Vidzy. Grave of General Tomasz Wawrzecki.

If you go to Vidzy along the road from Postavy, then at the beginning of the village, right behind the store, on the right side of the road, is the grave of the legendary General Tomasz Wawrzecki (1753 – 1816).

Wawrzecki was born in Braslav district. He graduated from the school of Jesuit monks in Vidzy. He was an excellent practicing lawyer and legal expert. He held important positions in the state: Braslav ensign, Kaunas understarosta, Kaunas underkorm, and Grand Ensign of Lithuania. He was the ambassador of Braslav district at the famous Four-Year Sejm in 1788-1792. He supported the Constitution of May 3, 1791, adopted in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and which became the first constitution in Europe and the second after the United States. In his estate Vidzy-Lowczynskie, he gave freedom to the peasants and abolished taxes. Together with some ambassadors, he advocated for improving the situation of the peasantry.

During the 1794 uprising led by Tadeusz Kościuszko, he took an active part in the uprising and received the rank of lieutenant general. After T. Kościuszko was captured, Tomasz was elected "supreme commander", i.e. the leader of the uprising on the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. When Warsaw fell, T. Wawrzecki was captured and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress. After the amnesty of Emperor Paul I, he was released. He lived and worked in Vilnius. After the war with Napoleon, he held the post of Minister of Justice in the Kingdom of Poland. T. Wawrzecki died in Warsaw. He was buried in Vidzy.