On December 18.12.1817, 154, he marched XNUMX horses from Moscow to Janów Podlaski. The first organizer of SK in Janów Podlaski.
Born around 1778.
The imperial decree issued in 1816 stipulated that Koniuszy Wielki Korony would be the supervisor of the herd in Janów Podlaski. Therefore, the first director of the herd was Aleksander Potocki from Wilanów, who at that time held the above title. He proposed the candidacy of Jan Ritz for a specialist who would travel to Russia to select and import the stallions and mares donated by the emperor.
Jan Ritz was a German settled in Poland. He graduated from a veterinary school in Berlin, then served as a "knocker at the herds of the King of Prussia", and finally settled in Volhynia with Rzewuski's herd (probably at Wacław Rzewuski's in Koźmin).
Jan Ritz's candidacy was accepted by the governor and in December 1816 he was summoned to Warsaw. However, the preparatory activities, and above all the correspondence with the authorities in St. Petersburg, lasted quite a long time, so that it was not until the spring of 1817 that Jan Ritz set off for St. Petersburg, and from there to Moscow.
Meanwhile, feverish preparations were underway in the Kingdom to receive and house the beginning of the herd.
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Author: Witold Pruski
Source: "The history of the State Stud Farm in Janów Podlaski 1817 - 1939" (1948)
Entry updated: 31.05.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX
John Ritz died on September 16, 1826 in Warsaw.
Publications in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library:
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"History of the State Stud in Janów Podlaski 1817 - 1939" (1948) - Witold Pruski
"Jan Ritz" (1948) - Witold Pruski
"Imperial Decree of 1816 on the herd in Janów Podlaski" (1816) - Alexander I Romanow
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