Pinsk is a city of regional subordination, located at the
confluence of the Pina and Pripyat rivers, the center of the Pinsk
district of the Brest region of Belarus. Pinsk is a large cultural
and industrial center of Polesie.
A large religious core of
the country is the center of the Catholic and Orthodox dioceses. The
unofficial capital of the Belarusian Polesye. Historically
significant settlement in the region.
The birthday of Pinsk
is considered November 5, 1097 - recorded in the annals as the city
of Pinsk (Pinesk ibid.).
As part of the Turov principality.
XI, XII, XIII centuries
1097: the first chronicle mention of
Pinsk (Pinesk) in the "Tale of Bygone Years".
1174: the capital
of the independent Pinsk principality.
1183: mention of the Pinsk
princes - Yaroslav (1183) and Yaropolk (1190). Pinsk was then in the
center of the Turov principality, had trade ties with Volyn, the
Middle Dnieper and other regions.
1263: written mention of an
Orthodox church - a monastery on the outskirts of Leshche.
As
part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. XIV, XV, XVI centuries
1320: Prince Gediminas annexes the Pinsk principality to the Grand
Duchy of Lithuania.
The end of the XIV century: Pinesk on Pina is
mentioned in the chronicle "List of Russian cities far and near".
1396: the generally accepted date for the founding of the Franciscan
church in Pinsk.
1471: the city is ruled by Princess Maria - the
widow of Semyon Olelkovich, who belonged to the Gedimin family. A
large number of letters make it possible to refer to the first
mentions of the villages of the Pinsk region.
1521: King of
Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund I handed Pinsk to his
wife Queen Bona. In Polesie, she is known for actively beginning to
carry out agrarian reforms.
1527: in front of the walls of the
Pinsk castle, a campaign of a detachment of Tatars, which destroyed
the north-eastern part of Pinsk, was stopped. This was the last raid
of the Tatars.
1566: the second most important city of the Brest
Voivodeship.
As part of the Commonwealth. XVII, XVIII centuries
1569: after the unification of Lithuania with Poland into the
Rzeczpospolita, Pinsk became the center of the Brest Voivodeship.
1581: On January 12, he received the Magdeburg Law and the coat of
arms: "In the red field of the" Baroque "shield, a golden bow taut,
the steel arrowhead is directed to the left."
1636-1675:
construction of the Jesuit collegium.
1648: the city is captured
by the troops of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who staged Jewish pogroms
there. The troops of Janusz Radziwill recaptured the city, at the
same time from 3 to 5 thousand people were killed and a significant
number of households burned down.
1655: during the Russian-Polish
war of 1654-1667, the troops of FF Volkonsky on September 25
occupied Pinsk, plundered it and burned it.
1705: The Catholic
Church of the Bernardines was founded at the expense of Prince
Mikhail Vishnevetsky and his wife Catherine. It existed until 1832.
1710: Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev - the author of the five-volume
History of Russia, scientist, diplomat, traveler - visited Pinsk,
Parokhonsk, Pleshitsy, Morozovich, Lopatin, Kolbakh.
1717 in
Pinsk, the great Lithuanian hetman Mikhail Servatsy Vishnevetsky
built a Bernardine monastery.
1782: A stone church was built on
the north-eastern outskirts of the Pinsk suburb of Karolin, now
known as the church of Karl Baramey.
1784: King of Poland
Stanislav August Poniatowski visited Pinsk, who was present at the
ceremony of laying the first stone of the Butrimovich Palace.