Mikulino

Mikulino lies among lakes east of Vitebsk, beside the lake that bears its name. It was the centre of a district whose lands included Liozno. In 1555 King Sigismund granted the district to Hryhoriy Valovich; through his daughter's marriage it passed to the Ogiński family. At the division of the family estates in 1625, Lew Samuel Ogiński received Mikulino and Liozno, linking the two places in the fortunes of this Lithuanian princely house.