Belarus Trinity suburb. Trinity Suburb: history and modernity. Living room of Vladislav Golubok

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Along the narrow streets of history

A corner of the old city - Minsk of the 19th century - is comfortably located in the very center of the capital. Narrow cobbled streets, low houses, unusual layout - all this Trinity Suburb. And it’s simply impossible not to come here!

In those distant times, when the city was just beginning to grow, people settled in the suburbs that surrounded the upper city and the castle. One of the largest Minsk suburbs was Troitskoye. It was separated from the old part of the city by the Svisloch River, but already in those distant years, roads and bridges were built here, and communication with the city was constant. Regarding the name of the suburb, historians suggest that it arose in the 15th century. The suburb was named Trinity because there was a defensive redoubt of the Holy Trinity (from the Church of the Holy Trinity).

This suburb was also called Trinity Mountain; it arose in the 12th-13th centuries and until the 19th century was considered a suburb of Minsk. It was impossible to locate the city center here - the terrain was inconvenient for defense. In the 14th century, the Ascension Monastery was erected here, at which there was a wooden church, on the site of which Anton Maslyanka built a stone church in 1620. People began to settle around the monastery. In the 15th-17th centuries, earthen ramparts were built around this territory and ditches were dug.

The suburb was made of wood until the 16th century. It was connected to the city by a road, and later by a bridge. In the second half of the 16th century there were already two bridges. It was after the construction of the bridge that trade picked up, the suburb began to develop much faster, and the main street Troitskaya was built. Now it bears the name of Maxim Bogdanovich, and before that it was called M. Gorky and Alexandrovskaya. Along Troitskaya Street you could get to Svisloch, and from there along the Khlusov Bridge to the Lower Market, which was the oldest retail space Minsk and was located next to the Castle. In the 16th century, Trinity Street became a continuation of the main city street of Nemiga.

In the place where the beautiful opera house now stands there used to be the Trinity Market. A school was opened in the suburb itself in 1771; it operated at the Moorish monastery. In 1809, there was a big fire in Troitsky, after which a women's diocesan school and a theological seminary were built here (now it is the Suvorov School).

The Trinity Suburb gradually became a kind of center of attraction for various segments of the population. Here, in one of the houses, populists gathered and meetings were held. In addition, there was a city shelter founded in 1892. In winter, homeless people lived here and made their living on Trinity Mountain and the Lower Market. The nochlezhka stood next to the Alexander Bridge. In addition, not far from Svisloch there was the first public city bathhouse in Minsk, which was destroyed in the 1960s.

On the outskirts of the Trinity Suburb - on the very banks of the Svisloch - one of the oldest mills in the city operated. The city authorities did not want to maintain it themselves, since it required a lot of money, so they rented it out. Written information has even been preserved that in 1838 the “four-stone water-powered flour mill on the Lower Market” was leased on a security of 3,815 rubles for 12 years.

The Trinity suburb was inhabited mainly by artisans, merchants or military men - in general, people of the middle class. It was here that the famous poet Maxim Bogdanovich was born, and for some time the family of Yanka Kupala lived here.

The most destructive years for the Trinity suburb were the 1930s and 1940s. At this time, a large number of buildings of the Ascension Monastery, a Catholic cemetery of the 16th-18th centuries, and an ancient street that ran along the Svisloch were destroyed. The Great Patriotic War also contributed to the destruction of the suburb. Demolition of buildings continued after the war.

The reconstruction of this area began by accident. In 1962, Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Minsk. During the tour, he asked where the historical center of the city is and what is there now. The owners of the city were confused, since there was nothing to show the Secretary General. This became the impetus for the restoration of the Trinity Suburb. True, restoration work began only twenty years later - in 1982. They were conducted until 1985. The guards do not approve of the result of these works - the spirit of antiquity, the soul of the suburbs, has disappeared. But still, this place is one of the most beloved in the city, despite its decorativeness.

In Trinity Suburb there are a large number of cafes, shops, souvenir shops and museums. Among the latter, the Museum of Belarusian Literature, which is located on M. Bogdanovich Street, stands out. On Starovilenskaya Street there is a branch of the State Museum of the History of Theater and Musical Culture of the Republic of Belarus (V. Golubka’s living room). In addition, in Trinity Suburb it is open Literary Museum Maxim Bogdanovich.

Having visited the Trinity Suburb, it is impossible to pass by the Island of Tears. This island is a monument to fallen soldiers. It was opened in 1996; it was originally intended as a monument to the soldiers who died in Afghanistan. Now the Island of Tears is intended to remind of all the natives of Belarus who died in wars on the territory of our country and beyond its borders. The central element of the memorial is the chapel; it resembles the Church of St. Savior, built by Euphrosyne of Polotsk. The base of the monument consists of figures of mothers mourning their sons. The angel also mourns the heroes who did not save them. The authors of the memorial were sculptor Yu. Pavlov and architects M. Korolev, T. Koroleva-Pavlova, V. Laptsevich, G. Pavlova, A. Pavlov, D. Khomyakov. From here - from the Island of Tears - opens beautiful view on Trinity Suburb, Upper Town, as well as Pobediteley Avenue

Shouldn't we go to Nemiga?

Almost all of them, founded back in the days dark middle ages, Belarusian, and even more so Ukrainian, cities in the historical centers have a traditional set of some castle, Market Square with the town hall, numerous temples and monasteries of the Barefoot Bernardine brothers or Jesuits, and several blocks of civil buildings.
But Minsk was not lucky. Arose during the Tale of Bygone Years and received Magdeburg Law during the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the city that became the capital of modern Belarus has completely lost its original historical center. And the reason for this is not only the urban planning decisions of the 19th century, dictated by political decisions, or the destruction of the last war, but rather the urban planning concept of the last decades of the 20th century, which, guided by the slogan “We will build our future!”, completely changed the picture of the urban landscape. As a result, we probably got the only capital of one of the fraternal republics within the USSR without any national flavor and associated national history architecture, entirely directed towards the beautiful far away with Stalinist avenues, numerous sports facilities and public lawns of the era of developed stagnation.

However, along this path of triumph of Belarusian urbanism, there were also some funny moments. Somehow, just after the total cleansing of Nemiga and Zamchishche, where not even fragments of the old ramparts remained from the castle, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev came to Minsk on the eve of the 1980 Olympics. For some unclear reason, Leonid Ilyich repeatedly tried to go see Old city(Where is the Old Place here, as in Warsaw?), which by that time practically did not exist. I don’t know how they got out of it, but they decided to correct the mistake and not show the slums to the elderly general secretary next time. First of all, in the 80s, according to the project, almost everything that could be demolished was demolished, but in the Trinity Suburb they left one block of ordinary buildings of the 19th century, which in some places were based on earlier foundations. So they made an exemplary Old Place from it;-), which is now shown to tourists and loved by Minsk residents.

A little later, and especially in the last decade, the trick was repeated with the Upper Town, where, with the growth of national self-awareness, by building new buildings and pulling out individual objects from later buildings, they tried to artificially collect at least some image of the historical center of the city as modern Belarusians imagine it architects. How well this turned out, let's see with you.

Our journey into the fabric of “historical Minsk” began with the search for parking. I found her near a high-rise building made of glass and concrete that houses the Belarusian telecommunications company Velcom. A good start. Then we rushed on foot along Zybitskaya Street towards the 8th March Square and the nameless bridge over the Svisloch.

I botched the first attraction on Zybitskaya Street, so I use someone else’s photo from Wikimapia.org. Do you understand what is located on the sides and behind this small house at number 3 on Zybitskaya Street?

After walking 300 meters we turn around. In the distance is the Velcom office, and on the right is a historical building Upper town with numerous bars, on the left behind the fence is the construction of a hotel and entertainment center. According to unverified information, most of the “wooden” houses on the right hand are new-built.

The building at the intersection of Zybitskaya and Herzen. Inside there is a bar, on the wall there is a memorial plaque telling us that we are on the territory of the Upper Town - the historical center of Minsk in the 16th-19th centuries, a complex monument of archeology, urban planning, architecture, history, revolutionary and military glory of the people. is under state protection.
Pay attention to how the façade of the building is designed, or rather the doors and porch. The entrance doors are there, the steps are marked, but the porch itself on the right is missing. And then this element of facade design is repeated twice more. What did the architect want to say by this? Restore the historical design of the facade? But why then are the only working entrance doors made of glass, and not decorated in the same style? Why is the rhythm of the steps different and why this forged visor?

View up Herzen Street. On the right is the Monastyrsky complex in order of removal: archaeological museum, bar, restaurant, hotel.

In the distance on the right you can see the building of the Bernardine monastery, and in the future Herzen Street abuts the complex of the Basilian monastery. It seems to me that the buildings of the entire block on the right belonged to the Bernardine brothers, but I am very confused by the heterogeneous and not neat, and in some places simply modern, masonry on the nearby buildings. Pay attention to how the pavement is made. Where would you be without your favorite tiles, even on a historical street? But something similar to a cobblestone street runs like a narrow runner along the walls.

Block diagram on the wall archaeological museum. I am pleased with the combination of the Museum of Archeology, the Museum of Karate and the Museum of the Minsk Horse Horse

Let's walk further along Zybitskaya Street to the next intersection with Cyril and Methodius Street. On the left is a beauty salon, on the right it’s unclear what, but a little further you can see the building of the Bernardine convent for women, and opposite it for the men’s monastery. In the future - a guest courtyard. We will return there a little later.

Now let’s go out to the Svisloch River and climb the nameless bridge (1967). It is interesting that two streets Nemiga and Maxim Bogdanovich meet on the bridge, but the bridge itself now has no name. View from the bridge of the building being built in the area of the former market square(Ninyi market) historical property.

Once upon a time, on the site of the modern bridge, the most famous bridge of medieval Minsk, Khlusov, was located, connecting the Lower Market with the Trinity Suburb located on the right bank of the Svisloch. In the future, the building of the National Exhibition Center "BelExpo". In 2017, the demolition of this quarter along the main bank of the Svisloch began by an investor from the UAE. He promised to preserve four historical buildings miraculously preserved from the Trinity Basilian Monastery.

On the other side of the bridge is Trinity Suburb, or rather what’s left of it

Let's go down under the bridge and look at the left bank of the Svisloch and High City where we just came from. In the foreground there are buildings from the 18th century (?), with an Orthodox church peeking out behind them. Cathedral Holy Spirit, former Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the Bernardine Monastery.

The Trinity suburb opens up in all its glory from under the bridge. Ordinary burgher buildings late XIX century is stylized as medieval architecture as it is represented by modern architects. Yes, this is not Lviv or even Warsaw... For a city with rich history Of course it looks wild and pathetic. But, for any Russian province, where there is no architecture other than Khrushchev buildings, this is a good example of how you can make a candy out of slums, especially if there is the will of the Secretary General. It is clear that architects and designers of the last decade have also worked here, adding about 2/3 of outright remakes and pop, but the foundation for the preservation and reconstruction of the quarter was laid back in the 1980s.

A look back at the nameless bridge over the Svisloch and the Vehniy Gorod

Heading to the "medieval city"

Please note that the pavement here is mostly paved with paving stones

Inside the block. All this middle-class development is now not residential, but is a refuge for various catering establishments, hostels, art salons, museums, shops, galleries and other things.

House of Nature. The building was built in 1874 as the "Kitaevskaya" synagogue for the burghers of Minsk.

Thanks to the balustrade, the former synagogue is a favorite place for selfies among Belarusian girls

After wandering around the quarter, which was just waking up from winter hibernation, we got tired of its monotony and artificiality and went to the Island of Tears. There will be a separate report about him. And along the way we came across a sculpture of a girl with an owl. A strange combination. It seems not Pallas Athena, but with an owl.

Maybe this is some kind of Belarusian national story unknown to me?

We return across the bridge to the Upper Town and its dominant feature - the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, once the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the Bernardine Monastery. Founded in 1642, the church, having become an Orthodox church, retained the strict solemnity of a Catholic church. To the left, the lurid new buildings of the Orthodox Theological Academy crawled into the frame for contrast. Stylish, to say the least.

To understand how the landscape of this part of Minsk has changed, here are a few photos.
1940s. Please note that the hill of the Upper Town, prominent in the relief, took place, but now it is greatly smoothed out.

View from the northwest of the ensemble of the Bernardine monastery with the church after restoration in the 1980s

General view of the ensemble of Bernardine monasteries from a bird's eye view shortly before it acquired its current appearance

View from the 8th March Square towards the Castle - downstream of the Svisloch River. In the foreground is a squat, arena-like building - the Republican Center for Physical Education and Sports. On one of its walls there is a memorial plaque stating that it was in this place that the city of Minsk arose in the 11th century and the Minsk Castle, an archeological monument of the 11th-16th centuries, was located. Protected by the state. as I already said, this archaeological monument was mostly demolished during the construction of what we see in the photo, as well as during the construction of the Nemiga metro station, located just under these paths, which is in the frame.

Let's cross to the other side of Nemiga Street, reach the intersection with Lenin Street and walk a little along it along Freedom Square and take a look at city hall from the west. Minsk City Hall (1) was built at the end of the 18th century on Upper Market Square and was destroyed in 1851 by personal order of Emperor Nicholas I. In 2003 it was restored to its original location. historical place and is used as an exhibition hall.

View of the town hall from the north, on the other side. On the right, the frame includes the buildings of the Gostiny Dvor complex of the 18th-19th centuries (7) with shops, restaurants, and offices located inside.

The monument to Minsk receiving Magdeburg Law in 1499 was installed in front of the entrance to the town hall in 2014.

Scheme of the location of the attractions of the Upper Town. I will give the numbering according to this scheme in parentheses during the description.

Let's look on the other side of Lenin Street at the Jesuit Church of the Virgin Mary (1700-1710), sandwiched by Soviet new buildings, built in the Vilna Baroque style (15). In 1951, the cathedral was closed, and the main façade was heavily rebuilt, with the Sportsman's House located inside. In 1993, the building was returned to the Catholic Church and its original appearance was restored. Now this is the main one catholic church Belarus. Of particular value in the interior are the frescoes, which were plastered in Soviet time, now they are being uncovered and restored.

And now let’s go deeper into the quarters of the Upper City again, walking along the edge former square Upper market. Here, the male and female Uniate Basilian monasteries once formed a kind of defense center. Core monastery There was a Church of the Holy Spirit built on the site of an Orthodox wooden church around the 1650s.
In the photo on the left is the Church of the Holy Spirit, on the right is Gostiny Dvor, in the perspective you can see the building of the Belarusian State Academy of Music.

Plan of the Basilian monastery complex. Reconstruction by L. Ivanova based on materials by V.M. Denisova. At the top convent, at the bottom - the man's with the Church of the Holy Spirit.

The monasteries represented a kind of fortress. The men's building with the church formed its southwestern side. Women's building - northeast. They were connected to each other by a covered gallery with small loophole windows, which at the same time served as an entrance gate in its lower tier. There is nothing on the plan on the fourth side, but it is very likely that initially the monastery courtyard was still closed by a stone wall: it is mentioned in documents of the 17th century (“... a stone fence and upper and lower battlements””). The pearl of the complex was the church - a single-nave temple without towers with a pentagonal apse covered with cross vaults resting on massive internal buttresses. High lancet windows, the faceted shape of the apse, vaults, and buttresses refer to Gothic. The Renaissance is the main façade, entirely built on a combination of pilasters of the Corinthian order, and the Baroque influence is already felt in the figured shield.

Measurement drawing of the main facade, 1843.

The main artistic feature of the Holy Spirit Church was the painting of flat niches on the facade with frescoes depicting saints. The structure of the placement of niches and the order of filling them with frescoes corresponded to the Orthodox iconostasis. Art critics are happily rubbing their hands - this is almost never seen in the cult architecture of Europe: just for the iconostasis and right there on the façade.

The main facade of the Minsk Church of the Holy Spirit. Reconstruction by Sergei Baglasov. It is very interesting to compare its difference from the same measurement drawing of 1843 (see above).

In the 19th century The church was taken from the community, “donated” to the Orthodox and rebuilt in the pseudo-Russian style. Demolished in 1950. In 2011, the Church of the Holy Spirit was rebuilt from scratch. The basis for the reconstruction was officially the measurement drawing of 1843. Currently the building is used as a children's philharmonic hall.
View of the new building of the Church of the Holy Spirit from the northwest. In the foreground is the sculptural composition "City Scales".

View of the main facade of the Church of the Holy Spirit from the west. Compare with the drawings of the facade of 1843 and you will understand the difference, for example, the design of the lower tier.

Another angle. In the background is the Church of St. Joseph of the Bernardine Monastery.

View from the Church of the Holy Spirit to the Upper Market Square with the Church of St. Joseph of the Bernardine Monastery and the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the Bernardine Monastery.

Opposite the heavily rebuilt buildings of the Basilian monastery is the sculpture "Crew", the prototype of which was the governor's carriage. The funny thing is that, as Dmitry Shelekhov writes to me in a personal message, this “carriage” is a copy of the Tobolsk and Kursk ones. There, what also served as a prototype for the governors' carriage?
In the background is the building of the Belarusian State Academy of Music

Carriage in Tobolsk. Photo by Dmitry Shelekhov. The Minsk sculpture was undoubtedly cast in the same mold. Only the surface is slightly rougher.

And this is a Kursk carriage. They also say there is a similar one in Dolgoprudny. Photos from the Tyrnet.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get to the building of the Basilian monastery and I have to use someone else’s photo.
This building was very well, not in our opinion, restored. Wooden windows, natural tiles, baroque figured shield were restored as in his better times, no onions for you - why not always do this? I wasn't inside, though.

But let's return to Upper Market Square. Modern look to the Bernardine monastery and the Church of St. Joseph. The church was built in 1652 and was rebuilt several times. In 1752 it received decor in the late Baroque style. In 1860, the monastery was abolished and the buildings were confiscated. The last time the church building was restored was in 1983; currently, archives are housed in it and the adjacent buildings of the monastery.

It's time to return to the car. Now we will take a slightly different route along Musical Lane. Building number 1 is often seen in tourist photos. Going to the left is Herzen Street, which we saw at the very beginning of the report.

We go down Muzykalnmu Lane and look back at the new office building and the block with the former Czech Embassy

That's all for now.
Summary: As we see, Minsk is one of those cities of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which has almost completely lost its historical appearance. However, due to a strange quirk of the USSR leadership, local restorers tried to recreate it to the extent of its depravity. And everything would be fine, moreover, this reconstruction could serve as an example for a number of Russian cities, which, for a number of reasons, have completely lost their heritage, but in the example of Minsk, a strange substitution of concepts occurred in the Belarusian restoration. This highly controversial and somewhat curious experience “out of despair” in an effort to imitate civilized Europe was taken as the cornerstone of the current restoration. Now every collective farm Belarusian builder fancies himself an architect, and then a restorer, reproducing this unique Minsk experience as a carbon copy in series, trying to build our future with dubious antique remakes, while demolishing with the other hand right and left the remnants of a genuine national heritage.
What's wrong with that? The original heritage does not look presentable and it is not clear whether it is a freshly made joke colorful houses under ondulin with fireplace pipes.
For this case, Lotman’s quote is more appropriate than ever - restoration is a legalized form of destruction of heritage.

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It is probably difficult to find a place in Minsk that would be better known to tourists than the Trinity Suburb. This business card city, the image of which can be found on postcards, stamps, souvenirs, and on some banknotes.

View of the suburb from Nemiga (photo: Sergey Sandakov, 2009)

Trinity Suburb is historical center of Minsk, located on the banks of the Svisloch River. This is one of the few places in the capital where paving stones have been preserved, and the low houses make your imagination travel back a couple of centuries...

Trinity Suburb in winter (photo: Anton Makovsky, 2011)

Historians believe that the area of the Trinity Suburb was inhabited already in the 12th-13th centuries, and numerous mentions of this territory in written sources of the 16th-17th centuries allow us to judge the presence of a city-wide center here in the 14th-15th centuries. The area was built up with wooden houses in which artisans, traders, peasants and soldiers lived.

In 1809, a terrible fire destroyed all the wooden buildings of the Trinity Suburb. The city residents owe the architectural layout of the area, which has survived to this day, to the suburb restoration plan developed after the fire.

Historical center of Minsk (photo: Sergey Sandakov, 2013)

In the 80s XX century Restoration work was carried out to attract tourists to the Trinity Suburb. Unfortunately, the restorers were unable to avoid extremes: current view of the suburb has little in common with the historical, and part of the buildings of the 17th century. along the Communal embankment and was completely demolished. Moreover, literally a hundred meters from the suburb, a 25-storey residential complex “U Troitsky” was erected, during the construction of which the provisions of the Law on the Protection of Historical and Cultural Heritage were not taken into account...

“At Troitsky” /on the left in the photo/ (Sergey Sandakov, 2013)

Today, in the Trinity Suburb area there are many museums, shops, cafes and restaurants.

Houses of the Trinity Suburb (photo: Anna Zelenko, 2005)

The largest object in size on the territory of the suburb is located in the center of the square, which is the square of the Paris Commune. This is a favorite vacation spot for townspeople, where even in summer heat You can find pleasant coolness sitting on a bench in the shade of tall trees.

Museums of the Trinity Suburb

State Museum of the History of Belarusian Literature (Bogdanovicha St., 13)
Maxim Bogdanovich Literary Museum (7A Bogdanovich St.)
Branch of the State Museum of the History of Theater and Musical Culture of Belarus “Vladislav Golubka’s Living Room” (Starovilenskaya St., 14)
House of Nature (Bogdanovicha St., 9A)
Trinity Pharmacy (Storozhevskaya St., 3)
Art gallery "Beaumonde" (Communal embankment, 2)

There is a legend that a mighty oak tree grew on Trinity Mountain, near which many kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth stopped to rest on their way to Minsk.
From the end of the 16th century to the middle. XX century on the site of the square and the Opera House, the capital's largest market, Trinity, was located.
In the Trinity Suburb, the fates of two classics of Belarusian literature met: Maxim Bogdanovich, who was born here, and Yanka Kupala, whose family also lived in the suburb for some time.

How to get there

You can get to Troitsky Suburb by metro, exit at Nemiga station

The Trinity Suburb of Minsk is undoubtedly the most beautiful urban area not only of the capital, but of the whole of Belarus. It is located on the left bank of the Svisloch River. The name Trinity Suburb comes from the Trinity Church once founded by King Jagiello.

The construction of the Trinity Suburb (Trinity Mountain) began in the 12th century. Medieval Minsk grew into suburbs. A wealthier crowd settled in the Trinity Suburb. In the XIV-XV centuries, the administrative center of the city was even located here. After receiving the Magdeburg Law and building the town hall, the Trinity Suburb lost its status as the main district of Minsk.

In the 16th-17th centuries, earthen ramparts were built around the Trinity Suburb and ditches filled with water were dug. The area acquired the status of an important defensive fortified place.

Until the 19th century, Trinity Suburb was considered a suburb of Minsk, and the houses in it were wooden. In the 19th century, the suburb became part of the city. Its center was considered the Trinity Market, on the site of which it is now built Opera theatre and a square.

The Trinity Suburb acquired its current appearance thanks to a severe fire in 1809, when all the wooden buildings burned down. The mayors decided to demolish the remains of the foundations and build new city blocks in accordance with the canons of classical development, when the streets had to intersect at right angles, forming rectangular blocks. The houses were adjacent to each other, forming a single facade. The high tiled roofs of houses with attics and attics gave the Trinity Suburb a unique flavor.

Now the Trinity Suburb has been reconstructed, repaired and landscaped. It looks attractive at any time of the year, at any time of day and in any weather thanks to the famous tiled roofs, multi-colored facades and modern dynamic lighting (changing colors like dancing fountains).

Often otherwise called Trinity Mountain, it is historic district Belarusian capital in the north-eastern part of the historical center of Minsk, on the left side of the Svisloch River.

Once upon a time, Trinity Mountain was the commercial and administrative center of the city. Today this place belongs to those few areas of Minsk in which buildings dating back from six to a couple of centuries have been preserved to one degree or another.

History of Trinity Suburb

The name “Trinity Estate” comes from the Trinity Church (built in the 16th century) or from the Church of the Holy Trinity, built here at the beginning of the 16th century. It is believed that the first stone church was built here, which was built by order of King Jagiello in 1390.

In the XVI-XVII centuries. Around the Trinity Suburb, ditches were dug, flooded with water, and earthen ramparts were poured.

At the same time, there was one of the tile production centers here. This is evidenced by fragments of tiles and molds for extruding designs found by archaeologists.

The houses were built of wood, and mostly middle-class people settled and lived in the suburbs - merchants and artisans, peasants and military men.

After a big fire in 1809, the Trinity Suburb acquired its current appearance - square blocks and streets intersecting at right angles.

Then, in the center of the suburb, Trinity Square (now the Parisian Commune Square) was developed, where markets were held every Sunday.

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

Many architectural elements such as gates, wrought iron fences and stairs were lost, and separate buildings and the interiors were restored from scratch.

Unfortunately, to this day only one block has been completely preserved, showing the typical buildings of the 19th century, but, nevertheless, people continue to live and work here.

What can you visit?

Despite the fact that the Trinity Suburb has long been a beloved place not only for the native residents of Minsk, but also for visitors, here, in addition to large tourist groups taking pictures against the backdrop of attractions or small houses, you can also see newlyweds.

In this corner of Minsk you can see interesting sculptures dedicated to famous personalities, stroll along small streets, along cobblestone roads, plunging into the 19th century.

Here you can see what old Minsk looked like then - with small houses-architectural monuments with high tiled roofs and colorful facades, and at the same time get acquainted with cultural heritage capital of Belarus.

Branch of the State Museum of the History of Theater and Musical Culture of Belarus “Vladislav Golubka’s Living Room”

Vladislav Golubka is one of the founders of the professional Belarusian theater. This museum has 10 exhibits and 1 exhibition hall. Often the museum hosts a large number of different events - from meetings with interesting people to musical evenings and conferences. There are also small interesting exhibitions here.

The museum is located on Muzykalny Lane, 5, open from 9:00 to 18:00, exposition - 10:00 to 17:00, tickets can be bought at the box office from 10:00 to 17:00. The museum is closed on Sunday.

On the first Saturday of every month, you can visit the museum for free.

Ticket price for adults is 15,000 Belarusian rubles.,

for students 10,000 Belarusian rubles,

for schoolchildren and vocational school students 8,000 Belarusian rubles.

Battle representation of 10,000 Belarusian rubles.

State Museum of the History of Belarusian Literature

The museum opened in 1991. Expositions and exhibitions are updated here very often, which reveal to visitors different aspects of the centuries-old history of Belarusian literature.

The museum is located on the street. Bogdanovicha, 13, open from 9:30 to 17:30 (the ticket office is open until 17:00), the museum is closed on Sunday.

Ticket price for adults is 3000 Belarusian rubles,

for pupils and students 2000 Belarusian rubles.

On the second Saturday of every month, you can visit the museum for free.

“Island of Tears” or “Island of Courage and Sorrow”

Near the Troitsky Suburb, near the very shore, you can see a small artificial artificial island, 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.

It was opened in 1993 on the centenary of the poet’s birth. The museum contains and preserves a collection of manuscripts, photographs and books related to the life and work of the poet. The museum has a permanent exhibition “The Life and Creative Path of Maxim Bogdanovich.”

The museum is located on M. Bogdanovich Street, building 7a, open from 10:00 to 18:00. Saturday and Sunday are days off.

The cost of tickets to the exhibition and exhibitions for adults is 2000 Belarusian rubles,

for schoolchildren and students - 1200 Belarusian rubles.

The museum can be visited for free on the last Sunday of the month.

Crafts galleries “Slavutasts” and “Slavutyya Masters”

And what is a trip without buying original souvenirs and exclusive gifts for relatives, friends or colleagues? Be sure to visit the “Slavutas” and “Slavutya Masters” craft galleries.

The galleries are located on the street. Bogdanovich, 21, 2nd floor and on Troitskaya embankment 6, respectively. There you can not only buy souvenirs, but also watch the work of masters and get acquainted with their best creations.

On weekdays, the galleries are open from 10:00 to 19:00, on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00.

Books and antiques store “Venok”

You can also visit the book and antiques store “Venok” so that, thanks to the interior of this store, you will find yourself in a typical bookstore of the 19th century, and at the Troitskaya pharmacy you will be surprised by a unique collection of books on medicine and pharmaceutical supplies of the 19th century.

If after long walks around the city and sightseeing you are tired and hungry, stop and rest.

In Trinity Suburb there are various coffee shops, cafes and restaurants with antique interiors, where your vacation can turn into another discovery.

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

Trinity Suburb on the map

How to get to Trinity Suburb
The best way is the metro - line 2, Nemiga station.

You can also take a bus (No. 24, 38,57,91,176e) and a trolleybus (No. 12, 29, 37, 40, 46, 53).

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