Tag: tombs

Not far from Ilya and the Vileika reservoir, there is an agro-town of Vyazyn. This place has been known since the 15th century, from the moment when Prince Casimir IV gave it to Ivan Kuchuk, the great Lithuanian marshal. Vyazyn repeatedly passed from...

One of the most unusual tombs in Belarus is located in the city of Uzda. This pyramid-shaped building can be seen at the Catholic cemetery, on the outskirts of the city. The pyramid itself was built as a family chapel-tomb of the Zawishes. There are several versions of...

On the territory of the village of Mir, where the famous Mir Castle is located, there is a chapel-tomb of the Svyatopolk-Mirsky family. This object was built at the beginning of the 20th century. Thanks to the efforts of the academician of architecture Marfeld, one of the main attractions of Belarus was harmoniously complemented by a beautiful chapel. During...

At a distance of just over 10 kilometers from Dzerzhinsk is the village of Novaya Ruditsa. Here you can look at the lonely and abandoned chapel-tomb of the Dybowski family. Often the ruins on the hill are attributed to the village of Borovoye, which confuses travelers along...

On the outskirts of the small village of Zherdyazhye (which is located on the M3 highway in the Minsk Region), you can see the chapel-tomb built in the middle of the 19th century. This small Catholic chapel is located in the center of the cemetery and is clearly visible from the road. This chapel was completed...

In the Vileika district, near the agricultural town of Ilya, a chapel-tomb and a number of buildings from the times of the Bogdanovichs have been preserved. Obodovtsy - a small village in the 19th century belonged to the famous Bogdanovich family. Throughout Belarus, the family owned 7 estates, one of...

The Malinovshchina estate (Molodechno district) until the beginning of the 18th century belonged to the princes Golshansky and Radziwills. In 1702 it passed into the possession of the Sventorzhetsky family. The new owner built a manor and a chapel-tomb in this place, and his wife laid out a park. By...

The chapel-tomb in the village of Gaytyunishki, Voronovsky district, was built at the beginning of the 17th century by order of the then owner of the town, Peter Nonhart. It was located not far from the family house-fortress, unfortunately today you can see only ruins. It's probably a massive building...

The chapel in the village of Ivashkivtsi was built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Some sources mention the date of construction - 1908. It is known that at that time there was still no church of Our Lady of the Rozhentsova in Soly, and the tomb was...

Duskovo, chapel-tomb of Karol Moravsky and the church Moving along a dirt road from Rakovo, you can get to the village of Duskovo. Almost at the very road, the chapel-tomb of Karol Moravsky and the Orthodox Church of the 19th century adjoin. Also in this small area...