Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I whakatūria te Regameys i Huitene i te rau tau 17: i wehe atu te tupuna-nui i te whenua i te wā i hinga tana pakihi hanga hu. I neke ia ki Vilnius (i mohiotia i taua wa ko "Wilno"), i te wa o te Emepaea o Ruhia. Ko tana tama a Louis, ko Ludwik te tupuna, i marenatia ki reira ki tetahi kotiro Polish: i mahi ia hei kaiako French. I muri mai i te whakaekenga o Polani
I te 1863, ka wehe te whanau i te rohe o Polani-Lithuania ki Kyiv o Ruhia. I te mea he tangata whenua Swiss, i riro ia i te tau 1883, he kaimahi a Tsarist. I whanau a Louis i nga tama tokorua, a Casimir Ludwigovitch (1859-1907) me Rudolf Felix Gabriel Ludwigovitch (1852-1891), te papa o Ludwik.