Fleryanovo. Bohvits estate.

In the village of Fleryanovo, Lyakhovichsky District, Brest Region, there is a small private estate. This estate was passed on to Jan Otan Bohvits (1835–1915) from his father Florian Bohvits (1799–1856). F. Bohvits was a famous Polish-Belarusian writer and teacher who married Polina Majewska, a relative of Barbara Majewska, mother of the poet Adam Mickiewicz. Their son Jan Bohvits was an officer and took part in the Crimean War and the uprising of 1863–1864, for which he spent a year in prison in Dinaburg. After his release, he actively engaged in economic activity and built two estates, each of which he named after his parents: Pavlinovo and Fleryanovo.

The estate in Pavlinovo has survived to this day and is located 20 kilometers from Baranovichi along the M1 highway towards Brest. And Fleryanovo is located to the east of the city, in the Lyakhovichi district. Jan Bohvits built the palace around 1870. The building was wooden, rectangular in plan. Later, two more brick parts were added. The two-story building on the left was built in the neo-Gothic style. The shape of the brick extension to the building is very similar to the Bohvits estate in Pavlinovo. The palace had 19 rooms, among which the dining room with a salon and a library stood out, made in the neo-Gothic style. The interior of the palace contained family portraits of the Bohvits. There were also outbuildings: a stable, a cowshed and others. A hemispherical park was laid out next to the palace. Next to the house there was a large flower bed and a flower garden, from which the writer Eloisa Orzeszko compiled her herbarium during her stay with the Bochwitz family in 1908. A centuries-old oak tree planted by E. Orzeszko herself has survived to this day.

Many famous figures and educators of our region came to Fleryanovo: the Radziwills from Nesvizh, the Reitans from Grushevka. The Nobel laureate, writer Vladislav Reymont (1867 – 1925) was also here. During the Soviet era, the estate fell into disrepair. Now it has been bought by a private owner and is undergoing renovation.