Milkovshchina

After leaving Skidel 10 km down the road, on the right-hand side you will see a road sign to Milkovshchina. Turn off the main road and keep going for 2 km. In Milkovshchina in 1841 a well-known Belarussian-Polish authoress, Eliza Ozheshko, was born. Eliza lived on her parents’ estate until 1852 when she left to study at boarding school in Warsaw. She returned here only in 1864 fom Lyudvinovo – the estate of her husband Petr Ozheshko. He was exiled to Siberia for participation in the uprising of 1863-1864. During the next five years spent in Milkovshchina ancestral home Eliza Ozheshko wrote 10 stories and around 20 works of fiction or biography. The writer’s estate was destroyed during Worl War II; only a beautiful lime tree alley planted by Eliza and her sister has survived. Not far from the estate is the Pavlovskiys’ family cemetery where the writer’s father, sister and other relatives are buried. It is one of only a few gentry’s burial sites to survive to this day.