Starobin

Starobin was a small town in the lands of the princes of Slutsk, later held by the Radziwiłł family. A document in the family archive mentions it in 1646. In 1654 its owners granted the inhabitants a weekly market and four annual fairs, giving local exchange a regular place in the calendar. During the war between Russia and Lithuania in the 1650s, Starobin served as a watch post for Prince Bogusław Radziwiłł's garrison at Slutsk. The Second Partition of the Commonwealth in 1793 brought the town under Russian rule.