Abraham Shmoilovich

Abraham Shmoilovich was a Lithuanian merchant known also as "The Honorable Sir Abraham, the Jew of Turisk," who flourished at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. In the books of the Brest-Litovsk custom-house for the year 1583, Shmoilovich appears as an exporter of lumber and cereals. On May 19, 1595, Shmoilovich and his partner “Noble Sir Burkatzki” leased for a term of three years a feudal estate in the district of Vladimir, with its population and all its appurtenances. The lessees seem to have enjoyed the privileges of full manorial lords. A few days later, on May 27, 1595, Shmoilovich and his wife, Rikla Odinna, leased the village of Koshar and others adjoining.