History and Mysticism of Ancient Smolensk

Tour or adventure? Both! Acquaintance with ancient history from pagan times to the present day!

On the banks of the Dnieper, originating in the Smolensk land, history itself comes to life - the memory of great battles, peaceful trade voyages, ancient crafts and the daily life of our ancestors.

The height of the Ascension Hill - it is higher even than the Cathedral Mountain - determined its fate. Smolyans - pagans held before the adoption of Christianity at the top of the rites at the temple, in the center of which was a statue of the god Perun.

By order of Prince Vladimir, who baptized Smolensk, pagan idols were thrown into the Dnieper, and on the site of the main Slavic god, the prince built the first Orthodox church in the city - St. Basil, the hill was called Vasilievsky.

Ascension Hill - by this name we know this area in our time - is a very controversial place, it can not be clearly defined - holy or dark. There's everything! The capital, the secret underground passages, the house of the Commune, the revered Orthodox churches and the holy spring of Mercury of Smolensk.