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Miłowidy cemetery

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Miłowidy cemetery

Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography). According to Anna Lewkowska, Jacek Lewkowski and Wojciech Walczak, in 1863 an inconclusive battle took place in Miłowidy between Slonim insurgents and the Russian army. On the site where the insurgents were buried, a shrine was built in 1932 with the inscription: "22 V - 1863 / PEACE TO THEIR SHADOWS / FALLEN INSURGENTS / 1863. / GRATEFUL COUNTRYMEN / V.1932". According to the aforementioned authors, according to local legend, the shrine dodged all the bullets during the Second World War. It was restored in 1980. Nearby is a contemporary stone with an inscription on a metal plaque: "ZA WOLNST / NASZU I WASZU / BITWA PAD MIŁOWIDAMI / 22 MAJA (3 CZERWIENJA) / 1863 G. / KIRANIK POWSTANNJA / REWALJUCJONJER - DEMOKRAT / KOSTUS KALINOWSKI". Following the cited researchers, "on the other side of the road there is a cast-iron cross on a pedestal dedicated to the Russian soldiers who died and were buried there, or, according to local residents, to the Orthodox insurgents."

Bibliography:

  • „Cmentarze polskie poza granicami kraju” , raport, oprac. B. Gutowski, Warszawa 2022 (maszynopis).
  • Lewkowska Anna, Lewkowski Jacek, Walczak Wojciech, „Zabytkowe cmentarze na Kresach Wschodnich Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej. Województwo wileńskie na obszarze Republiki Białoruś”, Warszawa 2007.

Author:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, Dawid Mendrek
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