My great, great uncle Andrei Kiebuzinski (1819-1893)

Andrei Kiebuzinski, below, is my great grandfather's uncle. He was the son of Oleksandr and Maria (née Dombrovska) Kiebuzinski. My great grandfather Iosyp likely lived with him after the disappearance and presumed death of his father.

Andreas (Andrei) Kiebuzinski (1820, Nehrybka - 31 Aug. 1893, Vereshchytsia (Wereszyca)) attended the Przemysl Gymnasium in 1833 and 1834, and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Seminary in Lviv (est. 1783) from 1842-1843. At the Seminary, he was disciplined once for playing checkers, and another time for being late for early morning prayers (Source: Studynskyi, Mykhailo. Lvivska dukhovna seminariia v chasakh Markiiana Shashkevycha, 1829-1843 (Lviv: NTSh, 1916), cxcvii, 338, 361). He was ordained a Ukrainian Catholic priest in 1844. In 1845, he was first assigned as an assistant priest to the parish of Mołodycz, Jarosław county. Beginning in spring 1846, he served as chaplain to the parish of St. John Chrysostom in Poliana, Shchyretskyi Deanery, and from spring 1849 as pastor to the Greek Catholic Church of the Nativity of the B.V.M. in Vereshchytsia, Horodok Deanery (located north of Horodok and west of Lviv), where he ministered for over forty years until his death in 1893. The parish numbered some 1200 members. (Source: Blazejowskyj, Dmytro. Historical Sematism of the Archeparchy of Lviv, 1832-1944 (Kyiv: KM Akademia, 2004)).

He married Victoria Radzykevych (Radzikiewicz)  (1823, Chotyniec-14 June 1853, Vereshchytsia) on 12 November 1844 in Zavadiv, Yavoriv district. She was the daughter of a Greek Catholic priest, Rev. Stefan Radzikiewicz, and Julia Lewicka. Her father was pastor for the parish of Zavadiv (Zawadow). Witnesses to the marriage included: Revs. Basil Kiczura (Chernyliava), Ivan Hankiewicz (Verbliany), and Ananias Maxymowicz (Nehrybka), as well as the landowner of Poruby, Felix Małachowski.

Andrei and Victoria had five children: Natalia (20 July 1845, Zavadiv - 7 June 1847, Poliana); Basil (Vasyl) (6 Feb. 1847, Poliana - 29 Sep. 1899, Przemysl); Malvina (27 Feb. 1849, Poliana - after 1915); Cecilia (20 Nov. 1850, Vereshchytsia - 12 Sep. 1927, Przemysl; married to Rev. Ivan Tsipanovskyi (Cipanowski) buried in the main cemetery 27B, 13, 1); and Victor (4 Sep. 1852 - 27 June 1853, Vereshchytsia). In Poliana the family resided at address no. 78, and in Vereshchytsia at address no. 1. Judging by the godparents to their children, Andrei and Victoria were close to Rev. Ivan Stefanowicz (Dobriany), Elizabeth Kisielewska (Krakow), Rev. Orest and Paulina Kiczura (Vyshenka mala, a.k.a. Malatyn), Rev. Teodor and Rosalia Krynicki (Vyshenka velyka), Rev. Petro and Barbara Blius (Blus) (Janiv, today Ivano-Frankove), among others. 

Malvina married a man named Josef Blus (probably the son of Petro and Barbara) sometime before September 1870, when she served as godmother to her younger sister's (Cecilia's) daughter's baptism. In November 1925, her sister Cecilia sought to determine Malvina's whereabouts, declaring her missing and presumed dead. The last Malvina was seen was in 1915, in the city of Włodawa, in eastern Poland on the Bug River, close to the present-day borders with Belarus and Ukraine, during the forced evacuation of the population to Russia (Obwieszczenia publiczne, Nr. 94 (25 Nov. 1925).

Andreas' only surviving son Bazyli / Basile Franciszek Kiebuzinski / Kiebusinsky completed his gymnasium studies in Lviv on 17 July 1865. He entered medical school in the year 1865/66, and received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Vienna on 21 Feb. 1871, and a specialization in surgery from the same institution on 12 July 1871. During his studies in Vienna, Basil lived at 16, Wahringerstrasse, in Vienna's 9th district (Source: Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für practische Heilkunde, v.18 (1872), p. 10; and Archiv der Universitat Wien). From 1875 to 1899 he practiced medicine in Przemysl. He worked for the Sluzba zdrowia (health service) there, and resided at no. 4, Plac na Bramie. In 1891, he was appointed acting head of the city hospital, though by 1892 and 1893 the position was listed as vacant. At some point he had a complaint with the governing council of Przemysl, which was rejected (Source: Erkenntnisse des K.k. Verwaltungsgerichtschofes, v.9, p. 211). Basil is mentioned in the Przemysl Memorial Book in the chapter about the old Jewish hospital in Przemysl of which he served as a consultant while director of the general hospital in Przemysl (Source:http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/przemysl/prz231.html).

Basil attended the 12th meeting of the International Congress of Doctors in Moscow in August 1897 (Source: Comptes-rendus du XII Congrès international de médecine, v.1. Moscow, 1900). For many years, 1879-1884, he served as a member of the Przemysl Dramatic Society (Source: Felczynski, Zygmunt. “Fredreum” i inne teatra przemyskie w latach 1696-1960. Krakow: Wyd-wo literackie., p. 334).

He died at age 52. (Source: Slownik lekarzy polskich XIX wieku, vol. 4 (Warszawa: Naukowe Semper, 1997), p. 209).

Dr. Basil Kiebuzinski, of 41, Przemysl, married Jadwiga (née Kieniewicz) Kiebuzinska (15 Oct. 1863, Pinsk - 2 May 1964, Otwock) on 19 June 1888 in Przemysl. Their marriage was childless. When her husband died eleven years later, she, a young widow, mourning his death, adopted her cousin's baby, who also soon died. Jadwiga spent the rest of her life to working with girls, working-class schoolchildren, poor orphans, and the sick. She also devoted her life to the service of the Roman Catholic Church and Poland. She lived in Krakow at ul. Wygoda 9 from at least 1913 to 1917 (see: Kalendarz Krakowski for the years 1913, 1914 and 1917), and in Warsaw from at least 1922 where she was associated with the St. Joseph's vocational school. She is buried at the Warsaw cemetery Powazkowski (Cmentarz Powazkowski w Warszawie: materialy inwentaryzacyjne, t.1 (Warsaw, 1980), 325).

Cecilia was married to o. Ivan Ciepanowski, a Greek-Cathlic priest (1843-9 Sep. 1889, Brodky; son of o. Ilia Ciepanowski and Rozalia Tekla Ostrowicz). He served the parishes Stradch (1870-1871), Poliana (1872-1879), and Brodky (1879-1889). Their children were:

• Maria (20 Sep. 1870, Stradch-?) was married twice: 1) Severyn Lewicki (d. 12. Dec. 1915) and 2) Myroslav Zderkovskyi (b. 22 Feb. 1872, Rozhirche-?)) 
• Ivan (1874, Rizdviany-25 June 1931, Kolomyia) was a highly distinguished physician. He completed secondary studies at the Academic Gymnasium in Lviv, and medical studies in Graz (1899). Afterwards, he furthered his training in Berlin and Dresden. He practiced medicine in Horodenka and Kolomyia. His wife Stefania and he had two daughters: Ivanna and Marta. Ivanna studied medicine in Vienna.
• Zenovia (4 Sep. 1876, Poliana-?) married Roman Hamchykevych (2 Sep. 1869, Leżajsk-?). They had two daughters: Iryna (16 July 1902, Przemysl-10 July 1941, Przemysl), married name Sozanska; and Ivanna, married named Filc.
• Julia Eustachia (30 May 1881, Brodky-23 Dec. 1959, Przemysl), married name Peters. She had a daughter named Ivanna (2 May 1917-8 Feb. 1979, Przemysl).
• Helena (21 July 1879-23 Nov. 1879, Brodky) 
• Basil (3 June 1889-5 Dec. 1889, Brodky) 

Rev. Andrei Kiebuzinski baptised most of his grandchildren. Zenovia and Eustachia attended the 1st State Teachers' Seminary in Przemyśl in the 1890s, following the death of their father. They were under the care of their uncle, Basil Kiebuzinski, and, together with their mother, resided with him at u. Franciszanska, 2.