Author: GORZHKOWSKI Maryan
Title: On the Ruthenian and Russian nobility
- Place of publication: Kraków
- Year of publication: 1876
- Publisher: with the fonts of the printing house of "Czas". Printed by the Author
- Number of pages: [4], 220
- Illustrations, maps: ---
- Size: 21 cm
- Binding: hard half cloth
- Condition: rubbing of binding, small tear of 2 pp.
- ISBN: ---
Description:
Issue 1.
"If Polish heraldry has for three hundred years so richly developed in our literature that it constitutes a separate section of it - and for a long time it has contained such abundant materials that there is no Chronicle, Memoir, Sylvarerum, Raptuler, Universal, Acts, etc.., where there would not be major or minor sources for it; these sources are so wide-ranging in their coverage of events and have covered such a vast area of provinces and countries that not only Lviv, Krakow, Gniezno, Poznan, Vilnius, Kiev, but also Minsk, Smolensk, Mogilev, Chernigov, Poltava, Kharkov, in a word, all today's countries and cities even beyond the Dnieper, must resort to us when they feel like finding memories of their ancestors, whatever their religion and origin, or of their estates." (from Chapter I )
The work contains a huge amount of important as well as interesting information on the Rusyn and Russian nobility its close ties with Poland and its connections with the Grand Duchy of Moscow.