Kolodnoye. Monument to Gelena Skirmunt.

A memorial sign to Gelena Skirmunt has been erected in the center of Kolodnoye, Stolin district. There was once a prosperous Skirmunt estate here, of which only the park and the foundations of the palace remain.

Kolodnoye was first mentioned in written sources in the 16th century. The place originally belonged to the Rovensky family. At the beginning of the 19th century, Alexander Skirmunt, the father of Helena Skirmunt, began to manage the estate.

At the time of A. Skirmunt, the estate in Kolodnoye flourished. A palace was built. It was a wooden building on a high foundation with a portico in the center of the main facade. The building was rectangular in plan. There was a large basement in the palace, which has been preserved to this day. There were food supplies in the basement. There was a lake and outbuildings near the estate. After A. Skirmunt's death in 1847, Hortense Skirmunt leased the estate to the nobleman Osip Glebovich.

The events of the anti-Russian uprising of 1863-1864 also affected the Kolodnoye estate and the Skirmunt family. The Skirnunts were deprived of the right to an estate in Kolodnoye for supporting the rebels. Gelena Skirmunt was exiled to Tambov for her participation in the uprising, and her husband Kazimir Skirmunt was exiled to Kostroma.

Gelena Skirmunt –1827-1874) was a Belarusian and Polish artist, sculptor and social activist. She was born in the family of Alexander Tomashevich Skirmunt (1794-1847), a Pinsk cornet and Pinsk marshal. His mother is Hortense Orda, the sister of the artist and composer Napoleon Orda.

Gelena studied in Vilnius with the famous artist Vikenty Dmokhovsky, and continued her studies in Berlin, Dresden, and Paris. She participated in the anti–Russian uprising of 1863-1864. She was exiled. Then she lived in Crimea and France. She was buried in Pinsk at the local cemetery.

In Kolodnoye, in the 1990s, a memorial sign was erected in honor of Gelena Skirmunt, which reads: "in memory of the famous artist Gelena Skirmunt (1827-1874). Natives of the village of Kolodnoye. It was installed on the site of the Skirmunt estate."