Places without which you can not imagine Smolensk. Walking tour of the historical center for 3 hours.

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Places without which you can not imagine Smolensk.

The historical center of the city - unique parks and squares, majestic monuments, magnificent noble and merchant houses and majestic walls of the Smolensk fortress.

Guests of Smolensk are attracted by the exquisite beauty of the Lopatinsky Garden - a wonderful green corner, on the territory of which almost the whole difficult history of Smolensk and Russia as a whole is reflected;

aristocracy of Blognier Park, with its legendary bronze deer and unique monument to M.I. Glinka;

The majesty of the Square of Memory to Heroes, in which since 1913 there is the famous "monument with eagles", where we will examine the alley of heroes, "Eternal Flame", next to which the Smolyan M. Egorov, who hoisted the banner of Victory over the Reichstag, is buried.

The Smolensk fortress, whose history is closely intertwined with the history of our state, and which is recognized as a monument of Russian architecture of the XVI-XVII centuries.

The Assumption Cathedral is a visiting card of Smolensk, it is recognizable and unique, permeated with the spirit of eleven centuries, each of which left its mark in its history. Cultural layers of the IX century were found on the Cathedral Hill, here in 1101 Vladimir Monomakh built the first stone cathedral in the city, and from the 12th century Cathedral Mountain was forever transferred to the Church.

During the tour you will:

Walk through the Lopatinsky Garden - a corner of the heroic history of Smolensk near the walls of the fortress wall, inspect the defensive ramparts and entrances to the dungeons of the Royal Bastion;

You will see the monument to the defenders of Smolensk on August 4-5, 1812, which was the first monument in honor of the Patriotic War of 1812 in Smolensk, which was opened on the day of the 29th anniversary of the liberation of the city from the French conquerors - November 5, 1841;

monument to the Sophia Regiment, which was created and opened in 1912, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812, and is dedicated to the memory of the participation of the Sofia Infantry Regiment in the Smolensk battle;

The grave of Russian general Anton Skalon, who died during the Battle of Smolensk, on August 5, 1812. By order of Napoleon, Scalon was buried by the French with all military honors. Napoleon personally attended the funeral at the Royal Bastion.

fragments of the Smolensk fortress, built in 1595-1602. with towers Thunder, Bublika and Kopychenskaya.

In 1596, the construction of the Smolensk fortress wall began, and from the first day until the completion of the construction of this unique structure, it was supervised by Boris Godunov.

It was he who laid the first stone at the base of the Thunder Tower, and according to legend, also walled up the skull of the horse of St. Mercury. It was believed that when a threat appears over the fortress wall, horse rumbling will be heard.

In fairness, a century and a half since the construction of the wall, the rust should have been spread almost continuously.

Monument to the Governor Alexander Grigorievich Lopatin, by order of which in 1874 a garden was created on the site of the former Royal Fortress, later named after him.

In the Lopatinsky Garden, the memory of the “iron mask” is alive – the deposed emperor Ioann Antonovich, Iskra and Kochubey, languishing in terrible casemates, the central entrances to which to this day are guarded by two stone lions.

Monuments, guns, the Royal Bastion, serf casemates – and here the amusement park, romantic arbors – in Smolensk, the connection of times is felt always and everywhere.

You will take a walk through the ancient streets and alleys that have preserved the buildings of the times of the Russian Empire.

You will see the majestic building of the former Noble Assembly, which is the best monument of classicism in Smolensk, as well as one of the best examples of provincial noble buildings;

the famous house of the merchant Budnikov with the ancient coat of arms of Smolensk, which depicts a wingless bird Gamayun, which in the time of Catherine the Great was replaced by a bird of paradise;

the former town hall and mansion of the chamber-junker and the mayor of Smolensk A. P. Engelhardt, built in 1879. The house is considered the best in the Smolensk region architectural structure of the eclectic period, stylized under the baroque;

The famous “house with a clock”, from the end of the XIX century adorning the building of the former hotel “European” at the main intersection of the city, where guests of the city stayed – from Chaliapin and Mayakovsky to V.I. Lenin;

The oldest of the surviving civil buildings of Smolensk - a small, tiled house was built in the first half of the XVII century.

and other buildings and structures that have witnessed many important events in the life of the city.

You will visit the bottom of one of the most famous places in Smolensk - a park on Dzerzhinsky Street, which is called the Park of the Memory of Heroes.

The visiting card of the Heroes Park is the “Monument with Eagles”, which is considered the best in Russia of those dedicated to heroes of 1812. Before you come to life difficult pages of the history of Smolensk.

We will walk through the Park with a story about the events of the two Patriotic Wars (1812 and 1941-45).

We will examine the monument with eagles, the alley of heroes, commemorative tablets, a monument to the partisans of 1812, a memorial burial in the fortress wall, steles with the names of the heroes-Smolians, “Eternal Flame”, next to which the Smolian M. Egorov, who hoisted the banner of Victory over the Reichstag, is buried.

A walk through the historical center of Smolensk will take us to one of the most beautiful places of our city - the park "Blonje", in 1830, converted from a parade ground, built on the instructions of Catherine II, into a garden by order of Emperor Nicholas I.

In Blognier Park there are two favorite Smolensk monuments.

In 1885, the grand opening of the monument to composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, a native of the Smolensk province, took place here. The monument is surrounded by an openwork grille in the form of a musical column, on which excerpts from Glinka’s works are read.

The second monument is a bronze deer, made in 1910 at the direction of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, already as a trophy was delivered to Smolensk from the estate of Goering in Koenigsberg.

This deer was brought as a gift to Smolensk children. There is not a child who has not sat on a lion, and not a single adult who has not been photographed with a deer!

We're going down the street. Large Soviet, which called Molokhovskaya appeared in Smolensk on the direct instructions of Peter the Great, to expand the carriageway of the Old Smolensk road, which ran directly through the city.

Most of the houses are historical buildings of the XIX - early XX centuries, along the way we will see the place of the former town hall and the complex of the Trinity Monastery of the early 18th century - the oldest building on the street.

And finally, the symbol of Smolensk is the Assumption Cathedral, which survived two wars: Patriotic 1812 (by order of Napoleon in the cathedral was exhibited security) and the Great Patriotic 1941-45. He survived the period of the “war with the temples” in the 20-30s of the last century – an anti-religious museum was opened in the temple.

And now the cathedral is not only the main temple of the Smolensk diocese, but also the most famous tourist attraction of the city. At the beginning of the 18th century, it was the largest building in Russia - 80 meters high, an area of more than 2000 square meters.

The greatness of the iconostasis of the temple is striking – a 30-meter five-tier carved gilded, decorated with a large number of wooden sculptures; you will not find anything like this in other Russian lands.

In the temple there are three Orthodox shrines, the fame of which goes far beyond the boundaries of the Smolensk land: the sandals of St. Mercury (XIII century), a gold woven shroud of workshops of kn. Euphrosyne Staritskaya (1561) and, of course, the miraculous image of the Icon of the Smolensk Mother of God “Odigitria” (XVI century).