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Molodov Cemetery

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Molodov Cemetery

The old manor cemetery was most probably established at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries on the grounds of the park and manor establishment, which belonged to the Skirmunt family between 1792 and 1939. At present, the cemetery is closed, its remains are preserved in a very poor condition, some graves are dug up, all elements of the gravestone plaques and monuments are destroyed and scattered over an area of about 0.2 ha, and the original size of the cemetery foundation is difficult to estimate. Only three gravestones have legible inscriptions in Polish. The oldest of these is a knocked-down marble pedestal of Karolina Sulistrowska from 1849. Next to it, by a ditched grave, is the preserved stone pedestal of Emilia of Skirmunt Orzeszko, who died in Sterre in 1905. Slightly further west is a black granite slab from the shattered gravestone of Alexander Skirmunt - junior in 1909, the grandfather of Henryk Skirmunt, the last owner of Molodov, About 30 m from the old cemetery layout a neoclassical chapel has been preserved, built on a circular plan in 1905 - 1908 according to a design by Tadeusz Rostworowski. The brick, plastered chapel, with three porticoes in Doric order, is covered by a roof in the form of a flattened dome. Its interior is completely devastated, the only surviving elements being the base and the altar mensa.

Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography).

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, Aleksandra Dąbkowska
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