From a book bought in Celle Germany. ALTE HAUSER SPRECHEN by Carla
Meyer-Rausch
It is thought that the original Guizettis wandered into Solto Italy
from Niedersachen (lower Saxony-Germany) the name originated from the
German wiso der weise (the wise one) in italian guiso and further in
diminutive form into Guizetti (der kliene wieso) the little wise one
they were of germanic large build with blonde hair as youngsters turing
black later. Franzesco Guizetti de cappo ferri was born 1678 to Matheus
Guizetti married 1582 to Maria Bonacinio of the Mailander family. At
18 yrs Franzesco went by foot with his belongings over the Alps a family
member in Hameln Germany has his journals of his long trip; he started
a beeswax candle factory on his property which is still there but now
under different ownership and still carrying his name the present family
Bernard G, still live in the same house today on Guizetti street (Speicher
st.) to honor the family Franz Guizetti born in1901 and died in 1983
was Oberburgermeister (mayor) at one time.
The Guizetti family (PDF
source)
Early in the nineteenth century Johann Anton Franz Guizetti (1762-1841)
joined the merchants ’guild in the town of Narva,Saint Petersburg
province. Born in Braunschweig in Germany, he was the grandson of Francesco
Guizetti di Capo ferri, who came of an old Venetian line, and who settled
in Germany
in the 1670s and traded in candles; in his honor his son,grandson and
great grandson were christened with the German version of his name,
Franz. In 1817 Anton Guizetti moved to Moscow, joined the First guild
of Moscow merchants, became a broker in the Stock Exchange, and then
for many years was a broker
in the State Commercial Bank.
He married the daughter of a Moscow merchant of the First guild, Heinrich
Krüger, Elizabeth (1783-1852).
The most well-known of his nine children, all of whom
were baptized as Catholics, was Hermann Franz Guizetti (1805-1881).
Educated in the law faculty first of Moscow and then of Derpt university,
he entered state service in 1827, first in the Finance Ministry in Saint
Petersburg and then in the Moscow office of the State Commercial bank,
where his father worked; in 1834 he set off for Eastern Siberia, where
he worked in the revenue department, and then the local government office
of Irkutsk.In 1836 he married the daughter of the governor-general of
Eastern Siberia, Semion Bronevskii, Varvara,who was Orthodox.
Shortly afterwards he moved to Saint Petersburg and took up a post in
the Ministry of Justice, where he had a distinguished career:in 1863
he was appointed member of the Consulting Council of the Ministry, promoted
to the rank of Privy Councillor, and the same year to that of senator.
His two sons, Anton and Anatolii, Orthodox by faith, also
had good careers.Anton Guizetti (1843-1903) had the rank of councillor
of state and was President of the Appellate Court of Saint Petersburg;
he was married to Nadezhda Andreevskaia. Anatolii Guizetti (1846-1909)
like his father was made a senator, in 1905; he married Princess Aleksandra
Kugusheva.One of the daughters, Serafima Guizetti (1838-1917) married
Johann Renard (1839-1907), a Privy Councillor who was deputy minister
for education, and a subsequently a senator. Another daughter, Evgenia
(1842-1915), married Aleksandr Rüdiger (1843-1877), from a russified
German family (his father, Georg Rüdiger, was Lutheran, his mother,
Margarita Hamburger, German Orthodox); their great-grandson -Aleksei
Rüdiger -is actually His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All the
Russia Aleksii II:thus in the veins of the head of the Russian Orthodox
Church flows not only Russian and German blood, but also Italian.
Another son of Johann Anton Franz Guizetti, Ludwig Ferdinand Guizetti
(1807- 1843), was a Moscow doctor. He married a Russian, Liubov Islenova.
Their son, Anton Guizetti (1836-1911) served in the army, reached the
rank of major-general, became a military historian, and produced a series
of books on the
Russian wars of the Caucasus in the nineteenth century.
The youngest son of Johann Anton Franz Guizetti, Viktor (1823-1914),
was a Russian Army officer, and then worked in the Customs department
in Warsaw. He married a Russian, Olga Vasilieva. Their son Aleksei (1850-1914)was
as a young man a member of the Populist party, and later a noted member
of the
Saint Petersburg regional authority and a tax assessor. His marriage
to the doctor and writer Natalia Bekariukova produced a son, Aleksandr
(1888-1938), who was active in the Russian revolutionary movement, a
member of the Social Revolutionary party, a deputy in the Constitutional
Assembly; after 1917 he became a historian of social thought, a literary
scholar and translator. He was repeatedly arrested, and in 1938, during
the period of mass purges in the Soviet Union, he was shot.
A number of Guizettis settled in Estonia after 1917, at the time when
that country was independent; subsequently some of them emigrated to
the United States.
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