House of Dubikowski
The House of Dubikowski – is an ancient Ruthenian noble family with the coat of arms of Ostoja, belonging to the heraldic Clan Ostoja (Moscics). The date when the Dubikowski family joined the heraldic Clan of Ostoja is unknown. This could have happened in the 15th century.
Families origin and prehistory
According to the family book, the ancestors of the Dubikowski family dedicated themselves to military service, knighthood on the coast of Prussia and priesthood in the Sacred Grove at the evergreen oak on the Dubissa River near the ancient capital of Samogitia/Zemaitija Ariogala. As per to family tradition, the legendary ancestor of the Dubikowski family was Oleg the Wise. Until the end of the 15th century, the family was known as Vedun family, which means a sorcerer, priest, magus, wise man, hierophant. The first known representatives of the family who used the Ostoja CoA were two brothers Martin and Matvej Vedun, who for their services to the fatherland were awarded for the reign of the last appanage prince Mstislavsky in the early 1500s.
The estates belonging to the family
Listed below are the most important lands belonging to the Dubikowski of the Ostoja CoA.
More important lands and estates: tract Pavlovskoe near Novogrudok; estate Dubejkovo near Mstislavl, estates near Smolensk: Poretskoye, Stankovo, Korenkovo and Folvark Kovalev; Verzhbolovo and Osovets, Usha Lyavshovskaya, the land of Belakovshchina, the land around , Korytno, and Zaluzhye in the Oshmiany region, the land in Zapatashnya, the estates Berezhanka, [Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast|Berezhanka], Domaninka, Kulikovo near Kremenets, Berdniki near Fastov.
Family representatives
Martin and Matvej Vedun – for their services to the fatherland, they were awarded estates near Mstislavl in the early 1500s during the reign of the appanage Prince Mikhail Ivanovich Zaslavsky .Samuel Dubikowski – for his chivalrous bravery received lands in the tract Pavlovskoe near Novogrudok from Sigismund III Vasa in 1592.Boleslaw Dubikowski – Smolensk's Deputy cup-bearer Hans Skopovny. They owned estate Kovalev in Minsk district. Hans Skopovny was the son of the Royal secretary, Skerstomon and Tendziagilski ruler in 1527–1529, Stanislav Skop from Dovsprung dynasty and his wife Princess Helena Andreevna Sangushko. Joannes Dubikowski – a nobleman, participated in the trial of the city Chelm court in 1634.Jan Dubikowski – soldier of the regiment of Capt. Włodimier Dagbog Kaminski, standard-bearer of Mścisłavl. His wife was Konstancia Miladowska, daughter of Treasurer of Orsha in 1656 Mikolaj Kazimierz Miladowski. They owned estates in the Smolensk Province Stankowo and Korenkovo.Katerina Dubikowska – in the late 1600s was the wife of the Polotsk guard Michael Surin. Michael Surin was the son of Elias Surin, colonel of the Lithuanian army and deputy starost of Mstislavl. They owned many estates in the Kiev land and Mogilev land including Hostomel. Previously, the Surins owned the Chernobyl Castie from 1548 to 1550.Mikhal Dubikowski – a comrade of the armored regiment ; he received from the king John III (Jan Sobieski) the rank of the Pinsk bridge guard in 1692. He owned several estates in the Mozyr district including the estates of Verzhbolovo and Osovets.Lauren Dubikowski – received the rank of Novogrudok cornet 'khorunzhy' from Hetman and Prince Mikhail Kazimir Radzivil in 1751. He owned the estates of Korytno and Zaluzhnoye in the Oshmiany region.Jan Dubikowski – a deputy at the Seimik of Minsk in 1787.Felician Dubikowski – warden of town Zudr in Mozyr district.Mikołaj Dubikowski – the supervisor and teacher of German at the Kanev Imperial College.Michal Dubikowski – the Rittmeister of Rechitsa in the middle-to-late 1800s.Grzegorz Dubikowski – the lancer regiment of the 1811.Jean Dubikowski – Chevalier of the 17th regiment of the Polish cavalry as part of the army of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw in 1812–1815.Felician Dubikowski – participant of the 1830-1831 uprising.Jozef Dubikowski – graduated from the Chernigov Provincial Gymnasium, titular councilor, physician of the Galician battalion of the Jaeger regiment, a collegiate assessor in Kremenets. Together with his wife Apolonia Radzyminska owned the estates Berezhanka, Domaninka, and Kulikovo near Kremenets.Jan Dubikowski – owner, together with his wife Agata Oranska, of the estate Berdniki near Fastov in the Kyiv province,. Married in 1770. Son Pavel.Faust Dubikowski – chief veterinarian of Horodok, [Lviv Oblast|Horodocki] region of Lviv district, military doctor of the 3rd rank. Faust invented a medicinal serum for pigs and horses. He was awarded by medals: Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the [Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"|For the victory over Germany], For the capture of Budapest, For the victory over Japan. Son of August.Taisia Slawinska – came from an ancient noble family of the Slawinski. She was the chief zootechnician, a deputy of the Horodocki region council. Taisia was the niece of Maksim Slawinski, a famous diplomat, translator, ethnographer, poet and writer. In 1906 M. Slawinski was a deputy of the first Duma of the Russian Empire, briefly served as a rector of the KPI, represented Ukraine in the interim government of Kerensky, was a representative of Ukraine to the Don Army, from 1919 headed a diplomatic mission from the UNR in Prague.Arnold Dubikowski – submariner-saboteur, personal guard of Marshal Zhukov. Served in the USSR and Libya, colonel in the reserve.Leonid Dubikowski – Doctor of technical sciences, scientist, public person, chorus man. Leonid had about 70 scientific works, including 30 scientific inventions. He worked in the system of Ukrainian SSR Academy of sciences: Institute of Cybernetics, Institute for Problems of Materials Science, Institute for Metal Physics.Tamara Kukhta – Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, scientist. She worked at the named by Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics. Her great-great-grandfather was Kuncewicz Gorgoniucz from an ancient noble family. Also Tamara's great-grandfather was Timofey Nikolaevich of the ancient Martynov family. His father, Nikolai Alekseevich Martynov a retired Major general, was the governor of Kamchatka during the Crimean War, and after in Poland he was the military chief of the Petrokov Province. Martynov's ancestors were related to the Paleologues, direct descendants of the last emperor of Byzantium, in the line of one of the brothers of Sophia Paleolog.Ari Ros AsUr KAN – the Head of the Great Eurasia global project''. Reserve Major, Arabists, Chorus man, PhD, Director of the . Author of about 35 scientific papers. Author of the monograph "", which was published in Russian, English and German. Author of the fundamental work "" . Researcher, collector and compiler of genealogy, author of a history book "" .