The urban village of Lyntupy is located just 2 km from state border our country with the Republic of Lithuania, in the extreme north-west of Belarus in the middle of the protected forests of our Lakeland (40 km west of Postavy and 25 km north of the lake Naroch).

In order to understand the uniqueness of these places for researchers, at the beginning of the topic we will make a small perspective on the history of the region.

In the early Middle Ages, the territory of the Lyntup region was part of the Nalshchansky principality. The entire population of the principality was pagan. After the forcible capture of Nalshchan by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Voyshelok in 1264, the lands of the principality were transferred under the formal jurisdiction of Polotsk. However, the Principality of Polotsk, weakened by the struggle against external and internal enemies, at that time no longer had the strength to Christianize the new annexed lands. Soon, the Principality of Polotsk itself legally became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Later we will see that on the territory of the former Nalshchansky land, the Oshmyany district of the Vilna Voivodeship was created.

The gradual Christianization of the region began after the coronation of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila to the Polish throne in 1386. But, we repeat, this Christianization was gradual and slowly, for centuries, carried out from the ruling elite to common people principality and did not have a pronounced violent character. Therefore, in this territory until the middle of the 19th century there were islands of the pagan population, and the new Christian faith for these places was intertwined with the old pagan customs, rituals and beliefs.

The creation of such a dense intertwining of old pagan beliefs with the Christian religion is unique in continental Europe. Similar processes took place only in Iceland, which was extremely remote from large Christian centers.

A striking example of such a Christian-pagan conglomerate is the Lyntup region we are considering. Although the first church in the town was built in 1459 (this date is considered the beginning of the Christianization of the Lyntup region), but at the end of the 19th century, the famous Russian researcher of antiquities F.V. Pokrovsky records and records on his archaeological map in Lyntupy itself such a characteristic object of pagan cult as the "Holy Well". Moreover, the author of these lines, during his research, recorded information about the local population performing religious rites of clearly pagan origin already in the second half of the 20th century. These are mass prayers during some Christian holidays at the former pagan shrines of the area: the holy “Thousand-Year Oak” in the former village of Stukovshchina (3 km north of the town of Lyntupy), the “Holy Spring” in the village of Petruti (10 km east of the town of . Lyntupy). Also, this is the kindling of the znich (sacred fire) during the holidays of the Christian saints Yuri and John on the former temple of the pagan god of spring and fertility Yarilo on the hill "Knight's Grave" ("Butsyanok") in the village of Gurnitsa (12 km south-south-east of settlement of Lyntupy). Also, these are sacrifices to pagan gods: the goddess of fate and birth, Laima, at her temple in the Vaishsky Log tract in the village of Raduta (6 km southeast of the town of Lyntupy), an indefinite god at the Holy “Thousand-Year Oak” in the former village of Stukovshchina , to the deity of the Grandfather-ancestor on his temple near the former village of Stukovshchina, etc.

The most sensational was the discovery during a joint field expedition in 1992 with a senior researcher at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus, Cand. of historical sciences Lyudmila Vladimirovna Duchits. In the vicinity of the village of Kaptaruny (7 km north-west of the town of Lyntupy), 30 m from the state border, in a hole filled with water on the surface of the cult St. Mint of the Republic of Lithuania, coins. Pagan sacrifice at the very end of the 20th century in the center of Europe! It really was a sensation. Thanks to this discovery, the Kaptarunsky Saint (“Dzyuravy”) stone became the most famous among the Belarusian pagan monuments in the scientific circles of Europe.

From the above material, one can guess that the vicinity of the m.p. Lyntupy is a real fabulous Eldorado for local historians, historians, archaeologists and ethnographers. Indeed, over 20 years of work, the author of these lines found and studied more than a hundred objects of pre-Christian worship, collected rich ethnographic material. Along and in parallel with the author, such well-known scientists as geologist and candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences V.F. Vinokurov (Geological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus, Belarus), Candidates of Historical Sciences E.M. Zaikovsky, L.V. Duchits (both from the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus, Belarus), Vikantas Vaitkevičius (Klaipeda University, Lithuania), Daiva Vaitkevicienė (Central Lithuanian Archive of Ethnography, Lithuania), Moscow archaeologist Denis Samkov (Russia) and others.

The research carried out in the summer of 2014 together with the staff of the Belarusian department of the International Academy of Information Technologies (MAIT) on a number of pagan cult objects in the Lyntup region found material that was of interest to representatives of other branches of science.

The background to the above studies is as follows. During many years of work with pagan cult objects, the author drew attention to inexplicable cases that occur with the human psyche, photo and video equipment in the places of former pagan temples. While staying in these places, there are often cases of loss of spatial orientation, visual and auditory hallucinations, failure of photo and video equipment. The author often himself was an eyewitness to these incomprehensible phenomena, and the stories of many people about these cases are true masterpieces of folk art.

During these studies, the author came up with the idea of ​​a scientific study of these incomprehensible phenomena with the help of modern technical means. Accidental acquaintance with an employee of MAIT, Ph.D. Biological Sciences Galina Grigoryevna Romanenko made it possible to start implementing these ideas.

Our group included Ph.D. biol. Sciences G.G. Romanenko, S.N. Starovoitov, O.V. Yagelo and A.V. Gorbul. The studies were carried out with a certified device IGA-1, a highly sensitive selective electromagnetic field meter with a range of 5-1000 Hz and a sensitivity from units to hundreds of picovolts. The objects of the study were the former pagan temples of Yarila - the god of spring, fertility and war (the hill "The Tomb of the Knight" ("Butsyanok"), the village of Gurnitsa), Mary (Roda, Raduta, Aushrine) - the goddess of the dead and the dawn (the hill "French ( German) graves”, the village of Raduta), Limes - the goddess of rock, knowledge and birth (the Vaishsky Log tract near the village of Raduta), Veyasa - the god of the winds (the Vaishsky Log tract), Grandfather - the ancestor god, guardian of the household, home, harvest, family, clan (the tract "Dzedava Khata" in the former village of Stukovshchina) and an obscure god near the "Thousand-Year Oak" (the former village of Stukovshchina).

The experimental work carried out by our group on the pagan temples of the Lyntup region opened up broad prospects for using this method of research in archeology and, first of all, in the study of cult monuments.

So, we managed to find the original location of the moved cult object (the stone-altar from the temple of Yarila, the idol of Veyas), the cult objects that disappeared from the temple (12 cult stones dedicated to small gods -winds on the temple of Veyas, the idol of Yarila, Mary (Raduta), etc.). Also, by the nature of the radiation, one can distinguish cult objects from natural ones (2 parts of the Vejas idol) and other possibilities that we have yet to comprehend.

Having received only part of the information about the studies described above, the leading specialist of our country in the field of studying pre-Christian cult monuments, an employee of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus, Ph.D. history Sciences E.M. Zaikovsky expressed great interest in cooperation. He also proposed to jointly develop a methodology for such research in archeology.

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Lyntupy (Belarusian Lyntupy) is an urban village in the Postavy district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus on the Lyntupka River, 42 km from the city of Postavy, near the border with Lithuania. Dead-end railway station on the line Krulevshchizna - Lyntupy, highways connected with Postavy, the urban settlement of Svir and the city of Shvenchenis in the Republic of Lithuania. Population - 1.6 thousand people (2010).

border zone

Lyntupy are located in the border zone of the Republic of Belarus, entry into which is carried out on the basis of notification of border guards about the intention to visit a particular place in the border zone and payment of the state fee.

Transport

Highways P95 (Lyntupy - Smorgon - Golshany) and P110 (Deep - Lithuanian border) pass through the village. Currently passenger railway communication in the direction of Lithuania is not carried out.

Attractions

• Cemetery of German soldiers (1915-1918) - located at the fence of the Catholic cemetery.
• Church of St. Apostle Andrew, including the gate and the fence (1908-1914).
• Christian cemetery, including catholic chapels(XIX century), graves of Polish soldiers (1919-1920), stone cross.
• Bishevsky's estate (1907), including a smoking tower, a brovar, an alcohol storehouse, an arched bridge, a park, utility rooms.
• Jewish cemetery (XVIII century) - practically not preserved.

Story

Lyntupy has been known since 1459, when the Vilna voivode A. Dovgirdovich built a wooden church of St. Andrew. In the middle of the 16th century in the Oshmyany powiat ON. The owners were Buchinsky, Ostrovsky, Gilzeny. Since 1795, as part of Russia, a town, the center of the volost of the Sventsyansky district. In 1854-1939 they belonged to the Bishevskys. In 1921-1939 as part of Poland, in the Sventsyansky district. Since 1939, as part of the BSSR, a village in the Postavy district. Since 1967 it has been an urban settlement.

Having suffered a crushing defeat when trying to take "from the ground" , we go further along the route - the next place - Lyntupy. I remember how last year I always teased Svirido with the stupid phrase "Go to Lyntupa!", to which he was always furious and answered "Go yourself!" And now, a year later, we are going together to Lyntupy to see the sights and take pictures of this, without exaggeration, legendary station for warheads, which is an example of how "everything flows and changes" in this world. The former hub and having its own depot, now the station is not even linear, but in general is a dead end!

Traditionally, we start with a tour of the architecture, leaving the railroads for last. In the center of the village is the Church of St. Andrew the Apostle 1908-1914

next to the church on the building hangs a sign of the beginning of the countdown of kilometers of roads. Always when I was small I looked at the same one in my native Svetlogorsk, then seeing the numbers "Gomel - 111, Minsk - 232" I took it for granted that it would be closer to the regional city than to the capital ... A naive person - what's wrong with me what can you do?))))

Old houses in the center

It starts to rain and we go to the estate Bishevsky 19th - early 20th century. Another car is parked here - tourists from Minsk are also visiting an abandoned manor house

One of the muddy canals

Arched bridge, which is in a terrible state. Or rather, even in an emergency condition - when you stand on it, it’s really easy to fall into a large gap ...

View towards Brovar

We looked inside the manor house ... Stairs to the second floor

Second floor

Lesha decided to climb a spiral metal staircase to the highest level (in the photo of the building this is a turret)

But he never managed to get there - there are absolutely no floors there and you can just collapse down with all these ceilings

Third floor

manor house

Finally, we are going to the railway station. I get out of the car and follow towards the even neck in order to see with my own eyes a dead end and traces of a dismantled stretch towards the Lithuanian Pabrade.

Behind the dead end, traces of the embankment are visible

Here I will resort to the help of one very interesting report, the author of which is Evgeny Gromov - the site administrator railwayz.info and project creator "photo lines". He himself comes from just these places and in 2004 made a sortie from his native Postavy to the then border station Lyntupy. Here is this report http://parovoz.com/stories/lyntupy-2004/

NB: Due to the fact that the largest railway resource parovoz.com has recently been covered a little less than completely, links and photos to this site are not displayed. When I wrote this post, unfortunately, I did not copy anything to my own computer ((

So then in 2004 (three years after the line was closed) the Pabrade - Lyntupy section still existed "materially" - there was no dead end yet and the paths lay calmly,

Photo by E. Gromov

although part of the haul has already been dismantled (I believe that it is on the border itself), in confirmation of which this pile of rail-sleeper lattice serves

Photo by E. Gromov

The remains of the entrance and pre-entry traffic lights (Ch and FC)

Gromov's photo

Then Zhenya rushed to the chipboard and hit the head of the station, in a conversation with whom he learned a lot of interesting things:

- way from st. Pabrade has not been dismantled even to the border, it is littered with rail-sleeper grating from the removed second track of the Švenčioneliai-Utena section;

Even the head of the warhead was against dismantling the site, but he allegedly did not decide the issue;

Lyntupy is the only warhead station that does not have electrical interlocking;

Lyntupy is no longer considered a border station, the only thing that reminds of its former status is the Belarusian coat of arms painted with brown paint on the facade of the station building;

In Soviet times, I went passenger train of 7 class cars "Vityaz" on the route Vitebsk-Vilnius-Grodno. (Now the Vitebsk-Grodno train also has the name "Vityaz", only it runs through Orsha, Minsk, Molodechno, Lida.) Then the route was shortened to Vilnius, and then to Lyntupov;

The haul began to be dismantled because of the good R65 rails, which were transferred to the Vitebsk distance of the track, the rest was sorted out for some unknown purpose and was abandoned at the station.

Historical lanterns at the station (located in the station manager's office)

Photo by Gromov E

and also Gromov received as a gift a leaflet with the "Annals of Lyntupy Station" compiled from the words of pensioners who used to work at the station. I can’t help but bring this same chronicle to the reader, but for starters, some more information from the encyclopedia of narrow-gauge roads of the USSR - Sventsyansko-Berezvechskaya railway

The historical map of roads in these places (

In 1915-16, during the First World War, the "latitudinal" course from Glubokoe to Postavy or to Voropaev (as on the Polish map of 1922) was changed to a broad gauge. In 1915, to supply the Naroch section of the front, the Germans built a military field UZD from Lyntup to Kobylnik (since 1964 - Naroch) with a 600 mm gauge. From Kobylnik the road may have continued north to Godutishki. A depot for one stall was built at st. Lyntupy. In 1916-17 broad-gauge (1435 mm) sections of Pabrade-Lyntupy, Glubokoe-Krulevshchizna and Peskarishki-Konstantinov-Shemetovo [Shemetovshchina] with Yanukovychi, [Potrebichi] and Nareishi stations were laid. As a result, Lyntupakh formed a small railway junction with 600, 750 and 1435 mm gauges.

Polish map of 1932, which shows the railroad Lyntupy - Kobylnik (Naroch) http://www.mapywig.org/m/WIG100_300DPI/P29_S43_SWIR_300dpi.jpg

Here is another map from the 1961 atlas

The old station building looked like this (the year of shooting is not known). Source

In WWII the station was bombed by the Nazis. After the war, a new building was built on the same spot where it is now.

After the war, the sections of Peskarishki Shemetovo and Lyntupy Kobylnik were dismantled. In 1922-23, after the Poles rebuilt the section of Lyntupy-Postavy to broad gauge, it was decided to restore the line to Kobylnik and extend the UZhD to the lake. Naroch (station Kupa, since 1945 - Naroch), but already with a gauge of 750 mm.

German steam locomotive Kobylnik

The line was closed from Lyntup to Naroch in 1959 60, from Švenčionis to Švenčioneliai - in 1972, to Lyntup - in 1967 68.

Before the closure of the Lyntup line, one daily passenger and freight train number 963/964 Švencioneliai Lyntupy.

Well, now the same Chronicle of Lyntupy Station"From Gromov:

"Until 1940, the Lyntupy station belonged to the Polish State Railways (PKP). The station had 4 directions Lyntupy - Vilna, Lyntupy - Krulevshchizna, Lyntupy - Sventsiany and Lyntupy - Naroch (Kobylnik) - a narrow gauge (750 mm). The station was considered a junction.

There was a turntable for broad gauge steam locomotives, which rotated 180 degrees. And to turn the narrow gauge steam locomotives ("cuckoos"), a turning triangle was used.

The station operated a narrow gauge locomotive depot, which had 2 steam locomotives, as well as a car depot with narrow gauge cars.

The station staff consisted of 32 people: the head of the station, 4 station attendants, 8 switchmen, the head of the locomotive depot, 4 drivers, 4 locksmiths, the head of the car depot, 5 inspectors, 2 conductors, 2 water pump drivers. There was a staff of linemen who checked the serviceability of the track, bridges were guarded, and a large staff of trackers worked. To equip narrow and wide gauge steam locomotives, there was a coal warehouse with a staff of 4 people and a boss.

Before the Great Patriotic War, the station was located in the area of ​​the even neck. When Western Belarus was annexed to the USSR, the railway passed from the subordination of the Vilna Panate to the subordination of the Western Railway, the branch of the road was then in Molodechno.

During the war, the station was bombed by the Nazis.

In the post-war period, the Lyntupy station was restored. The new station was built in the same place where it is now.

Once a year, on the day of the railway worker, the narrow gauge railway worked free of charge along the route Lyntupy - Naroch, where the holiday was celebrated. The train left in the morning, spent the whole day in Naroch and returned in the evening.

On the section Lyntupy - Naroch were stopping points Olshevo and Konstantinovo. The means of signaling was an electric wand system. The lighting of the semaphores and arrow lamps was kerosene.

In the early 50s, the Lyntupy station became part of the Vitebsk branch of the Belarusian Railway. In the 1960s, the workforce began to be reduced. The section Lyntupy - Naroch was dismantled. Rails, steam locomotives and wagons went to scrap metal. Then the section Lyntupy - Sventsyany (Shvenchenis) was dismantled and the station turned from a hub into a linear one. Steam locomotives were replaced by diesel locomotives, the turning circle was dismantled into building blocks. The electric wand system was replaced with a semi-automatic blocking, semaphores were replaced with traffic lights.

In 1980, the section Lyntupy - Godutishki was transferred under the control of the Vilnius branch of the Baltic Railway. A new station has been built at the station.

Since 1995, in connection with the collapse of the USSR, the Lyntupy station has been transferred to the Vitebsk branch of the Belarusian railway.

At present, the station staff consists of 12 people: the head of the station, 4 chipboards, 4 switchmen, 2 receptionists, 1 cleaner, a team of railway workers of the Voropaevskaya track distance (PC-10), 2 electricians of the Krulevshchiznensky power supply section, 1 water supply engineer, 1 shop assistant - 40 Polotsk branch of ORS NOD6.

Finally we return to the pictures of the station as it is now

Traffic lights H1, H2, H3. View towards the dead end

These traffic lights are purely "flashlights", they do not participate in any dependencies, except for red they cannot burn with any other light. In place of the second signal kit (green) there are plugs

Even neck (view from Pabrade)

Station tracks

Utility room

Water tower

The passenger building, as in 2004, was closed. The embossed brown coat of arms flaunts on the facade of the building - the only reminder of the border status of the station.

Bust set in memory Boleslav Yalovetsky

Boleslav Yalovetsky- railway engineer He built the UZhD Novosventsyany - Berezveche, developed many other interesting railway projects. Originally from under Lyntupov. The creation of the monument was initiated by local historians and entrepreneurs. In the installation of the monument, Gromov, whom we have repeatedly recalled, also lit up. As a representative of the "technical" railway, he wrote a "breaking article" in the regional newspaper. Thus, it was possible to persuade the authorities to support the project. The monument was unveiled on July 1, 2007.

Carriage scales

Prefabricated room near the PCh-10

By the way, Lyntupy was not the last separate point of our side in front of Lithuania. There were three more o.p. - Masleniki, Peskarishki and Rudnya.

In the same composition as today, we tried to get to the last one from the side of the village of Klyuschany in April. But then we didn’t succeed either - we had to turn around at the formidable sign "Border Strip". Google maps shows that the booth of the o.p. is still preserved on Rudna. and you still need to be there...

From the village we drove onto the GRAVEL road R-95 OF REPUBLICAN SIGNIFICANCE (only with us this is possible - so that the road of republican significance is gravel :))) and set off towards the reserve "Blue Lakes "to walk along the so-called "green route" and look at the wonderful valley of the Stracha river, as well as the lakes Glublya, Glubelka and Mertvoe. d.Trabutishki Tarro moved aside to show us the cut left from the UZhD to Kobylnik, but we did not see it among the decent thickets of bushes...

Oh, Lyntupy, I really hope that the path on Pabrade will still be restored and trains will run along your tracks again!

One of the attractions of the city of p. Lyntupy (Republic of Belarus, Vitebsk region, Postavy district) is the Bishevsky estate ( locals pronounced like Bushevsky). It was built in 1907 according to the design of the well-known Polish-Russian architect of that time - Count Tadeusz Rastvorovsky.
One of the local legends tells the story of the construction of this estate. A young gentry Józef Bishevsky fell in love in Paris with a beautiful French actress (I think she was a dancer). The French woman promised to marry him on the condition that he build for her magnificent palace. Bishevsky, upon returning to Lyntupy, fulfilled the condition of his beloved - he built a two-story stone palace. Each room of the palace was richly decorated, differed in colors and had its own name (for example, Chinese, Moorish ...). There was even central heating in its walls - special voids through which warm air came from the basement. Outbuildings (house for servants, kitchen, cellar ...) were erected next to the palace, and each of them was decorated to match the main building. This entire complex of buildings was on an island, which was framed by four large hand-dug ponds and interconnected canals. A park of rare species of trees and shrubs was laid around the palace. A summer pavilion was built in the park, where musical evenings were held. On holidays, the gates of the estate were opened and everyone was allowed into the park. The palace had two entrances with columns. The entrance on one side led to the bridge to the park, and the entrance on the other side to the stone embankment of the nearest pond. On this embankment there were steps that allowed you to go down directly to the water (for example, to ride a boat).
The capricious Frenchwoman, having visited Lyntupy, did not appreciate the efforts of our countryman - she said that her father had stables even richer, and drove off back to her Paris. Jozef, heartbroken, settled not far from the palace in a small wooden house on the territory of the present distillery, and guests who came to endless parties lived and had fun in the new palace. Here is such a not funny story of the appearance in the north-west of Belarus of this unique manor and park complex, a monument of unrequited love.
What is a palace without a treasure? The second legend associated with the Bishevsky estate is about the treasure. Several left the estate. underground passages. For example, one of them led directly to the church, which is located in the center of the town (about 500 meters from the estate). In confirmation of this, once in the park, towards the church, there was a hole in the ground - probably the old brick vault of the passage could not stand it. So, when in 1939 the Red Army captured the town of Lyntupy, Pan Bishevsky fled. At the same time, he left in a hurry and therefore left all the acquired good at home. Most of the valuables (for example, expensive dishes) were hidden in one of the underground passages. Once, in Soviet times, an old man was driven out of the basement of the palace, who was tapping the walls in one of his rooms. So, perhaps walking through the park, we are trampling on the family values ​​of Pan Bishevsky.
Unfortunately, today the palace is in a deplorable state, and one can only guess how it was looking at old photographs, the remains of decorations on the walls and fragments of tiles on the floor. In Soviet times, the estate housed Lyntupskaya high school. The palace housed the director's office, the school library, the assembly hall, senior classes, and the school canteen in the basement. One of the four ponds was filled in - there was a school football field on it. On September 1, 1992, the school moved to a new building, and the estate was abandoned.
Only in June 2006, the Scientific and Methodological Council of the Department for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture decided to attribute the Bishevsky estate to historical values. But to this day, the sign "Gistarychnaya kashtoўnasts. Ahoўvaetstsa dzyarzhavay" has not appeared there.
In the decision of the Postavy District Council of Deputies of December 15, 2006 No. 176 "On the Program for the Socio-Economic Development of the Urban Settlement of Lyntupy for 2006-2010" it was written: "In order to develop the material base for recreation and tourism of the urban village, it is planned to reconstruct the architectural monument - palace and park complex "Bishevsky Manor", to develop excursion route, for which the direction of investments in the amount of 2 billion rubles is predicted. "It's a shame, but the reason for the reconstruction of the estate is not concern for our historical values, and the banal thirst to replenish the district treasury in the hope of "increasing the volume of sales tourism services by 10%". This good decision finished off the building of the palace. The first allocated money was only enough to draw up a reconstruction project, start breaking down the building and erecting several walls of silicate blocks. Then another, already profitable project was found in the area, for which and all the money was gone. The fact is that since 1996 in the city of Postavy, " International Festival folk music "Dulcimer and accordion are ringing". And when this entertainment event became popular and began to generate income, all the money was spent on repairing the sights of the district center itself. And the Bishevsky estate, like many other historical sites, was abandoned to the mercy of fate. over time, it has become a public toilet, a garbage dump and a place for drinking.
At the end of 2009, the Ministry of Culture approved a list of abandoned estates and palaces that are historical and cultural values ​​and can be transferred to investors. The document, signed by the Minister of Culture and the Minister of Sports and Tourism, is called "Action Plan for the transfer of unused estates located in rural areas and small towns to agri-ecotourism entities." The list of estates included in this list includes 46 objects, including the Bishevsky estate. One of the first swallows was the sale for 105 thousand dollars to a businessman from Russia of a palace and park complex in the village of Kraski, Volkovysk region. So, perhaps the only way to save the Bishevsky estate is to sell it to a rich foreigner. One can only hope that the new owner of the estate will be as kind as Pan Bishevsky and will, at least for holidays, allow residents of Lyntup to take a walk in his park.

Let's start our tour of the Bishevsky estate from the palace. Before you is a view of the palace from the park. In the foreground are photographs of stands for statues of lions (the lions were demolished a long time ago, probably because they disfigure the school and do not correspond to the ideals of the world proletariat).

The same view, only closer - after crossing the canal from the park.

We go around the palace on the left.

On the ground floor, in an oval room, there was a school teacher's room (sorry, my knowledge of the purpose of the palace rooms is limited to its Soviet period).

This side is on a German postcard from World War I (1915-1916). The Germans were lucky - the territory was well-groomed, so it was possible to take good pictures. And now everything is so overgrown that it is not realistic to take such a picture (unless in late autumn, when all the foliage has fallen).

This is the staircase, along which ladies in luxurious dresses, accompanied by gentlemen, went out to the pond to take a walk along the embankment or go boating.

In the center of the wall is the door of the back door, through which servants used to go in pan times, but in Soviet times everything. Both main entrances were blocked: the antechamber of the entrance from the park was occupied by a wardrobe, and in the entrance hall from the side of the pond there was an assembly hall.

Turning around 180 degrees, you can see the main bridge, which once drove into the estate.

In some places, it has already become so thin that water can be seen through the cracks.

On the side there is big hole. I am glad that earlier the builders were good - they built firmly, for centuries. After all, when the bridge was being built, no one knew that tractors would drive along it!

View of the palace from the other side of the pond (crossing the bridge).

The same view on another German postcard.

It shows the stone embankment of the pond, of which now only pitiful remnants remain.

densely overgrown with trees and shrubs.

And here is a fragment of warped steps, which descended to the water

Belarusian towns and villages for the most part leave a good impression. Of course, there are a lot of abandoned villages here too, but more or less large settlements look pretty decent. However, there are exceptions. I was left a little amazed after visiting the village of Lyntupy. It is unlikely that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was here, perhaps after his visit there would have been positive changes. There are not many attractions here, but they are. And in general, the village deserves the best. But first things first.

Get to Lyntupy public transport very hard. Buses from the regional center Postavy (or anywhere else) do not go there, since the road has not yet been paved. In not the largest Belarusian settlements, only the so-called "graves" are laid - primers covered with rubble. You can ride on them, however, for cyclists this is a terrible test. So civilization in the form of paved asphalt has not yet reached Lyntup. And this is in the 21st century. There is a diesel train from Postavy to Lyntup twice a day. Excursions to Lyntupy also do not happen, they say that the sights available there and their condition are unlikely to please tourists. Yes, and to carry people for several kilometers on rubble, probably not entirely solid. Nothing helped me in the tourism department resort village Naroch. They said, they say, go there only by taxi. I knew that Lyntupy is located in the border zone of the Republic of Belarus, and to visit this area you need to pay a special fee. In order not to break the law, I asked the tourism department where I could pay for it. I never received a clear answer - information assistance is provided there only in the Naroch region, located in the Minsk region. Lyntupy, although not very far from Naroch, is the Postavy district of the Vitebsk region. A local taxi driver agreed to take me to Lyntup and back for 2,000 Russian rubles. He paid the bank fee for himself, and he told me that there was no need to worry.
Fate was not entirely favorable to the Lyntupas. Once a major railway junction, and now a corner forgotten by everyone, today it is located on the very edge of the country and is not developing at all. Certainly, tourist mecca the village is unlikely to ever become: after all, the district is full of more interesting settlements. But in general, it is a pity for the locals who live in such desolation. Lyntup has a rather interesting history, and tourists can be attracted here in the future.
The taxi driver dropped me off and waited in the center of the village next to the church of St. Andrew the Apostle. The beautiful temple that adorns Lyntupy was built in 1908-1914. At the information stand it is reported that the temple was consecrated in the name of St. Andrei Boboli, but the official website of the Belarusian Catholic Church confirms that the church still bears the name of the Apostle Andrei, and the main holiday is celebrated on November 30 (the memory of the Holy Apostle Andrei, among the Orthodox - December 13).

In a classic Belarusian place on main square the church has always stood Orthodox Church and synagogue. But there has never been a church in Lyntupy. The synagogue was located directly opposite the church, but the building has not been preserved. By the way, the locals have never been religiously tolerant, and there were constant skirmishes between Catholics and Jews.

Further, according to the plan, there was a visit to the former estate of the Bishevskys. The manor complex was built in the late 19th - early 20th century. The main building of the estate was designed by the architect Tadeusz Rastvorovsky in 1907. local legend says that the young gentry Józef Bishevsky fell in love with a beautiful Parisian. She promised to marry him, but on the condition that he build a palace for her. The condition was met, the pansky palace is really very beautiful. But the capricious Frenchwoman did not appreciate the efforts of the gentry in the end.

For a long time the estate was in a terrible state. Many buildings dilapidated and began to collapse. No one looked after the old park, and the ponds and canals were overgrown with mud. However, quite recently the Russians bought the manor complex and restoration work began there.

Swans on the pond. By the way, Lyntupy in translation from the Baltic language means "bird river".

Lyntupy used to have the status of a town, now it is an urban-type settlement. Although the current status is not entirely suitable for this locality. There are no high-rise buildings here, moreover, it seemed that people here are still not familiar with such a boon of civilization as sewerage. Even the building of the local administration has a wooden toilet. Since the century before last, a brewery has been operating in Lyntupy, now producing alcohol. True, the locals said that after a recent fire, it does not work at full capacity.

Need to talk about railway station Lyntupy. There were times when the village was a major transport hub. At the end of the 19th century, the Pabrade-Krulevshchizna branch was built. During the First World War, a narrow-gauge railway was built from Lyntup to Kobylnik (now the village of Naroch), then dismantled and rebuilt in the 1920s. The branch was closed in 1960, and little remains of it. There was also a section of the railway from Lyntup to Shvencheneliai (now Lithuania), it lasted a little longer. After the collapse of the USSR, communication with the Lithuanian Pabrade ceased, although the Vitebsk-Grodno train passed along this line. Now Lyntupy is a dead-end station where two commuter trains in a day.

Monument to the engineer Boleslav Yalovetsky, a native of these places and who built railways here over a hundred years ago.

Whether it will be interesting for tourists in Lyntupy, I don’t know. I personally liked locality, somehow the village attracted me. And I would like to hope that Alexander Lukashenko will come here someday and come up with something. Well, a village with such rich history(and in its vicinity there are also ancient burial mounds and huge boulders, about which there are many legends). I hope that an asphalt road will be laid here, the estate will be restored, and local residents will not complain about unemployment and lack of prospects.