Trinity Suburb: history and modernity. Trinity Suburb: history and modernity Trinity Suburb in Belarusian language
On the picture Trinity Suburb In Minsk.
It’s probably difficult to find a place in Minsk that would be better known to tourists than Trinity Suburb. This business card city, the image of which can be found on postcards, stamps, souvenirs, and on some banknotes.
Trinity Suburb - historic district the city of Minsk, located in the northeastern part historical center on the left bank of the Svisloch River. Its cozy streets and houses painted in soft colors with tiled roofs have become a kind of symbol of Minsk, imprinted on souvenirs and sweets. It was once the trade and administrative center of the capital of Belarus.
Name Trinity Suburb arose in the 15th century from the Church of the Holy Trinity, which was once located here, founded by the great. Around the 14th century, on Trinity Hill, the Holy Ascension Monastery, which has not survived to this day, was built with a wooden church of the same name, on the site of which Anton Maslyanka built a stone church in 1620. The suburb itself in the 16th century. was built up wooden houses and was connected to the city by a bridge.
This suburb was considered a suburb of Minsk for a long time, and became part of the city only in the 19th century. The suburb was inhabited mainly by people of the middle class: military men, artisans, merchants, and peasants.
The Trinity Suburb in Minsk has historical significance for the city and is located on the left bank of the Svisloch. Previously, this was the administrative and commercial center of the capital.
Creation and development
The history of the Trinity Suburb goes quite deep into antiquity. It was formed in the 12-13th century on the territory of a hill next to the river. Svisloch. Historians believe that the name of this place is associated with the local Trinity Church. It was founded by Prince Jagiello himself.
According to another version, the etymological roots stretch to the redoubt named after the Holy Trinity, or to the local church of the same name. Previously, there was active trade here, and entrepreneurs from Vilna and Mogilev came here. Sellers from Smolensk and Polotsk also visited the Trinity Suburb.
In the 16th century, the market began to function, which is the largest trading area. During the period 15-17 centuries. Fortress structures were built here, with the help of which it was possible to protect the surrounding area. Craftsmen, peasants, and military personnel lived in wooden houses. In 1809, the layout changed because the old model for the area was destroyed by fire. To protect themselves from similar misfortunes in the future, city residents built stone buildings by decree
During the period from the 30s to the 60s of the last century, various parts of the architectural complex. In the 1980s, a major restoration was carried out here, the purpose of which was to recreate the architecture of Minsk, characteristic of the city in the 19th century.
What's worth seeing
Interesting objects that can be seen when you get to the Trinity Suburb are the Minskoye Castle, the Tatar Gardens, as well as the Starostinskaya settlement, Storozhevka, and Zolotaya Hill. Here was the first of the city’s Catholic churches, and the Holy Ascension Monastery has also survived to this day.
There is a Basilian monastery for women dedicated to the Holy Trinity, a church, a Catholic monastery in which the Mariavites lived - representatives. People often come to see all these sights local residents and city guests.
Modernity
The Trinity Suburb area today is a historical center in accordance with the bill of the President of the country in 2004. This place is an integral part of the old city. The western side of the complex is guarded.
After restoration work carried out here, this place turned into an open-air museum. Walking here, you can see stone buildings dating back to the 19th century. In 2009, the square, previously reserved for the market, was named Trinity Mountain. In the 1930s, an opera and ballet theater was built here. Today, once in Trinity Suburb, you can visit many interesting museums, shops with souvenirs and antiques, restaurant complexes and coffee shops, art galleries.
Not completed at this moment restoration work, the result of which will be a look that is closest to the one this place happened centuries ago. It is planned to re-create many buildings located in the Upper Town, as well as in the Minsk Castle.
Educational walk
Trinity Suburb is rich in attractions. Comes here a large number of tourists from Belarus and other countries in order to touch the amazing culture of past years.
You can visit the local museum, whose exhibitions are dedicated to music and theater. It’s called “Vladislav Golubok’s Living Room.” There is also a complex dedicated to the country's literature. The building that once housed a synagogue now houses the House of Nature. There is a gallery dedicated to crafts.
No less interesting will be a visit to the pharmacy, where you can familiarize yourself with medical utensils and books used in the 19th century. Here you will find numerous architectural monuments in which people still live. Quite a lot interesting sculptures can be seen when arriving in Trinity Suburb. The photos show how picturesque the surrounding area is and how beautiful the buildings are.
The beauty of the Svisloch River, where it is located, deserves special compliments. small island, which can be reached by crossing an arched bridge for pedestrians. In 1996, a memorial was opened in honor of the internationalists who fought in Afghanistan.
The local Island of Tears is known as one of the most significant. In the center there is a chapel designed according to the plan of the Church of Polotsk Euphrosyne, which functioned in the 12th century. Entering the island, you can see a stone in which a bronze icon of the Virgin Mary is placed. Nowadays, in the building that was previously used as a monastery of mariavites, the Suvorov School of the capital operates. Also nearby you can look into the working Olivaria beer production plant.
Temple of Love
If you are planning to get married, the chic registry office in Troitsky Suburb, located in a building dating back to the 19th century, is at your service. Recently, renovations were carried out here, so the room looks simply amazing, luxurious.
There are three floors, the interior halls amaze with their light colors and beautiful decoration. Lots of beautiful mirrors that expand the space visually.
Historical atmosphere
You will probably want to refresh your strength after a long walk, during which you will explore the Trinity Suburb. The cafes and restaurants here are chic and plentiful. You can drink a fragrant drink in a coffee shop. It is noteworthy that the administration of these establishments made efforts to recreate the historical interior.
You will find yourself in an ancient tavern and taste excellent dishes national cuisine, quality alcohol. But what you definitely shouldn’t pass by is the local restaurant located right on the water. It is the only one of its kind in the entire city. You can not only eat delicious food, but also look at the beautiful scenery.
The way here and the surrounding area
Getting to the suburb is not so difficult, since it is located in the center of the historical life of the city. The second metro line runs regularly to this point. It is worth getting off at the Nemiga station.
Visitors are amazed by the beauty of these places. Since receiving power in 1499, great efforts have been made to ennoble these places and give the heirs the opportunity to be proud of them later.
The stone town hall is impressive and has been restored several times. Its modern version was opened in 2003. You can walk through exhibitions and halls intended for receptions and buy souvenirs. Pleases with the beauty of the Philharmonic for children, the beautiful guest courtyard, the Church of the Virgin Mary, history museums, cathedrals. There is a center for spirituality and education at Orthodox Church. There is an opportunity to look at the estate that belonged to the Vankovichs.
Time Machine
You can stay in the luxurious Monastyrsky Hotel, which received four stars. It was opened in the former home of Bernardine monks who worked in the 18th century. Museum exhibitions can give a lot of new knowledge and vivid impressions.
Shouldn't we go to Nemiga?
In almost all Belarusian, and even more so Ukrainian, cities founded during the Dark Middle Ages, in the historical centers there is a traditional set of some castle, Market Square with the town hall, numerous temples and monasteries of the Barefoot Brothers of the Bernardines or Jesuits, pleasing the tourist’s eye, and several blocks of civil buildings.
But Minsk was not lucky. Arose during the Tale of Bygone Years, received Magdeburg Law during the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the city, which became the capital of modern Belarus, completely lost its original historical center. And the reason for this is not only the urban planning decisions of the 19th century, dictated by political decisions, or the destruction of the last war, but rather the urban planning concept of the last decades of the 20th century, which, guided by the slogan “We will build our future!”, completely changed the picture of the urban landscape. As a result, we probably got the only capital of one of the fraternal republics within the USSR without any national flavor and associated national history architecture, entirely directed towards the beautiful far away with Stalinist avenues, numerous sports facilities and public lawns of the era of developed stagnation.
However, along this path of triumph of Belarusian urbanism, there were also some funny moments. Somehow, just after the total cleansing of Nemiga and Zamchishche, where not even fragments of the old ramparts remained from the castle, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev came to Minsk on the eve of the 1980 Olympics. For some unclear reason, Leonid Ilyich repeatedly tried to go see Old city(Where is the Old Place here, as in Warsaw?), which by that time practically did not exist. I don’t know how they got out of it, but they decided to correct the mistake and not show the slums to the elderly general secretary next time. First of all, in the 80s, according to the project, almost everything that could be demolished was demolished, but in the Trinity Suburb they left one block of ordinary buildings of the 19th century, which in some places were based on earlier foundations. So they made an exemplary Old Place from it;-), which is now shown to tourists and loved by Minsk residents.
A little later, and especially in the last decade, the trick was repeated with the Upper Town, where, with the growth of national self-awareness, by building new buildings and pulling out individual objects from later buildings, they tried to artificially collect at least some image of the historical center of the city as modern Belarusians imagine it architects. How well this turned out, let's see with you.
Our journey into the fabric of “historical Minsk” began with the search for parking. I found her near a high-rise building made of glass and concrete that houses the Belarusian telecommunications company Velcom. A good start. Then we rushed on foot along Zybitskaya Street towards the 8th March Square and the nameless bridge over the Svisloch.
I botched the first attraction on Zybitskaya Street, so I use someone else’s photo from Wikimapia.org. Do you understand what is located on the sides and behind this small house at number 3 on Zybitskaya Street?
After walking 300 meters we turn around. In the distance is the Velcom office, and on the right is the historical building of the Upper Town with numerous bars, on the left behind the fence is the construction of a hotel and entertainment center. According to unverified information, most of the “wooden” houses on the right hand are new-built. 
The building at the intersection of Zybitskaya and Herzen. There is a bar inside, on the wall there is a memorial plaque telling us that we are on the territory of the Upper Town - the historical center of Minsk in the 16th-19th centuries, a complex monument of archeology, urban planning, architecture, history, revolutionary and military glory of the people. is under state protection.
Pay attention to how the façade of the building is designed, or rather the doors and porch. The entrance doors are there, the steps are marked, but the porch itself on the right is missing. And then this element of facade design is repeated twice more. What did the architect want to say by this? Restore the historical design of the facade? But why then are the only working entrance doors made of glass, and not decorated in the same style? Why is the rhythm of the steps different and why this forged visor? 
View up Herzen Street. On the right is the Monastyrsky complex in order of removal: archaeological museum, bar, restaurant, hotel. 
In the distance on the right you can see the building of the Bernardine monastery, and in the future Herzen Street abuts the complex of the Basilian monastery. It seems to me that the buildings of the entire block on the right belonged to the Bernardine brothers, but I am very confused by the heterogeneous and untidy, and in some places simply modern, masonry on the nearby buildings. Pay attention to how the pavement is made. Where would you be without your favorite tiles, even on a historical street? But something similar to a cobblestone street runs like a narrow runner along the walls. 
A diagram of the quarter on the wall of the archaeological museum. I am pleased with the combination of the Museum of Archeology, the Museum of Karate and the Museum of the Minsk Horse Horse 
Let's walk further along Zybitskaya Street to the next intersection with Cyril and Methodius Street. On the left is a beauty salon, on the right it’s unclear what, but a little further on you can see the building of the Bernardine convent for women, and opposite it for the men’s monastery. In the future - a guest courtyard. We will return there a little later. 
Now let’s go out to the Svisloch River and climb the nameless bridge (1967). It is interesting that two streets Nemiga and Maxim Bogdanovich meet on the bridge, but the bridge itself now has no name. View from the bridge of the building being built in the area of the former market square(Ninyi market) historical property. 
Once upon a time, on the site of the modern bridge, the most famous bridge of medieval Minsk, Khlusov, was located, connecting the Lower Market with the Trinity Suburb located on the right bank of the Svisloch. In the future, the building of the National Exhibition Center "BelExpo". In 2017, the demolition of this quarter along the main bank of the Svisloch began by an investor from the UAE. He promised to preserve four historical buildings miraculously preserved from the Trinity Basilian Monastery. 
On the other side of the bridge is Trinity Suburb, or rather what’s left of it 
Let's go down under the bridge and look at the left bank of the Svisloch and the High City, where we just came from. In the foreground there are buildings from the 18th century (?), with an Orthodox church peeking out behind them. Cathedral Holy Spirit, former Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the Bernardine Monastery. 
The Trinity suburb opens up in all its glory from under the bridge. Ordinary philistine buildings of the late 19th century are stylized as medieval architecture as it is represented by modern architects. Yes, this is not Lviv or even Warsaw... For a city with rich history Of course it looks wild and pathetic. But, for any Russian province, where there is no architecture other than Khrushchev buildings, this is a good example of how you can make a candy out of slums, especially if there is the will of the Secretary General. It is clear that architects and designers of the last decade have also worked here, adding about 2/3 of outright remakes and pop, but the foundation for the preservation and reconstruction of the quarter was laid back in the 1980s. 
A look back at the nameless bridge over the Svisloch and the Vehniy Gorod 
Heading to the "medieval city" 
Please note that the pavement here is mostly paved with paving stones 
Inside the block. All this middle-class development is now not residential, but is a refuge for various catering establishments, hostels, art salons, museums, shops, galleries and other things. 
House of Nature. The building was built in 1874 as the "Kitaevskaya" synagogue for the burghers of Minsk. 
Thanks to the balustrade, the former synagogue is a favorite place for selfies among Belarusian girls 
After wandering around the quarter, which was just waking up from winter hibernation, we got tired of its monotony and artificiality and went to the Island of Tears. There will be a separate report about him. And along the way we came across a sculpture of a girl with an owl. A strange combination. It seems not Pallas Athena, but with an owl. 
Maybe this is some kind of Belarusian national story unknown to me? 
We return across the bridge to the Upper Town and its dominant feature - the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, once the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the Bernardine Monastery. Founded in 1642, the church, having become an Orthodox church, retained the strict solemnity of a Catholic church. To the left, the lurid new buildings of the Orthodox Theological Academy crawled into the frame for contrast. Stylish, to say the least. 
To understand how the landscape of this part of Minsk has changed, here are a few photos.
1940s. Please note that the hill of the Upper Town, prominent in the relief, took place, but now it is greatly smoothed out. 
View from the northwest of the ensemble of the Bernardine monastery with the church after restoration in the 1980s 
General view of the ensemble of Bernardine monasteries from a bird's eye view shortly before it acquired its current appearance 
View from the 8th March Square towards the Castle - downstream of the Svisloch River. In the foreground is a squat, arena-like building - the Republican Center for Physical Education and Sports. On one of its walls there is a memorial plaque stating that it was in this place that the city of Minsk arose in the 11th century and the Minsk Castle, an archeological monument of the 11th-16th centuries, was located. Protected by the state. as I already said, this archaeological monument was mostly demolished during the construction of what we see in the photo, as well as during the construction of the Nemiga metro station, located just under these paths, which is in the frame. 
Let's cross to the other side of Nemiga Street, reach the intersection with Lenin Street and walk a little along it along Freedom Square and look at the city hall from the west. Minsk City Hall (1) was built at the end of the 18th century on Upper Market Square and was destroyed in 1851 by personal order of Emperor Nicholas I. In 2003 it was restored to its original location. historical place and is used as an exhibition hall. 
View of the town hall from the north, on the other side. On the right, the frame includes the buildings of the Gostiny Dvor complex of the 18th-19th centuries (7) with shops, restaurants, and offices located inside. 
The monument to Minsk receiving Magdeburg Law in 1499 was installed in front of the entrance to the town hall in 2014. 
Scheme of the location of the attractions of the Upper Town. I will give the numbering according to this scheme in parentheses during the description. 
Let's look on the other side of Lenin Street at the Jesuit Church of the Virgin Mary (1700-1710), sandwiched by Soviet new buildings, built in the Vilna Baroque style (15). In 1951, the cathedral was closed, and the main façade was heavily rebuilt, with the Sportsman's House located inside. In 1993, the building was returned to the Catholic Church and its original appearance was restored. Nowadays it is the main Catholic church in Belarus. In the interior, the frescoes that were plastered in Soviet times are of particular value; they are now being uncovered and restored. 
And now let’s go deeper into the quarters of the Upper City again, walking along the edge of the former Upper Market Square. Here, the male and female Uniate Basilian monasteries once formed a kind of defense center. Core monastery There was a Church of the Holy Spirit built on the site of an Orthodox wooden church around the 1650s.
In the photo on the left is the Church of the Holy Spirit, on the right is Gostiny Dvor, in the perspective you can see the building of the Belarusian State Academy of Music. 
Plan of the Basilian monastery complex. Reconstruction by L. Ivanova based on materials by V.M. Denisova. In the upper part there is a women's monastery, in the lower part there is a men's monastery with the Church of the Holy Spirit.
The monasteries represented a kind of fortress. The men's building with the church formed its southwestern side. Women's building - northeast. They were connected to each other by a covered gallery with small loophole windows, which at the same time served as an entrance gate in its lower tier. There is nothing on the plan on the fourth side, but it is very likely that initially the monastery courtyard was still closed by a stone wall: it is mentioned in documents of the 17th century (“...a stone fence and upper and lower battlements”). The pearl of the complex was the church - a single-nave temple without towers with a pentagonal apse covered with cross vaults resting on massive internal buttresses. High lancet windows, the faceted shape of the apse, vaults, and buttresses refer to Gothic. The Renaissance is the main façade, entirely built on a combination of pilasters of the Corinthian order, and the Baroque influence is already felt in the figured shield.
Measurement drawing of the main facade, 1843.
The main artistic feature of the Holy Spirit Church was the painting of flat niches on the facade with frescoes depicting saints. The structure of the placement of niches and the order of filling them with frescoes corresponded to the Orthodox iconostasis. Art critics are happily rubbing their hands - this almost never happens in the cult architecture of Europe: just for the iconostasis and right there on the façade.
The main facade of the Minsk Church of the Holy Spirit. Reconstruction by Sergei Baglasov. It is very interesting to compare its difference from the same measurement drawing of 1843 (see above).
In the 19th century The church was taken away from the community, “donated” to the Orthodox and rebuilt in the pseudo-Russian style. Demolished in 1950. In 2011, the Church of the Holy Spirit was rebuilt from scratch. The basis for the reconstruction was officially the measurement drawing of 1843. Currently the building is used as a children's philharmonic hall.
View of the new building of the Church of the Holy Spirit from the northwest. In the foreground is the sculptural composition "City Scales". 
View of the main facade of the Church of the Holy Spirit from the west. Compare with the drawings of the facade of 1843 and you will understand the difference, for example, the design of the lower tier. 
Another angle. In the background is the Church of St. Joseph of the Bernardine Monastery. 
View from the Church of the Holy Spirit to the Upper Market Square with the Church of St. Joseph of the Bernardine Monastery and the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the Bernardine Monastery. 
Opposite the heavily rebuilt buildings of the Basilian monastery is the sculpture "Crew", the prototype of which was the governor's carriage. The funny thing is that, as Dmitry Shelekhov writes to me in a personal message, this “carriage” is a copy of the Tobolsk and Kursk ones. There, what also served as a prototype for the governors' carriage?
In the background is the building of the Belarusian State Academy of Music 
Carriage in Tobolsk. Photo by Dmitry Shelekhov. The Minsk sculpture was undoubtedly cast in the same mold. Only the surface is slightly rougher. 
And this is a Kursk carriage. They also say there is a similar one in Dolgoprudny. Photos from the Tyrnet. 
Unfortunately, I didn’t get to the building of the Basilian monastery and I have to use someone else’s photo.
This building was very well, not in our opinion, restored. Wooden windows, natural tiles, baroque figured shield were restored as in his better times, no onions for you - why not always do this? I wasn't inside, though.
But let's return to Upper Market Square. Modern look to the Bernardine monastery and the Church of St. Joseph. The church was built in 1652 and was rebuilt several times. In 1752 it received decor in the late Baroque style. In 1860, the monastery was abolished and the buildings were confiscated. Last time The church building was restored in 1983, and currently archives are housed in it and the adjacent buildings of the monastery.
It's time to return to the car. Now we will take a slightly different route along Musical Lane. Building number 1 is often found on tourist photos. Going to the left is Herzen Street, which we saw at the very beginning of the report. 
We go down Muzykalnmu Lane and look back at the new office building and the block with the former Czech Embassy 
That's all for now.
Summary: As we see, Minsk is one of those cities of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which has almost completely lost its historical appearance. However, due to a strange quirk of the USSR leadership, local restorers tried to recreate it to the extent of its depravity. And everything would be fine, moreover, this recreation could serve as an example for a number of Russian cities, completely, due to a number of reasons, it has lost its heritage, but in the example of Minsk, a strange substitution of concepts occurred in the Belarusian restoration. This highly controversial and somewhat curious experience “out of despair” in an effort to imitate civilized Europe was taken as the cornerstone of the current restoration. Now every collective farm Belarusian builder fancies himself an architect, and then a restorer, reproducing this unique Minsk experience as a carbon copy in series, trying to build our future with dubious antique remakes, while demolishing with the other hand right and left the remnants of a genuine national heritage.
What's wrong with that? The original heritage does not look presentable and it is not clear whether it is the freshly plastered multi-colored houses under the ondulin with chimneys.
For this case, Lotman’s quote is more appropriate than ever - restoration is a legalized form of destruction of heritage.
Materials used:
- Location: Bogdanovicha street
- Year of construction: XVII-XIX centuries; XX century
- Style: classicism, eclecticism
Map of Trinity Suburb
Photos of Trinity Suburb
Trinity Suburb is a picturesque medieval quarter on the banks of the Svisloch River in the very center of Minsk. Cozy streets and stylized houses with tiled roofs in the Trinity Suburb have become one of the main symbols of the capital, today representing part of the historical reconstruction of Minsk.
A little history
The name of the suburb most likely comes from Trinity Church, founded by Grand Duke Jagiello. By the way, this was the first Catholic church in Minsk. Another version indicates the existence toponym "Trinity Mountain", from which the suburb received its name. The settlement of Trinity Mountain arose in the 12th-13th centuries. on a hill near the Svisloch River. In ancient times the suburb was shopping center, where roads from Vilno, Polotsk, Smolensk, Mogilev intersected, and from the end of the 16th century, the city’s largest trading platform, the Trinity Market, was located here.
The suburb was built up with wooden houses in which artisans, traders, peasants and military men lived. The ancient layout of the suburb disappeared at the beginning of the 19th century. after a big fire and was restored in stone. In the 30-60s of the twentieth century, individual buildings of the suburb and entire streets were destroyed. In the 1980s and early 2000s, restoration work was carried out to recreate the architectural appearance of Minsk.
Trinity Suburb today
In 2004 it was started historical reconstruction Trinity Suburb, which over time was included in the Old Town complex. After restoration it became natural museum under open air, where you can see stone buildings from the 19th century. In 2009, the square where the market was located several centuries ago received historical name Trinity Mountain. The National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus, built in the 1930s, is also located here.
What to visit and where to go? Top 10 Must-See
Trinity Suburb is a tourist mecca of the Belarusian capital, where you can see what Minsk looked like several centuries ago, as well as get acquainted with cultural heritage Minsk. So, we present to you Top 10 Must-See.
Living room of Vladislav Golubok
Trinity Suburb is a small museum island. And the first such object is a branch of the Museum of the History of Theater and Musical Culture of Belarus called "". Do you want to know about the theatrical life of the 20th century, as well as the fate and Interesting Facts from the life of the first People's Artist of the BSSR V. Golubok, then you should go to the “Living Room of Vladislav Golubok”.
At the Museum of the History of Belarusian Literature, you will be immersed in the classical literature of Belarus. You will learn how young poets and writers started; among them I would like to highlight the names of such glorious Belarusian sons as Vasil Bykov and Maxim Tank, Vladimir Korotkevich and Rygor Borodulin. Among them are unique collections of manuscripts, memorial items of Belarusian writers, photographs, rare books, documents, ethnographic materials and works of art Belarusian sculptors and artists.
House-Museum named after Maxim Bogdanovich
The literary house-museum named after Maxim Bogdanovich will tell about the short but very fruitful life of the poet. It is no coincidence that the museum is located in the suburbs. The fact is that it was in the Muschei’s house that the future talented poet was born. Maxim Bogdanovich returned to Minsk only a year before his death. Bogdanovich's fate is tragic - from the age of 18 he suffered from tuberculosis and died at the age of 25. The poet spent the last days of his life by the sea, in Yalta, where he went at the insistence of his friends, but this could no longer save him. Upon entering the museum, you will have the opportunity to attend an open lecture or a museum-pedagogical lesson that will be interesting not only for children, but also for adults.
Bookstore "Vyanok"
It is no coincidence that the bookstore "Vyanok", stylized as a bookstore of the 19th century, is named after the Belaur word "Vyanok". This was the name of the only collection of poems by Maxim Bogdanovich published during his lifetime. Maxim Bogdanovich is a poet of the highest culture. He read in the original and translated into Belarusian Horace and Ovid, Heine and Schiller, Verlaine and Pushkin. He proved that the Belarusian language is not only a “peasant” language, that it can express the highest ideas, the most subtle feelings.
There is no way to get around the monument to Maxim Bogdanovich, which is located in the park of Paris Commune Square, next to the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. Maxim stands at full height and with his gaze follows everyone who deigns to pay attention to him.
House of nature
I would immediately like to note the building in which the House of Nature is located. It is unique in that here at the end of the 19th century. there was a synagogue. Women and men prayed separately from each other, thereby dividing the synagogue building into two parts: male and female. Today, in the building of a former synagogue, there is a House of Nature, which in an accessible form will help you discover interesting secrets in the world of flora and fauna of planet Earth.
Sculpture "Girl with an Owl"
Today the sculpture “Girl with an Owl” is an unspoken symbol of the Trinity Suburb. The sculpture represents a girl holding an owl in her hand and standing barefoot on a fern. One wing of the owl is curved (the owl seems to be protecting the girl with it), the second is wide open (the owl shows them the way). Three blossomed buds lie on a fern leaf, and a lizard sits near them. The sculptural composition is located on a large boulder, next to which there are two more. There is even an urban legend associated with this sculpture. They say that near this sculpture, every poet must choose what is more important for him: a girl personifying the muse, a paparazzi - a symbol of glory, an owl - a symbol of wisdom, or a lizard personifying wealth.
Gallery of crafts "Slavutas" and "Slavuta masters"
In the gallery you can purchase original and high-quality souvenirs. In addition, in the Slavutyya Maistrya crafts gallery you can buy Belarusian belts, wooden and leather products, as well as paintings. Secondly, the seller’s story captivates you so much, his eyes sparkle so much that it is impossible to tear yourself away from the souvenirs and interrupt his story. And at the same time, sincerity is visible.
Pharmacy "Troitskaya"
The pharmacy in the Trinity Suburb in Minsk is not officially a museum, but still invariably attracts tourists. Why? There is no pharmacy museum in Minsk, and the pharmacy in Troitsky Suburb is the only place in the city where they can tell about the history of the development of pharmacy in the capital and give a general idea of the pharmacies of the past. On the shelves of the pharmacy you can see samples of dispensary utensils, scales, old medical and pharmaceutical books. The equipment of pharmacies in Belarus was not inferior to that in other European cities of that time. The modern pharmacy in the Troitsky suburb of Minsk has a good selection of medicinal herbs. Tourists can come in, get acquainted with the interior of the building, purchase something from what is available and take a photo with the pharmacy building in the background.
The monument to the “Eternal Wanderer,” as Yazep Drozdovich was called by his friends and acquaintances, was erected on August 6, 1993. The sculptural composition represents the figure of Yazep Drozdovich walking along the road in peasant clothes and with a staff in his hand, with an easel slung over his shoulder.
Yazep Drozdovich (1888 - 1954) - an outstanding Belarusian artist, graphic artist, sculptor, folklorist, local historian, ethnographer, archaeologist and writer. The personality of Yazep Drozdovich is a symbol of the Belarusian spiritual Renaissance. He was even called the “Belarusian Leonardo da Vinci.” He embodied the image of Belarusian nature in a series of graphic works “Disnevschina” and tone drawings “Nature of Belarus”. He created a series of works depicting ancient castles and others architectural buildings of historical and cultural value.
Yazep Drozdovich is the first Belarusian artist who touched upon the theme of space in his work. On his canvases, the artist depicted life on other planets (“Life on the Moon”, “Life on Mars”, “Life on Saturn”, etc.).
Yazep Drozdovich resumed the long-forgotten tradition of painting wall hangings. These paintings are unique and it was they that brought Drozdovich world fame. Today his collection is located in Zaslavl. It was in those places that he worked as an archaeologist, and at the same time he collected and processed common words and expressions for dictionaries, recorded folk songs and rituals. Drozdovich was also a talented sculptor.
Attractions near Trinity Suburb
Next to the Trinity Suburb there is a memorial complex "Island of tears". On the opposite side of the Svisloch the Nemiga region begins, and Upper town. Not far from the Trinity Suburb there are Palace of Sports, and National Exhibition Center "BelExpo".
No. 1 If you walk around the Trinity Suburb, be sure to stop by a cozy restaurant with antique interiors or a coffee shop stylized in the 19th century, where you can relax after a busy walk around the city and have a delicious meal :) Among them, you can name, for example, restaurant "Trinity Suburb", "Karchma Traetskaya", Souvenir Shop...
No. 2 In the summer, the only one in Minsk operates on the banks of the Svisloch restaurant on the water, on board of which you can enjoy picturesque views of the city, as well as try dishes of Belarusian cuisine.
No. 3 Do you want to feel the charm of romantic Minsk? Then you should take a catamaran ride along the Svisloch. Get a lot of impressions. We guarantee :)