Davyd-Haradok

Davyd-Haradok lies on the Horyn in the river country of Polesia, on the route between Pinsk and Mozyr. From 1586 it was a private town of the Radziwiłł family within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Its inhabitants were known for gardening, vegetable seeds, dried fish and shoemaking. In 1793, the second partition of Poland brought the town under Russian rule.