Lunin (Brest region)

Lunin is located 13 km north-west of the town of Luninets . The area belongs to the Dnieper basin, to the south of the village there is a network of reclamation canals on peat bogs with a drain into the Bobrik river. To the north of Lunin there is a vast forest, on the part of which the Luninsky biological preserve is formed ^[2] . To the north and south of the village are two highways, respectively, the highway M10 ( Kobryn - Gomel ) and the highway P8 ( Pinsk - Luninets ). South of Lunin is also located the railway platform Lovcha on the line Brest - Gomel ^[3] .

The emphasis in the title on the first syllable. The etymology of the name goes back to the surname Lun ^[4]

Lunin was first mentioned in 1432 ^[5] . The village was part of the Pinsk povet of the Berestey voivodship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . In the middle of the XV century, the brothers Peter and Nikolai Nemirov, in the first half of the XVI century belonged to the Nemirovichi and Penki clans, and from 1563 the Luninsky estate passed to the Polotsk voevode Stanislav Dovoyna , the head of the Polotsk defense in 1563 from the Moscow troops. At the end of the XVI century, Lunin passed to Prince Nikolai Drutsky-Lyubetsky and until the First World War for more than 300 years belonged to representatives of the Drutsk-Lyubetsky clan ^[6]

After the second section of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1793), Lunin as part of the Russian Empire, was part of the Pinsk district of the Minsk province ^[7] .

In the middle of the 18th century, its owner was the Pinsk castellan František Drutsky-Lyubetsky. The estate passed from him to his younger son Geronim (1779–1844), the marshal of Pinsky, the younger brother of the Minister of Finance of the Kingdom of Poland Francis-Xavier of Drutsk-Lyubetsky . After the death of Geronim, his son Edwin Cesaria Adam (1828–1901) became the owner, the last owner of the estate was the son of Edwin Cesaria František Drutsky-Lyubetsky (1878–1944) ^[6] .

In 1794, a stone Catholic church was built in Lunin (not preserved). In the first quarter of the XIX century, a stone palace was erected under Geronim Drutsk-Lyubetsky in the estate and a landscape park was laid out. In 1824 a wooden Orthodox church of Boris and Gleb was built (preserved) ^[8] . In the 1820s, the artist Michal Kulesha lived and taught princely children in Lunin ^[6] .

During the First World War, the Drutskys-Lyubetsky estate was completely destroyed. In 1918, the palace burned down, and with it a rich library and a collection of family relics. After the war, Frantisek Drutsky-Lyubetsky transferred his residence to the neighboring village of Kristinovo (now the village of Polessky ) ^[6] .

According to the Riga Peace Treaty (1921), Lunin became part of interwar Poland , belonged to the Luninets district of the Polesia voivodship . Since 1939 - in the BSSR ^[7] .

The last owner of the estate Frantisek Drutsky-Lyubetsky died in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising ^[6] .

• Borisoglebskaya Church. Built of wood in 1824. Monument of wooden religious architecture. Included in the State List of Historical and Cultural Values ​​of the Republic of Belarus ^[9] .
• Mass grave of Soviet soldiers and partisans. In 1957, a monument was erected in the form of a sculpture of a soldier ^[8] .
• The graves of the First World War pilots ^[10]

Lost

• Palace Drutskikh-Lyubetsky. Stone Palace in the style of classicism . Built in the first quarter of the XIX century, completely destroyed in the First World War.
• Catholic temple. Built in 1794. Judging by the preserved photographs still existed in the 30s of the XX century. Probably destroyed during World War II.

• Lunin on the site globus.tut.by
• Lunin on the site radzima.org