...the positions of General Police Master and General-Gewaldiger of the active army with transfer to the Corps of Gendarmes, Chairman of the Investigative Commission during the first 17 years. In addition, from 1833 to 1849 also Chief Police Master of Warsaw, whereupon he received in 1833 the Order of St. Stanislaus 2nd class with a star, Major General and 10 thousand assignats, in 1835 a majorat in the Kingdom of 1500 silver rubles, in 1838 the Order of St. Stanislaus 1st class, in 1841 St. Anna 1st class; at the end of that same year Senator of the Warsaw Departments and Privy Councillor, retaining the chairmanship of the Investigative Commission; a year later a one-time reward of 6 thousand silver rubles, and after 3 years (in February 1843) in the position of Chief Director of the Government Commission of Internal and Spiritual Affairs of the Kingdom of Poland, further receives St. Vladimir 2nd class, the crown to St. Anna, and the White Eagle. On June 17, 1850, discharged with a uniform and a pension of 6750 silver rubles from the Kingdom, and retires to the Poltava Gubernia to the village of Chyvilcha, Lubny Uyezd, and from 1856 to 1857 spends the winter with his family in Odesa, from September 1857 to April lives in Kyiv, where he died; buried in Chyvilcha, at the holy church erected by him. A. Ya. was also a writer, placed poems in the newspapers and magazines of that time, for example: in the Russian Invalid, Slav (1831), articles about Mazepa, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, critically reviewed the 1st part of the Tales of the Beekeeper Rudyi Panko, under the title: "Thoughts of a Little Russian", published as a separate booklet, kept notes, some excerpts of which see in the 4th book of "Readings in the Imperial Society of Russian History and Antiquities" for 1871, Sec. V, p. 41, also in the 2nd book of the "Russian Archive" for 1873, pp. 175—54; moreover, he described the "Investigative Cases on Polish Emissaries"; some of them were printed in book 4 of 1870 of the above-mentioned "Readings," and compiled a large collection of very curious, according to the reviews of those who saw it, and diverse materials and papers, mainly relating to Little Russia, a library and a picture gallery: of these, the papers and library went to his eldest son, Vl. A., and the gallery to the youngest.
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many Little Russian noble families, especially from the left bank of the Dnipro, and many Cossacks, whose ancestors are in these “Registers”, either as rank-and-file holders, or simply as Cossacks, which at that time gave the latter the same rights as the gentry; and many of the common people (Pospolita) will also find here their Cossack ancestors, whose descendants over time, due to various unfavorable circumstances for them, and even often due to negligence about their right, subsequently lost it.
Another circumstance is also closely connected with this, namely: when looking at family names, we see that a huge number of them end in -ch (actually, by origin, edematous, raigoputisa potipa) and -skiy (derived from localities, etc.). These names for the most part belonged to nobles, gentry of Russian origin, and, moreover, in a predominant number to the Zadneprovsky (right bank), the current Provinces of Kyiv, Volyn, Kamenets-Podolsk, and modestly living on the left bank of the Dnipro. This shows that not all of our Old Russian nobility had by this time become Polish and Catholicized, but that which had become denationalized was already, willy-nilly, then had to act together with those who rose up against the oppressors, the Lyakhs, to join the regiments as warriors and defenders of their clan, land and religion. The smaller number with such noble nicknames in the left-sided Dnipro regiments is explained by the fact that here, in this “Vishnevechyna” (i.e., the possession of the Vishnevetsky Princes), which at that time contained almost all of the left-side Dnipro Ukraine, with its center, Lubny (really lying in the middle of it), the rebels terribly “aimed at their apostates, exterminating them everywhere with death, which, naturally, should have reduced their number significantly. What was not “exterminated” (exterminated, killed), then either hurried beyond the Dnipro, with the ruler of the Trans-Dnipro himself?
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