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Page 2 of 10  Michał Radzimiński also had plent - five - children, with Małgorzata née Kamieńska. Of whom two sons and daughter died without leaving descendants. Pietniczany and Sabarów, Soroczyn, Woronowica and Stepanówka were inherited by the second daughter, Anna, who contributed the same as a marriage portion to her husband, Michał Grocholski from Grabów. Born in 1705, Michał Grocholski crest Syrokomla first served in the armoured company of prince Janusz Wiśniowiecki, castellan of Kraków, where he was promoted to lieutenant. Then as a deputy hetman to the Ukrainian and Volynhian party he fought against invaders, for what he was nominated by King August III his personal cavalry captain. He was also deputy to Sejm (parliament) for two terms, and gained recognition as an excellent lawyer, when occupying the position of district judge of the Bracław voivodeship. Apart from sums located on several properties, Michał Grocholski did not inherit any personal assets from his father. However, he managed his wife?s properties well enough to boost their value in a short time.  He contributed to the Polish society of Rutenian lands, by founding in 1760 in Winnica a church and convent for Fathers Dominicans, he also decorated the already existing church of the Jesuits with several altars and a pulpit. In addition to those, he erected a chapel in one of his properties - Tereszki.In Pietniczany itself, jointly with his son Marcin, Michał Grocholski erected the foundations of a new castle/palace, hiring Tartar and Turkish prisoners to build it. It was designed as a fortified stronghold with extremely massive walls, iron bars in windows, towers, shooting holes and double gate. Thus a small square fortress, adapted as a living room and to repel possible attack, was built. For the time being it had one storey, with two-storey towers in the corners. At two sides of the castle, at a limited distance, two other square one-storey towers stood, the point of start for moats and embankments surrounding an oval, several-hundred-metres-long fortress maidan. The enbankments were closed by a vaulted entrance gate with two adjacent rooms. At the curve of moats and enbankments there was yet another small cylindrical one-storey tower.  Michał Grocholski (died 1765) also had numerous descendants, specifically five daughters and two sons. As part of family attributions done in 1771, the younger Franciszek received from his parents Tereszki and Malinki, attributed to the Grocholskis from the Ostróg entail, then Woronowica, Stepanówka and Soroczyn, Komarów and Michałówka, i.e. Kostkopol, purchased from the heirs of Adam Olizar, the Trościanek keystone purchased from Stanisław Szandyrowski and other, partial owners, Łataniec purchased from priest Kajetan Rościszewski, and the manor house in Dubno and half of the life estate on the Zozów keystone. The older son Marcin (1727 - 1807), the last voivode of Bracław, starost of Szeroka Grobla and Kruszlin, first married to Cecylia Myszka-Chołoniewska, and later for the second time to Antonina Gałecka, (first married name Łoska), deputy to Sejms, supporter of King Stanisław August and the Constitution of 3rd May (1791), took the Hryców keystone with several manor farms, where he erected a new palace - Strzyżawka - purchased by Michał Grocholski from Antoni Potocki, Desna, or Michałówka with Kołomyjówka, Ławrówka, Prehórka, Stadnica and finally Pietniczany itself plus the manor house in Winnica, as well as the second half of the life estate on the Zozów keystone, manor in Lwów, etc. Each of Michał Grocholski?s five daughters received 60 000 zlotys of dowry. Thus the total assets he left were very considerable. Voivode Marcin Grocholski preferred to live at his new palace in Hryców, he also spent some time at Pietniczany. He did not enlarge the remarkable inheritance of his father. After his death, the properties were additionally split into smaller parts. By force of the attribution done by the voivode in 1792, yet before his death, they were split between five sons from the first marriage: Jan, Camp Leader of the Crown, Michał, starost of Zwinogród, Mikołaj, governor of Podolia, and Ludwik. Only son Adam, the second in line did not take over his patrimony, as he fell in the battle of Maciejowice. Pietniczany was attributed to Michał Grocholski (1765 - 1833), married to Maria Śliźniówna. They moved to the Pietniczany castle right after the wedding and exactly in their time it was subjected to first basic transformations.                         |
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