Question re : Town Same Name as Family Surname
Chan...@aol.com
I have been searching unsuccessfully for the surname MOROZOVSKY, my
family from Vinograd, Ukraine. Through contacts recommended by genner
Alan Wachtal, (one of which is an excellent book about the shtetl Vinograd
written by Abraham Gannes, another by a very knowledgeable Vinograd
native, Jean May ), I have learned that there are five towns beginning
with the word Vinograd on Mapquest, each having a different ending, i.e.
noje, ova, skiy, et al.
Fortunately, through these serendipitous contacts I believe I have been
able to pinpoint the correct Vinograd (which appears on Mapquest simply
as Vinograd, coordinates 4915 3034, 92 miles NW of Kirovohgrad). In c.1917,
my paternal grandfather, Benzion Morozovsky, was shot and killed in a
pogrom in Vinograd. From there, the family fled to Yelisevitgrad, which
today is Kirovohgrad, coordinates 4830 3218.
While searching for Vinograd on a map provided by Mapquest via
Looksmart search engine, quite by accident I came across a town called
MOROZOVSKA which seemed to be in the Vinograd vicinity. I then checked
with JewishGen mapquest and found a town spelled MOROZOVSKIY,
coordinates 4822 3525, which is 143 miles from Kirovohgrad.
My question: Does anyone know where I can find the origin and date of
the naming of Morozovska as a town? And, does anyone think it is even
remotely possible that my family MOROZOVSKY is connected with the town
Morozovska (or Morozovskiy) -- or might even have descendants who live
there now? Or have I succumbed to a deep case of wishful thinking?
And, finally, I am curious about some information I have recently come
across in researching Holocaust victims from Ukraine: Stalin's daughter
was allegedly married to a Jewish man named Morozov, whom Stalin
eventually ordered to be murdered. Later, his daughter married a non-
Jewish man. Has anyone else heard this? And could the shortened Morozov
once have been Morozovsky?
TIA for your thoughts.
Shalom.
Helene Morrow
Pittsburgh
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Alexander Sharon
> My question: Does anyone know where I can find the origin and date of
> the naming of Morozovska as a town? And, does anyone think it is even
> remotely possible that my family MOROZOVSKY is connected with the town
> Morozovska (or Morozovskiy) -- or might even have descendants who live
> there now? Or have I succumbed to a deep case of wishful thinking?
I'm affraid that it will be rather difficult to establish small village's
date of origin and the date of establishing. In event that you might come
accross some keen local township enthusiast, you might get lucky. But for
this you might undergo journey to the village, there are remote possibility
that this keen person is sitting next to computer.
"Moroz" and derivation of this name are quite popular in Russian ("moroz"
means a "frost"), and what in Russia is not connected with the frost and the winter?
> And, finally, I am curious about some information I have recently come
> across in researching Holocaust victims from Ukraine: Stalin's daughter
> was allegedly married to a Jewish man named Morozov, whom Stalin
> eventually ordered to be murdered. Later, his daughter married a non-
> Jewish man. Has anyone else heard this? And could the shortened Morozov
> once have been Morozovsky?
During W.W.II, Stalin's daughter Svyetlana Aliluyeva (she was known by her
mother's maiden name) as young schoolgirl was in love with the 40 years old
Jewish movie screenwriter, Alexei Kapler, famous Moscow's champion
"lady-killer". Alexei was banished by Stalin to Vorkuta for 5 years as an
alleged English spy. It could have been worse, but he survived. In 1944
Svyetlana married Grigory Morozov, fellow student from the Moscow
University, son of well-off Jewish intellectual family, and she gave birth
to son, and she named the child after Stalin, Joseph. She divorced him
shortly, and beside the fact that Stalin never met with his Jewish
son-in-law, there is no evidence that he was murdered. Svyetlana lately
married son of the Stalin henchman, Andrei Zhdanov, divorced him, married
East Indian journalist, and happily married some other guys.
Was Morozov family called Morozovski? Difficult to check it, family is not
probably so famous, as to trace their background. There was no particular
pattern for people assuming Russian sounding names.
Alexander Sharon
Calgary
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