Tag: kopyl

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 ...

Not far from Kopyl and Kletsk, behind the P43 highway, is the village of Krasnaya Dubrova, which used to be the family estate of the Voynilovich family and was called Mokrany. Here, from the once rich and extensive estate, some interesting objects have been preserved,...

Kopyl is a city and regional center of the Minsk region, the official date of "birth" is 1005 (previously it was considered 1247). Despite such an impressive history, modern Kopyl is quite young (it has the status of a city since 1944). Actively...

The village, which today on Google and Yandex maps is designated as Krasnaya Dubrova (Chirvonaya Dubrova), used to be part of the larger Mokrana estate. These lands belonged to the Radziwills for a long time, but they flourished at a later time -...

Timkovichi is an agro-town not far from Kopyl, which at one time belonged to well-known gentry families: Olelkovichi, Khodkevichi, Sapieha, Polubinsky and Radziwills. Some of the manor buildings and brovars have even survived from the latter. There are in the village...

Kopyl is a small but cozy town in the Minsk region, which was mentioned in chronicles as early as the end of the 13th century (1274). In 2016, an interesting event happened and the city "aged" - historians have established that there is ...

In the village of Krasnaya Dubrova (*in some sources Dubrava and Chirvonaya Dubrava are found) you can see several interesting objects, among which the ruins of a church from the middle of the 19th century stand out. In general, the village of Krasnaya Dubrova was called Mokrany until 1961, ...

If you are attracted by wooden architecture, then pay attention to the church in Leshnya, Kopyl district. The temple that can be seen today was built by 1910 (in some sources 1915) on the site of a dilapidated predecessor. Church of Saint George...

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...

If you are planning to go to the Kopyl district, see interesting places, then Grozov (Grozovo) will probably be on your list. Near the main village there is a second, smaller and less well-groomed - Grozovok. It also has...