Milkovshchina. Monument on the site of estate of E. Ozheshko

In the village of Milkovshchina, Grodno region, on the site of the Pavlovsky estate, where the famous writer Eliza Ozheshko was born, a memorial sign and a cross with a sculpture of the Mother of God have been erected.

In the 16th century, during the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the manor in Milkovshchina belonged to Nikolai Pats. He received the estate from King Sigismund I the Old. Then the property belonged to Queen Bona Sforza. In 1588, the village was part of the Grodno starostvo.

In the 19th century, the estate belonged to the Barzhetskys, from whom Benedikt Pavlovsky (1788-1843) acquired property. He works as a lawyer for the county court in Grodno. He was a progressive educated nobleman. He had a large library of French authors and a collection of paintings. Benedict married Frantishka Kamenskaya (1814-1878). When Benedict died, Frantishka remarried Konstantin Vidatsky. The owner of the estate was her daughter, Elizabeth Benediktovna Pavlovskaya, married to Ozheshko, whom we know as the writer Eliza Ozheshko (1841-1910).

E. Ozheshko left the estate in 1858, and in 1872 she sold Milkovshchina to Mozolevsky. In 1890, the estate had 985 dessiatines of land. The last people who owned the estate were the Chetvertinskys. There was a one-story wooden utility house with 14 rooms. The house has not survived to our time, and of the outbuildings there is only a wooden barn.

A memorial boulder with a memorial plaque and a cross with a sculpture of the Mother of God are installed on the site of the estate.