in general , prakudin gorsky’s collection contains several color photographs of belarusian cities.the centenary of the patriotic war, he went to the places of military glory of that time, stopping in drissa. what made the photographers take their experimental technology to such a distant land can be found in the old park in the city center. there is still a monument there that explains everything. next to in verkhnedvinsk then there was still dris in in 1812, the headquarters of barclay’s army was located, these events are described in my favorite book , war and peace by leo tolstoy, as i remember now, volume three, part one, chapter ten. at that time, great things were happening here, and if you believe lev nikolaevich, prince andrei balkonsky was languishing in idleness, in memory of those events, real, not bookish, and this monument was erected. interestingly, this monument survived both two wars and the soviet regime, perhaps because of the enormous respect that was felt here for the soldiers of 1812 or because of the greater freedom of local officials, which were on the periph