Grocholski Adolf Norbert Erazm (1797 – 1863), participant in the November Uprising, landowner, marshal of the nobility. Born on June 7 in Woronowica (Bracławszczyzna) as the son of Jan Nepomucen, starost of Trembowla, and Izabela from the Rytarowski family. He took part in the 1831 campaign with the rank of major, as an adjutant to Gen. Samuel Różycki; on behalf of this corps’ command, he was delegated from Kunów, along with Capt. Eustachy Januszkiewicz and envoy Ledóchowski, to arrange an armistice with Ruediger’s staff. Upon returning, he devoted himself to managing the Czerwon key near Berdychiv, where he owned a famous herd of Arabian horses. After his father’s death in 1849, he inherited the Woronowicki key. He was several times the marshal of the Konstantynów and Berdychiv nobility. During frequent trips abroad, he financially supported the emigration; he also significantly contributed to the foundation of the St. Kazimierz Institute in Paris. Before the January Uprising, he was a correspondent for the Hotel Lambert. He signed his reports with the pseudonym Norbert, and the funds collected for political action were sent to Paris, under the guise of family settlements, to Maria from the Grocholski family, Witoldowa Czartoryska. Grocholski’s first wife was Otylia from the Poniatowski family. He allegedly eloped with her for his brother Ignacy, but when Ignacy fell in a duel, he married her himself. After a long time, he divorced and married Wanda from the Radziwiłł family. He died childless on January 3, 1863, in Woronowica. The Czerwon estate, with a gallery of paintings and family mementos (totaling 16,000 hectares), was sold by the widow to the industrialist Tereszczenko. The Woronowicki key was inherited by his younger brother, Ludgard.
“Polski słownik biograficzny” vol. VIII, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Wrocław – Kraków – Warszawa, 1959 – 1960author Karol Rolle, p. 584
GROCHOLSKI Adolf Norbert Erazm (1797-1863) political and social activist; pseudonym: Norbert. He was born on June 7 in Woronowice, Racław County. He was the grandson of Franciszek → the son of Jan Nepomucen (1767-14, ХІ.1849, Odessa), starost of Trembowla, president of the Podolian Civil Court Chamber, marshal of the Bracław County and Podolian Governorate nobility, heir of the Woronowicki and Tereski keys in Volhynia (after his brother Antoni) and Izabela from the Ritarowski family. He had a sister Henryka, who was married to Franciszek Harleński, and brothers: Ignacy, an officer of the Polish army, who died early, Ludgard (1840 – after 1907) and Władysław (9.VIII.1841, Tereszki – after 1889). The latter two were sons of Jan Nepomucen from his second marriage, to Michalina from the Zejdler family.
G. spent his childhood and adolescence probably in Woronowica, the main family estate. His father brought many valuable pieces of furniture and collections from Tereszki to his palace; in Woronowica, he completed the construction of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel, founded by G.’s grandfather.
G. participated in the November Uprising with the rank of major as an adjutant to General С. Rużnicki. After the defeat of the uprising, he was sent to Kursk. However, a few years later, he managed to return home and protect the family estate from confiscation.
His father, during his lifetime, transferred to him Krasówka and Czechy of the Machnów (later Berdychiv) County, as well as Czerwona of the Żytomierz County, which constituted the Czerwon key. After his father’s death, the Woronowicki key (Woronowica, Hanszczyna, Soroczyn, Komarów, Stepanówka, Trościaniec, Lątanka, Szendery, Potusz, Szkyriwka, Izabelówka, and part of Kalniszówka) was initially co-owned by all the sons. After the inheritance division between G., the widow, the lifetime owner of the Tereszki estate (Tereszki, Malinki, and Monczynci from the Starokonstantynów County), and the underage Ludgard and Władysław with a separate act (from July 22, 1854) with their guardian B. Czetwertyński, G. received Woronowica, Hanszczyna, Soroczyn, and Izabelówka. He engaged in farming, and in Czerwona, he had a herd of Arabian horses.
He was repeatedly elected marshal of the nobility of the Starostoyanów and Berdychiv Counties. He often traveled abroad, where he financially supported Polish emigrants. He significantly contributed to the founding of the St. Kazimierz Center in Paris. Before the January Uprising, he was a correspondent for the Hotel Lambert – the center of the conservative Polish emigration camp in Paris. He signed his reports with the pseudonym Norbert, and the money transfers for political activities were sent to Paris under the cover of family settlements → M. Czartoryska. He was legitimized with Ludgard in 1841 in the Podolian Governorate (Władysław – 1859 there).
He was married twice. After divorcing his first wife, Otylia Poniatowska, he married the daughter of Prince Mikołaj Radziwiłł (from the Berdychiv line) and Wiktoria Emilia from the Narbutt family Bandoja (1828, Paris – VII. 1912, Lourdes), to whom he sold Krasówka and Czechy in 1858. He had no children in either marriage. In his will, bypassing his brothers, he bequeathed Woronowica, Hanszczyna, Soroczyn, and Izabelówka → T. Grocholski. The probable reason was a lawsuit filed against him by the Bracław County court by Władysław, who considered the conditions of the 1854 division act unfair.
G. died on January 3, 1863, in Czerwona, buried on January 17 in the family crypt in Woronowica. The Czerwon estate was sold by the widow to Tereszczenko. Т. Grocholski renounced (in 1864) the Woronowicki estate, and its next owners, according to the law, should be Ludgard and Władysław. The estate, at that time valued at 300,000 rubles, was burdened with debts, and the interest amounted to 291,367 rubles 60 kopecks. Ludgard also renounced his shares, while Władysław owned Trostianiec Latanetów, Komarów, half of the Tereski estate, and a house with a bread shop in Odessa in 1867, after filing a division act with his mother, who received Izabelówka, inherited Woronowica, Hanszczyna, and Soroczyn, but already in 1869, he sold them to M. Możajski. In 1874, he also sold Komariw to the Stepaniwska Sugar Factory Company. He was married to Kazimiera Seroczyńska.
Ludgard, an active participant in the January Uprising, belonged to the so-called “Nemirowska Organization” and was the treasurer of the insurgents from the Bracław County. After the uprising’s defeat, thanks to a local peasant, a Cossack from I. Mistoti’s manor, who sneaked into the palace at night and warned him that the house and park were surrounded by Russian soldiers, he managed to destroy compromising documents, thus avoiding exile to Siberia and confiscation of estates (according to the 1854 division act, he had Szendery, Potusz, Szkyriwka, Stepanówka, part of Kalniszówka, and half of the Tereski estate). However, as a suspect in participating in the uprising, he was forced to sell them forcibly, particularly the Podolian estates (except for Szkyriwka?) around 1868 – to M. Możajski. Some of the movables from the Woronowica palace, including valuable art collections and the family archive, he took to Tereszki. Later, he bought and sold various estates in Galicia and Russia several times. He married the widow of Władysław Grocholski (from the Kamieniecka line) Maria from the Rogoziński family, with whom he had a son, Ludgard.
PSB (К. Rolle); *Aftanazy, vol. 10, p. 407 (image of the father Ґ), 499-500, 506-508; Bobrowski, vol. 1, p. 258, 283, 284; Boniecki, vol. VII, p. 67; Uruski, vol. IV, p. 379-380; — **htlp://www.grocholski.pl/galeria.php?strona=2_40; — List of Podolian nobility, p. 165, 201; — DAVO: f. 470, op. 1, file 220, sheet 140 rev.-142, file 421, file 1723; f. 473, op. 1, file 69, sheet 23-24 rev., file 182, sheet 14-14, 17-17 rev., 115-115 rev., 133-133 rev., file 217, sheet 7-8, 221 -221 rev., file 221, 263,298,459,461,463,471; f. 480, op. 1, file 68, sheet 363 366, file 69, sheet 161-162 rev., 745-745 rev.; f. 507, op. 1, file 16, sheet 170 rev.–171 rev., file 20, sheet 64-69, 95-99, 520 rev.-522.
The biography is from the book FAMOUS POLES IN THE HISTORY OF VINNYTSIA by Ms. Wiktoria Kolesnyk.