It is mentioned in written sources in 1778, in the inventory of the Drohiczyn County. The village had 11 households and 55 inhabitants. From 1795, it was part of the Russian Empire, in the Kobryn district of Slonim, from 1797 in Lithuania, and from 1801 in the Grodno province. The village on Schubert’s map from 1826-1840: Also on the military-topographic map of the Russian Empire for 1846-1863: In 1858, the village, the center of the rural community in the Drohiczyn volost, part of the estate of Osip Bogurski, had 150 registered souls (state peasants).

It was first mentioned in the 14th century as a settlement in the Ratno wedge of the Chelm region. In the 16th century, it was part of the Ratno starosty, which belonged to the royal domain of Poland. At that time, the village was inhabited by kmetes (servants of the Ratno castle). In 1546, in the description of the borders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown of Poland, Radostow in the Ratno district is mentioned as part of the Chelm region, Crown of Poland.

Written sources mention a church in 1588, 1634, and 1640 (Information from the book Cities and Villages of Belarus). From 1795, it was part of the Russian Empire, in the Kobryn district of the Slonim province, from 1797 in the Lithuanian province, and from 1801 in the Grodno province. The village on Schubert’s map from 1826-1840, as we can see on this map and subsequent ones, had two settlements, Raszyn (Rasen) Stary and Nowy, and towards the end of the 1900s, they merged into one village on the site of Stary Raszyn.