Valentiy Wilgelm Vankovich (1800-1842) - Belarusian painter of the nineteenth in., gained fame not only in Belarus, but also far beyond. He was born on May 12, 1800 at the estate Kalyuzhitsy Igumen district of Minsk province. Vankovich were linked by family ties with a number of noble birth Belarus. B. Vankovich studied in Polotsk Jesuit College (1811-1818) (from 1813 - Faculty of Liberal Academy of Sciences of Polotsk), then at the Department of Literature and Fine Arts (1818-1824), Vilnius University, Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Vankovich napisalportrety relatives and friends of the university, later known poets and public figures - T. Zan, E. Romer, A.E. Odinets, Y. Korsak, A. Mickiewicz, G. Kiesling, F. Malevskiy A. Tovyanskiy. Artist painted portraits of M. Shymanowskay pianist, poet Alexander Pushkin, P.Vyazemskiy, V. Zhukovskiy. In February 1829 Vankovich returns home in Minsk. He has two shops - Minor Slepyanka in Minsk, where he works with his friend Cheslav Moniuszko. Paints portraits of his father, sister Stanislava Gornovsky, Dominica Moniuszko, wife Annelie with children, uncles Anton Gorki, Slonim leader Wojciech Puslovsky nobility and members of his family. After 1830 Vankovich leave Minsk. He works and exhibits in Berlin, Dresden, Munich, and September 15, 1841 moved to Paris and stay in a family Mickieviches. Although the disease continues to run. The painting "The Apotheosis of Napoleon," icons "St. John the Evangelist," and "St. Clara." Most of the artist's small part in museums and private collections in England, France, Italy, Poland, Lithuania and Russia.
The museum has organized an interactive program "On a visit to the old elm" (architecture manor house and estate space, "This way, please, follow me.'s This gentleman's parlor" (room in the manor house of Edward Vankovich), "The living room is truly a noble ... "(front living room in the manor house of Edward Vankovich) "Pastaral dream" (pastoral theme in the decoration of the front room of the manor Edward Vankovich), "The Way of the artist (home from school)" (formation of creative work of the artist Vankovich Valentia), "Christmas at the manor house Vankoviches", "celebration in honor of your birthday " "In the sanctuary, where the shadow of the olive breathing ..." (learning to see the picture), "Tile" Mirror "gentry furnace" (History of the estate of Edward Vankovich furnaces).Vankovich House and Estate is located in the historical center of Minsk is the memorial palace and estate architecture. This place is associated with the life and work of the Belarusian artist Vankovich Valentia (1800 -1842). Manor built in the late XVIII - first half of XIX century in the style of classicism. It was located in the yard, separated from the street by a fence with gates, which to this day have not survived. A one-story rectangular wooden house is covered with a high hip roof with a loft downtown. The interior was decorated with tiled stoves that to this day is also not preserved. Archaeological excavations carried out in 1983 in the house at the International, confirmed the time of its foundation - end XVIII century. Found an interesting feature. It turns out that under the building are stone dungeon XVII century, which are adapted for the basement. There also have been found: tile end of the XVIII century, which was covered with a house, fragments of ceramic, iron and glass things at the time. In 1982 began the restoration of the monument. Townhouse B. Vankovich not only a monument of classical architecture, but also the object of the memorial history of our culture. In it there were Damel Yan, Stanislaw Moniuszko, Vintsuk Dunin-Marcinkewich - contemporaries and friends V. Vankovich.
