Bobruisk District Historical Economic Summaries
Provided by
The Minsk Historical Genealogy Group
Oleg Perzashkevich, Director
Village of Pastovichi
by Oleg Perzashkevich
Pastovichi before 1917
History
Before 1793 - Pastovichi was a private village in Novogrudok District of Novogrudok Province of Great Lithuanian Princedom.
1793-1917 - Pastovichi was a village in Russian Empire.
Since 1801 - Pastovichi was a private village in Bobruisk District of Minsk Empire.
1840s - after the Emperor permitted Jews to live in the rural area, Jewish population appeared in Pastovichi.
Vital Statistics
| Date | Jews | Non-Jews | Comments | % Total Pop. |
| 1840s | Jewish population appeared | |||
| 1897 | 71 | 579 | Both sexes | 10.9% |
| 1909 | 721 | Total population | No info | |
Jewish Life
In 1840s, after they had gotten the permission to live in rural area, some Jewish families moved their business to Pastovichi. As far as there were no Jewish community or considerable resident Jewish population in Pastovichi, there were no special Jewish objects there.
Economic Review
Traditional activities of local population were agriculture and chopping of wood.
During Russian principality the authorities did a lot to develop the region because of military and fiscal reasons mostly. First of all, old roads Bobruisk - Slutsk and Zhychin - Glusk were reconstructed there.
After abolishing of Serfdom (the law which prescribed personal dependence of peasants from their landlords) in 1861 local peasants became more active in non-agricultural sphere, and local Jews (had gotten permission to live in rural area in the early 1830s-40s) moved their businesses (mainly taverns and trinket stores), mostly from the shtetles of Luban and Glusk, to big villages or to the regions of maximal peasant market activity. Pastovichi, Starye Doroghi and Novye Doroghi formed such a region.
In XIX, because of development of the All-Russian Market, new types of communications appeared in the area in 1873. The Osipovichi - Starye Doroghi rail road appeared, and the road Bobruisk - Slutsk was transformed into highway.
Construction of the railroad and highways provoked new increase of development of local settlements. The closest to Pastovichi rail station was in Starye Doroghi (15 km).
In 1884 there were 38 wooden houses in Pastovichi.
In 1909 there were 135 wooden houses in Pastovichi.
We do not know any big business and trade enterprises in Pastovichi before 1917.
General cultural information
At the end XX - beg. XX century in Pastovichi there were:
 | - Orthodox church of Godmother's Cover; |
| - primary church school. |
Closest post office was in Starye Doroghi (15 km), closest doctor was in
Glusk (25 km).
Copyright 1997-1998 Oleg Perzashkevich
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