[3] Its popular name, Volodarka, was coined after the October Revolution, when the street on which the building stood was renamed in honour of revolutionary leader V.

[1] The main building is three stories high, flanked by four corner towers, and surrounded by the prison yard.

[1] Famous Socialist Revolutionary Boris Savinkov, arrested after being lured back to Soviet territory as part of operation "Trust", was held here for a while in 1924.

[1] On the night of 29/30 October 1937, during Stalin's Great Terror, NKVD officers executed 36 representatives of Belarusian culture, science and art in the castle basement, by shooting them in the head.

[citation needed] In the years 1944-1945 the prisoner was Kazimierz Świątek, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

[1] People arrested during and after the 1996 Belarusian referendum and the Minsk Spring and detained in Pishchalauski Castle include: People arrested during and after the 2020 presidential campaign, which led to the contested reelection of Alexander Lukashenko, and detained in Pishchalauski Castle include: In chronological order of execution: This Belarus-related article is a stub.