Mogilev - Bujnichi field

In the first half of the 18th century, шляхтич Lyubuzh Zenkovich with servants attacked Mogilev – many citizens were wounded, many died. Also it hid, from the being eager revenge of crowd, in a chapel small. But to anger of people there was no limit – they pulled out a shlyakhtich from a chapel and killed. The Polish king, having learned about murder of Catholic, decided to punish citizens: "residents have to investigate all stone constructions and to construct a church in the memory of the murdered Zenkovich of this stone". – The legend says. Anyway, but the base is difficult from the most different size of stones. And the remarkable temple reached our days that is famous for one of the fullest and professional evangelical cycles of Belarus and original frescos of great art value.

St. Nicholas Monastery – orthodox convent which history originates deeply in the 16th century. Then it began to be formed around the St. Nicholas Cathedral included in UNESCO in the register of the most valuable constructions of Europe in Baroque style. Time repeatedly introduced the amendments in history of monastery: female and men's monasteries, archive, rate of the commander-in-chief Nicholas II, prison and Stalin repressions. Finally, fortunately, the monastery and, considerably the affected, unique temple is returned to believers. What traces left different time of an event here? It shocks and infinite opening. You learn about them at an excursion.

The Mogilev town hall – one of little remained in Belarus. She became a symbol of freedom and independence not only for residents of medieval Mogilev, but also for all subsequent generations of citizens. More than once it collapsed unfinished, but nevertheless towered over the city in 1698. Exactly here the city magistrate sat, here citizens bore "litter from a log hut", wives brought husbands that on the Gospel to give "a zarecheniye from alcoholism". The empress Catherine II, the Austrian emperor Franz Joseph II rose by the observation deck of a town hall. Here in 1917 Nicholas II abdicated. A symbol of bitterness and loss it marked itself deliberate explosion in peace time. But even after it, in 1993, what was strongly made by great-grandfathers was built up. How fate of a symbol of the city was today? We learn during the excursion.

The area of stars – really amazing place not only for Mogilev. It is the only monument to the astrologer in the world. It became undoubted decoration of a historical part of the city. "Astrologer" is executed on the project of the outstanding Belarusian sculptor Vladimir Zhbanov. Around it 12 chairs with zodiac signs – do not forget to sit down "on the sign" and to make the most treasured wish. And after - for a while to be transferred to Hollywood – to walk across the local Walk of Fame and will get acquainted with the most known and outstanding names of Mogilevshchina.

Thousand times N.V. Gogol was right, having written that "theater at all not a trifle at all not an empty thing if you take into account that in it the crowd can be located suddenly and that all this crowd, in anything not similar among themselves, can be shaken suddenly by one shock, begin to sob one tears and laugh one general laughter. This such department with which it is possible to tell much the world of good". So considers also all structure of the Mogilev Drama theater located in the building built for it. In the Mogilev theater Shalyapin sang, Rachmaninov played, Nicholas II applauded, Kolchak, Kalinin and Dzerzhinsky reviewed the troops. We recommend to learn more about it and to you.

The Belarusian ethnographic village of the 19th century is a beautiful and well-groomed territory, the city of masters, refined design, paved paths, exotic trees and flowers. This place where you will get acquainted with crafts and life of mestechkovets of the 19th century. You learn how for only a few seconds to turn a piece of clay into the work of art how to force threw also a tree to take a bizzare shape, work of masters of an embroidery and what true value "вышыванак" is how laborious. You can buy production of masters for memory.

The Buynichsky field - his writer Konstantin Simonov described in the novel "Live and Dead". There passed the first line of the Soviet defense. Through Mogilev the group of the German army "Centre" went to Moscow, planning to organize the transit point in Mogilev. Long 2 weeks many times the conceding defenders of the city resisted enemies, considerably having changed the war course. The German troops in fear were silent about defeat, having told that the city is occupied long ago. Later Mogilev will be called "the father of Stalingrad". And the war correspondent who was here, then, and later the famous writer Simonov bequeaths to dispel here the ashes. Today on the place of tank battles the memorial keeping memory of military years is created.