A manor of Miaščerskiya was built in eighteen sixty-seven of wood as a part of city building up.

The manor has a large quantity of adornments on the front as figured fretwork. A marshal of the Mscislaŭ nobility a prince Mikalay Miaščerski built this house for his daughter Mary. Unfortunately it is known very little about the family of Miaščerskiya. There remained information that Mary Miaščerskaya was a famous well-doer, not having her own children she was carrying for other's and was giving them upbringing. In her villa the princess Miaščerskaya went through revolutionary doings of nineteen seventeen whereupon she was forced to leave abroad. In soviet time the building was being used in different ways. First there were here Soviet and party institutions. On the eve of the Second World War there was a school of saboteurs in the house of Miaščerskaya. During the war German occupation authorities placed here a casino. After the war there was a school in this building and after a time a storehouse was built up. Now a city regional museum is located in the house.

Publication date: 29.06.2017.

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