the name of the village of streshin appears in many documents. the wooden castle located on this territory was stormed by the chernigov princes, muscovites and cossacks. this settlement is the first of those mentioned in documents. after the second partition of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth, catherine ii gave the settlement to count ivan osterman. he erected in... brick pokrovsky church in the classical style. the mystery of the church's heating system, unsolved by contemporaries. there were no batteries or stoves here, and in the most severe frosts one could endure the service in just a shirt. they say it was all thanks to the leaves that were stored in the basement and set on fire. heat rose up the full walls, and even in winter the temperature inside the church was above zero. that's it. system, one of the first priests of the church was priest ioan gashkevich, the father of saint righteous john of karmya. after some time, he became the patron saint of the gomel region. the restoration of the religious building began in 1989. it was a nat