Neporent Isaac Matveevich. The Mystery of the Family

Neporent Isaac Matveevich. The Mystery of the Family

"To the descendants scattered around the world and who do not know the Russian language"

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Content
1 "Secrets" of the Baku tree of the Neporent family
1.1 the Head of the family-Isaak Matveevich Motovilikha
1.1.1 Isaac's Fateful meeting with Mitrofanov
1.1.2 Continuation of cooperation - creation of the Motovilikha society (1903)
1.1.3 about the life of a Neporent family and their neighbors in Mitrofanov's house
1.1.4 David Neporent talks about the ways of searching for the truth
1.1.5 Summing up the life of Isaac Neporent
1.2 branches of the Baku tree
1.2.1 1st son Moses Isaakovich Neporent and his branch
1.2.2 2nd son Osip (Joseph) Isaakovich Neporent
1.2.3 3rd son Samuel Isaakovich Neporent and his branch
1.2.4 1st daughter Sofia Isaakovna Neporent and her branch
1.2.5 2nd daughter Faina Isaakovna Neporent and her branch
1.2.6 4th son Pavel Isaakovich Neporent
1.2.7 3rd daughter Maria Isaakovna Neporent
1.2.8 5th son Matvey Isaakovich Neporent
1.2.9 4th daughter Vera Isaakovna Neporent and her branch
1.2.10 6th son Alexander Isaakovich Neporent and his branch
1.2.11 5th daughter Rosalia Isaakovna Neporent
1.2.12 7th son Abram Isaakovich Neporent and his branch

1.2.13 Photo Album

In the process of searching and research, the authors were presented not only a picture of the life of one – even if not an ordinary-Jewish family, but also a broad and unknown to the ordinary reader reality of those special relations with the laws of that time. Without knowledge of this reality, it would be difficult to understand much of the family history. We hope that the volume of the article itself will now be enough to answer the reader's many questions about Jewish and Baku life. without referring them to other sources.

"To find out that I could get an excellent education in

elite universitiesin Russia not leaving the circle.

of the family table was a definite shock for me!”

David Neporent

It was November 1919. It was sad these days at a huge family table on the third-floor gallery in the house number 8 on “Vodovoznaya” street, where a large family with children and household members usually gathered.
And not only because the head of a huge family, its founder and mainstay – Isaac Matveevich Neporent-had just been sent on his last journey, but also because the streets were restless, there was no confidence in the future and future well-being.
My beloved and native Baku was changing before my eyes. And although everyone had an education and, as they say," stood on their feet", it was necessary to seriously think about the future. And soon many Neporentleft the city and settled in Moscow and Leningrad, which was possible in accordance with their education and work experience.
The founder of the Baku branch of the family was Isaac Matveevich Neporent.

фото Baku. 1913 (or later)

Merchant of the 2nd Guild, oil industrialist-Director and Manager Of the company of oil production, contract drilling and mechanical plants "Motovilikha" and the firm "D. D. Mitrofanov", in the uniform of employees of the Department of institutions of the Empress Maria.
Why are we talking about the Baku branch? Yes, because the parents of Isaac-Mordechai Neporent and Gitla Rosenbaum-Rotstein - in the small town of Neporent [1]near Warsaw had 11 sons and one daughter.

фото Warsaw. The photo shows Mordechai (Matthew) Neporent, Isaac's father. His younger brother is standing next to him. Mordechai later lived with his son Isaac in Baku.

Isaac Matveevich Neporent (1859, Neporent – 1919, Baku) was born in the Polish town of Neporent. When he came of age, he was engaged to Lyubov Borisovna Rodinberg (1867, Lenkoran? - 1940, Baku). She was the daughter of retired Nikolaev soldier Boris Rodinberg [2]and his wife Lyubov Danilovna Rodinberg (nee Yershova).
Lyubov Danilovna Yershova was from a family of "Gers"[3].GERS (from גֵּר, 'proselyte'; see ger). A small group of ethnic Russians who profess Judaism. exiled from Central Russia to the outskirts of the Empire, in Lenkoran. Her parents were farmers and engaged in agriculture. In life, she was called Esther Danilovna. Under this name she was buried.
Boris Rotenberg, being called up for military service, it took place in Lankaran, where he met his future wife. At that time, the Caucasian line No. 21 battalion was stationed in Lenkoran.
In 1868, this battalion was transferred to Baku and renamed the 66th Baku provincial battalion (the future Salyan regiment). By the time Boris Rotenberg was already married (the daughter of Love was born in 1867). And so, the wife, a soldier with a daughter, moved to her husband's new duty station in Baku.
In the old Salyan barracks, left over from the tsarist times, where, after their construction in 1909, the Salyan regiment was stationed. There, less than a century later, Boris's great – grandson, David Neporent, also served as a conscript! Boris Rotenberg was the so-called "Nicholas soldiers", that is, he was drafted into military service by Conscription Statute enacted during the reign of Nicholas I.
In 1867, Emperor Alexander II highly approved the "Regulations on the arrangement of retired and indefinite leave of the lower ranks", which serves to facilitate the entry into civil life of dismissed from military service. And to obtain the benefits to which they have acquired the right to serve a fixed term.
Clause 5 of the Regulation stated:
"All in General indefinitely-vacation and retired lower ranks can live, according to legalized types, everywhere they want." This provision applied to all lower ranks in General, including Jews who served under the Recruiting regulations and were dismissed on indefinite leave or retired before January 1, 1874-the adoption of the new regulations on military service.

Based on this provision, Boris Rodinberg, having served the established term (the term of service before retirement was at that time 20 years, while after 15 years of irreproachable service in the military, the lower ranks were dismissed on indefinite leave), settled in Baku. For this purpose, he was assigned to the Baku city society.
"He Got a job in a tailor shop. One day a General came to Boris Lvovich and ordered a uniform.
My great-grandfather refused. He is not a tailor, but a seamstress. And this is a General's uniform. It is no joke. But the General ordered it. where to go and I sewed. The General, when he saw the uniform, slapped his great-grandfather, and said: "And you say you can't make uniforms." Such is the General's gratitude. Then my great-grandfather went into business. He called himself "kipets" (merchant) – well, very "literate" was" [4]

It is not known where Rodinberg met and met Isaac Neporent and what attracted him to the young Isaac, but he suggested that the young man go with him to Baku.
In those years, a Neporent who lived in the Kingdom of Poland, which was part of the pale of settlement, i.e. in the territory where permanent residence of Jews in the Russian Empire was allowed, could not leave the pale of settlement even for marriage.
In General, outside the pale of settlement of Jews they could stay only temporarily:
1) to accept the inheritance.
2) to search for legal property rights in judicial and governmental institutions.
3) for trade cases and for bidding for contracts and deliveries – for a period of no more than 6 weeks (in exceptional cases, 2 months) [5].
The exception was the merchants of the 1st Guild, persons with higher education, master craftsmen who enjoyed the right of universal residence in the Empire.

There was, however, an opportunity to leave the pale of settlement for a longer period than 2 months – for training in craft skills. Young Jews who were under 18 years of age, even if they did not belong to the craft class, could come to areas outside the line designated for permanent settlement of Jews to learn various crafts.
And with the limitation of the time, they stay there for the duration of those contracts (no more than five years, however) that they will conclude with those who have accepted them for training in crafts. Those of them who received approval certificates from their masters at the end of their studies could remain in residence outside the pale of settlement of Jews everywhere, using legalized passports and tickets.

Apparently, this is how Isaac Neporent left the Kingdom of Poland and settled temporarily in Baku. Here, the young Isaac began working in the shop Boris Rotenberg. The store also had a sewing workshop, where Isaac had to learn the craft.
When he arrived in Baku, he registered with the police as a resident of Warsaw, Isaak Mordkovich Neporent.
In 1882, he registered his marriage with the Love of Borisovna Rodenberg, daughter of Boris Rotenberg.
Information about those who got married: