In honor of the Polish Commonwealth’s constitution of May 3, 1791: restored birthplace of Tadeusz Kościuszko (in Belarusian Tadevush Kas’tsjushka — Тадэвуш Касьцюшка), Marachoushchyna 2015.
У гонар канстытуцыі 3-а траўня 1791 года: адноўленая хата/месца нараджэньня Тадэвуша Касьцюшка, Марачоўшчына 2015 г.
In reaction to the constitution of May 3, 1791, Europe’s first modern national constitution, the Russian Empire launched a war which led to the second, and then the third partition of the Polish Commonwealth, which included Belarusian and Lithuanian lands. Poland was thus wiped off the map until 1918.
Kościuszko (Kas’tsjushka), scion of a noble Belarusian family and a man whose efforts were integral to the success of the American Revolution, led the courageous but unsuccessful 1794 struggle against the Russian empire to restore the partitioned Polish Commonwealth. He is a national hero in Poland, Belarus, Lithuania and the United States.
The manor house, like many other manor houses in the Belarusian lands, was burned by Soviet partisans in World War II. The house, restored in 2004 with financial assistance from the U.S. embassy in Mjensk, houses a museum devoted to Kościuszko (Kas’tsjushka). It is now often the site for wedding photographs.
