Mikhalishki (Grodno region)

The agro-town is located 25 km northeast of the center of Ostrovets on the river Viliya . Highway P45 passes through Mikhalishki, another road leads from Mikhalishki to Gervyaty .

For the first time Mikhalishki was mentioned in 1518, as the possession of the governor of the Trok Gregory Ostik . Since 1526, the estate was in the possession of the Radziwills , then it changed owners several times. As of 1528, there was 71 courtyards in Mikhalishki ^[2] .

According to the administrative-territorial reform of 1565-1566, the settlement became part of the Vilnius district of the Vilnius province .

In 1604, Mikhalishki was acquired by Jan Bzhostovsky ( be: Jan Bzhastoўskі ), who founded the Augustinian monastery here in 1622. There was a hospital at the monastery. Under the son of John of Brzostovsky, Tsiprian Pavel Brzhostovsky in 1653, a stone Catholic church of the Archangel Michael was built in the town ^[3] .

In 1699, the king and Grand Duke Mikhail Vishnevetsky granted Mikhalishki a number of privileges, in particular, 10-year tax exemption for new settlers, the right to have his own court and hold 4 fairs a year. During the Great Northern War in 1705, King Peter I stayed here ^[2] .

As a result of the third division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795), Mikhalishki became part of the Russian Empire , in the Vilna county of the Vilna province . After the suppression of the uprising of 1830, a large number of Catholic monasteries in the territory of modern Belarus were closed. In 1832, the Augustinian monastery in Mikhalishki was also closed, the temple became an ordinary parish church. Nothing has been preserved from the monastery’s buildings except the temple ^[4] . As of 1885, a church, a synagogue (not preserved), a Jewish school, a brewery worked, and fairs were held on Sundays ^[2] . In 1887, a Jewish writer and anarchist theorist Aba Gordin was born in Mikhalishki.

In 1920, Mikhalishki became part of Middle Lithuania , in 1922 - as part of the interwar Polish Republic , where they belonged to the Vilnius region of the Vilnius province ^[2] .

In 1939 Mikhalishki entered the BSSR, where on October 12, 1940 they became the center of the village council of the Ostrovets district. The status of the settlement was lowered to the village. From December 25, 1962 to January 6, 1965, the Mikhalishkovsky Village Council was part of the Smorgon District .

• Catholic Church of the Archangel Michael , architectural monument, 1653.
• Cemetery Catholic Chapel
• Jewish cemetery
• Monument to the Jews - victims of the Holocaust

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• Sorkіna I. Myastechki Belarus ў Chants XVIII - first palais of the XIX century - Vilna: EHU, 2010 .-- 488 p. ISBN 978-9955-773-33-7 .

• Mikhalishki on the website globus.tut.by
• Mikhalishki on the website radzima.org

• Ghetto in Mikhalishki