Pavel (Pinkhus, Pinkhas) Tsirlin

Pavel Pinkhus Click to View

Father: Meer Tsirlin

Mother: no information

Spouse:

Children:

Biographical information:

See source notes at the end. References are to those documents.

Pavel is the earliest well documented individual in his line. However his patronymic refers to his father Meer and it is believed that Berk Tsirlin is his brother, so that the line goes back to Meer. Patryonymic given in Cases A, B.

1850's: Sherstin community, Mogilev province. Revision (census) of 1857-59 listed Pinkhas, aged 7. Document included in Case A; also the 1871 document of Moisey's birth adds: Rogachev district.

By 1869, appears to have moved to Obukhov. From Moisey's birth certificate, Pinkhus and Sura were married (legally or common law) from 1869, in Obukhov.

Dec. 8, 1880: status converted from Sherstin community, Mogilev to Belaya Tserkov' community, Vasil'kov district, Kiev province. Status: bourgeois (middle class, professional).
Passport issued, Belaya Tserkov', February 1886 (Case A).

Wife Sura's legal domicile was kept as Sherstin at least through 1897 as the marriage certificate was not submitted to the authorities.

Jan. 23, 1887: status converted from Belaya Tserkov, Vasil'kov, Kiev to town of Cherkassy.

From 1894 (at least) to 1898: Stays in Rzhishchev, keeping Cherkassy legal address. Case B gives his house plan (Rzhischev) and details concerning his white lead business in 1898.

From 1898. Living in Kiev. Sura died of typhoid.

From Case A (1895): wife Sura aged 42; children Moisey (24), Leizar (21), Fruma-Dina (16), Volko (13), Duvid (9), Rukhlya (6), Meer (4).
From death record: Sura died of typhoid, 1898, in Kiev.

Married Dina (widow of Kuchuk) March 1899. She was aged 36. Their daughter Maria was born January 1905. Marriage and birth records

Dina died 1911 or 1912. Pavel married Pyrlya (widow of Shvartsman) 1912.


Born 1850-51: census records give 1849-52, wedding records support 1850-51.

Died ca. 1925. Probably buried in Kiev cemetery, grave not located.

According to recollections of Alexander M. Tsirlin (who never met his grandfather), Pinkhus served as a manager of sugar factories in the Kiev region, moving from one place to another, roughly 1870-1895. One can assume he worked in factories belonging to the major entrepreneur Galperin (Halperin), because only the Galperin factories in Rzhishev (Rzhyshchiv) and in Stepantsy are known from the documents.

From the fall of 1898 he lived in Kiev, 101 Mariinsko-Blagoveshchenskoi St., jointly with his daughters Dina (a dentist) and younger children.

Two of the children died young and others moved to Moscow and Leningrad in the 1920's and 1930's. Only Lev (Volko-Leib) and Raisa (Rakhil) remained in Kiev.


Sources:
Galina Tsirlin, 2014 (based on her father's research)
Miron and Sara, who both died very young, are known from talks with Raisa Pavlovna in the 1960s.
David Tuval, 2015
Galina Tsirlin, 2017 updates

The most recent information is found in a detailed 2017 communication from Galina Tsirlin (PDF, illustrated). Some of that information is given below. Most is extracted from the report of two civil law cases found in the Kiev archives in 2015. Case A: running from June 2, 1895 through August 26, 1898, concerns "the accuracy of [his] assignment to the Cherkassy bourgeois". Case B: running from March 8, 1896 through May 23, 1897, concerns his permission to produce, or take over production of, white lead in the town of Rzhishchev (Kiev district). This is supplemented by information taken from the following sources.

2014, 2017