et studia'', XXVI (Poznań 2019), pp. 269–290.
* ''
Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon'' XVI (Limburg a.d. Lahn 2005), pp. 117-118, ''Adelslexikon'' XVII, ''Nachträge'' (2008), p. 534, ''Adelslexikon'' XVIII, ''Register'' (2012), p. 419, p. 433, p. 276.
* ''Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser'' IV, vol 8 (Marburg 2018), pp. 486–498.
*
Friedrich Heyer v. Rosenfeld, Ivan v. Bojnčić, ''Der Adel von Galizien, Lodomerien u. der Bukowina'', in: ''J. Siebmacher’s großes Wappenbuch'' IV 14 (Nürnberg 1905), p. 244.
* Sylwester Korwin-Kruczkowski, ''Poczet Polaków wyniesionych do godności szlacheckiej przez monarchów austryjackich w czasie od roku 1773 do 1918. Dalej tych osób, którym wymienieni władcy zatwierdzili dawne tytuły książęce względnie hrabiowskie lub nadali tytuły hrabiów i baronów jak niemniej tych, którym zatwierdzili staropolskie szlachectwo'' (Lwów 1935), p. 54.
* Bronisław Minkowicz-Wysoczański, ''Wysoczańscy, Gniazdo i Ród 1380-1943'', 2 vols (Lwów 1944).
*
Kasper Niesiecki, ''Herbarz Polski'' 9 (Leipzig 1842), p. 459 and 10 (1845), p. 482.
* ''Poczet szlachty galicyjskiej i bukowińskiej'' (Lwów 1857), pp. 285-286, p. 334.
* ''Polak w świecie. Leksykon Polonii i Polaków za granicą'' (Warsaw 2001), p. 336, p. 423.
*
Sir Brooks Richards
Sir Francis Brooks Richards, , LdH, CdG (1918–2002) was a director of operations for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War, and subsequently a British diplomat.
Early life
He was born in Southampton on 18 July 1918 ...
, ''Secret Flotillas, Clandestine Sea Operations in the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Adriatic 1940-1944'', vol II (London 2004).
* ''Spis alfabetyczny obywateli ziemskich Królestwa Polskiego'' (Warsaw 1906), p. 140.
* Stephen Taylor, ''Who's Who in Central and East-Europe'' (Zürich 1937).
*
The Peerage'
* Demeter Więckowski, ''Basil Wysoczański and the new church in Wysocko Wyżne''
n Russian
N, or n, is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''en'' (pronounced ), plural ''ens''.
History
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(Lwów 1892).
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