Thursday, March 19, 2015

Where Are My Samovars????

I've posted about the first pages in an 1899 court document regarding my Tolchinsky family hereherehere, here and here.  Gersh Tolchinsky (half brother of my great-great grandfather Hillel) had debts, and his family's samovars were taken to pay those debts--however the family entered an 1897 document into evidence to show that Gersh did not own the samovars and in fact had signed them and other property over to his mother and two of his siblings in 1897 for 48 rubles.

Here's the final summary & outcome of the case.
 Translation:


                                                                                                                                                            5
                                                Protocol
 of the Court Hearing of 17th of June, 1899, of the Zemsky Chairperson of the 4th Circuit of Nezhinsky Uezd in connection with the lawsuit of townpersons of the town of Losinovka Freida Meerova, Berka Simonov and Ekhva Simonova Tolchinskys against a Cossack of the town of Talalaevka Kiril Ivanov Bondarenko in connection with exclusion of property from the official inventory.

An act was presented from Notary Public Shepelev by mother Freida Tolchinska and brother Berka Tolchinsky, which showed that the samovars had been bought by the family from Gersha.
Final Resolution of the Tolchinsky Court Case


                                                Resolution                                          
                        By the Edict of His Imperial Majesty
of the year 18989, 17th of June, Zemsky Chairperson of the 4th Circuit of Nezhinsky Uezd, having considered the civil case by the plaintiffs of the town of Losinovka Freida Meerova, Berka Simonov and Ekhva Simonova Tolchinskys about the exclusion of [their] property from official inventory,

Found the samovar belongs to the family of Gersha Tolchinsky, and not to him alone, the samovar is to be excluded from the official inventory and to notify the Losinovka … Chairperson. /Signature/
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So now my question is--where are my samovars??

2 comments:

  1. Apparently most were melted down during WWII on order of Stalin to make bullets to fight the Nazis. So hopefully your family's samovars ended up killing Nazis, think I would be happy with that outcome.

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  2. And they lived happily ever after?

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