28.09.2026
The “Heritage of Times” sightseeing tour to Kossovo and Ruzhany will allow you to take a short tour into the history of the Belarusian lands and visit places associated with the names of prominent natives of the Fatherland. You will get acquainted with the ancestral homes of the most brilliant representatives of the Belarusian nobility, inspect their majestic palace residences, fascinating stories about the secrets that their walls keep, the picturesque landscapes of the Belarusian Polesie and much more.
The Kossovsky Palace and Park Complex is the residence of the Puslovsky gentry, whose regulars at one time were Henryk Sienkiewicz, Napoleon Orda, Eliza Azhashko, Vaclav Lastovsky and Jozef Pilsudski.
Merechevshchyna Manor is the ancestral home of the national hero of Belarus, Tadeusz Kosciuszko. The Trinity Church, where he was baptized, as well as the church of St. Anthony of the 19th century, the wooden Assumption Church and the Catholic cemetery, with the graves of participants in the Kastus Kalinovsky uprising of 1863-1864, etc.
Ruzhany is the domain of the Sapieha gentry, one of the most powerful noble families in the Belarusian lands. Today, there are fragments of their ancestral estate – a grandiose palace and park ensemble, in size and luxury of decoration, which was once not inferior to the French Versailles. Also in Ruzhany are the synagogue building, the Peter and Paul Church, where the miraculous icon of the Ruzhanskaya Mother of God is kept, the Basilan Monastery, the Trinity Church and other sights of the ancient town.
