Pryluki, Manor house and university building in Sienicki Sieĺsaviet, Belarus

Pryluki is an agrotown on the left bank of the Ptych River in the Minsk Region, about 14 km southwest of Minsk. Its centrepiece is the former Czapski palace, rebuilt in 1872 with a seven-axis front facade, four octagonal corner turrets and a three-axis central avant-corps. A landscape park with old lindens and maples surrounds it, and the Belarusian Research Institute of Plant Protection now occupies the building.

Pryluki was first mentioned in 1567, when it belonged to the Esmans and Górskis and served as the first postal stop on the road from Minsk to Navahrudak. In 1635 Anna Stetkiewicz (née Ogińska) founded an Orthodox men's monastery there. After the monastery collapsed in 1740, the Iwanowski family built a castle on the site, later rebuilt in 1851 as a neo-Gothic palace by Otto Horwatt. After a fire in 1868, Emeryk Hutten-Czapski restored it in 1872 without the towers.

The name Pryluki derives from a Belarusian word for wide riverside meadows, not from lakes; local legend instead tells of a duel between the boyar Yaroslav and a rival over Liubliana, written down by Kazimierz Kostrowicki in 1893. The palace was long associated with ghosts, including Pan Cecilia and Ferdinand Wiśniowiecki, and inspired Antoni Edward Odyniec's ballad The Enchanted Castle.

The grounds are easy to explore on foot, with the park around the manor offering clear paths for a short walk. Since the building also serves as a university, it is worth checking in advance which parts are open to outside visitors.

The palace that now houses the Research Institute for Plant Protection was rebuilt in 1872 by Emeryk Hutten-Czapski without its towers, after a fire in 1868. In 1926 Taras Tarych filmed "Forest Story" (Лясная быль), the first Belarusian national film, at the estate; BSSR leaders Adamovich, Knorin and Chervyakov appeared as themselves.