Shestakovo. The ruins of Traugutt Manor.

There is a small village of Shestakovo located between the town of Vysokoe and the district center of Kamenets. There was once a folk park in this town, where the revolutionary Romuald Traugutt was born.

At the very beginning of the 19th century, the Shestakovo estate belonged to Pavel Chamberlain. The estate was rented by a poor nobleman Ludwig Traugutt, who was married to Alois Blotsky. Their son Romuald was born in their family on January 4, 1826.

Shestakovo's inheritance passed from Pavel Hofmeister to his son Apollinarius, who studied at the university of Berlin and joined the Polish patriotic organization there and took part in organizing a conspiracy in the 1840s, for which he was arrested and exiled, and before that he was pilloried in Vilnius. About 10 years later, Apollinaris returned to the estate and began farming and educating. He opened a school for children. During the uprising of 1863-1864 Apollinaris became the head of the rebel forces in Brest region. He maintained contacts with R. Traugutt, whom he had known since childhood. He was re-arrested in 1864 and exiled to penal servitude, where he died. In the interwar period until 1939, the estate belonged to the Steletskys.

The master building itself was small in terms of an elongated rectangle wooden house in the traditions of folk wooden architecture. The entrance was decorated in the form of a porch with a canopy on 2 pillars. Nearby there was a small landscape park of about 6 hectares, which has been preserved to our time. During the period of the Polish state in the 1920s, a memorial boulder in honor of Romuald Traugutt was erected in front of the house in the park.

In 1988, a new memorial sign was erected on the territory of the former estate. R. Traugutt (1826-1864) was a revolutionary general, one of the leaders of the anti-Russian uprising of 1863-1864.