Svisloch. The Puslovsky Estate.

There is a place called Svisloch in the Grodno region on the Svisloch River. The Puslovsky stone manor and the 19th-century Orthodox Church, which was originally a Catholic church, have been preserved here to this day.

Svisloch belonged to different owners in its history, during the time of the Russian Empire, from the first half of the 19th century, it belonged to the Puslovsky family.

A paper manufactory was built here. In 1872, the estate was called Svisloch Dolnaya and included several folwarks: boyars, Svisloch Gornaya, Kvasovka and others. Vandalin Puslovsky owned the estate, and then handed it over to his daughter Marta.

 V. Puslovsky –1814-1884) was a patron of the arts and a collector, a numismatist. He and his wife, Jadwiga, who came from the Yezersk family, raised a daughter, Martha (1859-1943). Martha, married to Krasinskaya, had a secular solon in Svisloch, which for decades had gathered famous writers, artists and politicians. The researchers write that the future Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, also visited here.

Marta loved to draw and had literary abilities. The estate was passed on to his son Mikhail, who was killed in 1939 and buried at the local cemetery. And the youngest son emigrated to France.

 Marta Puslovskaya and Kazimir Krasinsky began building the estate on the banks of the Svisloch River. The dominant feature of the estate is a three-storey stone house in the Art Nouveau style made of brick and granite blocks, which has been preserved to our time in good condition. The palace had about 60 rooms and an elevator. The rooms had paintings on antique themes and rich stucco. Carrier pigeons lived on the attic.

 The main value of the palace was the library. Martha, like her father, collected a large book collection in different languages of Europe. She opened a social salon in Warsaw, where writers and politicians were frequent guests. In 1927, Countess Marta donated a thousand volumes of her collection to the museum in Grodno. These books still adorn the museum's collections.