Gomel - Vetka - Mozyr - Jurovichi (2 days)

The Gomel Railway station welcomes city visitors with festive appearance and refined interiors. Only having crossed its threshold, you will forget about fatigue and cares – you will appear in magnificent rooms of the palace. The building of the Railway station of Gomel found the place in the State list of historical and cultural values of Republic of Belarus in 2003. It will be interesting to learn and about life of railroad workers of Gomel – it is the certain head in the history of the city, eventful and the curious facts.

The house of a name of the Commune of Paris – the first high-rise building in Gomel and one of the first in Belarus in own way. It is built on Stanislav Shabunevsky's project – the chief architect of the city. Here the first passenger elevator in the city was released. In the house all conditions for workers of the railroad were created: on the first floor the dining room, reading room, kindergarten, on the others – apartments were located. Near the House commune also the first 9-storey construction appeared later.

According to a legend, Yemelyan Pugachev after return from Turkey came for the help to the Gomel Old Belief community and came to pray to the temple twice. Nowadays it is the Gomel church consecrated in honor of the Prophet Ilya – the oldest remained Old Belief temple in Belarus. The unique monument of the Belarusian wooden architecture was built at the end of the 18th century, and now – the historical and cultural value of republican value.

The bright embodiment of architectural classicism – a so-called hunting lodge in Gomel. Often it is called "house empire style" because of an unusual decor of facades. It was constructed by request of Rumyantsev in the second half of the 19th century and kept the initial shape up to now. And in it the unique watch collection and some rooms of a lodge remained that allows to like the atmosphere of the 19th century, to touch history and to make beautiful photos for memory.

In the second half of the 18th century the empress Catherine II presented Gomel to the Russian commander Rumyantsev for merits before the fatherland. Then where Sozh is silvered, the history of the magnificent palace which admires inhabitants and city visitors still began. It was constructed on the project of the same architect that built Kazan Cathedral and Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg – I. Starova. In the 19th century the palace was redeemed by the famous Russian commander Paskevich who regarding it with awe, continued construction of a complex. And at an excursion you visit magnificent architectural and park complex which absorbed in itself(himself) the best fashion trends of 18-19 centuries and unique collections and also will see majestic Peter And Paul Cathedral, a chapel tomb and one of the best parks of Belarus.

Books from the Kremlin cathedrals with records and comments of tsars, famous writers and scientists; editions of the printing yards of Moscow, Lviv, Grodno 15-16 centuries; patterns of local woodcarving; ancient and Old Belief icons; archeological finds; office drawings of icon painters; ritual bench hammers and objects of traditional vetkovsky clothes – more than 10000 unique exhibits to which many museums of Belarus and other countries would be glad you in one of the best will see the museum of national culture and traditions. A branch – a surprising corner of the Belarusian earth in Gomelshchina also there live in it surprising people. In 1978 the local Fedor Shklyarov, opened the Vetkovsky museum of folk art on the basis of own collection, today he bears a name it, and followers sacredly keep traditions of the founder.

In Mozyr the main temple of the Turovsky diocese - the Cathedral of Saint Michael the Archangel was located. In the middle of the 18th century it has been built at the initiative of the Mozyr marshalk of Kazimir Oskerko, but then - a church. For a long story of a wall of the temple have endured many hardships - offices and hospital, church, prison of People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs where more than 2000 death sentences have been pronounced. Now the cathedral is the residence of the Bishop of Turov and Mozyr, and to his crypt the only museum of political repressions in Belarus is located.

In the village Yurovichi there is an ancient temple - a church of the Nativity of the Theotokos. The baroque church is adjoined by cases of the Jesuit kollegium in which the men's orthodox monastery nowadays works. The stone fencing and towers with loopholes protect rest of monastery. And in monastery peacefully there live monks and the icon wonder-working the Mother of God Yurovichsky "Merciful" is stored and stored. In days of ubiquitous atheism she was missing, but later has been found in the old rural temple and returned in native monastery.