and in general, leave the boy alone, mom , yes, yes, mom, these are not boots for you, yes, alyusha would never allow herself to do this, well , in vain, but you see how quickly i, uh, broke up the group. no need, lyosh, i know everything, okay, but what next? i want only one thing, to always see my son. and i am a grandson.

he gets such a look as young people say: wow, look, the church, look, it’s from the 15th century, look at the town hall, the fact that we don’t have many town halls in belarus, look at the castle, look at the interesting architectural decisions, what streets, when a person gets here, he sees his history, sees the history of his country, his people, this... through the prism

of nesizh is superimposed on the whole country. i, aleksey mikhailovich budnik, head of the sector for scientific excursion work, palace ensemble, national historical and cultural museum of the nesvish nature reserve.

i myself am a resident of the city of nesvezh, so i mostly get to work on foot. the places around our castle are very picturesque, this is the linden alley planted in 1878, these are historical monuments, that’s when you walk along these alleys, in your mind there are historical figures who lived and worked here, and you, to some extent, also imagine that you, too, are a participant in these historical events, what. perhaps you can see how the castle was founded, how these parks were laid out in the 19th century, how it was rebuilt in the 15th century as a palace. you feel that you are transported in time, from the 21st century you find yourself in the 15th, 16th, 16th centuries.

16 years old, the museum does not have days off, we have only one day off - january 1st, all other days the doors are open to accept everyone. usually by 8 or 9 am i arrive at the site and remove its alarms, because this is security. the office of all the staff is located in the castle, my office is located right behind the women’s quarters , we are well settled next to the princess’s chambers, i

have an extra couple of pairs of shoes, some suits, we all move around, because there are certain norms and requirements. being in museum exhibitions, we have preserved the original floor, even where the floor is not original, it is still parquet, half a million a year at 400,000 , which will pass, in how many years, how quickly this parquet will become unusable, and close the lock every year in order to change the parquet, so it was decided that it is used all over the world, these are shoe covers, put on, walked through the museum, took it off, threw it away, then please, you can leave them as a souvenir, because they are also a small souvenir, i am subordinate... there are about 60 people, these are caretakers, museum inspectors, ticket inspectors, these are janitors, these are workers, those responsible for clearing, cleanliness, and watchmen, workers come, who

cleans, who is in charge, they receive a task, everyone has their own area assigned, which they clean, preparation begins. the facility an hour before opening to receive visitors , hello, please look who will clean the theater arsenal, cleans, yes, the caretakers arrive an hour later, other team members arrive, who are already faced with a different task, they each get their own rooms, we we describe who is in which room, who is responsible for this room. at the moment, we have 28 people working in the museum. caretakers, this is quite a responsible job and very hard, although at first glance, it seems like a person is standing,

doing nothing, everyone thinks so from the outside, but our employee must be attentive and not be distracted by anything. our visitors need to be looked after eye to eye, they really love to disrupt our order, they love to touch, of course, knock, if it were possible, they would try everything with us, but that’s why we have caretakers, they are responsible for those values that are in the halls because it is large sums, one of the expensive things that we have is a bedroom set. in the women's half, 15 items are the personal belongings of konstantin radevil, one of the representatives of the family, and we bought them and displayed them here, it cost about $2,000 to buy. the basic rules for museum visitors are not to walk on carpets,

not to sit on expensive furniture, and not to breathe on masterpieces. logs are kept, where first, upon arriving in the hall, the caretaker counts the main objects, writes down that everything matches, because people are not standing here all your life, for example, people change, today you stand in one room, tomorrow in another, the day after tomorrow in a third, and he just checks in the morning and reports whether everything is in place, if god forbid, something like this hasn’t happened yet, it ’s missing, he must report, after that he measures the temperature and humidity several times during the day, also writes down a special log, this is our hygrometer, it measures the temperature and humidity, and if the temperature and humidity does not meet

the standards, it begins to rise or fall, then we have special or dehumidifiers or humidifiers, or air conditioners. conditions are created depending on what kind of objects, because , for example, for paper this is one thing, for metal another, there are some average temperatures, for very... valuable exhibits, which are not always in ideal condition of the object, we create additional conditions , that is, they buy display cases with special climate control, which can be adjusted, for example, in the hall the temperature was 17-18°, the humidity was 50, but the item needs either more or less humidity, special display cases, which support climate control, armor is presented, and... this is the original redilovsky armor, fragments discovered here during restoration, due to

the origin of some time, the thing requires either restoration or removal and examination, what condition it is in, because the carpet is 20 it can’t hang on the wall for years without being replaced, it needs to be removed and checked to see what its condition is, if restoration is necessary. the restoration department was founded in 2011, currently there are three employees working here, each of them specializes in certain materials, such as metal, wood and paper. we ourselves select items from the funds that need conservation or restoration. yes, and then at the restoration council we discuss the necessary measures, well

, these are various things that were purchased by the museum, there may also be items received from collectors, they also require restoration, there are many fans of the rodivilov family, not only in belarus, who are looking for objects, who help there in some way,

e curiosity and genuine interest. everyone hello, in exactly a minute a hero will come to us who will answer everything. absolute honesty and sincere emotions of the characters. when i enter the stage, i know roughly what awaits me; here i am completely in the dark. i am very worried and worried. is it like being nervous before going on stage? yes, a talk show in which famous people answer tricky questions. the younger generation, can you break a glass with your voice? no, no, it’s probably possible

to make a glass that will break at the sound of my voice, but so far i haven’t seen anything like that, let’s put it this way. irina, you are lucky in love? did you manage to meet your prince? oh, of course, i’m lucky, of course, i’m lucky, i just wasn’t lucky for a long time, for some reason, look at the project. questions to an adult on the belarus 24 tv channel. on average, 42,000 people visit the museum per year, this

is an arbitrary figure, because we can only count those who bought tickets to the castle or to some of our other objects, people, many come just to take a walk in the parks , just walk around the city, enjoy, it is possible that even up to half a million people a year can carry, if more of them come, this complex is unique for us, for our history, there are not many such complexes left. if we mention the history of the castle itself and nesizh, it is very similar to the family of radivils; the radivils began to own nesizh only in the early 19th century. centuries, the family tried to invest money here, nesvish gets its own stone castle. you and i are on the balcony of the central facade of the palace, the favorite place of the radivil family, old

historical photographs showed that the family loved to gather here and drink tea. discuss some issues in the silence of the walls, well here we can also travel a little in time, look at this beautiful panorama and remember that the building itself, it was built in different centuries, there is a mixture of styles, the birthplaces themselves changed their static interior, not everything has been preserved from the 15th century, but we can see things both xvi and xix early xx centuries, now it is a nationalized object. it is a nationalized museum, from 39 to 90 years no one was born here, the soviet union was a closed country. for a long time after the war there was a sanatorium in the castle, the question that was brewing was that the building was deteriorating, even repairs were required, there were virtually no museum values ​​left except for the static interiors. here in

this exhibition there are documents that tell how the state is. i began to explore the castle, with the goal of closing the sanatorium and eventually creating a museum here. in 2005, professional restoration of this castle began, mainly belarusian restorers worked, but foreign experts were invited somewhere for consultations on certain narrow issues. in 2005 another significant event is taking place for belarus and for

all the objects that are stored in the museum, both i and my employees, as well as the heads of the foundations, are responsible for them. total. the museum-reserve houses 7,480 museum items, of which 30% are on display, these are the most valuable items, some of the funds are located directly in the castle itself, some of the funds are located, where are the most valuable in the office offer, we have very large funds located at

territory that we inherited after the military unit, where there is specialized a building with... special safes, with closed doors, where items are stored. we try to store metal products separately according to the material, separate from ceramic products, fabrics, separate storage, since they require a special temperature and humidity regime, and we need control over the preservation of the item. this is a clock, an 18th century clock, with a cut-out case. made in the german empire, now they are not in complete condition, since the dial is stored separately, this clock will soon be exhibited in the town hall, the most important thing for us is the items, which are associated with the rodiviil family, on which any signs have been preserved, these

could be brands, and engravings and... they could be for what exhibitions do we need them, for what sectors? what's wrong with this mirror?

the exhibition department, which creates exhibitions, is looking for new objects that are brought here, and then we jointly look for where this object can be placed, how interesting it will be to the visitor, whether it is worth putting it here or somehow creating a different atmosphere for it in the dark hall, bright, well... there are many nuances here, we need to agree now, the royal doors of the 16th century are very

valuable specimens, we need to provide not only fastening to a glass wall, but protection from visitors, that is, at a distance, for example, at arm's length, so that it is impossible their fencing will be required, as i understand it, or we will make such equipment with additional fencing. or will we have to use the racks that are in our museum, how many of them do we have? well, we still have quite a few pieces left, we’ll find 10-12, yeah, every year we open from ten to 15 exhibition projects of various sizes. in order for a temporary exhibition to take place, it takes six to one month of work. we try to make updates even in the permanent exhibition, we place new items, we try to acquaint

our visitors as deeply as possible with a certain topic that we want to reveal. for example, in 2020 we opened an exhibition dedicated to the funeral ceremony of the princes-radivils, we want... our visitors to immerse themselves into the atmosphere so that they could go through with the funeral ceremony of the princes radivilov. we achieve this feeling using sound projection equipment. we can only try to cover these dormer windows with cloth to block out the light.

the exhibition consists of 36 halls , in this case there are specifics, for example, the general history of the castle, the history of the archive library, everything else is living

rooms or corridors, halls where family members once lived, but the main task is how we do this let's serve so that a person doesn't just walked from hall to hall, room to room, and he understood the whole essence, the significance of these halls, what they were used for, how their history changed, because the same hall for centuries could look absolutely different -differently, a large dining room or a large fireplace room, this is one of the most authentic, preserved halls of nesizh castle, almost everything here, stoves, panels, linden, all of this has been preserved original. here is a unique moment, if you look closer at the panel itself, the border of the 18th-19th centuries panel, it oak, with walnut or

korelian on the central insert. wood and on each panel there is a so-called intarsia, that is, this strip here is intarsia, inlay with wood on wood from other types of trees less than a millimeter thick, there are 48 panels, not a single panel is repeated anywhere, there are also music stands in the halls, where there is an additional formation for audio guides, audio guides on...

quietly in the hall and without rushing to listen until the museum closes. closing the museum is my area of ​​responsibility, it’s a whole ritual when you pass, you give the command to the caretakers to close the hall, because the museum does not close at once, it closes gradually, each hall is closed, handed over to the alarm system, after that the team gathers, waits for the last hall to close, i , the last one, go out to the security room, where the chips are handed over, keys, everything is being checked.

work, security, our museum has stopped functioning, all the halls are closed, they are under alarm, now we will use the cameras to check if everything is in order, if there is anyone outside, not around, not in the premises, that's it, you can hand over the chips to security. the only romantic who remains in the entire castle is mr. policeman, maybe he sees ghosts and some kind of spirits, but due to the nature of his service he does not admit it. tourists say that in every self-respecting lake there must be a monster, in every self

-respecting castle there must be a monster. one of the main dreams is that as many historical places here as possible will be preserved, transformed and we will be able to revive them, then the city will be transformed even more, it will become so interesting very, more, more and more , that is, we cannot stop, so that there is constant development, so that new interesting

artifacts are found, so that... the historical heritage is preserved, developed, new exhibitions appear, some new opportunities for those who visit us. “hello, they won’t give us a quiet life,” the president said when meeting with the russian governor on monday, much to the regret of both russians and belarusians.