Smorgon District - the arena of hostilities
In the 17-18 centuries Smorgon land was the arena of hostilities for a long time.
The great powers of that time were at war: the Russian Empire, Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Smorgon was visited by the Russian Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, and the Polish King Stanislav Leshchinsky, and the King of Sweden Charles XII. The uprising of 1794 under the leadership of Tadeusz Kosciuszko is also our history. Its participant was the famous composer and statesman Mikhail Kleofas Oginsky
The album contains 58 engravings of various objects of the Grodno, Vilna, Minsk, Suvalka and Kovenskaya provinces of the 19th century. They are made by Napoleon Orda, a traveler, writer, journalist, participant in the uprisings.
Donated to the museum by S.B. Khinevich, a son of the first director of secondary school No. 4 B. M.Khinevich (from the family library),on April 27, 2010.
A series of publications dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the birth of M.K. Oginsky "People close to M.K. Oginsky" (NDF 944).
Tatyana Ivanovna Kleshchenok, a researcher at the State Institution “Museum-Estate of M.K. Oginsky”, presents in a series of publications little-known facts about the life of M.K. Oginsky, his family and associates.
Donated to the museum by the author on February 23, 2017.
Materials of the international conference “Heritage of M.K. Oginsky in the culture of three peoples”- Minsk, 2016. - 158 p. (NDF 942).
On September 23-24, 2015 the International Conference “Heritage of M.K. Oginsky in the culture of three peoples ” was held in Zalessie. The conference was attended by representatives of Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. The collection contains reports of conference participants.
Donated to the museum by Tatyana Ivanovna Kleshchenok, a researcher of the State Institution “Museum-estate of M. K. Oginsky”, on February 23,2017.