Lishki. The manor of the de Virions.

In the Berestovitsky district, several interesting gentry estates have survived to our time. One of them is located on the very border with Poland in the village of Lishki.

The magnates of Radziwill invited a representative of the French de Virion family, Karol Jozef Virion, to work for them as a doctor in Nesvizh. After some time, Karol Jozef worked as a teacher in Grodno at the Medical Academy, and then at Vilnius University. In the end, he becomes the doctor of the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Stanislaw August Poniatowski himself.

Karol Jozef acquires the surplus estate from the Yundzils. And at that moment, a wooden palace, a tavern, a pastel courtyard and the mill were already built here. The stone building with a tower that has survived to our time was built by the descendant of Karol Jozef – Vladislav - in 1883. The building was built on the principle of a Renaissance villa in Italy. In addition, a one-story house was added in the local gentry traditions. The architectural dominant of the estate is a four-tiered tower with a spiral staircase.

During the First World War, the Revolution and the Civil War, the estate was looted, but restored by the owners in the 1920s. In 1939, after the reunification of Western and Eastern Belarus, the estate was confiscated.