lighting equipment and spacious exhibition halls. and after a little more than a decade, the national art museum opened a museum quarter in 2021. now history and modernity also converge in the architecture of the building. the pride of the museum is the paintings of belarusian artists of the nineteenth century. the beginning of the 20th century ivan khrutsky and yuri pan, ferdinand ruschets and witold belynsky berulya, and of course, contemporary art. in 2024, all museum events will be dedicated to the anniversary. the museum will present a project called collections of the national art museum of the republic of belarus, losses during the great patriotic war, return. on the canvases

is our minsk, looking into the future with its new buildings, updated avenues, the belarusian capital, where history and modernity converge, minsk, so ancient and so young. the choice of location for the construction of the museum was not accidental: lenin street, one of the central streets of minsk with a long, very interesting history, was once called franciscan. a church and monasteries were located here franciscans on the site of the store, which is located on lenin ii street. it changed its names depending on time and events, zakharyevskaya after the name of the minsk governor,

natorskaya in the second half of the 19th century, residents also called it minsk nevsky prospekt, following the example of the russian capital. there were so many important objects on the street that it can safely be called a business center before revolutionary minsk. hotels switzerland, moscow, grand hotel, and that’s not counting the europe hotel at the very beginning of the street. here the first modern cinema appeared. the decoration of the street was the four-story building of the postal and telegraph office. and at the intersection of lenin and karl marx streets there is a house that is probably familiar to every resident of minsk. commemorative plaques on its façade indicate how many prominent political and cultural figures once lived here.

the main entrance, the staircase, a little pompous, solemn, and how many famous people climbed it, alexander chervyakov, kirill mazurov, petrus brovka, felix derzhinsky also stayed here when i’ve been to minsk, and we’ll take a look at one of these apartments. a typical layout, a spacious corridor, a separate entrance to the rooms and necessarily a room for a personal library, the attitude towards books in soviet times was special, such housing was considered luxury at that time, although everything was quite modest, the house built in the constructivist style in the thirties did not imply any frills , and there were none in the decor, for... furniture, curtains, tablecloths, and from the shortage,

perhaps only carpets, the zavmak, respected by everyone in soviet times, could live much better. surviving newsreels, photographs from past years convey the full flavor of this beautiful street, in soviet times leninskaya, in the post-war period... completely destroyed, it was formed anew, forming a single ensemble with stalin avenue, which was also built in the post-war years. instead of gas lamps, electric lamps appeared here in 1895. today they are in the same place, only theatrical, creating a single ensemble with the museum quarter.

the horse park is shrouded in secrets and legends; the stories of past heroes seem to come to life here centuries, their love stories. in the spring , magnolia, the favorite flower of panna jadwiga, was the name of the beloved owner of the estate, always blooms in the lushetsky park, shrouded in legends.