Rovanichi. Slotvinsky Manor.

On the highway between Berezino and Minsk in the Chervensky district there is a 19th-century gentry manor in the town of Rovanichi. You need to drive 20 kilometers from the highway on a good asphalt road.

Rovanichi have been known since the 16th century. At first, the owners of the lands here were Mosalsky, and then Slotvinsky. The gentry manor has survived to our time in the classic version: a manor house with outbuildings, a park, a pond with a brovar and a church with a tomb.

The Slotvinskys came from the famous gentry family of the coat of arms "Leliva". Anthony Slotvinsky, the Chashnik of Lida, in 1789 acquired the Rovanichi estate from Bishop Ignatius Mosalsky of Vilna for 260 thousand zlotys. His son, Ludwig Sotvinsky (1801-1889) was born in Rovaničy and was a civil servant. During this period, the manor house in Rovanichi was built together with the Church of St. Anthony.

The church was built on the outskirts of the estate on a hill in 1790-1799 and consecrated in honor of St. Anthony of Padua. The building was built in the classical style. In terms of the building has the shape of a square. A four-column portico with Ionic capitals adorns the main facade. There was a crypt in the church with the tombs of the Slotvinsky family. And next to the church there is also a noble burial with a monument.

There is a pond with a dam opposite the church. If you go through the dam, then on the left side you will see a manor house on a hill among the park. The building was built in the late 18th century in the classical style. Stone, two-storey building. In Soviet times, there was a school here. Now the building and the church are in a neglected state.

According to some historical information, the Russian writer and poet A. Pushkin took the plot for his work "Dubrovsky" precisely from the history of the estate in Rovanichi.

The brewery on the estate is still operating. The park and outbuildings have been preserved quite well to our time.