Village of Kozlovichi

by Oleg Perzashkevich and Sergey Rybchenok

Kozlovichi before 1917

History

Before 1793 - Kozlovichi was a village in Rechitsa District of Minsk Province of Rech Pospolitaya.

1793-1917 - Kozlovichi was a village in Russian Empire.

Since 1801 - Kozlovichi was a village in Bobruisk District of Minsk Province.

1844 - after the Emperor permitted Jews to live in the rural area and to work in agriculture, Jewish agricultural colony was founded in Kozlovichi as Kozlovichi II.

Vital Statistics

Jewish Life

In 1844, after they obtained permission to live in rural area and to work on land, some Jewish families from that area mostly rented the land from the State and moved there.

In 1898 there were 301 Jewish peasants in Kozlovichi, who rented for money about 328 hectares of land. 19 local Jews were officially busy in non-agricultural sphere: trade and business. In contrast with the other Jewish agricultural settlements, the work on land was popular among Kozlovichi Jews, majority of them did it for living.

In the end XIX - early XX century there were 2 praying houses in Kozlovichi.

Economic Review

Traditional activities of local population were agriculture, chopping of wood and fishing in the local small influxes of Ptych river. That settlement was on the low importance road from Glusk to Brozha.

During Russian principality the authorities did a lot to develop the region because of military and fiscal reasons mostly. But Kozlovichi itself was a State-owned agricultural settlement, as many other ones in the area, and the authorities saw no reason to change or develop anything new there.

In XIX, because of development of the All-Russian Market, new types of communications appeared in the area in 1873. Construction of the railroad and highways provoked new increase of development of local settlements. But it did not effect seriously the development of Kozlovichi, because it was an agricultural settlement and the railway station was far from it. But local Jews succeeded in agriculture, especially in cattle growing and there were many wealthy Jewish households in Kozlovichi. In non-agricultural sphere timber business was popular as usual in that area.

Since 1873 to 1917 the closest railway station was 36 km afar from the Village in Bobruisk. It seems that there were no significant particular enterprises in Kozlovichi before 1917.

In 1909 there were 69 wooden houses in Kozlovichi II.

General cultural information

At the end XIX - beg. XX century in Kozlovichi there was nothing special.

- closest synagogue was 15 km afar in Glusk;

- closest post office was 15 km afar in Glusk;

- closest big enough settlement was 15 km afar (Glusk).

Bobruisk District Historical Economic Summaries

Provided by Minsk Historical Genealogy Group

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org