Mahiljou 2016 (III/IV): architecture of former Luteranskaja Street, now Mihaja. The street was named Luteranskaja when Russian empress Catherine II, who controlled the eastern Belarusian lands as a result of the first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772, granted the local German community permission to build a church there in 1780. Магілёў 2016 г.… Continue reading Photos of the Day for October 28, 2016
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Photos of the Day for October 26, 2016
Mahiljou 2016 (I/IV). Despite destruction of major architectural monuments by the late Russian imperial and Soviet regimes, Mahiljou retains a worthy architectural patrimony. A short, late-August visit in search of hand-embroidered fabrics provided the opportunity for a photo survey of buildings on the middle stretch of Vjalikaja Sadovaja (Vjetranaja) Street, currently known as Leninskaja (see… Continue reading Photos of the Day for October 26, 2016