The beginnings of the Sezonov family

“On 1st August 1880, a short time after Bessarabia was ceded to Russia [1], SEZON VASILENCO moved from the Şagani village [2], crossing the Danube, to Tulcea, probably in order to escape the religious persecution from Russia (he was an evangelical believer, he read the Bible daily and was baptised in 1877 by Dmitri Petrovici in Nicolaevca).

The name SEZON TROFIMOVICI VASILENCO means that our grandfather was the son of Trofim, and that Trofim was the son of Vasile, but after settling in Tulcea (1880), the neighbors, mostly speaking Russian, started naming his children “Sezonov”, which means “the sons of Sezon”.

Sezon had two brothers, Lavro și Sava, and, with his wife, Elena [3], had 10 childrens from which I can enumerate: SAMUEL,  ALEXEI, PETRO, LUCA, AVRAM, IACOB, ANDREI, ADAM. In a photography from 1920, only 7 brothers were still living.

In 1895, Sezon left this world at 55 years, leaving behind him his wife, Elena, GRANDMA ELENA (BABUSHKA SEZONIKA), which ascended to God in April 1918.

So, the beginnings of the Sezonov family gain historical profile.” 

(Emmanuel Sezonov in the “Sezonov family chronicle”)

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Notă: [1] Correction: Following the Romanian war of independence in 1878, not Bessarabia was ceded to Russia (which had annexed the territory in 1812), but the Cahul, Bolgrad and Ismail regions (recovered by Romania in the Crimean war of 1856).

[2] The Şagani village (today in the Tatarbunar rayon) is a settlement on the actual territory of Ukraine, near the Dobrujan border with Romania  (once, this village belonged to the Bessarabian territory, which belonged to Romania between 1918-1940).

[3] According to a document published on the old familysearch.org website (nowadays not accessible), the parents of Adam Sezonov were named Sezon Trofimovici Vasilenco and Elena Stepanova Caplausenco. Thereby, Elena, wife of Sezon, was daughter of Stepan, son of Caplaus [“deadlink”: https://familysearch.org/Eng/Search/IGI/individual_record.asp?recid=100064235227&lds=1&region=5&regionfriendly=Continental+Europe&frompage=99].