Trinity suburb history. Trinity suburb

general information

The characteristic feature of this quarter is its small buildings that look so natural and harmoniously, which is perceived as a single architectural ensemble. Similar to Troitskaya Mountain (this is the second name of the terrain) historical and architectural and cultural reserves are available in many European cities. But not each of them can be compared with Minsk in the age of the appearance of the first settlements: in this quarter they appeared very long ago and coincided with the initial period of the high Middle Ages, from which we are separated without a small nine centuries.

A kind of "mixing" epochs and cultures is also visible in the fact that in the area there are the first Catholic Church in the city and the Orthodox St. Borisoglebsk Church, the Holy Ascension Monastery and the abode of the Catholic Order of Mariavitikov, who did not reach modernity. These include the Basilian female abode of the Holy Trinity, which remained only in part. Today, in this part of Minsk, a quiet and measured life reigns. Not only Minsk residents, but also guests of the capital of Belarus with pleasure here are walking here, relax, at the same time getting acquainted with the sights, visiting museums and exhibitions.

Excursion to history

The past of Trinity suburb is rich in events and is associated with many historical personalities. It is enough to remember that it was here, in the heart of Minsk, the fate of two outstanding classics of Belarusian literature were crossed: the poet, publicist, literary critic and translator Maxim Adamovich Bogdanovich and the poet, playwright and publicist Yankee Kupala (Ivan Dominicovich Lutsech). The first one was born here, and the family lived for some time here.

A settlement called Troitskaya Mountain was formed by the Swisloch River, on the hill, in the period from the XII to the XIII century. In those distant times, this terrain was the center of economic life, where trading routes were crossed from Smolensk and Vilna, Mogilev and Polotsk. At the end of the XVI century, the Trinity market began to work, immediately became the largest trading platform of the city. It was surrounded by the fortress structures, and the Trinity Mountain itself was populated by merchants, artisans, peasants and military living in wooden houses.

Why did the suburb receive just such a name? There are several versions on this. According to one of them, the toponym arose from the name of the earthly defensive strengthening of the Holy Trinity, on the other from the Holy Trinity Women's Monastery. However, the most believable is the version that the name of the area gave a medieval Trinity Church, founded by Grand Duke Lithuanian and Prince Vitebsk Yagaylo, who accepted the title of King Polish in 1386. Indeed: in 1390, the Catholic Temple of the Blessed Trinity was built in the suburb. It was erected from the tree, and at the beginning of the XIX century he burned down during a strong fire. Despite such a sad finale, this cult structure was forever entered the story as the first church in the territory of Minsk, which existed over four centuries.

Together with him from the fire in that 1809, buildings and other monasteries, churches and churches, which presented a single architectural ensemble, who admired their magnificence were significantly injured. Subsequently, the ancient layout was restored. This was taken care of the emperor Alexander I, who gave good to the implementation of the relevant project. She was restored in stone, only this did not save the historical appearance of Trinity submissions from the shocks of the XX century. It was not only a war on him, but many rapid decisions were affected. For example, when restoration of the communal embankment, "tried" that its historical part is largely simply disappeared. And it was not the only loss ...

Separate buildings and even whole streets turned out to be destroyed in the 30s and 1960s. A little-known fact: at the site of the square, which is located in front of the opera house, in the XVI-XVIII centuries. There was a Catholic cemetery. And on the site of the Ascension Monastery, its construction dates from the XVIII century, in 1945-1946 the building of the Belarusian Military District was built. In the 80s of the last century, the unenviable fate has suffered some streets on the outskirts of Troitsky suburb. One ran along the whistle, taking the beginning near the modern Suvorov school and ending in the area of \u200b\u200bthe hotel "Belarus".

sights

Despite the fact that the modern view of the Troitsky suburb is not at all what was still century ago, the true connoisseurs of the antiquity love to be here. Knowing that Maxim Bogdanovich and Yankee Kupala hung on his narrow streets and Yanka Kupala, literally fascinates and mentally tolerates in those distant times. The tourists of the quarter, which is especially interesting between the streets of Starovalenskaya, Architect Zaborskoy, Bogdanovich and the Municipal Embankment already mentioned. It was he who erected in 1817 in accordance with the regular development plan of Minsk, and there is a basis for the protection of the state of the historic center of the city.

The boundaries of the protected zone, which included the Western half of Trinity suburb, together with the second city hospital, were approved in 2004 by the decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko "On the development of the historical center of Minsk". The same document identifies the concept of reconstruction, development and use of both the territory as a whole and the properties located on it. Three years later, the Council of Ministers adopted a resolution that determined the status of the historical and cultural attractions of the Trinity suburb, since a significant part of the cultural monuments of the entire capital focuses just here.

What has already been done and what are the plans for the foreseeable future? The western part of the outlook was renovated and became a real open-air museum. Not only the overall style, but also the specific samples of the stone buildings of the XIX century and now in these old buildings are museums, many shopping points and cafes. It is planned to reconstruct the former Trinity Monastery of Basilianok, placing a business and tourist center in it. With the western part of the outskirts, it is assumed to be combined with hiking.

The greatest fame in the renovated complex of buildings is used, for example, the House of Wigdorchik (Municipal Embankment, 6), in which in 1890, Dominic Lutsevich, Father Yanka Kupala, took the housing. In the former house of Ushakov - the angle of the Alexandrovskaya Street and the Embankment of the same name - now there is a shop "Glass and Porcelain". And few people know that in one of the apartments where Pavlovsky's provident lived, the populists who decided to start the issue of the magazine "Socialist building" at one of the meetings. At Bogdanovich, 15 - Then it was Aleksandrovskaya street - at the end of the XIX century a shoe workshop opened, which then grew up into a full-fledged shoe factory. On the eve of the First World War, in 1913, four dozen workers were employed at the production and for one year the shoe was made to a considerable amount for the summary - 55 thousand rubles.

On ul. Bogdanovich, 29 there are several buildings of the Suvorov Military School. They also represent historical and cultural value. The premises of the main building of the educational institution at the beginning of the XIX century were occupied by the monastery of the Order of Mariavitik and the hospital. Up to 1854, the building performed the church function. After his transfer of the Orthodox Church, two editions were housed: the newspapers Minsk provincial news and the journal "Orthodox frach". In the house of Beilina, that on the street Zaborskoy, 3 (it was built in the middle of the XIX century) was a plumbing workshop, where he studied the craft Active populi Mikhail Rabinovich, then another student of the Technological Institute of St. Petersburg.

The largest object on the territory of the Troitsky suburb is the National Academic Big Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus - the largest in the republic. Its building, located in the center of the Paris Commune Square, built in 1935-1937. In the old days, there was a three-terrain market. As one of the business cards is perceived and the building of the defense department of the Republic of Belarus on the street Communist, 1, built in 1945-1946. and is a monument of classicism.

Museums in Trinity suburb

In November 1987, the State Museum of the history of Belarusian literature was opened in the area, which became one of the largest museums of the republic: over 50 thousand different exhibits are stored in it. Many manuscripts and photos, rare books, personal documents and things of Belarusian writers - all this can be found during an excursion.

It is a pity that the house has not been preserved to this day, in which the famous Classic Maxim Bogdanovich was born - a museum dedicated to his work, probably would be here. Because there is no house, the latter placed near the building nearby. The opening of the museum took place to the 100th anniversary of the poet, in May 1991. Its expositions are located in five thematic halls, each of which reveals a specific period from the life of Bogdanovich.

The older generation is probably familiar with the name of the Belarusian Soviet actor, director and writer Vladislav Iosifovich Dove (1882-1937), the first folk artist of the BSSR. The whole branch of the State Museum of the History of theatrical and Musical Culture of the Republic of Belarus, which is located in the Troitsk suburb at the address ul. Starovalenskaya, 14. As you know, the artist was repressed and sentenced to shooting. The archive of his theater is almost preserved. Genuine artifacts that you will see in the "Living Room Vladislav Golubka" (so called a branch), his employees were collected literally on the grains.

In addition to museums, you can visit a wide variety of exhibitions. For example, regularly passing in the National Exhibition Center "BelExpo" on the street. Yankee Kupala, 27 - Many of them have international status. No less interest is the collections of the private gallery "Famous Masters". Here, on a communal promenade, 6, products of modern decorative and applied arts are exhibited. On Strozzhevskaya Street, 3 is the building of the Troitsk pharmacy - you can familiarize yourself with the old books on pharmacy and samples of pharmacy dishes. And those who are not indifferent to the subject of the environment, invites the Nature Museum, which is ul. Bogdanovich, 9-A, in the building of the former synagogue.

How to get

Trinity suburb is located at: Minsk, ul. Bogdanovich.

You can get here on various types of public transport: the metro (access to Nemigi station), bus (route number 57), Trolleybus (routes Nos. 29, 37, 40 and 53); or by car, taking advantage of the capabilities of the satellite GPS navigation system, coordinates: 53.908012,27.556571.

Often otherwise called the Trinity Mountain, is the historical area of \u200b\u200bthe Belarusian capital in the northeastern part of the historic center of Minsk, on the left side of the Swisloch River.

Sometime Trinity Mountain was a trade and administrative center of the city. Today this place refers to those few areas of Minsk, in which the construction of which has been preserved to varying degrees, the age of which includes from six to a pair of centuries.

History of Trinity suburbs

The name "Trinity estate" is like a Troitsk Church (it was built in the XVI century.) Or from the church of the Blessed Trinity, built here at the beginning of the XVI century. It is believed that it was here that the first stone church was built, which was built on the orders of King Yagailo in 1390.

In the XVI-XVII centuries. Around the Trinity suburbs there were ripples flooded with water, and burned earth shafts.

At the same time, there was one of the centers for the production of tiles. This is evidenced by archaeologists found by archaeologists tiles and forms to extrude drawings.

The houses were built on wooden, and they settled and lived in the suburbs mostly middle-class people - merchants and artisans, peasants and military.

After a big fire in 1809, Trinity suburb acquired its current species - square quarters and streets intersecting at right angles.

Then the Troitskaya Square was developed in the center of the outlook (now - the Square of the Paris Commune), where bazaars were arranged every Sunday.

After World War II, Minsk was practically completely destroyed, but it was decided to restore the Trinity suburb only in 1962.

Many architectural elements as a gate, forged fences and stairs were lost, and individual buildings and interiors were restored from scratch.

Unfortunately, to our time, only one quarter is fully preserved, showing a typical building of the XIX century., But, nevertheless, people continue to live here.

What can be visited?

Despite the fact that the Trinity suburb has long been the hottest destination not only the indigenous people of Minsk, but also visitors, here, except for large tourist groups, taking pictures of attractions or small houses, you can see newlyweds.

In this corner of Minsk, you can see interesting sculptures dedicated to famous personalities, walk along a small streets, along the road paved by a cobblestone, plunging in the XIX century.

Here you can see how old Minsk looked like, with small houses-monuments of architecture with high tiled roofs and multi-colored facades, and at the same time familiarize yourself with the cultural heritage of the capital of Belarus.

Branch of the State Museum of History of theatrical and Musical Culture of Belarus "Living Room Vladislav Golubka"

Vladislav Golubka is one of the founders of the Vocational Belarusian Theater. This museum has 10 exposure and 1 exhibition hall. Often, a large number of different events are held in the museum - from meetings with interesting people to music evenings and conferences. There are also small interesting exhibitions here.

The museum is located on the alley of musical, 5, works from 9:00 to 18:00, exposure - 10:00 to 17:00, tickets can be bought at the box office from 10:00 to 17:00. On Sunday, the museum does not work.

In the first Saturday of each month, the museum can be visited for free.

• Ticket price for adults 15000 Belarusian rubles.,
• for students of 10,000 Belarusian rubles,
• for schoolchildren and students of PTU 8000 Belarusian rubles.
• Batlette representing 10,000 Belarusian rubles.

State Museum of the History of Belarusian Literature

The opening of the museum took place in 1991. Exposures and exhibitions are very often updated here, which reveal for visitors different directions of the centuries-old history of Belarusian literature.

The museum is on the street. Bogdanovich, 13, works from 9:30 to 17:30 (Cashier works until 17:00), on Sunday, the museum does not work.

• Ticket price for adults 3000 Belarusian rubles,
• for students and students of 2000 Belarusian rubles.
• In the second Saturday of each month, the museum can be visited for free.

"The island of tears" or "the island of courage and grief"

Next to Trinity, the coast is visible at the shore itself, a small artificial bulk island is visible, to which a pedestrian arched bridge is thrown.

At the entrance to the island of tears, you can see a stone with a bronze icon of the Mother of God, and in the center there is a memorial chapel dedicated to the Belarusian soldiers who died in Afghanistan.

He was opened in 1993 by the poet's birthday. The museum contains and retain a collection of manuscripts, photos and books related to the life and activities of the poet. The museum has a permanent exposition "Life and Creative Path of Maxim Bogdanovich".

There is a museum on M. Bogdanovich Street, house 7a, it works from 10:00 to 18:00. Saturday and Sunday - weekends.

• The cost of tickets for the exhibition and exhibitions for adults - 2000 Belarusian rubles,
• for schoolchildren, students - 1200 Belarusian rubles.
• Museum can be visited for free on the last Sunday of the month.

Galleries Craftsmen "Slavutasts" and "Slavtya Maistra"

And what is the journey without buying original souvenirs and exclusive gifts for relatives, friends or colleagues? Be sure to visit the Gallery of the Slavtasstsi Crafts and the Slavtya Maistra.

Galleries are on the street. Bogdanovich, 21, 2nd floor and on Trinity embankment 6, respectively. There you can not only purchase souvenir products, but also look at the work of the masters and get acquainted with their best creations.

On weekdays, the gallery work from 10:00 to 19:00, on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00.

Store books and antiques "Wreath"

You can also visit the book of books and antiques "Wreath" to, thanks to the interior of this store, to be in a typical book shop of the XIX century, and in the Troitskaya pharmacy you will surprise you a unique collection of books on medicine and pharmacy accessories of the XIX century.

If, after long walks around the city and familiarization with attractions you are tired and hungry, make a stop and relax.

In Trinity, the suburb there are various coffee shops, cafes and restaurants with interiors under ancient, where your rest can turn into another discovery.

And in the restaurant on the water, which is the only one in Minsk, you can taste delicious national dishes and get aesthetic pleasure from the view of the city.

Trinity suburb on the map

How to get to Troitsky submissions
The best way is the subway - the second line, the station "Nemiga".

You can still by bus (№24, 38,57,91,177E) and trolleybus (№12, 29, 37, 40, 46, 53).

In the photo Trinity suburb in Minsk.

Probably in Minsk it is difficult to find a place that would be more famous for tourists than Trinity suburb. This is a city business card, the image of which can be found both on postcards, brands, souvenirs and on some banknotes.

Trinity suburb - The historic district of Minsk, located in the northeastern part of the historic center on the left bank of the Swisloch River. His cozy streets and painted in tender tones of the house with tiled roofs became a kind of symbol of Minsk, captured on souvenirs and sweets. Once was the trade and administrative center of the capital of Belarus.

Name Trinity suburbs It originated in the 15th century from the church of the holy Trinity founded here once here. At about the 14th century, the Holy Ascension Monastery with the Wooden Church of the Wooden Church of the same name was built on the Trinity Mount, which in 1620 Anton Maslyanka built a stone church in 1620. The suburb of 16 century. It was built up with wooden houses and connected with the city of Bridge.

This suburb for a long time was considered a suburb of Minsk, but entered the city of the city only in the 19th century. In the suburb lived, mostly people of the middle class: military, artisans, merchants, peasants.

Do not go to Nemigi?

In almost all, even during the times of gloomy Middle Ages, Belarusian, and even more so Ukrainian, cities in historical centers there are a traditional set of a traditional set from some kind of castle, a market area with town hall, numerous temples and monasteries of barefoot brothers Bernardians or Jesuit, and several quarters of civilian building.
But Minsk is not lucky. Arriving during the time of the Tale of Bygone Years, who received Magdeburg law during the Commonwealth period, the city, which became the capital of modern Belarus, completely lost its original historical center. And the fault of this is not only urban decisions of the XIX century, dictated by the political decisions, or the destruction of the last war, and rather the city planning concept of the last decades of the twentieth century, which, guided by the slogan "we build our future!", Fully changed the picture of the urban landscape. As a result, we were probably the only capital of one of the fraternal republics as part of the USSR without any national flavor and associated with the national history of architecture, which is completely striking in the beautiful far from the Stalinist avenues, numerous sports facilities and public lawns of the era of the developed stagnation.

However, on this path of the Celebration of Belarusian urbanism there were both curious moments. Somehow, after the total sweep of Nemigi and the castle, where even the fragments of old trees were left from the castle, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev arrived on the eve of the Olympiad-80 in Minsk. For some not clear reason, Leonid Ilyich repeatedly rose to go to see the old town (where is your old place here, as in Warsaw?), Which by that time practically did not exist. As a screwdriver, I do not know, but I decided to fix the mistake, not to show the next time the elderly demurbent demise. First of all, in the 80s, according to the project, almost all that could be demolished, but in Trinity, the suburb left one quarter of the ordinary building of the XIX century was based on the earliest foundations. Here is from it and made an exemplary old place ;-), which is now demonstrated to tourists and love Minsk.

A little later, and especially in the last decade, the focus was repeated with the upper city, where with the growth of national self-consciousness by building newwear and pulling out individual objects from later development, they tried to artificially at least some image of the historic center of the city, as well as modern Belarusian Architects. As far as it happened, let's see together with you.

Our journey to the fabric "Historic Minsk" began with parking search. I found it at a high-rise building from glass and concrete in which the Belarusian telecommunications company Velcom is located. Good start. Next, we rushed on foot along Zybitskaya Street towards the square of March 8 and the nameless bridge through the Svisloch.

I am a profuduclear street on Zybitskaya Street, so I use someone else's photo from wikimapia.org. I understood that it was located on the sides and for this small house number 3 on Zybitskaya street?

Passing 300 meters turn around. In the distance of the Velcom office, and on the right of the historic building of the Upper city with numerous bars, to the left behind the fence, the construction of a hotel and an entertainment center. According to unverified information, most of the "wooden" houses on the right hand newwalked.

Building at the intersection of Zybitskaya and Herzen. Inside the bar, on the wall, a memorial plaque that tells about the fact that we are on the territory of the Upper City - the historic center of Minsk XVI-XIX centuries., Complex monument of archeology, urban planning, architecture, history, revolutionary and combat glory of the people. Located under the protection of the state.
Pay attention to how the facade is decorated, or rather the door and the porch. Entrance doors are, steps are marked, and the porch itself does not have the right. And then this element of the design of the facade is repeated twice. What did the architect wanted to say this? Restore historical facade design? But why then the only working entrance doors are made of glass, and not decorated in a single style? Why is the rhythm of the steps of the other and why this particular visor?

View up the street of Herzen. Right complex "Monastic" in order of removal: archaeological museum, bar, restaurant, hotel.

The building on the right will be seen the building of the male Bernardian monastery, and in the future, Herzen's street rests on the complex of the Basilian Monastery. It seems to me that the buildings of the whole quarter right belonged to the Bernardians brothers, but I am very confused by the heterogeneous and not neat, and there are simply modern masonry in the near buildings. Pay attention to how the pavement is made. Where is it without a favorite tile even on a historic street? But something similar to the cobblestone pavement passes narrow carlock along the walls.

Quarter diagram on the wall of the Archaeological Museum. Pleases combinations of the Museum of Archeology, Karate Museum and Museum of Minsk Konka

Let's go further along Szybitskaya Street to the next crossroads with Kirill Street and Methodius. On the left beauty salon, it is not clear to the right, but a little further looks out of the building of the Women's Bernardian monastery, and in front of it male. In the future - a seating courtyard. We will return a little later.

Now let's go to the River Svisloch and rise to the Unnamed Bridge (1967). Interestingly, there are two streets of Nemiga and Maxim Bogdanovich on the bridge, but the bridge itself does not have the name. View from the bridge to the historic real estate built in the area of \u200b\u200bthe former market area (the market).

Once on the site of the modern bridge, the most famous bridge of medieval Minsk - Hluusov, who connected the lower market with Troitsky suburb located on the right bank of the Svislodi. In the future, the building of the National Exhibition Center "BelExpo". In 2017, the demolition of this quarter began on the pomoy Berg of Svislodi to the Investor from the UAE. Promised to preserve four historical buildings miraculously preserved from the Trinity Monastery of Basilianok.

On the other side of the bridge - the Trinity suburb, or rather, what remains from him

Let's go down under the bridge and look at the Left Bank of the Svislechi and a high city, from where we just came. In the foreground of the building as if the XVIII century (?), The Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, the former christmas church of the Virgin Mary of the Bernardine Monastery, looks like.

Trinity suburb of the bridge opens throughout its glory. The ordinary bourgeois building of the end of the XIX century is stylized under medieval architecture as modern architects are present. Yes, it is not Lviv and not even Warsaw ... For the city with a richest history, of course, it looks dyed and slaughtered. But, for any Russian province, where there is no architecture besides Khrushchev, this is a good example, as you can make a conflex from a drumpet, especially if there is the will of the Secretary General. It is clear that the architects also worked here and adding about 2/3 of the frank Novodelov and Pops, but the basis of the preservation and reconstruction of the quarter was laid back in the 1980s.

Review Back on On the Unnamed Bridge over Svisloch and Away City

Go to the "medieval city"

Note, here the bridge is mostly laid out by a paving

Inside the quarter. All this Meshchansky Building is now not residential, but is a refuge of various catering establishments, hostels, art salons, museumors, shops, galleries and other

House of nature. The building was built in 1874 as the "Chinese" synagogue for the Meshman Minsk.

Thanks to the balustrade, the former synagogue is a favorite place for selfie from Belarusian girls

After waging in a quarter, we still wake up from the winter hibernation, we are tired of his monotony and artificiality and went to the island of Tears. There will be a separate report. And on the way they came to the sculpture of the girl with the owl. Strange combination. It seems not Athena Pallada, but with the owl.

Maybe this is some non-famous Belarusian national plot?

Returning through the bridge to the upper city and its dominant - the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, the church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the Bernardine Monastery. The church laid in 1642, becoming the Orthodox Church retained the strict solemnity of the Catholic church. On the left in the contrast frame was filled with the amilateral new buildings of the Orthodox Spiritual Academy. Stylishly, you will not say anything.

To understand how the lashaft changed this part of Minsk several photos.
1940s. Please note that the hill of the Upper City occurred in the relief there was a place to be, but now it is strongly smoothed.

View from the northwest to the ensemble of the Bernardine Monastery with a church after restoration of the 1980s

General view of the ensemble of Bernardian monasteries from a bird's eye view Shortly before he acquired the current appearance

View from the area on March 8 towards the castle - downstream Svisloch river. In the foreground, a squat, similar to a playpen, the building is the Republican Center for Physical Education and Sports. At one of his walls, a memorial plaque is placed that in this place in the XI century the city of Minsk emerged and the Minsk Tumbling was placed - a monument of archeology of the XI-XVI centuries. Protected by the state. As I said, this monument of archeology is most demolished in the construction of what we see in the photo, as well as during the construction of the Metro Station Nemiga, located just under these paths, which is in the frame.

Let's go on the other side of Nemigov Street, we reach the intersection with Lenin Street and slightly walking along the area of \u200b\u200bfreedom and take a look at the city tower from the West. The Minsk Town Hall (1) was built at the end of the 18th century on the area of \u200b\u200bthe upper market and was destroyed in 1851 on the personal order of Emperor Nikolai I. In 2003, he was restored at his historical place and used as an exhibition hall.

View of the town hall from the north, on the other hand. To the right in the frame was built by the complex of the hotel court of the XVIII-XIX century (7) with located inside the shops, restaurants, offices.

Monument to obtaining Minsk Magdeburg law in 1499, installed before entering the Town Hall in 2014.

The location scheme of the sights of the Upper City. Numbering for this scheme I will be given in parentheses when describing.

We take a look at the other side of Lenin Street for the Jesuit Church of the Virgin Mary (1700-1710) built in the style of Vilensky Baroque (15). In 1951, the cathedral was closed, and the main facade is very rebuilt, the house of the physical consultancy is located inside. In 1993, the building returned to the Catholic Church, the initial appearance was restored. Now this is the main Catholic temple of Belarus. In the interior, the frescoes that were attached to Soviet times are particularly valuable, their disclosure and restoration are now.

And now again they will deeper in the Quarters of the Upper City by passing along the edge of the former area of \u200b\u200bthe upper market. There is no time for the male and female uniate basilian monasteries formed a kind of defense node. The core of the male monastery was the Church of the Holy Spirit built on the site of the Orthodox wooden church around the 1650s.
In the photo on the left Church of the Holy Spirit, on the right, the living courtyard, in the future the building of the Belarusian State Academy of Music is seen.

Basilian Monastery Plan. Reconstruction of L. Ivanova based on materials V.M. Denisova. At the top of the women's monastery, in the bottom - male with the Church of the Holy Spirit.

Monasteries represented a kind of fortress. The male corps with the church formed her southwestern side. Women's corps - northeast. Between them, they were joined the covered gallery with small windows-Boyheads, at the same time formerly in his lower tier invested brother. With the fourth side, there is nothing on the plan, but it is very likely that the initial monastery yard still closed the stone wall: it is mentioned in the documents of the XVII century ("... Stone and Fighting the Upper and Lower Fence" "). The pearl complex was a church - a single-headed temple without towers with a five-pointed apse, blocked by crusades based on massive internal counterphorts. Gothic refer to high fifteen windows, faceted form of apse, vaults, counterphorties. Renaissance is the main facade, the whole built on the combination of the Pilaster of the Corinthian order, and in the curly shield there is already a baroque influence.

SERMAND DRAWING OF THE MAIN FACADE, 1843.

The main feature of the Svyatokhov Church was the painting of flat niches on the facade of the frescoes depicting the saints. The structure of the placement of niche and the order of their fresco filling corresponded to the Orthodox iconostasis. Art historians joyfully rubbing hands - it is almost never found in the cultic architecture of Europe: to the iconostasis and immediately on the facade.

The main facade of the Minsk Church of St. Duha. Reconstruction of Sergey Bangsov. It is very curious to compare its difference from the same measurement drawing of 1843 (see above).

In the XIX century The church was selected from the community, "donated" is Orthodox and rebuilt in the pseudorous style. In 1950, demolished. In 2011, the Church of the Holy Spirit is recreated from scratch. The basis of the recreation officially served a measurement drawing of 1843. At the moment, the building is used as a children's philharmonic.
View of the Novodel Church of the Holy Spirit from the North-West. In the foreground, the sculptural composition "City scales".

View of the main facade of the Church of the Holy Spirit from the West. Compare with the drawing of the facade of 1843 and understand what the difference is, for example, the design of the lower tier.

Another view. In the distant plan of the Church of St. Joseph Bernardin Monastery.

The view from the Church of the Holy Spirit to the area of \u200b\u200bthe Upper Market with the Church of St. Joseph Bernardinsky Monastery and the Christmas Church of the Virgin Mary of the Bernardine Monastery.

Opposite the strongly rebuilt cases of the Basilians Monastery, the sculpture of the "crew" is located, the prototype of which served as the Katalet of the governor. The joke is that, as Dmitry Shelekhov writes to me, this "carriage" is a copy of Tobolskaya and Kursk. Is there also a prototype of the governor carriers?
In the distant on the building of the Belarusian State Academy of Music

Coach in Tobolsk. Photo by Dmitry Shelehova. Minsk sculpture is indisputable in the same form. Only a slightly surface is more rough.

And this is a Kursk carriage. Still, they say there is a similar one in Dolgoprudna. Photo from twarrow expanses.

Unfortunately, I did not pass to the Basilian Monastery Corps and you have to use someone else's photo.
This housing was very good, not in our opinion, was restored. Wooden windows, natural tile, baroque curly shield restored as in his best times, no on bulbs - why always don't do that? Inside, I, though, was not.

But back to the area of \u200b\u200bthe upper market. Modern view of the monastery of Bernardians and the Church of St. Joseph. The church was built in 1652, repeatedly rebuilt. In 1752 he received a decor in the style of late Baroque. In 1860, the monastery was abolished, the buildings were confiscated. The last time the church building was restored in 1983, currently in it and the adjoining hulls of the monastery are placed archives.

It's time to return to the car. Now we will sell a little different way on a musical alley. The building at number 1 is often found on tourist photos. The left is the street of Herzen, which we observed at the very beginning of the report.

Go down on the musical lane and turn back to a new office building and a quarter with the former Embassy of the Czech Republic

That's all.
SUMMARY: As we see, Minsk one of those cities of the former Great Principality of Lithuanian and Commonwealth, which almost completely lost its historical appearance. However, by the strange foe, the leadership of the USSR tried to recreate local restorers in the measure of their corruption. And nothing, moreover, this recreation could serve as an example for a number of Russian cities, completely, due to a number of reasons that have lost their heritage, but on the example of Minsk there was a strange substitution of concepts in Belarusian restoration. This very controversial and partly, the curious experience "from hopelessness" in the desire to imitate civilized Europe was taken to the chapter of the presentation of the present. Now, every collective farm Belarusian builder misses herself with an architect, and then the restorer, reproving the company's unique Minsk experience, trying to build out our future doubtful versatiles under the old days, while having demolished to the other hand to the right and left the remnants of the genuine national heritage.
What is this here? The original heritage looks not presented and it is not clear, whether the business is freshly orateful multicolored houses under ondulin with fireplace pipes.
For this case, however, by the way, the quotation of the lotman is relevant - restoration is a legal form of the destruction of heritage.

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