In the book “Materials for the Geography and Statistics of Russia, collected by officers of the General Staff”, Grodno Governorate, 1863. There is a mention and description of the Torokany Monastery. Near the town of Antopol, 39 versts from the city of Kobryn, on flat and treeless terrain stands the Torokany Epiphany Orthodox Monastery, built at the beginning of the previous century. The northern wing adjoining the front pavilion was constructed by the local ktitor (church warden) Agafia Piasoczynska, wife of the Wolyn castellan, while the remaining wings were built in 1757 by the monastery authorities.
In written sources, Hutowo is mentioned as a village in the Pinsk Principality. In 1502, in a deed of gift from Prince Fiodor Iwanowicz Jaroslawicz of Pinsk and Princess Alena to the Cathedral of St. Demetrius in Pinsk:
The people of Hutowo from the Pinsk region must pay the church 80 kopecks every year
From the 16th to 18th centuries, it was located in the Pinsk district of the Brest Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Tolkovo was mentioned in 1636 as a manor house within the Braszewicze estate. It belonged to the Wilno Catholic Chapter since 1559, when the estate was donated to the chapter by Bishop Walerian Protasiewicz. In 1636, the manor house consisted of 49 houses. This document also describes a complaint against Tolkowo peasants in 1639. The Lithuanian archives also contain a document regarding the sale of the Tolkowo estate in 1636. I also published this document in the adjacent article