Sources
This history is built on 195+ primary and secondary sources
of the 16th–19th c. — registers, maps, diaries, acts and monographs,
verified against the originals. 38+ of them contain direct mentions of Miastkivka
or its surroundings.
Document collections and registers
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Acts
AYuZR (Архивъ Юго-Западной Россіи), 36 vols. (1863–1914).
The principal publication of documents on Right-Bank Ukraine.
Hearth-tax registers of 1629 and 1664 (VII.2), the 1654 siege (X),
the 1674 Crimean campaign (XI), Jewish censuses of 1765–1791 (V.2).
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Acts
Акты отн. к исторіи Южной и Западной Россіи, vols. 7, 11, 12 (1863–1882).
A parallel series; vol. 11 contains three independent accounts of the khan's camp
at Miastkivka (1674).
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Register
1649 Register of the Zaporozhian Host (Todiichuk et al., 1995).
The Miastkivka (Mistkivska) sotnia of the Bracław regiment — 11 Cossacks.
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Acts
Volumina Legum, vols. 7–9 (St. Petersburg, 1859–1860).
The complete corpus of resolutions of the Sejms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Jaroszyński as commissioner for Bracław; the Miastkivka parish among the sejmik parishes.
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Acts
Metryka Koronna MK 180–190 (AGAD, Warsaw; reign of Władysław IV, 1633–1650).
Summaria (regesta) of the royal chancery.
The 1636 Zamoyski/Czetwertyński delimitation along the Kosnica river.
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Acts
CDIAK (Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, Kyiv), f. 256 (Zamoyski fond), 11 vols. of indexes.
The geographical index records Miastkivka, Markivka, Kosnica, and the Czetwertyński key.
10+ priority case files for archival search.
Armorials (herbarze)
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Herbarz
Niesiecki K., Herbarz polski, 10 vols. (ed. Bobrowicz, Lipsk, 1839–1845).
Kasper Niesiecki — a Jesuit, author of the most comprehensive Polish armorial.
Entries on the Koniecpolski, Lubomirski, Czetwertyński, and Jaroszyński families.
Antoni Prince Czetwertyński — owner of "Kamiennym Januszgrodzie".
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Herbarz
Boniecki A., Herbarz polski, vols. 1, 4, 8, 9 (Warszawa, 1899–1906).
Adam Boniecki — genealogist, participant of the January Uprising.
Vol. 4: the Czetwertyński and Koniecpolski families. Vol. 8: the Jaroszyńskis —
Mikołaj (1742–1805), owner of Miastkivka, deputy of the Four-Year Sejm;
Jan (1783 – 1842), marshal of Olhopil.
Koniecpolski family documents
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Documents
Przyłecki S., Pamiętniki o Koniecpolskich (Lwów, 1842).
Stanisław Przyłecki — publisher of the family's documents.
Connotatio dóbr (1672) — a list of estates: Kamienobrod and Miastkowka
as separate towns. Oblata Donacyi — the transfer of estates by Stanisław Samuel.
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Monograph
Rawita-Gawroński F., Studya i szkice historyczne (Lwów, 1903).
The title of Józef Lubomirski (1751): "Miastkowce, Tomaszpolu, Raszkowie, Sawraniu" —
confirms the Lubomirskis as owners of Miastkivka.
Eyewitness accounts
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Diary
Paul of Aleppo, Путешествіе Патріарха Макарія,
trans. Murkos (1896–1900).
Archdeacon who accompanied the Patriarch of Antioch through Ukraine.
Described Miastkivka in June 1654: "a wooden wall and крѣпость (fortress)",
the churches of the Theotokos and of St. Nicholas.
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Map
Guillaume Levasseur de Beauplan, Description d'Ukranie (c. 1637–1639, publ. 1650).
French military engineer in the service of Koniecpolski.
Built fortresses along the Dnieper; himself founded Savran/Nowy Koniecpol (1634–1635).
Kamionobrod is marked on the map.
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Diariusz
Oświęcim S., Dyaryusz 1643–1651 (SRP vol. XIX, Kraków, 1907).
A nobleman of the Koniecpolski entourage.
The hetman's estate inspection (1643): Markivka-Savranska — "słoboda i miasteczko".
The 1649 register: the Misiakowska (= Miastkivska) sotnia — 259 Cossacks.
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Chronicle
Kochowski W., Annalium Poloniae Climacter I–II (1683–1688), Latin.
Wacław Kochowski — court historian.
Obituary of Aleksander Koniecpolski: "100+ towns in Ukraine".
Monographs and studies
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Monograph
Jabłonowski A., Źródła dziejowe, T. XX–XXII:
Ziemie ruskie (Warszawa, 1894–1897).
Aleksander Jabłonowski — historian of the Right Bank.
The 1629 hearth-tax taryfa, the 1626 purchase deed (7 sieliszcza for 30,000 zlotys),
the basin of the Kosnica as "a wilderness until the 17th c." The principal source on colonisation.
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Monograph
Krykun M., Брацлавське воєводство у XVI–XVIII ст. (Lviv, 2008).
Mykola Krykun — a Lviv historian, specialist on the Bracław region.
Toponymic dictionary: separate entries for Miastkivka (p. 244) and Kamianobrod (p. 280).
Kosnica = Kouczeniecz on Beauplan's map.
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Monograph
Krypiakevych I., Адміністративний поділ України 1648–1654 рр. (1966);
Полуднева Україна в часі Б. Хмельницького (unpubl.).
Ivan Krypiakevych — academician, pupil of Hrushevsky.
Cossack sotnias; castle + 2 churches (1654); "a fortress by the Kuczmański Trail".
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Monograph
Rolle J.A. (Dr. Antoni J.), Zameczki podolskie na kresach multańskich,
3 vols. (Kraków, 1880).
Józef Antoni Rolle — physician and regional historian of Podolia.
Vol. 1: Kalinowski's testament (1652) — "Miaskówce" among 12 estates.
Vol. 3: Miastkivka in the list of the "Krasne domain" (61 towns, 99 villages).
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Monograph
Epsztein T., Wielka własność ziemska w guberni podolskiej
(Inst. Historii PAN, 2017).
Register of landowners' estates 1820–1849.
Miastkivka (entry 1021): owner Jaroszyńska Waleria, 2,991 souls, 6 hamlets.
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Memoirs
Heleniusz E. (Iwanowski), Pamiątki polskie, 2 vols. (Kraków, 1882).
The transfer of estates Koniecpolski → Lubomirski (c. 1724),
the 1744 tribunal decree against the claims of the Chalayims.
Encyclopaedias and reference works
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Encyclopaedia
Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego, 15 vols. (1880–1902).
The largest geographical encyclopaedia of Poland and its former provinces.
Article "Miastkówka" (vol. 6); Szumiłówka = Markówka (vol. 11);
Pawlikówka and Wołoszczyzna — "suburbs of Miastkivka" (vols. 7, 13).
Mentions found across 10+ volumes.
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Description
Marczyński W., Opisanie gubernii podolskiey, T. III (Kamieniec, 1823).
Wawrzyniec Marczyński — official of the Podolian Governorate administration.
The PLC privilege, limestone, population.
Ecclesiastical sources
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Church
Sietsinskyi Y., Приходы и церкви Подольской епархіи (1901).
Yukhym Sietsinskyi — priest and regional historian, head of the
Podolian Diocesan Historical-Statistical Committee.
Parish no. 1031 "Miaskovka": stone church (walls one sazhen thick!),
3 names (Shumylov → Miaskovka → Miastkovka), 7 Tatar burnings,
4 churches of the 18th c.
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Church
Szczepaniak J., Diecezja kamieniecka około 1831 r.
(Kraków, 2015), 3 parts.
Jan Szczepaniak — Kraków historian of the Church.
Critical edition of the 1831 schematism.
The kościół in Miastkivka: 1747, Prince Józef Lubomirski,
dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. 1785 renovation — Bielski + Jaroszyński.
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Church
Simashkevych M., Римское католичество и его іерархія въ Подоліи (1872).
The kościół "въ м. Мястковкѣ, въ 1785 году, основанный кн. Бѣльскимъ".
Three kościoły of the Bracław region 1785–1786: Miastkivka, Chechelnyk, Raszków.
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Church
Rosowski W., Akta wizytacyjne parafii dekanatu Bałta (2013).
Visitations of the Balta deanery.
The Miastkivka parish among 9 Roman Catholic parishes.
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Archive
Metrical book of the Annunciation church, town of Miastkivka, 1752–1772 (CDIAK).
The earliest known metrical book of the village. The manuscript is barely legible.
19th-century statistics and descriptions
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Statistics
Gul'dman V.K., Подольская губернія. Опытъ описанія (1889).
Governorate statistician. "м. Мястковка": 564/5,400 souls of both sexes,
818 households, 2 churches, a kościół, a synagogue, a pharmacy, 52 market days.
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Statistics
Tveritinov M., Военно-стат. обозрѣніе Подольской губ. (1849).
Olhopil uezd: "м. Мястковка", 395 souls, 120 households, a church, on the Shumylivka river.
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Statistics
1897 Census (Podolian Governorate).
The first general census of the Russian Empire.
Miastkivka: c. 8,000 inhabitants, of whom c. 2,100 were Jews.
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Description
Batyushkov P., Petrov M., Подолія. Историческое описаніе (1891).
The kościół founded by Bielski in 1785 (after Simashkevych).
The Koniecpolskis and Kalinowskis among the principal owners of the Bracław region.
Jewish sources
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Study
Lukin V., Sokolova A., Khaimovich B.,
100 єврейських містечок України, vol. 2 (Kyiv, 2000).
A full article on the Jewish community of Miastkivka (c. 6 pp.):
18th-c. cemetery, 61 artisans (1832), a factory in Komargród (1836),
the 1917 pogrom, Denikin's troops 1920 (c. 50 killed).
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Online
myshtetl.org / JewishGen.
Population: 600+ (1765) → 2,105 (1897) → 832 (1939).
A stone synagogue, 2 prayer houses, a cemetery with 18th-c. headstones.
Ottoman and Moldavian sources
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Travel
Evliya Çelebi, Seyahatnâme, vols. 5–10
(ed. Üçdal, 1960–1969; critical ed. Yapı Kredi).
Ottoman traveller. The 1657 campaign:
Chocim → Raszków → Mohyliv → Kamieniec → Bar.
Miastkivka is not mentioned (only fortresses are described), but the regional context.
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Chronicle
Hammer-Purgstall J., Histoire de l'Empire Ottoman, vol. 11 (1837).
Route of the 1674 Turkish-Tatar campaign:
Soroca → "Istené" (= Stina) → "camp de Komar" (= Komargród?) → Ladyzhyn → Uman.
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Chronicle
Cronici turcești, 3 vols. (Bucharest, 1966–1974), Romanian translation.
The 1674 campaign: "Cucerirea palancii Istone" (= Stina), "Cucerirea palancii Ladzyn" (= Ladyzhyn).
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Chronicle
Miron Costin, Letopiseţul Ţării Moldovei (1594–1661).
Moldavian chronicler. The Koniecpolskis mentioned 20+ times, Raszków (Dniester crossing).
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Chronicle
Ion Neculce, Letopiseţul Ţării Moldovei (1661–1743).
Kamieniec c. 80 mentions; Raszków, Mohyliv, Nemyriv. The border of Ottoman Podolia.
Modern scholarly editions
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Monograph
Lehun Y., Топографічний опис Подільської губернії
(scholarly edition, 2025).
The Annunciation church (1708), Zelenskyi as founder, local tradition.
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Documents
Krykun M., Piddubniak O., Vinnychenko O.,
Документи Брацлавського воєводства 1566–1606 рр. (Lviv, 2008).
427 documents; Sigismund III's privilege to the Szaszkiewiczes for founding the town of Kosnica (1605).
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Monograph
Kołodziejczyk D., Ottoman-Polish Diplomatic Relations (Brill, 2022).
Ahdnames, border demarcation, the Koniecpolskis in diplomatic relations.
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Local history
Hyzhko V., Boiko-Sokolovska T.,
У пошуках зниклої церкви (2021–2024).
Decipherment of an 1809 archival file on the dilapidated St. Michael's church
in Rotmistrivka. It helped establish that Rotmistrivka had two churches
simultaneously — not in succession, as was believed. At its peak Horodkivka had as many as four functioning churches.
Archival fonds
Some documents are accessible only in archives. Priority case files have been identified:
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Archive
CDIAK, f. 256 (Zamoyski) — files 188, 250, 320, 358, 571, 1579.
Kalinowski's testament (file 320, 1652), the Markivka delimitation (file 250, 1644),
the Czetwertyński key (file 1579, 1774).
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Archive
AGAD (Warsaw), Archiwum Koronne — the Koniecpolski fond.
A possible privilege for the founding of Miastkivka.
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Archive
Biblioteka Czartoryskich (Kraków) — the Koniecpolski fond.
Estate inventories.
A complete index of the 195+ sources with a register of findings is maintained
in the project's research repository.
Technical details
| Primary-source files (PDF/DJVU/ZIP) | 512 |
| Volume of primary sources | 9 GB |
| OCR texts | 302 |
| Words processed | 56.9 million |
| Characters processed | 524 million |
| Source languages | pol, lat, ukr, fra, tur, ron, heb |
| Search and analysis | Python + Tesseract OCR + Claude |