when the artillery historical museum in leningrad was disbanded, georgy pekh also happened to be nearbym was replenished with weapons and equipment from european armies of the 16th-19th centuries. in order to fire a shot, the gunner of 1812 had to perform several actions. first clean the gun with with the help of such a banner. for what? yes, everything is very simple, the fact is that the gunpowder did not burn out completely and the hall had to be cleaned. then fresh gunpowder was poured in, the cannonball was placed, the fuse was ignited and the shot was fired, and most importantly, the whole process took the team of gunners no more than 30 seconds, very quickly, it seems to me that i told you about this longer, the museum tells about the history of volkovysk , from antiquity to modern times, but of course, a special place was allocated here in the aina of 1812, since volkovys was in the center military paths and events, in the end it was napoleon’s army, but volkov’s historians did not just forget the emperor for this , on the contrary, they tried to collect a full exhibition about

the museum owes its establishment to local local historian georgy pekh, or rather to his rich collectionbasis of the exhibition, and the archaeologist himself, at one time, the director. exhibit prices can be found at the entrance. this is a bust of bogration, the work of the famous belarusian sculptor zaire azgur. you feel a special aura in the landowner's estate. after all, the thought that peter bogration himself once lived here makes one’s head spin and the number of exhibits in including, let’s say, this picture captures the tragic moment of the battle, when the general was seriously wounded by a cannonball fragment, but did not leave the battlefield before he gave the necessary orders, or here’s another, guns and pistols, ammunition, cuirasses and uniforms, musical tools, letters and documents, as well as the only authentic engravings of the crown in belarus. 5 feet and 2 inches, many repeatedly converted napoleon’s height into centimeters and it turned out to be about one and a half meters; the term napoleon complex even appeared in psychology. but several historians claim that ma