Staryya Darohi

Staryya Darohi takes its name, Old Darohi, from a settlement recorded as Darohi in the Lithuanian Metrica in 1524. It belonged to noble families of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, including the princes of Halshany and later the Radziwiłłs. At the end of the seventeenth century another settlement of the same name arose to the east, and the older place acquired the distinguishing name by which it is known. The Second Partition of 1793 placed the village under Russian rule, within the country administered from Babruysk.