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Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya Church

A monastery has been operating in a clean pine forest near the village since 2000. In its very center stands a wooden temple, built in 1771. A shrine in the style of folk architecture with Baroque features has been erected. Perhaps it was originally a Uniate church. In 1868, the church was restored and rebuilt. At the end of the 19th century. A bell tower was installed near the church.

Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya Church

In 1859, a wooden eclectic-style Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior was built on the central square of the settlement. The tavern and synagogue buildings have been preserved. In 1825, the brick Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord was built in the classical style. It is worth seeing the unique interior of the temple.

Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya Church

This church was built in 1823 as a church. In 1866, he was re-consecrated to an Orthodox church. Today it is the Transfiguration Church of the Savior. The temple was built of brick in the classical style. A three-tiered brick bell tower of unusual design stands in front of the shrine. There is another stone bell tower nearby.

Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya Church

According to scant information, a wooden Uniate church once stood on this site. Perhaps the church was rebuilt in 1886, or the Transfiguration Church was rebuilt in its place. The shrine was built of wood in the style of folk architecture. Two small domes rise above the roof.

Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya Church

Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya Church

Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya Church

Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya Church

The temple was built in the style of folk architecture, presumably at the end of the XVIII century. It was originally Uniate. In 1848, the church was partially rebuilt. Perhaps it was then that a vestibule, a two-tiered bell tower of unusual design and a sacristy were added to the main volume. Today it is the Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior.

Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya Church

Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya Church

The settlement has been known since the middle of the 16th century as part of the Incl. Once it was partially surrounded by the forests of Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The ancient Transfiguration Church was built in the style of folk architecture with elements of classicism made of wood as a Uniate. Most likely, it was completed and handed over to the Orthodox Church after the uprising of 1863-1864. A wooden bell tower was erected nearby.

Spaso-Preobrazhensky Orthodox Church

In 1843, the Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour was built of brick in the style of late classicism. Napoleon Orda painted this shrine. This cross-shaped temple really immediately fascinates. It is worth walking through the quiet streets of the town and admiring its ancestral buildings (XIX century).

Spaso-Preobrazhensky Church

Spaso-Preobrazhensky Church

Since the 14th century. the estate belonged to the Narimontovich family. It was built in 1888. Spaso-Preobrazhensky Church. A brick shrine was erected in the retrospective Russian style. There is a museum in the wooden mansion of the early twentieth century. An interesting ancestral building. You can see the house of Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel.

Stankovo. Pavilion

A completely unnoticeable tributary separates the western island from the main massif of the Chapsky Manor Park. On the sloping shore of the island, descending to the calm waters of the pond, there is a gazebo-rotunda. Eight massive columns carry the dome, which may have been significantly modified over time. There is a magnificent wooden oak bridge and a pier. The feature film "Dubrovsky" was also shot here.

Stankovo. Library

Until 1880, one of the best private museums in Belarus, which belonged to the Chapsky family, needed additional rooms. In this regard, the library was built in the form of a miniature medieval castle. Twenty thousand unique books, a collection of coins, ancient weapons, a collection of dishes and icons were stored here. Part of the priceless national heritage was taken by the owners of the estate to Krakow in 1894. What remained was removed in 1916 and disappeared without a trace in the museum vaults of Moscow.

Stankovo. Gates

The roads entering the estate were decorated with entrance gates. One of them, located on the eastern side of the park, has been preserved. It consists of a main high arched passage and two side ones. The Chapsky family coat of arms was once displayed on the pediment of the middle arch. The temple was completed in a complex with a pseudo-Gothic brick gatehouse in 1886. The chapel-tomb of King Chapsky and his grandson, destroyed in 1961, was located nearby. The gate urgently needs conservation.

Stankovo. The Servants' Home

Chapsky Manor has been known since the end of the XV century. Initially, it belonged to the Dorogostostoysky family, the Radziwills. Since the middle of the XVIII century. - property of the Hutten-Chapsky family of counts. The palace was built in the 1960s and burned down by local partisans during World War II. Among the surviving buildings in their original form, you can see a house for servants. It is an L-shaped brick building built in a pseudo-Gothic style with an original disproportionately high crenellated pediment in 1900.

Stankovo. The Blacksmith Shop

Stankovo. Park

This unique green paradise stretches along the completely inconspicuous Rapusi River. Artificially created dams fill an oblong body of water with possibly also artificially created islands. The park itself originally consisted of about 500 species of trees and shrubs, brought here specifically from Europe and even America. The landscape park included greenhouses and greenhouses for breeding new seedlings and garden flowers. Fresh pineapples were even exported from here for sale. Although damaged by time, the park retains its charm today.

Stankovo. The barn

In a corner of the stone fence of the park area adjacent to the library and the manor yard, a solid barn building has been preserved in perfect condition. It was built of small fieldstone in 1897. The gables of the barn are stone, there are semi-buried basements. Until recently, it stood without a roof, in an abandoned state. Today, the barn has been restored and serves as a storage room.

Stankovo. The stable

Another building, which is part of the complex of household buildings erected on the territory of the Chapsky noble family in Stankovo, is a stable. The squat oblong building with low-set small windows is made of fieldstone. The window openings are decorated with brickwork, the corners are made of hewn stone squares. The stable was built at the very end of the 19th century. Today it houses a production facility.

Stankovo. The outhouse

It is unknown whether this wing was the only one attached to the Chapsky Palace or if there was another one parallel to it. This outbuilding, built in 1890 in the late classicism style of brick, has been preserved in excellent condition. This building was used as a kitchen wing and was connected to the palace by an underground passage, which may still be partially preserved today. The building has been restored and may well be used for household purposes.

Stankovo. Church

In 1868, a new brick Orthodox church in the retrospective Russian style, consecrated in honor of St. Michael, was built on the foundation of an older wooden Uniate church, known since the beginning of the 18th century. With the advent of Soviet power, the shrine was closed and completely looted, even to the point of melting down the domes, and in the early 1960s the temple was completely blown up. The church stood in ruins until 2011, after which it was restored and opened to the faithful.

Old Believers Assumption Church

An ancient postal station

On the M8 road leading from Mogilev to G G120 pamizh, between the villages of Sidorovichi and Palna, there is an old post office built of brick according to one of the standard projects in the 60s of the XIX century. The station was restored, but the original Art Nouveau window frames disappeared during the work.

Ancient Park

Starosemenovskoye cemetery: gates

The cemetery has no fence for a long time, but the ruins of the arched gate, built of brick at the end of the XIX century, have been preserved. It once had a low shaped pediment. Here you can see the funeral of another famous Vitebsk artist, Yudel Pan, Marc Chagall's teacher. A modest stele with a bust of the master is installed on the grave.

Starosemenovskoye cemetery: the grave of Yudel Pan

The estate

Originally, this building was one of the wings of the Butrimovich Palace, erected several years later than the palace itself. Since 1913, it has been the property of the county council. In the 1920s, an office for the restoration of the Dnieper-Bug Canal was located here. Today, a private restaurant operates in the renovated building. The former old house is located on Dneprovskaya Flotilla St., 33.

Old Castle: arch bridge