LŪZNAVA MANOR AND ITS PEOPLE 19th–20th CENTURIES

Abstract

The present research is performed based on the method of source analysis with the objective to study cultural history heritage of the manor at the end of XIX century. Stanisław Kierbedź purchased this property in 1870. The Kierbedź family purchased Naudvaris (pl. Nowy Dwór) Manor in 1789. The old castle only remained authentic nowadays. In the Latvian State Historical Archives case 731, description 174, fund 1679 “The Project of Division of Dluzneva Manor’s” there is a notice that the manor consisted of 42 buildings. Earlier documents (questionnaires of All-Russian population census in 1897) contain information about older manor construction with 11 buildings which were once purchased by the privy counsellor S.Kierbedź. In the manor every person was registered in a book – name, sex, kinship, age, family state, rank, belief, place of birth, mother tongue, education and occupation were recorded. Most of seventy-three people of Lūznava Manor and village of Jaudzemki were farmers.