I have just received the 1913 application for UK Nationality of a possible relative in which he reports having been born (in 1877) "a natural-born subject of the Russian Empire ... at Novo Alexandria, Province Lublin, near Kief."
A search for "Novo Alexandria" in Shtetl-Seekers shows the only currently-Polish possibility to be Aleksandrowo Nowe - but that town appears to be NE of Warsaw, near Bialystok ... thus never in the Lublin gubernia. On the other hand, the only two possibilities that lie (now in the Ukraine) between Kiev and Lublin (Novo-Aleksandrovka, Koloniya Aleksandrovka - at 50°37' 28°05' - and Novyy Aleksinets, Oleksinets Novy, Olekiniec-Nowy, Novyy Oleksinets, Novyolekcenez - at 49°50' 25°30') both seem too far East to ever have been in the Lublin gubernia.
But is there not a "Nowa Aleksandria" somewhere near Radom? The town where - in October 1914 - Russian troops crossed the Vistula to attack the Kaiser's troops at Radom and Kielce? What am I missing here?
Peter,
Nowa Aleksandria (Novaya Aleksandrija in Russian) is the old Russian Tsarist time name for town Pulawy. Pulawy were renamed to Nowa Aleksandria in 1842.
Town is located on Wisla River, 46 km NWN >from Lublin.
