In honor of the Polish Commonwealth’s constitution of May 3, 1791.
This bust of Tadevush Kas’tsjushka (Тадэвуш Касьцюшка – Tadeusz Kościuszko) was cast in the 1930s, while the western Belarusian lands were included in the interwar Polish Republic. However, it was only in 1988 that the bust was set in place in front of the local primary school and museum on the site of the former Kas’tsjushka family estate in Sjanovichy Malyja in the Bjares’tse (Brest) Region of western Belarus. I took this photo in 2013 while on a survey of the cultural patrimony of Zhabinka and Kobrin Districts with Anton Astapovich, chairman of the Belarusian Association for the Preservation of Historical and Cultural Monuments.
Kas’tsjushka (Kościuszko) led the courageous but unsuccessful 1794 struggle against the Russian empire to restore the partitioned Polish Commonwealth. Earlier he had played a key role on the American side in the American Revolutionary War. He is a national hero in Poland, Belarus, Lithuania and the United States and an honorary citizen of France.
У гонар канстытуцыі 3-а траўня 1791 года. Помнік Тадэвушу Касьцюшку, былая сядзіба Касьцюшкаў, Сяновічы Малыя 2013 год.
