Photo excursion to Ashmjany and Smarhon’ Districts 2017 (III/V): Zaskavichy, Aljanjets, Zaljes’sje, Mikhnjevichy, Katy, Kjeuly, Vjasjen’njaja, Pasinki, Tsary, Sjaljets, Milidaushchyna, Rakautsy.
Фотавандроўка па Ашмянскім і Смаргоньскім раёнах 2017 г. (III/V): Заскавічы, Алянец, Залесьсе, Міхневічы, Каты, Кеўлы, Вясеньняя, Пасінкі, Цары, Сялец, Мілідаўшчына, Ракаўцы.
After visiting the estate in Zaljes’sje we set off north and northwest.
River Draj (pronounced “Dry”), Mikhnjevichy.
Рака Драй, Міхневічы.
Churches of Belarus (part CCXXI), Orthodox Church of the Intercession (1866), Mikhnjevichy.
This church was one of many built by the imperial Russian authorities as part of the intense campaign of Russification and imposition of Russian Orthodoxy on the Belarusian lands, which had joined the general 1863-64 revolt against Russian imperial occupation. Russian occupation flowed from the three partitions of the Polish Commonwealth in the last quarter of the 18th century.
Цэрквы Беларусі (частка CCXXI), царква Пакрова Прасьвятой Багародзіцы (1866), Міхневічы.
Landscape in the village of Katy.
Краявід у в. Каты.
A fine example of window lintel decoration (lishtva – ліштва), Katy.
Прыгожая ліштва, Каты.
Churches of Belarus (part CCXXII): Orthodox Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Joy of All Who Sorrow, Kjeuly.
Цэрквы Беларусі (частка CCXXII): царква абраза Прасвятой Багародзіцы Усіх Засмучаных Радасць, Кеўлы.
