Chavusy

Chavusy stands on the Basya, a tributary of the Pronya, east of Mogilev. It appears in a charter of King Stephen Báthory in 1581 as the village of Chausovichi, and later grew into a town with Magdeburg rights. During the Great Northern War, the movement of Swedish and Russian armies brought hardship to the district. The first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth placed Chavusy under Russian rule in 1772.