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Belarus. Vishnevo, Desyatniki, Bogdanovo

 

Three small villages in Minsk oblast on the road from Volozhin to Golshany.

 

Vishnevo

A birthplace of Shimon Peres, the former prime minister and the president of Israel. He was lucky to emigrate to Palestine in 1930s, the rest of Jewish population of Vishnevo were burnt alive by the Nazis in the local synagogue. Unlike Jewish, Christian monuments remained. First, the catholic Church of the Virgin Mary with an interesting belfry.

 

1424 - is the date of construction of the first wooden church. The current structure dates built in 17th-18th centuries.

 

And the belfry is even later.

 

Its handrails are made of rails.

 

The orthodox Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian (1865), partly built of natural stone.

 

The stork does not want to be photographed.

 

Desyatniki

A neighboring village with a WWI cemetery. German, Russian, Austrian, and Hungarian soldiers are buried here together.

 

The inscriptions are unreadable.

 

A monument with an eagle on top.

 

As far as I understood the cemetery was laid by the Poles in 1922, but for some reason the year 1916 is embossed on the monument, and the Polish leveling mark was already screwed into the finished structure.

 

The advertisement of the local cafe on the bus stop. It offers the free dinner for those who will take their girlfriend, his wife and his concubine simultaneously.

 

Bogdanovo

Next village with the Church of the Archangel Michael. It was consecrated in 1999, and looks weird.

 

Archangel himself.

 

Getting in (as of June 2022): the road from Volozhin to Golshany is partially unpaved but tolerable.

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