Walk through the Officers' Settlement. Secrets of the Devil's Moat, legends of the Smolensk fortress and much more.

The cost is indicated from ...; per tour, depends on the season and the number of people.

2-hour walking tour of "non-tourist places" and the eastern section of the Smolensk fortress.

Family tour for adults and children with parents.

Damn moat and Officers' Sloboda.

The history of Smolensk and a corner of primitive nature in the city center, which is 10 times older than the city itself.

During the tour, we will walk through the former Officer's Sloboda - the territory between the fortress wall and the Devil's ravine, on which military and nobles, merchants and robbers coexisted since the 18th century.

Take a look at the lost world of the Ice Age.

During the trip to "non-tourist" places you will get acquainted with the Devil's Moat. This is a corner of primitive nature in the heart of the city, which is 10 times older than the city itself.

You will learn Smolensk secrets, amazing events, mystical and criminal stories from the life of our city.

In Smolensk, to get back 10,000 years, just look down 50 meters from the main street.

During the tour, we will see the Devil’s ravine shrouded in secrets and legends, which owes its origin to the Ice Age, and the impression that the ravine has not changed much since then.

Running on the bottom of the stream, which was a river a long time ago; huge stones – messengers of the last glacier of ancient times – the “lost world” of our ancient city is literally fascinating.

The ovary remembers all the events of the Smolensk history - the ancient pier of the way "from the Varangians to the Greeks" on Rachevka,

Underground passages of the defenders of the city and its invaders,

shelter of tar from bombing in the Great Patriotic War ...

Most of the legends of the Devil's Ditch are related to belief in treasures.

But the "main legend" of the ravine can be called a true criminal story of the 18th century - about ghosts - counterfeiters in the dungeon of the Eagle Tower, a windy merchant, a deceived wife and scammer Count Zmeyavsky ...

One of the Smolensk settlements was called Officer - between the fortress wall and the Devil's ravine were military settlements, which gave the name to the area, which began to be actively settled in the second half of the 18th century.

Walking through the streets of the former Officers’ Sloboda, you will learn about the Upper Nikolsky Church, built in 1794-1796 by the diligence of I.V. Leslie and became not only a spiritual, but also an educational center;

about the first theater, called the "Opera House", arranged for the arrival of the "high guests" in 1780 - Empress Catherine II and Count Falkenstein (under this name the Roman Emperor Joseph II traveled);

about the largest brick factory in Smolensk Zhilinsky and Koreev, founded in 1890;

and tram on the route "Station" - "Nikolsky Gate" ("Officer's Sloboda"), launched in 1901.

You will see the house where lived after the liberation of the city from the Nazis "founders of the Smolensk poetic school" and "pillars of Soviet poetry" A. Tvardovsky and N. Rylenkov;

school where Edward Hill studied;

And the first in Smolensk "elite house" of the new era in the old water tower.

We will find a monument to F. E. Dzerzhinsky, preserved to this day;

"strange house" with a balcony, which has no exit, nicknamed by the Smolensk "Balcony Ja"

And the second house with lions, which most Smolenskans do not know.

We will visit the street, before the revolution bore the name of the ancient family of "Russian Scots" Leslie, we will talk about the Leslie brothers, who in 1812, even before the Emperor called for the convening of a people's militia, put forward the idea of militia detachments.

They formed a detachment of the Leslie brothers, later joined the regular troops, who met the “Great Army” near the town of Red.

We will walk along the eastern section of the Smolensk fortress, see the Nikolsky Gate Tower and unravel its secret.

I will tell the story of the tower and the story of the gate icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker - fortunately, it is again installed above the gate.

We will visit the Avramievsky monastery of the 13th century Those who wish will be able to visit the Transfiguration Cathedral.

The history of the monastery and the history of our city are inextricably intertwined - both in war and in peacetime.

In the Transfiguration Cathedral, venerable icons are kept with particles of the relics of Smolensk and all-church saints, and outside above the altar window of the Transfiguration Cathedral, I will show you a cannonball protruding from the wall, unexploded in 1812.

We will see the Voronin Towers, the Zaaltar Gate, the Abrahamic Gate – I will tell you about the heroic history of the Smolensk fortress, about its fate in peacetime.

And, of course, urban legends, which are especially rich in the eastern part of the city.