Wysoczański

Wysoczański plural: Wysoczańscy (with by-names such as “de Weryha”, “Minkowicz” or “Pietrusiewicz”) is the surname of a Polish szlachta (nobility) family, which traces its lineage back to Comes Vane Valachus[1][2] who was granted land in 1431 by Polish King Ladislaus II. Jagiełło. Hereditary Chevaliers of Galicia (“Ritter”) since 1782.

The family coat of arms, "Wukry"
Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz
Madame Bronislas de Minkowicz-Wysoczańska, née Romaszkan by Juliusz Kossak
Jan, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz
St. Nicholas Church in Wysocko Wyżne donated by Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, built by Jan Lewiński
Mikolasch Arcade mentioned in the memoirs of Janina Kościałkowska as the dowry of Hedwig de Minkowicz-Wysoczańska

Notable family members
  • Łukasz Wysoczański, Polish Parliamentary Commissioner 1633
  • Mikołaj Wysoczański, Sanok Sword-Bearer 1648
  • Wacław Wysoczański, Member of the Polish Parliament 1690
  • Jan Wysoczański, Dobrzyń Sewer
  • Albin Kazimierz Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, 1st Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia 1782, landowner, Member of the Galician Parliament[3]
  • Antoni Wysoczański (ca. 1797-1874), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, landowner in Congress Poland, member of the Agricultural Society of Congress Poland
  • Basil Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (1816-1891), 1st Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, wholesale merchant, landowner, town property owner[4] and philanthropist in Odessa about whom a biography was published in 1892 and a novel in 1930[5]
    • Wilhelmine Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz, only child of Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz,[6] heiress apparent to her father's fortune, died prematurely at age 19 in Cannes in 1884, married to a Swiss rentier
  • Bazyli de Wysoczański, Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, landowner, married to the heiress of the Laszki Dolne estate
  • Wincenty Wysoczański, Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, son of a landowner, participant of the January Uprising in 1863
  • Eugeniusz de Minkowicz Wysoczański (1851–1913), 1st Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, son of a landowner, Mayor, Knight of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great
    • Kazimierz Józef Mieczysław de Minkowicz Wysoczański (1879–1944), 2nd Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, LL.D., Starosta, Government Commissioner
    • 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[7]
  • Włodzimierz Wysoczański (1883–1936), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, son of a landowner, agronomist, Polish Cavalry Lieutenant of the 8th Uhlan Regiment Prince Józef Poniatowski, Head of Division at the Polish Ministry of Trade and Industry, Curator of State Mining in the Republic of Poland
  • Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (1897-1959), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Polish Major, intelligence chief in Casablanca of the Polish government-in-exile in London during World War II, deprived of citizenship by the Polish communist government
  • Wiktor Wysoczański (1900–1940), Member of the Polish Parliament, murdered by Russians in the Katyn massacre in 1940
  • Maria de Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz (1924-2015), member of the Polish underground Home Army in World War II, recipient of the Golden Cross of Merit and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, daughter of Lt Włodzimierz, 3rd Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz
  • Ryszard Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (born 1941), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Ph.D., Director of the Education and Science, Sport Organization and Tourism Departments at the Ministry of Sport of the Republic of Poland, Director General of the Polish Athletics Federation, Vice-President of the Academic Sports Association of Poland
    • Jakub Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (born 1974), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Executive Board Member of Gemius S.A., President of the Board of Gemius Polska[4]
  • 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
  • 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[5] 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.[7] The Mikolasch Arcade was Lwów'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. 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.[6] Their son was Yaroslav Yaroslavenko, the composer, for whom Basil, 1st Chevalier, stood sponsor.

References
  1. Bronislas, Chevalier de Minkowicz-Wysoczański, Wysoczańscy – Gniazdo i Ród 1380-1943, Lwów 1944, vol I, p. 63.
  2. Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 1, ISBN 978-1785891618, OCLC 956765261.
  3. Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018, p. 487, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0, OCLC 995606854.
  4. Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018, p. 497, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0, OCLC 995606854.
  5. Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 8, ISBN 978-1785891618, OCLC 956765261.
  6. Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018, p. 498, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0, OCLC 995606854.
  7. Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 4, ISBN 978-1785891618, OCLC 956765261.
  8. Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018, p. 493, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0, OCLC 995606854.

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