Myerachowshchyna
former manor in Belarus
Myerachowshchyna (Belarusian: Мерачоўшчына, romanized: Mieračoŭščyna; Russian: Меречёвщина, romanized: Merechyovshchina; Polish: Mereczowszczyzna) is a former manor near Kosava in Ivatsevichy District, Brest Region, in western Belarus. It is best known as the birthplace of Tadeusz Kościuszko. There is a Kościuszko museum in the reconstructed manor house of his birth.
History
In the first half of the 18th century, the folwark of Mereczowszczyzna belonged to the Sapieha family, and until the Partitions of Poland, was administratively located in the Brest Litovsk Voivodeship in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1733, the village became property of Ludwik Tadeusz Kościuszko, who lived here until 1764. On February 4, 1746, Tadeusz Kościuszko was born here, in a manor house. After the Third Partition of Poland (1795), the village came under control of the Russian Empire, where it remained until 1916. During the January Uprising, on June 8, 1863, it was the site of a battle between Polish insurgents and Russian troops. From 1918 to 1939, it belonged to the Second Polish Republic.
In September 1939, it was occupied by the Soviet Union during the Soviet invasion of Poland in World War II, and annexed to Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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