Bykhov. Catholic monastery of Lateran canons.

By today's standards, Bykhov is a small provincial town with its quiet and slow life. And when life was whirling here. And Bykhov was famous for its craftsmen, architectural structures and castle. One of the pearls of Bykhov was the Catholic Church of Casimir and the Catholic monastery of Lateran canons, which were overshadowed by the then owners of Bykhov, the Khodkiewiczs, in 1619. In the 18th century, the magnates of Sapieha built an already brick church called the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. After the anti-Russian uprising of 1831, the Catholic monastery was turned into a girls' gymnasium. The building of the former monastery, in which several dozen officers of the Russian army were kept in 1917, after the suppression of the Kornilov rebellion, has survived to our time. In history, this event is known as the "Bykhov Seat". Prisoners - officers, were kept here from the beginning of September to the middle of November 1917. Then, by order of the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, General Dukhonin, the officers were released. Among the prisoners of Bykhov are well-known Russian commanders: General L. Kornilov, General A. Dienikin, General A. Lukomsky and many others. Now the building houses a local forestry.