Photos of the Day for March 21, 2020

January 2020 photo expedition along the World War I Eastern Front:  Pinsk, Parechcha, Al’shanka, Tsjeljakhany, S’vjataja Volja.

Фотавандроўка ў студзені 2020 г. па лініі фронту Першай сусьветнай вайны: Пінск, Парэчча, Альшанка, Целяханы, Сьвятая Воля.

 

One of the seats of the noble Skirmunt family, Parechcha in Pinsk District was the site of the Skirmunts’ woolen mill, sugar refinery, and distillery.  These factories, the leading industrial complex of the times in Polesia, were held up as exemplars of industrial innovation and efficiency in the Russian empire.  Raman Skirmunt, an outstanding Belarusian patriot, was murdered here by order of the Soviet invaders/occupiers in October 1939.

 

Former Skirmunt sugar refinery 2007.

Былы цукровы завод Скірмунтаў 2007 г.

 

 

 

Crosses of Belarus (part CXXI):  memorial cross for Raman Skirmunt.  Photo from 2007.

Крыжы Беларусі (частка CXXI): мемарыяльны крыж Раману Скірмунту.  Фота 2007 г.

 

 

 

Churches of Belarus (part CCCXXXIX):  rebuilt Orthodox church of the Birth of the Holy Mother of God (2003-05), Parechcha 2020.

The new church is a close copy of the 1912 church, which burned down in 2000.  I took the photo with a 1938 soft-focus Thambar lens.

Цэрквы Беларусі (частка CCCXXXIX): царква Раства Прасьвятой Багародзіцы (2003-05 гг.), Парэчча 2020 г.

Адноўленая царква — корія арыгінальнай царквы 1912 г., якая згарэла ў 2000 г.  Паздымаў яе аб’ектывам мяккага фокусу Thambar 1938 г.

 

 

 

 

Wooden cross, Parechcha cemetery 2020.

Драўляны крыж, могілкі ў Парэччы 2020 г.

 

 

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