Лошица, Palace complex in Loshitsa district, Belarus
The Loshitsa estate-park complex stands at the confluence of the Svisloch and Loshitsa rivers on Minsk's southern edge. Its manor house has an asymmetrical facade of pale cream or light grey walls with white window trim, a white columned entrance porch, and a vivid green hipped roof with a small gabled section and chimney. A tall dark wooden tower stands to its right, and a long wooden footbridge with dark reddish-brown X-braced railings crosses the water nearby.
The Loshitsa manor is first documented in 1557 as the Loshitsky court, held by the Drutsky princes. In 1703 it passed to Jerzy Antoni Prushinsky, and in the second half of the 18th century the baroque residence took shape, with a chapel-tomb built in 1788. After 1877, Eustachy Lubansky turned it into a model estate of Minsk Governorate, adding a two-storey servants' wing, a distillery by the pond, a tavern and a three-storey stone mill.
The estate takes its name from the Loshitsa River, and the Prushinsky name recalls the noble family that owned the village and manor. In the 19th century Yauстах Lubansky made it a model farm and a gathering place for wealthy nobles and Minsk intellectuals. Since 2015 the manor house has held a museum of the Prushinsky and Lubansky families.
The site is accessible by public transport and offers guided tours through its rooms regularly. Visitors should be prepared for uneven ground and stairs in the older buildings.
The estate's linden avenue, laid out in the second half of the 18th century, lost roughly half its old trees to a storm on 13 July 2016. A 300-year-old betrothal oak, the Zaruchalny dub, had already fallen to wind in July 2010. The park was declared a botanical nature monument on 30 December 2025.
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