Buinovichi

Buinovichi lies among the forests and marshes of Polesia, northeast of Lelchytsy. Known from the sixteenth century, it belonged to the Ubort estate held by the bishops of Vilnius. A boundary act of 1622 described a line cut through the marshes from the lands of Buinovichi and Stodolichi towards the little Slovechanka River. In 1774 the villagers built a new church after the previous one burned. The estate passed under Russian rule after the partitions of the Commonwealth and was divided in 1808, when Buinovichi was bought by Mikhail Dobrinsky.