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Palace of
Duke Leon Sapieha. Ruzhany, Sixteenth
Century.
Photo dated 1874
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Photo from Tomasz Wisniewski Collection;
reproduced with permission.
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| Sapieha Palace,
1829 through 1988 |
The castle was purchased by Ari Leib PINES
[born in Volkovysk about 1787] from Duke
Sapieha, December 21, 1829. Ari Leib was a
financial advisor to the Duke and the
founder of the textile manufacturing concern
carried on very profitably by his
descendants in Ruzhany.
The PINES family occupied the castle
continously through World War I. [My
grandmother, Golda, was born and grew up
there, among others.] Some time during World
War I ( in the year 1915), the castle burned
down as a result of a fire inadvertently
caused by washerwomen. The ruins are still
standing, and the triumphal arch at the
entrance to the property is clearly visible
in recent pictures.
The PINES family was quite charitable and
very Zionist: Yehiel Michel Pines, the
Israeli pioneer, was a descendant. Other
Pines descendants live in Israel today, as
well as in USA and Canada.
Information courtesy of Lisa Newman
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Photo courtesy of the Oren family, Israel.
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1932 - Ruins seen through
the main entrance.
Photo courtesy of the Oren family, Israel.
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Summer 1937 - The front yard
of the palace
Photo courtesy of the Oren family, Israel.
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Summer 1937 - Members of the
Pines Family - Rosa (Ethia's sister),
grandmother Dora (Dvora) Pines, Rosa's first
husband - Nuniya & Yona
Photo courtesy of the Oren family, Israel.
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Pines factory for wool.
Stood at right anlgle to the palace.
Photo courtesy of the Oren family, Israel.
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A castle that was burnt by the Russians
before they withdrew their troops during
World War I.
The photograph is from the YIVO Collection.
Record ID: 8942 Collection PO Catalog No.
3335
It looks like it is from the inside, the
opposite direction of the pictures
above(RFA's comments).
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following pictures of the palace are from
the records of Dora Vegotsky Pitkowsky, mother
of Sarah Platt, aunt of Edith Vegotsky Taylor,
Co-coordinator of the Ruzhany Yizkor Project.
The first picture is of the
entrance to the palace
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| Various views of the
remains of the palace |
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