Traveling in Belarus – Zadveya – Ishkold
Weekday morning. Minsk. Automobile plant. It's clear, moderately frosty, we're going to the first trip around Belarus this season (2017). This time the purpose of our trip was the Radziwill estate in the village of Polonechka. But we did not miss the chance and looked into a couple more interesting places on the way to the main object. This is what our route looked like.
Coming out of the sunshine Minsk, there was no thought that the weather would change so much on the way, but soon the sky was covered with gray clouds. At this time of the year (February), the quality of the M1 highway pavement leaves much to be desired - a patch on a hole, a hole on a patch.
Here, at the intersection of three regions: Brest, Grodno and Minsk, there are several places that are definitely worth a visit. We leave the highway at the signpost Volno and move towards the village of Zadveya.
Entering the settlement, on the left we noticed the school building, through the windows of which we immediately realized that it was abandoned. It was not difficult to get into the area. Having quickly examined the building from the outside (it should be noted that all the windows in the school are intact), we got inside through the main entrance, or rather through a huge hole in the door that someone had broken through before us.
Among many places, this is special: on a mountain between forests and fields, with a beautiful view from the windows, an apple orchard in the backyard, bas-reliefs of Skaryna and Chase inside the building. Even despite the complete decline, the place is incredibly bright.
Here was the Zadveysky interschool training and production plant for labor training and vocational guidance of students, which was closed by the decision of the district executive committee No. 443 of June 3, 2013.
Abandoned educational equipment at this school indicates that young people could receive a full-fledged education here. When you see such examples, it somehow becomes scary for the future.
Why is this place abandoned? In the media, we found information about these villages (and how many there are in the country!): gasification of these places is not provided, since these villages are not included in the state program for rural development.
The village of Zadweya made a depressing impression on us. Some of the houses, still quite livable, were abandoned; on the way in the street we did not meet a single person, except for the crazy grandfather. Although, according to the census, the villages of Savichi and Zadveya are not endangered - about 300 people live here.
At the end of the village at a fork on both sides of the road we see the remains Chechotov estates - ledovnia and a kitchen wing (XIX century).
Part of the southern wall of the icehouse has collapsed and lies on the ground in the bushes. The estate itself has not been preserved.
Having passed the village, we are moving along the road H295 towards the village of Polonechka.
The road at first is just snow rolled by agricultural machinery, but then it narrows and becomes more and more broken. On the sides covered with snow arable land. Our speed drops to 5 km / h, and some pits force us to switch to a lower gear. After driving about 4 km, we descend into a lowland and almost catch the bottom of a ridge on a deep rut ...
Then the road is a little better, and at a speed of 10 km / h we got to Polonechka. At the entrance to the village on a small river we see water mill ruins.
The date 1819 flaunts on the stone at the base in the “royal” font. Nearby are the remains of mechanisms: shafts and millstones.
It would be cunning to say that the Radziwill Palace in Polonechka impresses with its scope. Abandoned and finished off by “restoration” in the Soviet era, the palace is far from the grandeur and gloss that can be seen in the painting of Napoleon Orda.
After seeing the outside, we decide to go inside.
Many ceilings have collapsed, but the floor of the central corridor and some halls on the second floor are intact.
In some rooms, gypsum stacked ceilings (for example, gypsum rosettes) have been preserved.
On the ground floor, in the ballroom, you can see authentic painted decorations on the walls and ceiling.
After wandering around, we find a hole in the underground passages. The quality of the masonry of the red brick walls is striking. Underground passages are covered with sand by a third. Sometimes you have to climb on all fours.
Looking at the ceiling, we are horrified - it is all strewn with mosquitoes.
But they are not dangerous - they sleep. Illuminating with a flashlight, we move forward, sometimes the hole splits and goes into the basement rooms.
When we came to the surface, two men were noticed near the main entrance of the palace. It turned out that these were employees of the Minsk design organization TsNTUS, who are here on a business trip: it is necessary to make an assessment of the building in order to search for potential investors.
Leaving Polonechka we see a beautiful Church of St. George - a monument of architecture of the XVIII-XIX centuries. in neo-gothic style.
Then we drove along a partially paved road to Ishkold.
Entering the village, you immediately pay attention to the old wooden log cabins of outbuildings and huts. Judging by them, as well as the laying of the porches, the use of forged hinges, curtains, these buildings are still pre-war. In the village of Ishkold there is Trinity Church XV century - the oldest of the unrebuilt on the territory of Belarus.
In the XNUMXth century it became the Calvin collection, and in the XNUMXth century it was returned to the Catholics. A small but majestic building in the Gothic style is surprising - why here, among the fields and forests, the legacy of a completely different era has been preserved intact ...
