Hlybokaye

Hlybokaye lies among lakes on the road between Vilnius and Polotsk. Records from 1514 describe a manor belonging to the Zianowicz family; the settlement later became a private town in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In the seventeenth century Józef Korsak founded a Catholic parish church and a church for the Discalced Carmelites. The friars ran a school and a dormitory for poor students, giving the town an educational as well as a religious role in the surrounding district.