Mogilev. The building of the former Jesuit college.

The Catholic order of Jesuits came to Mogilev at the end of the 17th century. They founded the collegium. At first, the building was made of wood. And at the beginning of the 18th century, a two-story brick building was built. Grammar, syntax, poetics, rhetoric and other subjects were taught in the collegium. There was a music bursa and a school theater, a pharmacy, a museum, and a library. Many famous figures studied here: poet Edward Masalski, entrepreneur and adventurer Michal Valitsky, Decembrist Michal Lapa. After the Jesuits were banned in the Russian Empire, the building was handed over to the military for the needs of the headquarters of the 1st Army. After the uprising of the Decembrists in December 1825, 70 participants of the uprising were under investigation in this building. In Soviet times, there was a shoe factory here. In the 1970s, they wanted to demolish the building, but thanks to the efforts of Mogilev local historian Hieronim Filipovich, the building has survived to this day. And the "Museum of Decembrists" was opened there. Now there is an ethnographic museum. You can buy souvenirs in the museum.