Blon

Blon (Belarusian: Блонь; Russian: Блонь; Polish: Błoń) is an agrotown in Pukhavichy District, Minsk Region, Belarus.

For other uses, see Blon (disambiguation).
A bus stop for Blon (central)

History

Historically Błoń belonged to Ihumen Uyezd (Ihumeń is Chervyen now), Russian Empire, which was earlier part of Minsk Powiat, Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It is associated with Jesuit priest and poet Józef Baka, who established there a Jesuit monastery in about 1745 and a wooden church of John the Baptist around 1748. After his death it was passed to the Jesuit order, and after the suppression of the Jesuits the properties were seized by a Poniński and later passed to Ossowskis of Dołęga coat of arms.[1] In 1863 they were sequestrated as a punishment for taking part in the January Uprising and in 1868 they were sold to a civil official Bończ-Osmołowski (Иосиф Александрович Бонч-Осмоловский), from which lands the properties of włościans (pl:włościanin, a land-owning peasant) were separated, leaving about 2250 morgen of arable land.[2]

References
  1. Wincenty A. Sułkowski, Kartka z dziejow kosciola katolickiego w Rosyi, 1889, p.142
  2. Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom I, p.249

53°31′44″N 28°10′38″E


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