The Krupski family (, , , , ) is a Polish noble family. It is also a common surname in modern

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Origin

According to

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and

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texts, the original name was "de Krupe". A modern form of the surname appears in 15th-century Polish texts, and in 1534 a Latin text contains the name "Crupsky". In 1550, a Valery Crupski completed his studies at

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.). In 19th-century

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and

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texts, the name appears as Крупскій (Крупскі) or Крупский. Surnames in the

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became standardized after the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Polish Roman Catholic bishop

Jan Długosz Jan Długosz (; 1 December 1415 – 19 May 1480), also known in Latin as Johannes Longinus, was a Polish priest, chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków. He is considered Poland's first histo ...

(1415–1480), in his description of the

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, identified Krupski with Korczak and the family's ethnic group as the

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. The first known Krupski was diplomat and military commander Jerzy Krupski (1472–1548), who owned estates in

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(present-day

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and Krasnystaw Counties of

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) and built a fort in 1492.

Branches

Branches of the Krupski family are Korczak, Lewart, Kopacz, Szeliga, and Lew II.

Estates and churches

The family owned the Novoselki Igumen estate in the

Minsk Governorate Minsk Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Minsk. It was created from the land acquired in the partitions of Poland and existed from 1793 until 1921. Its territory covered th ...

of the

and the Kaverlyany estate in the Minsk province of the

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until 1742. Ezhi and Christina Krupski founded the Mother of God of Consolation (

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) church in Orchówek, near

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, in 1507. In 1727, Stanislav Krupski financed the construction of the Dominican monastery in

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Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Rzeczpospolita

A Krupski coat of arms was included in the

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() of the

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after the 1413

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. A

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John II Casimir Vasa John II Casimir Vasa (; ; 22 March 1609 – 16 December 1672) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1648 to his abdication in 1668 as well as a claimant to the throne of Sweden from 1648 to 1660. He was the first son of Sigis ...

and

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Zynoviy Bohdan Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky of the Abdank coat of arms (Ruthenian language, Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern , Polish language, Polish: ; 15956 August 1657) was a Ruthenian nobility, Ruthenian noble ...

contains the following: * Vasil Krupski * Olexa Krupski * Leonti Krupski * Yuri Afanasyevich Krupski * Timis Krupski * Jan Krupski * Michael Krupski

Russian Empire

Krupski was recognized in the

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of the

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on March 16, 1799 and November 12, 1811 as "a noble, ancient family" in a six-volume

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(). Some family members were not part of the Russian nobility, and paid taxes. Other branches of the family were included in the nobility of the

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and

Kiev Governorate Kiev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire (1796–1917), Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–18; 1918–1921), Ukrainian State (1918), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–19 ...

s. The family were members of the

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and the

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and

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es. In the

, some became Orthodox

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USSR

Nadezhda Krupskaya Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya ( rus, links=no, Надежда Константиновна Крупская, p=nɐˈdʲeʐdə kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvnə ˈkrupskəjə; – 27 February 1939) was a Russian revolutionary, politician and politic ...

, wife of

Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...

, was a member of the family. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, 772 family members died in military service; Polish officer Roman Krupski was killed in the

Katyn massacre The Katyn massacre was a series of mass killings under Communist regimes, mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish people, Polish military officer, military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by t ...

. Ninety family members were repressed by the Communist regime and rehabilitated posthumously.

Variants

The masculine form in

is Крупскі; the

form is Krupski, the

form is Крупский and the Ukrainian form Крупський. The feminine suffix is -aya (Krupskaya). In English-speaking countries, the gender difference is not observed.

Diaspora and toponyms

More than 2,000 descendants live primarily in

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, Poland and

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, and a smaller number live in Latvia, Estonia, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Italy, the US (which recorded the first Krupski immigrants from Europe in 1880), Canada, Australia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Israel and South Africa. Krupski is a district in the Minsk Region of Belarus, and Krupski Młyn is a commune and village in Tarnogur County,

Silesian Voivodeship Silesian Voivodeship ( ) is an administrative province in southern Poland. With over 4.2 million residents and an area of 12,300 square kilometers, it is the second-most populous, and the most-densely populated and most-urbanized region of Poland ...

, Poland.

Notable family members

Andrey Kurbsky Prince Andrey Mikhailovich Kurbsky (1528?–1583) was a Russian political figure, military leader, and political philosopher, known as an intimate friend and then a leading political opponent of the Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible (). He defected ...

,с.504-506 tom 1 (Index, Tesserae gentiliciae in regno Poloniae s M. D. Lit.),"Orbis Poloni", Simone Okolski, Cracov, 1641; c.554 (herb Krupskich), “Poczet herbow szlachty Korony Polskiey y Wielkiego Xięstwa Litewskiego: gniazdo y perspektywa staroświeckiey cnoty”, Potocki Wacław, Kraków, 1696 r.;с. LII "Skorowidz do herbow" (с. 871) «Herby Rycerstwa Polskiego. przez Bartosza Paprockiego zebrene i wydane r. p. 1584 (1789). Wydanie Kazimierza Jozefa Turowskiego. Kraków. Nakladem wydawnictwa biblioteki polskiej. 1858» from the Lewart branch of the family in the

, Soviet official and wife of

* Janusz Krupski, Polish historian and official *

Dania Krupska Dania Krupska (August 13, 1921 – August 27, 2011) was an American dancer and choreographer. Krupska was born in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1921 to Polish immigrants, Bronisław and Anna Krupska. Anna, a concert pianist who had studied ballet ...

, American dancer and choreographer

Notes

References

* "Ogrod krolewski", Paprocki Bartlomiej, D. Siedlczanski, Praga, 1599 r. * str.93, Tom 8, "Rodzina Herbarz szlachty polskiej", S. Uruski, Poznan, 1997. * str.222, t.1, "Urzednicy Wielkiego ksiуstwa Litewskiego (Spisy)", Warszawa-2001; t.1 "Wojewodstwo Wilenskie. XIV-XVIII wiek", pod red. A. Rachuby; t.4, Warszawa-2003; "Ziemia Smolenska i wojewodstwo Smolenskie XIV-XVI wiek"). * выпуск 1-31, "Историко-юридические материалы, извлеченные из актовых книг губерний Витебской и Могилевской, хранящихся в Центральном архиве в Витебске и изданные", Созонов, Дм. Ив.Довгялло, губернская типо-литография, г. Витебск, 1871–1903. * том I-XXXIX, "Акты издаваемые Виленскою Археографическою Комиссиею для разбора Древних Актов", г. Вильна, 1865–1915.
Herbarz Wołyński - opracowanie: Towarzystwo "Pro Archivo", Kraków
(Krupski 1866–1909, Krupski 1839–64, Krupski 1802-48) * str. 123–156, S. Dumin, S. Górzyński. Spis szlachty wylegitymowanej w guberniach grodzieńskiej, mińskiej, mohylewskiej, smoleńskiej i witebskiej. - Warzsawa: DiG, 1993 r. (стр. 123–156, С. Думин, С. Гуржинский. Список дворянства, утвержденного в Витебской, Гродненской, Минской, Могилевской и Смоленской губерниях. - Варшава: DiG, 1993 г.) * стр. 25, "Смоленская шляхта", под редакцией Б. Г. Федорова, том II, издательство "Русское экономическое общество", 2006 г. * str. 58–59, "Herbarz szlachty prowincyi Witebskiej", wydanie Herolda Polskiego, w Krakowie, 1899 r. * str. 93, tom IX, "Herbarz Polski", Kaspra Niesieckiego S.J., w Lipsku, 1842 r. * str. 223–227, str. 396, tom 5, "Herbarz Polski", Kaspra Niesieckiego S.J., w Lipsku, 1840 r. * str. 349–351, tom XII, cz. 1, "Herbarz Polski", Adam Boniecki, Warszawa, 1908 r. * str. 189, "Spis nazwisk shlachty Polskiey", Jerzy Sewer Hr. Dunin-Borkowski, Lwow, 1887 r. * str. 240, "Zbior nazwisk szlachty", P.N. Małachowski, Lublin, 1803 r. * str. 177–182, tom 1, "Herby szlachty Polskiej", Zbigniew Leshchyc, w Poznaniu, MCMVIII r. * str. 53, cz. 1, "Wiadomość o kleynocie szlacheckim oraz herbach domów szlacheckich w Koronie Polskiey i Wielkim Xięstwie Litewskim", E.A. Hr. Kuropatnicki, Warszawa, 1789 r. * str. 194–230, t.1, "Monografie historyczno-genealogiczne niektórych rodzin polskich", S.K. Kossakowski, Warszawa, 1859 r. * str. 376–387, t.1, "Herbarz wielu domow Korony Polskiey y W. X. Litewskiego", Stanislaw Jozef (A Duneburg) Duńczewski, "Zamoicii in Collegio Universitatis", z drukarni B. Jana Kantego (Kraków), (Menfis) 1756 r. * Brzezina Winiarski A. Herby Szlachty Rzeczypospolitej. - Warszawa, 2006. * Znamierowski A. Herbarz rodowy. - Warszawa, 2004. * "Перапiс войска Вялiкага княства Лiтоускага 1528 года", г. Мінск, 2003 г. {{Coats of arms of Polish families Lithuanian noble families Polish noble families History of Lithuania (1219–1569) Ruthenian noble families