The earliest known members of the family lived in Bakhmut and Mariupol.
Their descendants moved to Taganrog, now part of Russia, where they became known as a "dynasty of academics" as many of them engaged in research.
[1] Viktor Zhitomirsky's wife, Emilia Minukhina, was a niece of the Russian-Siwss Hebrew bibliographer Menahem Mendel Slatkine.
[4] Viktor Zhitomirsky's grandson, Alexander Borun, is married to the Russian linguist Anna Dybo.
[4] Konstantin Erastov's first wife, Tatiana Tankhilevich, was a daughter of the Soviet historian Olga Tankhilevich [ru].