In 1815, the then owner of Logoisk, Pius Tyshkevich, built a two-story stone palace with a powerful ten-column portico in the classicist style. The sons of Pius Tyshkevich, Konstantin and Eustathius, created the first historical and archaeological museum in Belarus, as well as a library and numismatic collection in the palace. In the middle of the 19th century, the Tyszkiewicz decided to move their collections to Vilnius. In the 1920s, the Bolsheviks repurposed the former palace as an NKVD prison, and during the Great Patriotic War the German headquarters was located here, which was blown up by partisans at the end of the war. Unfortunately, today only ruins remain of the beautiful building, and the beauty of the count’s residence can only be judged based on drawings by Napoleon Orda and old photographs.
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