Raitsa. The Raetsky-Puttkamer Estate.

The stone church of St. Barbara and the estate of the Raetskys-Puttkamers were built in the village of Raitsa in the Korelichi district. 

The place was first mentioned in the 16th century during the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In those days, the place belonged to the Vereshchaks. Then the owners were the Naumovichi and the Gashtolds. At the end of the 16th century, the Raetsky family acquired ownership here.

 In the 17th century, the Uniate Church of the Nativity, which was funded by the Raetskys, was mentioned in documents. Andrei Tomashevsky and Nikolai Raetsky served as priests at the temple, and there were more than 400 parishioners.

After the third partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, the town became part of the Russian Empire. In 1817, Konstantin Raetsky provided funds for the construction of a new stone church made of brick and rubble stone. The temple was intended for the ancestral tomb of the Raetsky family.

Ludwika Raetskaya married Jozef Vereshchak, who was the brother of Marylia Vereshchaka, the beloved poet Adam Mickiewicz.

In 1898, the estate passed to Vavzhinets Puttkamer, who was the grandson of Marylia Vereshchaka. Janina, the daughter of Wawrzyniec, married Count Adam Zsoltowski, a professor at the University of Krakow, in 1910. They sold the estate before the war.

Since 1939, with the advent of Soviet power, there was a hospital in the palace, and then a hospital and a polyclinic. In 2009, the estate was acquired by private owners. A wooden one-story house, a neo-Gothic stone church, a plebian (priest house) with a gate, a park and a pillar with the image of the coat of arms of Raetsky family "Swan" have been preserved to our time.