Zvolaneks Russian Passport 1886-1887. Two Sisters: Frantsishka and Anna. The update from Interinfo.

Dear Denise,

I hope we located first Russian passport of the Zvolaneks issued to them after their arrival in the Kiev gubernia. The 1885 registry of foreigners who received passports as residents of the Russian Empire does not list your ancestors (State archive of Kiev oblast: f.2, оp.145, file №867). For the first time, they were listed on the 1886 registry of foreigners (State archive of Kiev oblast: f.2, оp.145, file №906, p.83v). According to this registry, their passport was issued on 26 October 1886.

We succeeded in finding  it (State archive of Kiev oblast: f.2, оp.115, file №347, p.70). Their Russian  passport under # 3328  was issued on the basis of their Austrian passport issued in Khotebork (Russian spelling) on 30 July 1886 under #40. It lists Iogan Tsvolanek, his wife and three children (Iosiph, Eduard and Frantsishka). The passport also describes Iogan Tsvolanek's appearance.

As we now understand, Frantsishka was born in  Czechia. I think you may contact Czech archivists and ask them to verify this information. At the moment, I guess that Anna and Frantsishka maybe are  two different persons. As you remember according to the 1897 Census record Anna was 8  and her place of birth was the village of Yagubets.

According to the 1915 documents, they arrived in the Russian Empire in 1882/3. Please see my email 6 July. However, in 1915  they might simply forget exact date of their arrival. Or they really arrived in 1882/3, spent some time here and after that returned home. In this case, the 1886 arrival was second one in their life. You can ask Czech archivists to check if they lived in Krucemburk in 1882/3. However, at the moment  I suppose that they arrived in 1886.

Kind regards,

Serhiy