Bobr

Bobr stands on the river of the same name, east of Barysaw. It is first recorded in 1516 as the village of Zabobrovye, which Prince Ivan Drutski-Krasny bequeathed to his wife Marina. The settlement later became a market town in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In the eighteenth century it passed among members of the Oginski family, including Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, who acquired it in 1763.