Yakub Kolas Memorial estate "Lastok".

There are four farmsteads in the Stolbtsy district, where the future classic of Belarusian literature lived at different times and which he praised in his works.

Akinchitsy Manor, where the poet was born, is located within the city of Stolbtsy. The Albut farmstead, immortalized by Yakub Kolas in the poem "Novaya Zyamlya" (New Land), is located 5 km from the district center. A little further away is Smolnya Manor, where the poet's brothers and sisters lived.

Lastok farmstead, located 18 km from Stolbtsy, is a place rarely reached by sightseeing buses. Yakub Kolas (at that time still Konstantin Mickiewicz) lived here from 3 to 8 years old. Surrounded by forests, this place is hard to find, and it used to be completely remote. That is why, of all the estates, only here an authentic house from the end of the 19th century has been preserved, where the future classic grew up.

As in other estates, Lastok has a small exhibition dedicated to Yakub Kolas. However, tourists here are infrequent visitors. Mushroom pickers and fishermen visit this picturesque corner more often. The Lastok Memorial Estate is located twelve kilometers from the village of Nikolayevshchina.

Yakub Kolas spent his early childhood years in Lastok. The house, which is more than 130 years old, has been preserved, and the walls of which remember the sonorous laughter of the future poet.

Outbuildings have been restored in the manor and a literary exhibition based on the poem "Simon the Music" has been placed. Here you can see copies of the manuscripts of the poem, its editions from different years, letters, documents, photographs of the poet from the 1920s, products of folk craftsmen of Stolbtsovism and works by Belarusian artists.

This is a very interesting historical place.