in 1794, when tadeusz kościuszka organized an uprising and considerably frayed the crowned person’s nerves the defensive system of niaswierzh castle and the city was under the personal control of empress catherine ii. during napoleon's campaign in 1812, the castle was credited with more or less the role of one of the main defensive cities on the western borders of the russian empire. the war ended, and along with it the status of an important defensive point went down in history. now walking i see that in some places you can still find traces of the era of fortifications, not counting the castle, of course. well, it seems that city ponds are city ponds, in fact, this is also part of a system created artificially for the purpose of defending the city, by the way, this reservoir is more than 400 years old, now this gate looks, well, a little lonely, before it was part of a defensive system with ditches and bastions and it was possible to get to this gate only through a drawbridge, nesvesh was a closed city, closed by ditches with water and thick walls from enemy attacks, the city has always