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Village Lachowicze

Lachowicze is mentioned in 1492 in the grant of Princess Maria Semionowa Aleksandrowna to Pan Mikhu Senkawicz Paczapajewski, a village in the Pinsk principality. In 1515 the settlement belongs to the Fursowicz family. Based on a charter of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Zygimont I the Old to Ivan Palazowicz in 1522, the village is in the Pinsk district, Brest voivodeship, Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It is also worth noting that Lachowicze is mentioned slightly with the Dostojewski family. In 1660 Jan (Ivan Nikolaewicz) Dostojewski, the owner of the villages Lachowicze and Zawodczyce in Pinsk district, appealed to the Pinsk zemstvo court with a complaint against his servant:

In October 1660, who in the area of Turow did not return and went over to the side of the Cossacks (rebels). Moreover, Jan Dostojewski wrote a complaint to the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the future, where he described that his former servant, together with the rebels, had plundered his Zawodczyce estate.

From 1795 in the Russian Empire, in Kobryn district of Slonim, from 1797 in Lithuanian, from 1801 in Grodno province. The village is on Napoleon’s map of 1812:

napoleon 1812

The village on Schubert’s map of 1826-1840:

szubert 1826-1840

Also the settlement on the military topographic map of the Russian Empire for 1846-1863:

WTKRI 1846-1863

In 1858 the Lachowicze estate belongs to the landowner Shemet, in Osowiec parish, Kobryn district. In RGIA, F. 577 Op. 10 Д. 1115, extreme dates: June 7, 1865 - December 14, 1871, there is a mention of Lyakhovichi:

Case about the redemption of land plots by temporarily burdened peasants from the estate Lachowicze from E.K. Sheliot. (Grodno province) June 7, 1865 - December 14, 1871.

In 1886 the pogost Lachowicze, orthodox church was mentioned. In 1890 the village Lachowicze, the church had 35 dessiatinas of land, the manor Lachowicze with the tract Karagodyszy belonged to Princess Maria Drucka-Lubecka - 5632 dessiatinas of land. In the dictionary “Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic countries, Volume V” for 1880-1914 edition it is mentioned that in Lachowicze there was once a chapel of the Catholic parish of Braszewicze. In 1905 there were 36 inhabitants in the estate, 14 inhabitants in Lachowicze settlement, there was a working parochial school. In RGIA, F. 899 Op. 1 Д. 264, extreme date: February 13, 1910. - June 15, 1914, there is a mention of Lachowicze:

Letters (67) and telegrams (4) of Garnet von Rudolf Alexandrowicz, [manager of the Zakozel estate, Kobryn district, Grodno province], to Bobrynsky (née Polowcowa) Nadezda Alexandrowna about the estate’s dispositions, hiring of employees, income and expenses, state of finances, incidents (fires in the villages of Wolowiel and Lachowicze, robberies in neighboring estates), construction work, production of the brick and yeast factory; betrothal to the daughter of Revelsk landlord Bremen von Harriet (1912).

The village is on the map in one-turn:

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The village on the triple-surface map:

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From 1921 to 1939 in Poland, in Drohiczyn district, Poleskie voivodeship. In 1921 in Osowiec commune, 2 colonies Lyakhovichi, 56 yards and 389 inhabitants, of which 322 were Orthodox, folwark Lachowicze - 4 yards and 37 inhabitants. The village on the Polish map WIG:

WIG

From 04.12.1939 in Drohiczyn district, Pinsk region, BSSR. From 15.01.1949 in Drohiczyn district, from 12.10.1940 the village Lachowicze-1 - the center of the village council. In 1939 the colony Lachowicze-1 had 69 yards and 370 inhabitants, and in the colony Lachowicze-2 - 93 yards and 495 inhabitants, there was a wharf on the Dnieper-Bug canal, there was an elementary school. The village is on the Red Army map:

RKKA

Also on the German map kdwr:

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During the Great Patriotic War near the village on 19.06.1943 the partisans put the Lachowicze waterworks out of operation. In February 1944 partisans fought hard against the German troops, part of the village was burned by the Nazis, 18 villagers were killed. In 1949 the collective farm “New Life” was founded, the chairman M. Karpuk. Since 1954 in Brest region. From 02.06.1959 in Popina village council, there were 310 inhabitants. In 1970 the village Lachowicze, there were 311 inhabitants, in 1995 - 72 yards and 175 inhabitants.

References and information used in the material:

  • etomesto.ru
  • wikipedia.org
  • Encyclopedia “Garady i vyoski Belarusi”
  • RGIA