Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - I whai waahi nui a Stanislaw Wołodkowicz ki te tiaki i a Vitebsk i te pakanga i waenga i te Commonwealth Polish-Lithuanian me Moscow. I mauheretia ia, a, i tukuna atu ki Kazan i te tau 1655. Ko te kaiwhakarewa o te raina French o te whanau Wołodkowicz, ko Henry (1765-1825), i uru ki te whakaoho 1794
o Tadeusz Kościuszko ka heke ki Parani. Ko ia te kaitohutohu a Napoleon, i mahi hei rangatira i roto i te ope French, mai i te tau 1806 ka tohua ia hei rangatira o te Polish Legion o te Grande Armée. I te wa o te pakanga a Napoleon ki Russia, i peia ia ki Siberia, a, i muri i tana whiu, ka neke ia ki St. Petersburg i mate ai ia. I whakawhiwhia ki a ia te Légion d'honneur me tona ingoa 'Henry' i whakaingoatia i roto i te Arc Triumphal i Paris. Ko Alexander Wołodkowicz (1806-1861) te kaiarahi o nga whakakeke i te rohe o Vileika i te wa o te tutu ki a Ruhia o 1830-1831. Whai muri i te hinganga ka heke ia ki Parani. I tanumia ia ki Paris, engari i mauria mai tona ngakau ki te kaainga ka whakatakotoria ki te whare karakia o Radoszkowice, te urupa tupuna o te whanau Wołodkowicz.