Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography). Cemetery with Polish grave monuments. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography). According to Anna Lewkowska, Jacek Lewkowski and Wojciech Walczak, the Catholic cemetery in Nesvizh has a rectangular plan and a 2.95 ha area surrounded by a metal fence. It was established in the early 19th century. "The cemetery is the resting place of many distinguished citizens of the city, people who died fighting for the freedom of the Fatherland, the clergy. It contains tombstones of artistic value, representing artistic forms and trends characteristic of the 19th and 1st half of the 20th century. The oldest gravestone, dating from 1815, commemorates WJP Rybnikov. Following the cited authors, the cemetery contains "the gravestone of Michał Kraśnicki (d. 1924) an ancestor of the state police, a former soldier, who died probably in tragic circumstances. Part of the inscription has been scarred, similarly, only more effectively. than on the tombstone of the Bolshevik-murdered students and teachers of Mieczyslaw Wolnisty Gymnasium, the leader and participants in the 1919 Nesvizh uprising, located in the north-south part of the cemetery." Also buried in the cemetery is a lieutenant colonel of the 5th Armoured Battalion, Kajetan Doboszynski (d. 1892), as well as Jan Józef Dwernicki (d. 1900), according to Lewkowski and Walczak, "son of a general of the Polish Army, participant in the Napoleonic campaigns, from 1829. brigadier general in the army of the Kingdom of Poland, famous commander during the victorious battle of Sroczek during the November Rising, author of the Diary published in Lwów in 1870." The same authors write that "in the north-western part of the cemetery there is a military quarter from the 1920 war. The quarter is rectangular in shape, with 37 graves in 7 rows. (...) Between the last rows is placed a contemporary metal cross of the Polish Graves Guards. Polish soldiers who died in the war against the Bolsheviks are buried in the quarters. In the north-eastern part of the cemetery there is a quarter of the State Police officers, made in 1926 (...)." Noteworthy is the inscription from the obelisk: (left side) "MIECZYSŁAW WOLNISTY / POLIKARP KOLENDA / JÓZEF JANUSZKIEWICZ / KONSTANTY IWANOWSKI / traces of the inscription: murdered by the Bolsheviks) ON 24 MARCH 1919 R. / front A JEŚLI WHO WOULD DO SOMETHING TO HEAVEN / TO THOSE WHO SERVE THE FATHER / side: FIVE POLLEGALS / ZWIĄZEK MŁODZIEŻY POLSKIEJ / GIM. "WŁAD. SYROKOMLI" / 24 MARCH 1926" Preservation condition of the cemetery good. The necropolis in Nesvizh is one of the most interesting cemeteries in the Novogrudok region.

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