Photographic survey of Karelichy District (part 1): Zapol’lje, Karelichy, Hornaja Ruta/Dol’naja Ruta, Zabalots’tsje, Rutkavichy, Navasjolki, Ljubanichy, Astashyn, Luki.
This is the first of several series of photos from explorations of Karelichy District, whose district seat lies about 60 miles/100 kilometers southwest of Mjensk.
Фотавандроўка па Карэліцкім раёне (частка I): Запольле, Карэлічы, Горная Рута/Дольная Рута, Забалоцьце, Руткавічы, Навасёлкі, Любанічы, Асташын, Лукі.
Upper Ruta (Hornaja Ruta) and Lower Ruta (Dol’naja Ruta): two villages — hamlets, really — standing on part of the former Ruta estate. Ruta was the birthplace in 1573 or 1574 of Jazep (Josif) Rutski, one of the great early figures in the Greek Catholic (“Uniate”) church. Formed as a result of the 1596 Union of Brest (Bjares’tsje), the Greek Catholic church is Orthodox in liturgy but in communion with Rome; until the occupying Russian imperial authorities suppressed the church starting in 1839, at least 70% of the people in the Belarusian lands were Greek Catholic. The church remains strong in Western Ukraine. Rutski founded the Greek-Catholic Basilian Order (1614), which at its height had 40 monasteries and schools in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and served as Greek-Catholic Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and Ruthenia (1613-1637).
Ціхія вёсачкі Горная Рута й Дольная Рута знаходзяцца ў межах былай сядзібы Рута, дзе нарадзіўся Язэп (Юзіф) Руцкі (1573 ці 1574 г.), вялікі дзяяч Грэка-каталіцкай царквы, заснавальнік Ордэну базылянаў ды мітрапаліт Кіеўскі й усяе Русі (1613-1637 гг.).
Upper Ruta (Hornaja Ruta) 2018.
Горная Рута 2018 г.
Lower Ruta (Dol’naja Ruta) 2018.
Дольная Рута 2018 г.
