Tag: pseudo-Russian

Perhaps one of the most famous lost architectural monuments of Belarus is the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, better known as Fara Vytautas. Where does the name "Fara" come from and why Vytautas? It is believed that the first wooden Catholic church in...

On the main street of the urban village of Holopenichi, you can see the ruins of an Orthodox church built in the middle of the 19th century. The former Assumption Church was built on the site of a small wooden church that had been standing there since 1712. Finished work...

One of the attractions of the old town of Zembin is St. Michael's Church, built in the early 20th century. The temple was built on the site of a wooden predecessor that burned down in a fire in 1900. By its architecture, the building belongs to the retrospective-Russian style,...

In the Grodno region there is a rather unusual architectural monument - a rare example when an Orthodox church was rebuilt into a church. As you know, after 1863, basically the opposite happened: Catholic churches were closed, and then they were rebuilt according to ...

At an equal distance from Orsha and the city of Dubrovno there is the village of Solovye (Nightingale) where you can see the ruins of an Orthodox church of the mid-19th century. There is very little information about this church, but even it is contradictory and incomplete. AT...

At the entrance to Volozhin, just outside the village of Kapustino, there is a 19th century chapel. Now it is the Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior at the local cemetery, but initially the building was built by order of Count Tyszkiewicz as a chapel for the church of St....

One of the attractions of Disna is a mid-19th century church located in the historic center of the city. The Resurrection Church was built in 1870 of stone, in the pseudo-Russian style traditional for that time. Dominant position in architecture...

If you drive from Polotsk to Disna along the P14 highway, then along the way there will be a small village of Bezdedovichi, where you can see the manor house and the chapel-tomb of the Rimsky-Korsakov family, today the Church of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God. The chapel was built by...

The partially restored Church of the Annunciation is located on the banks of the Western Dvina in the agricultural town of Druya. This temple was built in the first half of the 18th century, and in many sources even the exact date is found - 1740. Thanks to the artist's drawings...

One of the attractions of the urban village of Ross is the Trinity Church of the early 20th century. The temple began to be built on the site of a wooden predecessor in 1908 and completed by 1911. The architecture of the church belongs to the pseudo-Russian style,...