Zavosse (
Belarusian: ''Завоссе, Завосьсе'';
Russian: ''Заосье '';
Polish: ''Zaosie''; lt, Zaosė) is a village in
Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...
, in the
Baranavichy Raion of
Brest Region.
The village was the site of the farm and
manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals ...
belonging to the Mickiewicz family, probably the birthplace in 1798 of
Adam Mickiewicz,
Mickiewicz Adam Bernard
in ''Internetowa encyklopedia PWN'' when (following the Third Partition of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795) the area lay within the Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War ...
.
In 1806 the lands passed to the Stypułkowski family, and in 1831 were confiscated by the imperial government as punishment for Lucjan Stypułkowski's participation in the November Uprising. Between 1918 and 1939 the village was in the Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of the First World ...
, and in 1927 a monument to Mickiewicz was placed there. The manor and its surroundings were reconstructed in 1996.
Notable residents
* Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), Polish nationalist, national poet
A national poet or national bard is a poet held by tradition and popular acclaim to represent the identity, beliefs and principles of a particular national culture. The national poet as culture hero is a long-standing symbo ...
, essayist, translator, publicist, political theorist, and member of the Three Bards
The Three Bards (, ) are the national poets of Polish Romantic literature. They lived and worked in exile during the partitions of Poland which ended the existence of the Polish sovereign state. Their tragic poetical plays and epic poetry wri ...
References
Villages in Belarus
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