Tag: Estates

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 ...

One of the last owners of the Mir Castle were representatives of the Svyatopolk-Mirsky family, who bought these lands from the Wittgensteins in 1891. At that time, the castle was in a deplorable state and Nikolai Ivanovich from Svyatopolk-Mirsky decides to build...

Not far from Orsha, in the village of Yurtsevo, you can see an unusual architectural monument - the former estate of the Lubomirskys. In 2020, the building was restored and is now used for the needs of the Vitebsk Regional Hospital IVOV. In addition to the impressive architecture with...

On the very border of the Upper City of Minsk, from the side of Internatsionalnaya Street, you can see a small estate of the late 18th - first half of the 19th century, associated with the Vankovich family name. Now within the walls of this historical monument is the Museum "Culture...

Quite often, confusion arises with the village of Pervomaisk associated with its historical and Soviet name. The manor complex of Zavishes appeared in the place of Kukhtichi, which was located on the territory where today the agricultural lyceum is located. However, the village of Kukhtichi ...

Near the church of St. Joseph in Volozhin, there is another rather interesting sight of the city - the Tyszkiewicz palace complex. The palace began to be built by order of Jozef Tyszkiewicz at the very beginning of the 19th century, according to the project of architect August...

The village of Goloshevo in the Vitebsk region is a place where there is tourism potential, but it will probably never be used again, since the main attraction, the Tyundevitsky estate, is increasingly reminiscent of a typical cast in the outback. AT...

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 ...

On the very border of the Mogilev and Gomel regions, in the village of Zhilichi, there is one of the most beautiful palaces in Belarus - the estate and park complex of the Bulgakov family. On a vast territory there is not only a palace, but also a unique park with a river...

The Dziedinka estate (today it is the village of Dedino and Osada-Dedino) has been known since the first half of the 16th century as the possession of the Oginskys. In 1647, Dziedinka was sold to Sebastian Mirsky, Braslov Zemstvo judge and owner of Miory at that time.