Zhytkavichy

Zhytkavichy lies in Polesia near the Pripyat and the ancient town of Turau. Its name appears in the Lithuanian Metrica in 1500, when the place was recorded as the estate of Zhidkovichi in the lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The surrounding country is a landscape of rivers, woods and wetlands, quite different from the higher ground around Novogrudok. The estate belonged to the rural world that lay between the Pripyat waterway and the older ecclesiastical and princely centre at Turau.