Lyskovo. Grave of the poet Frantishek Karpinsky.

František Karpinski (1741-1825), a classic of Polish literature, is buried in Lyskovo, Pruzhany district, near the local Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity.

The poet was born in Ukraine into a noble family. His father worked for the tycoon Pototski. Karpinsky received a very good education - first he studied with the Jesuits at a school in Stanislavov, then in Lviv at the Jesuit academy. Then he studied in Vienna.

In 1780, his first book of poetry was published, which attracted the attention of the Czartoryskys. At the invitation of the tycoon Adam Czartoryski, F. Karpinsky came to Warsaw and worked for the prince as a secretary. Several more collections were published in Warsaw, and a literary circle gradually developed around the talented poet. The poet became famous at the court of the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. During his travels he visited Vilnius and Grodno.

Then he moved to live in Galicia, where he was engaged in the rental of farms. Sometimes visited Warsaw and Belostok, and visited the courts of the magnates. Since 1793 and for 30 years he rented a farm in Pruzhany region on the outskirts of Belovezhskaya Pushcha. He was interested in local history and was familiar with the local nobility. He attended the famous gymnasium in Svisloch and donated his library to it.

In 1819, he acquired the Khorovshchyna farmyard in the Volkovysk district, where he began to carry out the plots of his idyllic plays of peasant life: he opened a school for peasant children, worked in the field with a peasants. He recorded Belarusian songs, collected Belarusian poems, fairy tales and legends. A creative literary environment of local writers has formed around the poet.

F. Karpinsky died in Khorovshchyna farmyard and was buried in Lyskovo near the church. His grave was visited and sketched by the artist and composer Napoleon Orda. The grave has been preserved since then.