Porechye. Monument to Roman Skirmunt.

In the village of Porechye, Pinsk district, there is a beautiful park with an area of 65 hectares, which was created by the owner of these places, Roman Skirmunt (1868 – 1939).

The Skirmunts acquired Porechye from the Oginskys at the end of the 18th century and transformed the town into a flourishing region with factories and plants. And the real decoration of these places was the park, near which the building of the former sugar factory, the German pillbox and the grave of Roman Skirmunt have been preserved.

Roman Andreevich Skirmunt was born in Porechye in 1868. He came from the famous noble family of Skirmunt coat of arms "Oak". He studied at the gymnasium in Riga. He was the chairman of the Society for the Development of Agricultural and Economic Needs of Polesie, and was also a member of the Society of Agriculture. In 1906, he was a deputy of the first State Duma of the Russian Empire. Since 1910, he was a member of the State Council of the Russian Empire. He was a member of the Minsk Provincial Zemstvo and was a member of the Minsk Provincial Committee of the All-Russian Zemstvo Union.

In 1917, he was the head of the Minsk Provincial Food Committee, and was also the head of the Minsk department of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims. Since the spring of 1917, he has been chairman of the Belarusian National Committee in Minsk. In April 1917, he was at the head of the Belarusian delegation to the Provisional Government with a proposal for autonomy for Belarus. After the revolution and the Civil War, he retired from political activity for a while and lived on his estate in Porechye, where he was engaged in economic activities. In 1930, he was elected senator of the Polish Republic. He opposed the assimilation of national minorities. He was killed in September 1939 after the coming of Soviet power, shot in a park in Porechye.

After the independence of the Republic of Belarus, a memorial sign in honor of Roman Skirmunt was installed in a park in Porechye and a cross was placed on his grave.