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if history had turned out differently, then as a result of the first world war, this city would probably have received an order or an honorary title, many celebrities

from emperors to writers have visited here, but few people know about it, i’m talking about smargon. smargon is a city in the history of which there was everything, in search of the lost: smargon bagels, zhodishki, like i was bylnikov, the most natural thing in belarus, how the famous smargon ice cream is made, an estate outside the forest, a meeting with oginsky, the city of smargon is small and considerable, an ordinary regional center with a population slightly less than 40,000 people, clean, cozy, slightly lazy... in terms of pace, even when

compared with regional centers, not to mention the capital. smargon is a very modern city, look how convenient it is, solar panels and the ability to charge your gadget. in terms of architecture, smargon does not claim to be an open-air reserve museum, but the curious traveler will find something to see. i'm not into religious tourism, but to be honest, the temple looks incredible in the sun. what you absolutely must see in smargon is the church of st. michael the archangel. it was built in 1606, but it is believed that 50 years earlier. the ancestors were a bit difficult with bureaucracy. at first it was a calvinist gathering, that is, a protestant temple. in the 17th century , calvinism was a very popular denomination among aristocrats and townspeople of the grand duchy of lithuania. of course, after all, the calvinists called for taking away and dividing the land and other property of the catholic church. by the way, remember, in three. which was defended by the huguenots,

so these are the calvinists. calvinism experienced a stormy but short dawn in the lands of the principality; already in 1617 the church was catholic. previously, the church looked different, this tower was a three-story tower with a huge clock on it, but there were two columns, in which church books were kept. by the way, the temple was an almost exact copy of the church of st. vitaly in italy. and in fact, if you look. the similarities are visible, unfortunately, at one time the temple was almost destroyed; this happened not in the crucible of the revolution or the intensity of the fight against religion, but during first world war. to be honest, i know little about the first world war, but here in the memorial the front line, which passed in the smargoni area, is quite clearly shown. there is no place in belarus more suitable for a world war i memorial than smargon. she came here in 1915. on september 14

, the entire population of the city was evacuated in 3 hours , and the battle began. the most brutal battles with the germans took place here. at that time, soldiers said that anyone who had not been to smargon had never seen war. first. russian gas attack armies, flights of the famous bombers ilya muromets, underground war and the battle of the women's death battle of maria bochkareva. all this happened in the smargoni region, the city was called the russian verdan, and verdan is one of the bloodiest battles of the great war in principle. it is still unknown exactly how many soldiers passed through these places, and the germans and russians were constantly changing physically and mentally exhausted units, there are only approximate estimates, smargon at one time was the writers zoshchenko and kataev, future marshals malinovsky and shaposhnikov, and even tolstoy’s daughter alexander, the fighting died down in 1917, the city was destroyed and burned, out of 1600 evacuated residents 130 people returned,

it is not surprising that another name for smargon in the press of that time was a dead city, every war brings grief, destruction death. now the city has grown and houses stand on the sites of former positions. you can see in the memorial how the front line went, estimate the situation on a modern map and take a ride. you will probably come across some kind of pillbox. beautiful group stands right next to the road in the south of the city. concrete structures are always german; the army of the russian empire did not build such structures for ideological reasons. they say we are on our own land, and the presence of the germans is temporary difficulties. we'll drive them away soon, there's no point in digging in for too long. there are many similar buildings in the smargon region, if you are a lover of military history, take a look, it’s interesting. they were not built according to standard designs, there are continuous miracles of improvisation, many different solutions, but if you go into the forest, you can

stumble upon old trenches or something very similar to them. smargon was wiped off the face of the earth at the beginning of the 20th century. now, from its appearance, it is difficult to suspect that the city is more than 500 years old. and in its past there are several amazing stories: at the zero kilometer of smargonya, from where the paths go to all directions of the world, perhaps there is not enough indicator of one direction associated with the history of the city, to paris, all because it was in smargonya in 182 that napoleon left his army went home to france. it happened on december 5, the event left its mark on world history and painting. napoleon's departure many paintings are dedicated to ismaroni. offspring. soldiers of the abandoned army wrote memoirs in which one unusual institution was often mentioned: there used to be a higher educational institution in smargon, known at least throughout europe: an academy, but not for people, but for bears. it appeared in the 16th century, either at the beginning or in the middle.

bears were caught for her in local forests, and there were also imported ones. but they trained the bears at the academy, to put it mildly, they put laptis on their hind legs very harshly, in an iron cage, under which a fire was made, the cage got hot, the bear was forced to get up and shift from foot to foot, and when the musicians appeared around, it turned out to be a cheerful dance. the smargon academy closed after a decree of the russian senate in 1870, which banned bear comedy. today it is not even known where exactly it was located and what it looked like. all that remains are the memories of contemporaries, and a monument in the city park. in general, the monument is not entirely historically accurate, because there should have been a ring in the bear’s nose, although such a version is possible more humane. the fact is that dancing on their hind legs is the first trick that bears were taught, after which they inserted a ring into their nose and sent them to work, and in general there were

several stages of training. another smargon legend is associated with the bear academy: smargon bagels or obarankas, they are also ovarankas, one of the... versions says that they were invented by bear leashes to take on the road, but nowhere in smargon did i come across them, the bagels were very different , but no obaraankas, have you heard anything about smargon obaraankas? seriously, where are they where? is it possible to buy them? cook, maybe the old lady is there, at the bakery, is it there? yes, i'll go there. children's curiosity and genuine interest. can you tell us about your very first experience as a conductor? is success luck or hard work? it's luck. why does an orchestra need a conductor if the musicians

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. to solve the mystery of the steering wheel, we had to hit the road. not far from smargon there is a bread museum, they should definitely know how are they prepared and what are they eaten with? but it was no coincidence that i stopped by the agricultural town of zhodishki, because it is here that almost the only still working water mill in our country is located, which was built already in the 16th century, i want to see it , it is clear that from that mill, the end from the 16th century , only the stone part has survived, but that’s not bad, otherwise it could have happened like with the second one, which stood a couple of tens of meters away. unfortunately, this mill has not survived to this day, but the waterfall is... what a beautiful one, the mill in zhodishki has its own

the caretaker who knows how everything works here and where, what lies, his name is vladislav tsikota, and meet the keeper of the mill, vladislav, good afternoon, good day, the fact that the mill is still working is partly due to your hands , tell us about it, well, the copper mill was created in 1871, 20 years ago, 23 years ago, we restored , the restoration went on for a whole year, well, within a year, in short, it would have been easier to create a new mill, no, well, of course, this is history, this is history, so, well, within a year we launched it, that is as far as i understand, everything in this mill has been preserved, it works exactly the same as many centuries ago, absolutely, like in the other half of the 19th century, the yana was already running from the turbine, initially there was a wood-burning cola, there was a vonka , but centuries ago, turbines appeared and we started with a turbine. how many of these

mills are there in belarus? you know, somewhere more than 100, more than 100 , but it works, it works alone, you can imagine how valuable it is to get into the assholes, now there is a museum in the restored mill, here you can see different things, but the main focus exposure to everything related to bread was not changed by this technology. more than 1000 years ago, just as grain was ground in the 9th century, these millstones were used 50 years ago , the most important exhibit of the museum is the mill itself , there are about a hundred similar ones in belarus, but this is the only one that works, i couldn’t miss the opportunity to try on the profession of a miller , vladislav, we have a mill in the attic and, to be honest, it’s floating like in a bathhouse, just a little, but where does the mill begin? and the grain, that is, we raise it to the very top, shoot it on top, well

, look, there are modern technologies here, electric lift, you want to say that this is something that has happened since ancient times in belarus, we have electricity, we have a water mill, that is, this is an option of electricity, this is electric, then electricity will appear, just as they raised it with water, well, let’s raise it first, let’s let's lift it, it's also a whole technology, look, it's so simple here , let's go take a look, an electric lift is good, of course, but being at a water mill, i really want to see how they used water... to raise grain, well, here we go the side was raised like this, which means there was no electricity, here’s the mechanism, the showpass is here, the groove is in the basement, naturally, the turbine was still working and there was a hole here, the platform from the basement is also from the basement, great, very interesting, in general i want to tell you, there is

the millers have some kind of romance, here we are now on the roof, it’s raining heavily in the attic, it’s all very audible to be here... the rest was short, under the leadership of vladislav i continued to slowly become a miller, i’ll fill up the box, it’ll attack, and then we’ll turn it on we put a turbine like this, good, cool, but it’s nice, and wheat, throughout the 200 years of its history, the mill has been improved, even the grinding method has changed several times, at the beginning the millstone rotated the water wheel, in the 19th century it... or to the turbine, then the mill became electric, now it works again on water power, inside it is a bizarre mixture of technology from the middle ages to the present, wow , this is a mechanism, this is our turbine, such a turbine yes, he knows what depth it is at, he is 4 from the edge water, here's bachytse,

what is it that clicks, the teeth are craggy, that is, the wheel is cast iron, the stake is cast iron. but the teeth are bad and what is the service life of these teeth? we've been grinding for 9 years, grinding for 9 years, but there was one case where the teeth flew off, so they changed it once, that's great, well, let me guess what they're made of, it's probably a strong oak, no, you're welcome , oak is a stubborn tree, it will break quickly, and this is done, birch will either work, or maple, as long as it’s alive it’s more viscous, that’s how to start a turbine, let’s go. that's where our sweetheart is, of course, let's go, oh, well i already like this work, at least somewhere physical labor needs to be used , so i understand that this is our gate, where we are now , which we open, water will flow, the turbine is working, and the crowbar is here for a reason, let’s put it here, put it higher here,

higher, we open, and that up, up, up , i he... i’ll say that we need to offer heroic efforts, oh , that’s enough, well, volodya, look, look, the stones are already spinning, we started the turbine, yes, yes, the turbine launched, yes, the stones are spinning, wait, it’s a millstone, that’s right, a millstone, yes, look, you can launch it, we start the grain, he went and helped, the technology somehow changed over several centuries, that is, the millstones were spun in exactly the same way, the grain poured out, it was ground, good, but how to determine the grind, coarse or fine, we have a window here, look, here is the window , we open and observe the grinding, that’s rough,

let me look, look, look, look, well, apparently, the grinding is quite good. it’s a bit dull, but you can make it smaller, of course, of course, let’s go, there’s a mechanism over there, on the other side, with the help of this thing, the gap between the millstones is adjusted, grinding changes from very coarse to fine for pancake flour, so a water mill is a flexible production, wow, i wonder how, what is it, is it a crane, remove a stone, here is one person, here is this elementary, and that is, we take grinders, raise, or lower, millstone holes. i press one person, that is, with the help of this crane, one person can lift a huge stone, and how much does it weigh, well, somewhere around a ton, the power of the belarusian millers, this is the old one, the old one is still there, who saw the millstone from the mill, he will understand why the millers who raised it alone were previously considered sorcerers; those who have not seen

it can look in the zhodishki, there are also a couple of turbines in the yard, one from tsarist times. to get the finished flour you need to go down to the lower floor of the mill, the operation of the mechanism is a powerful spectacle, of course, here is the last operation - pouring flour into the bag, the last confident movement and the flour is quite finely ground in my opinion, yes of course, of course. well, it turned out good, good, excellent flour, and is it possible to bake the famous smargon oboranki from this flour? i have no idea, you don’t know what it is , so i don’t know, the curator of the museum said that he often looked at him for the recipe for these bagels, but he doesn’t have it, no one has it, there is even an opinion that smargon bagels are not at all there weren’t, but there were smargon bagels, this is a dish

of jewish cuisine, the recipe of which is suspiciously similar to what is known about abaranki, shape, choux pastry, poppy seed topping, that’s all. at a time when the glory of smargon bagels thundered throughout the empire, 3/4 population of the city, these were jews , so why not, by the way, a well-promoted brand is disappearing, people know that argon is the birthplace of bagels, they want to try them, they will buy them with pleasure, but no one is selling, the city is still waiting for someone who will return him a legend. as for the zhodishki , it makes sense to stay here, there is something to see, besides the mill, there were about 90 kalinist churches in belarus, there are a few left, one of them is behind me. the current church of the holy trinity was built at the same time as the calvinist church of smargon gathering, but the community stayed here a little longer. the last calvinists left zhodishki at the beginning of the 16th century, then the temple was handed over to catholics. when the calvinist gathering became a church, not only the denomination changed, but also the architecture itself, because the passage had previously been

here. then, at the beginning of the 20th century, the temple was slightly rebuilt, and it took the shape of a cross. and before that it was exactly like the same former calvinist gathering in zaslavl. the temple was damaged during the first world war. the tower was destroyed, they say that during the soviet-polish war the church was inhabited by an army man with a machine gun, he had the hope that the poles would not dare to shoot at the temple, but it did not materialize, the church was fired at from cannons , after which it had to be restored, and now metal ties are visible on the walls, a little further down the street stands the residence of the persecutors of local calvinists, a collegium jesuits. they did not have to enjoy the victory for long, at the end of the 16th century the order was banned, the empty collegium was converted into an estate by local owners, there is a legend associated with this building, usually, where there is a collegium, there is a church, in zhodiski there is none, and they say that this happened because the devils threw all

the moons prepared for the foundation into the river in one night, now it may not be possible to go and see the clinic here , by the way, there is a curious monument in the courtyard, a bust of the neurophysiologist pavlov on the pedestal of the pelsudsky monument, cyber sports tournaments, they collect hundreds of thousands of viewers around the world. there are players who play for heroes who are very good in defense, there are generally supports who help defense and attack, move forward along the map, as if destroying the enemy, so this game, it fantasy, that is, there is a lot of fantasy, there is a lot there, i don’t know, there are stories there, mixed lord of the ring there and a bunch of different heroes, he is one of the first people who believed in the development... of e-sports when the presence of a computer in the house was the exception rather than the norm. and

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awaits you in the weekly project ether 24.7. watch on the belarus-24 tv channel. before . the place where mikhail kleofas oginsky lived, whom most people remember as a composer, but in fact oginsky had a very rich and interesting life, he was a talented politician, military man, writer, but became famous thanks to polonaise, who by the way wrote in this estate . zales is a beautiful place, but it’s truly impressive when you know the biography of mikhail oginsky. he was born in a completely different place, on the guzov estate near warsaw, at that time his forest did not belong to the family; he ended up here after a completely dizzying chain of events.

mikhail was a representative of the youth of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth, to put it mildly, and to be honest, a major one. his mouth was considered one of the richest and most influential in the principality of lithuania. mikhail’s great-grandfather served as governor of vitebsk, his grandfather’s father headed the troks voivodeship. and my uncle was the great hetman of lithuania. at the age of 20 , agininsky became a deputy of the seimas, dealt with finances, went as ambassador to the netherlands and did much more. in general, he led an elite image life, which ended after... kosciuszka, it was defeated, a reward was placed on aginsky’s head and he left for europe. in general, i really like oginsky’s personality, he was a real rebel, he didn’t sit still, he was constantly looking for adventures on his own, you know, he was looking for adventures. the prince had a hard time abroad , he spent his money on the uprising, the lands were confiscated by the tsarist government, his wife could not stand

the hardships and... aginsky changed names and went into hiding until emperor alexander ii in 1802 declared an amnesty for the kosciuszka participants. mikhail returns, becomes his uncle's guardian and settles in one of his estates. this was the forest. he doesn't like the old house, and he builds a new one, this very one. oginsky’s second wife was italian, so it’s easy to guess why the estate is so reminiscent of an italian villa. zalesye was called northern athens. a brilliant society gathered here in the provinces. scientists, officials, politicians from vilna st. petersburg , together with local noble landowners, discussed deep issues. surprisingly agininsky managed to return to politics. he became an advisor to alexander ii. and a senator of the russian empire. in 1823, mikhail left his homeland and moved to florence. his health had deteriorated and could not withstand the local

climate, they say, most likely, it was then. wrote his famous polones farewell to his homeland, he inherited the forest from his son irineus, but did not live here, he gave the estate for rent, the palace began to fall into disrepair, it changed owners for a long time, until the museum was now restored here. well and now about the tourist amenities, if you want to visit the oginsky estate, stay overnight, you can stay in the estate itself, these are all hotel rooms, or in the agricultural estate nearby, the choice is huge, after the forest i returned to smargon, here i had one last thing to do, the main thing is why i came here, i look like a very large ice cream, and for good reason, right now i will tell you how the most

delicious ice cream in the world is produced. smargonsky plombir is regularly included in various tops and recommendations from the category of what must be done in belarus. well, ice cream starts with milk. these huge tanks receive about 80 tons of it during the day. by the way, an interesting fact: from one ton of milk you can get 1,200 kg of ice cream. then the milk is normalized, that is, the fat content is leveled to the required level, because this indicator varies in milk straight from cows. in a wide range, this is a clarification for city dwellers who have never drank heavily in their lives. next, the milk is pasteurized, by the way, do you know what this is? this is a sharp heating of milk to 89° cooling. in this mode everyone dies harmful bacteria. ice cream production is not a very spectacular process; modern equipment is designed so that nothing affects the product. here they believe that the less they touch it with their hands, the better. and in

this tank there is a mixture for ice cream. here comes already pasteurized milk, to which the necessary ingredients are added, but no harmful additives, only starch , sugar, cream, even vanilla flavoring is not added, which is generally found in any ice cream except smargonsky, because this substance, although absolutely harmless and even very pleasant to the taste, but still synthetic. well, then, our ice cream should ripen, just like cheese, this happens within 12 hours,