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On the way from Begoml to Zembin, you can see two ancient places where once there were rich estates. One was located in the village of Mstizh, belonged to the Slugs, and the second in Dedilovichi, today it is already the village of Vorovsky. Let's stop in more detail...

In Verdomichi, Svisloch district, there was once an estate of the Tollochko family, who owned the place since 1817. As expected, the representatives of this ancient family built a manor, or rather a real palace. By 1830, the head of the family,...

The Savichy estate belonged to the Voynilovichi family for almost 2,5 centuries, starting from 1662. Once upon a time, these were the richest lands with excellent farming, a palace, a distillery and, of course, a landscape park. Today about those distant times already ...

The agro-town of Stanislavovo, Vitebsk region, is the former estate of the Lubomirskys, who had a real palace in Dubrovno (until the first half of the 20th century). In those days, Stanislavovo was called differently - the Sleptsy manor, here the Lubomirskys built a distillery ...

After the first partition of the Commonwealth in 1772, Chechersk became part of the Russian Empire. By decision of Empress Catherine II, the city was given to one of her favorites - Count Zakhar Grigorievich Chernyshev. Under him, Chechersk is much ...

Once upon a time, back in the 16th century, there was a town Pogost - the possession of the Olelkovich family in Slutsk land. Then the farm was owned by the Radziwills, and by the middle of the 19th century - by the Wittgensteins. It was during the latter that the estate was built, ...

The village of Leninsky had a different name - Fatherland (Gatechino) and until 1939 belonged to the Belsky family, who had a vast estate here. To date, nothing has survived from the manor house and residential buildings, only ...

The small farmstead Kuntsevshchina (on old maps Kuntsovshchizna) is another estate of the Voynilovichi, a kind of "dacha" next to the main estate of Mokrana. The history of the development of this place is closely connected with Ksavier Voinillovich, who in 1883 arranged...

Timkovichi today is a large, but a little sad, agricultural town of the Kopyl district. The history of the place is rich and quite ancient, so in the annals these lands are mentioned at the end of the 15th century as the possessions of the Olelkovichi. Then Timkovichi...

Old Mouse is a small village ten kilometers from Baranovichi. It is notable for the fact that the Khodkevichi castle once stood here, destroyed in the middle of the 17th century by Russian troops. No more attempts were made to rebuild this fortress, but on that one ...