The Palace Butrimovich Photo: The Palace Butrimovich

Butrimovich Palace was laid on September 9, 1784. At the ceremony of laying the first stone was attended by the king Stanislaw August Poniatowski. The Palace was built by the architect K. Chillhouse next 10 years. It is constructed in a mixture of styles of classicism and Baroque.

The first owner of the Palace was a prominent social and political activist woodland Mateusz Butrimovich. He was a true patriot of his native land, he took an active part in the reclamation of wetlands and the construction of canals, made the Pinsk international port. Mateusz Butrimovich outfitted in the spring of 1784 "Woodland flotilla, which sailed through Warsaw to Europe to represent there products native woodland.

Subsequently the Palace of Butrimova owned three eminent Polesie kind: Butrymowicz, the Horde and the Works. Among them were talented sculptors, painters, writers, historians. In the XIX century there lived and worked the famous artist, musician, teacher, composer Napoleon Orda. The last owner of the Palace was the Constance Skirmunt, which managed to convey a picture of Napoleon Orda in the Krakow Museum, which saved the painting from destruction during the great fire that occurred in the Palace in 1901.

In Soviet times, the Palace was given to the needs of Pinsk House of pioneers and children's theater.

In 2009 in the Palace Butrimovich were conducted in a large restoration work. Currently there is a Wedding Palace. Now the couple Pinsk can marry in the romantic interiors of this Palace Polesie nobles.

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