Pavlinovo. Bohvits estate.

In the village with the beautiful name of Pavlinovo there is a park and estate of the Bohvits. At the end of the 19th century, the estate was bought from the Novitskys by Jan Otan Bohvits. Jan Bohvits was the son of the famous Belarusian and Polish writer and philosopher Florian Bohvits. Jan Bohvits, a participant in the Crimean War and the uprising of 1863-1864, an officer in the hussar regiment. After serving his sentence in the fortress in Dinaburg, he began active entrepreneurial activity. In his new estate, Jan Bohvits quickly built a palace and a winery in 1906 in six months. A landscape park was laid out, a garden was laid out, outbuildings and a water mill with a tar distillery were erected.

Bohwitz dedicated the estate in Pavlinovo in honor of his mother, and the second estate in Flerianovo in honor of his father. In 1909, Pavlinovo was visited by an honored guest – the famous Belarusian and Polish writer Eloisa Orzeszko. Since 1915, the property passed to his son Tadeusz Otan, and then to his grandson Jan Otan.

The estate was built near the small river Kocherishka. The center of the composition was the palace, built with neo-Gothic elements. The park is of a landscape type with alleys and a water system. Not far from the palace there is a pond, the water level in which is regulated by a dam. Trees and bushes are planted in the park: linden, poplar, Weymouth pine and other plants. The park also has outbuildings: a stable, a cowshed and an icehouse. The water mill and tar factory have not survived to this day.

After the war, the estate housed an orphanage and a military hospital. In recent years, it was purchased by a private individual and is undergoing renovation. The owners allow tourists to visit the estate and park.