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The Trinity Suburb of Minsk is undoubtedly the most beautiful urban area not only of the capital, but of the whole of Belarus. It is located on the left bank of the Svisloch River. The name Trinity Suburb came from the Trinity Church once founded by King Jagiello.

The development of the Trinity Suburb (Trinity Hill) began in the 12th century. Medieval Minsk grew in suburbs. Richer people settled in the Trinity Suburb. In the XIV-XV centuries, there was even the administrative center of the city. After receiving the Magdeburg Law and the construction of the town hall, the Trinity Suburb lost its status as the main district of Minsk.

In the XVI-XVII centuries, earthen ramparts were poured around the Trinity Suburb and ditches filled with water were dug. The area acquired the status of an important defensive fortified place.

Until the 19th century, the Trinity Suburb was considered a suburb of Minsk, and the houses in it were wooden. In the 19th century, the suburb entered the city limits. Its center was considered the Trinity Market, on the site of which the Opera House and the square are now built.

The Trinity Suburb acquired its current appearance thanks to the strongest fire in 1809, when all the wooden buildings burned down. The mayors decided to demolish the remains of the foundations and build new city blocks in accordance with the canons of classical building, when the streets had to intersect at right angles, forming rectangular blocks. The houses adjoined each other closely, forming a single facade. High tiled roofs of houses with mansards and attics gave the Trinity Suburb a unique flavor.

Now the Trinity Suburb has been reconstructed, repaired and landscaped. It looks attractive at any time of the year, at any time of the day and in any weather thanks to the famous tiled roofs, multi-colored facades and modern dynamic lighting (changing colors like dancing fountains).

Pictured is the Trinity Suburb in Minsk.

Probably in Minsk it is difficult to find a place that would be more known to tourists than Trinity Suburb. This is the visiting card of the city, the image of which can be found both on postcards, stamps, souvenirs, and on some banknotes.

Trinity Suburb- the historical district of the city of Minsk, located in the north-eastern part of the historical center on the left bank of the Svisloch River. Its cozy streets and houses painted in delicate colors with tiled roofs have become a kind of symbol of Minsk, imprinted on souvenirs and sweets. Once it was the trade and administrative center of the capital of Belarus.

Name Trinity Suburb arose in the 15th century from the church of the Holy Trinity, which was once located here, founded by the great. Approximately in the 14th century, the Holy Ascension Monastery, which has not survived to this day, was built on the Trinity Hill with the wooden church of the same name, on the site of which Anton Maslyanka built a stone church in 1620. The suburb itself in the 16th century. It was built up with wooden houses and connected to the city by a bridge.

This suburb for a long time was considered a suburb of Minsk, and entered the city only in the 19th century. In the suburbs lived mainly middle-class people: the military, artisans, merchants, peasants.

Shouldn't we go to Nemiga?

In almost all Belarusian, and even more so Ukrainian, cities founded back in the Dark Ages, in the historical centers there is a traditional set of a castle, Rynok Square with a town hall, numerous temples and monasteries of barefoot Bernardine brothers or Jesuits, pleasing to the eye of a tourist, and several blocks of civil buildings.
But Minsk was not lucky. Having emerged during the time of the Tale of Bygone Years, having received the Magdeburg Law during the period of the Commonwealth, the city, which became the capital of modern Belarus, has completely lost its original historical center. And the reason for this is not only the town-planning decisions of the 19th century, dictated by political decisions, or the destruction of the last war, but rather the town-planning concept of the last decades of the 20th century, which, guided by the slogan "We will build our future!", Completely changed the picture of the urban landscape. As a result, we got probably the only capital of one of the fraternal republics within the USSR without any national flavor and architecture associated with national history, completely aspiring to the beautiful far away with Stalinist avenues, numerous sports facilities and public lawns of the era of developed stagnation.

However, on this path of the triumph of Belarusian urban studies, there were also curious moments. Somehow, just after the total cleansing of Nemiga and Zamchischa, where even fragments of the old ramparts were not left of the castle, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev arrived in Minsk on the eve of the 1980 Olympics. For some unknown reason, Leonid Ilyich repeatedly tried to go see the old town (Where is the Old Town here, like in Warsaw?), which by that time practically did not exist. I don’t know how they got away, but they decided to correct the mistake, not to show the elderly general secretary of the slum next time. First of all, in the 80s, according to the project, they demolished almost everything that could be demolished, but in the Trinity Suburb they left one block of ordinary buildings of the 19th century, which in some places was based on earlier foundations. So they made an exemplary Old Place out of it ;-), which is now being shown to tourists and is loved by Minsk residents.

A little later, and especially in the last decade, the trick was repeated with the Upper Town, where, with the growth of national self-consciousness by building remakes and pulling out individual objects from later buildings, they tried to artificially collect at least some image of the historical center of the city in the way that modern Belarusians imagine it to be. architects. How it turned out, let's see together with you.

Our journey into the fabric of "historical Minsk" began with the search for parking. I found it near a high-rise building made of glass and concrete, which houses the Belarusian telecommunications company Velcom. A good start. Then we rushed on foot along Zybitskaya Street towards the 8th of March Square and the nameless bridge across the Svisloch.

The first attraction on Zybitskaya Street was mediocre, so I use someone else's photo from Wikimapia.org. Did you understand what is located on the sides and behind this small house at number 3 on Zybitskaya Street?

After walking 300 meters we turn around. In the distance is the office of Velcom, and on the right is the historical building of the Upper Town with numerous bars, on the left behind the fence is the construction of a hotel and an entertainment center. According to unverified information, most of the "wooden" houses on the right hand are remodeled.

The building at the crossroads of Zybitskaya and Herzen. Inside the bar, there is a memorial plaque on the wall, telling us that we are on the territory of the Upper City - the historical center of Minsk of the 16th-19th centuries, a complex monument of archeology, urban planning, architecture, history, revolutionary and military glory of the people. is under state protection.
Pay attention to how the facade of the building is decorated, or rather the doors and porch. There are entrance doors, the steps are marked, and the porch itself on the right is missing. And then this element of facade design is repeated twice more. What did the architect mean by this? Restore the historical design of the facade? But why then are the only working front doors made of glass, and not decorated in the same style? Why is the rhythm of the steps different and why this forged visor?

View up Herzen Street. On the right is the "Monastyrsky" complex in order of removal: the archaeological museum, a bar, a restaurant, a hotel.

In the distance, on the right, you can see the building of the Bernardine monastery for men, and in the future, Herzen Street rests on the complex of the Basilian monastery. It seems to me that the buildings of the entire block on the right belonged to the Bernardine brothers, but I am very confused by the heterogeneous and not neat, but in some places just modern masonry on nearby buildings. Pay attention to how the pavement is made. Where is now without a favorite tile, even on a historic street? But something like a cobblestone pavement runs in a narrow strip along the walls.

Scheme of the quarter on the wall of the archaeological museum. pleases the combination of the museum of archeology, the museum of karate and the museum of the Minsk horse-drawn carriage

Let's go further along Zybitskaya street to the next intersection with Cyril and Methodius street. On the left is a beauty salon, on the right it’s not clear what, but a little further the building of the Bernardine women’s monastery peeps out, and opposite it is the men’s. In the future - a guest yard. We will return there a little later.

And now we will go to the Svisloch River and climb the nameless bridge (1967). It is interesting that two streets of Nemiga and Maxim Bogdanovich meet on the bridge, but the bridge itself does not have a name now. View from the bridge to the historical property under construction in the area of ​​the former market square (Niniy market).

Once upon a time, on the site of the modern bridge, the most famous bridge of medieval Minsk, Khlusov, was located, connecting the Lower Market with the Trinity Suburb located on the right bank of the Svisloch. In the future, the building of the National Exhibition Center "BelExpo". In 2017, the demolition of this quarter along the right bank of Svisloch by an investor from the UAE began. He promised to preserve four historical buildings miraculously preserved from the Trinity Basilian Monastery.

On the other side of the bridge - the Trinity Suburb, or rather what is left of it

Let's go down under the bridge and look at the left bank of the Svisloch and the High City, where we just came from. In the foreground of the building, as it were, the 18th century (?), behind them looks out the Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, the former church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the Bernardine monastery.

Trinity suburb from under the bridge opens in all its glory. Ordinary philistine buildings of the late 19th century are stylized as medieval architecture as it is represented by modern architects. Yes, this is not Lviv and not even Warsaw ... For a city with a rich history, of course, it looks wild and miserable. But, for any Russian province where there is no architecture other than Khrushchev, this is a good example of how you can make a confection out of the slums, especially if there is the will of the Secretary General. It is clear that the architects and designers of the last decade still worked here, adding about 2/3 of frank remodels and pop music, but the foundation for the preservation and reconstruction of the quarter was laid back in the 1980s.

A look back at the nameless bridge across the Svisloch and the Upper Town

Heading to the Medieval City

Please note that here the pavement is mostly lined with paving stones.

Inside the quarter. All this bourgeois development is now not residential, but is a haven for various catering establishments, hostels, art salons, museums, shops, galleries and other things.

House of Nature. The building was built in 1874 as a "Kitaevskaya" synagogue for the townspeople of Minsk.

Thanks to the balustrade, the former synagogue is a favorite place for selfies among Belarusian girls

After wandering around the quarter, which was just waking up from hibernation, we got tired of its monotony and artificiality and went to the Isle of Tears. There will be a separate report about him. And along the way we came across a sculpture of a girl with an owl. Strange combination. It seems not Pallas Athena, but with an owl.

Maybe it's some kind of Belarusian national story that I don't know?

We return across the bridge to the Upper Town and its dominant - the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, once the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the Bernardine Monastery. Founded in 1642, the church, having become an Orthodox church, retained the strict solemnity of a Catholic church. From the left, for contrast, the clumsy new buildings of the Orthodox Theological Academy crawled into the frame. Stylish to say the least.

To understand how the landscape of this part of Minsk has changed, here are a few photos.
1940s. Please note that the hillock of the Upper City, prominent in the relief, took place, but now it is greatly smoothed.

View from the northwest of the ensemble of the Bernardine monastery with the church after the restoration of the 1980s

General view of the ensemble of Bernardine monasteries from a bird's eye view shortly before it acquired its current form

View from the 8 March Square towards the Zamchischa - downstream of the Svisloch River. In the foreground, a squat, arena-like building is the Republican Center for Physical Education and Sports. On one of its walls there is a memorial plaque stating that it was in this place that the city of Minsk arose in the 11th century and the Minsk Castle, an archeological monument of the 11th-16th centuries, was located. Protected by the state. as I said, this archeological monument was mostly demolished during the construction of what we see in the photo, as well as during the construction of the Nemiga metro station, located just under these paths, which is in the frame.

Let's cross to the other side of Nemiga Street, reach the intersection with Lenina Street and walk a little along it along Svoboda Square and take a look at the City Hall from the west. The Minsk City Hall (1) was built at the end of the 18th century on the Upper Market Square and was destroyed in 1851 by the personal order of Emperor Nicholas I. In 2003 it was restored to its historical place and is used as an exhibition hall.

View of the town hall from the north, from the other side. On the right, the frame includes the buildings of the Gostiny Dvor complex of the 18th-19th centuries (7) with shops, restaurants, and offices located inside.

A monument to Minsk obtaining the Magdeburg Rights in 1499, installed in front of the entrance to the town hall in 2014.

Scheme of the location of the attractions of the Upper City. I will give the numbering according to this scheme in parentheses when describing.

Let's take a look at the other side of Lenin Street at the Jesuit Church of the Virgin Mary (1700-1710), squeezed by Soviet new buildings, built in the Vilna Baroque style (15). In 1951, the cathedral was closed, and the main facade was heavily rebuilt, with the Sportsman's House located inside. In 1993, the building was returned to the Catholic Church, the original appearance was restored. Now it is the main Catholic church in Belarus. In the interior, the frescoes, which were plastered in Soviet times, are of particular value, now they are being opened and restored.

And now we will once again delve into the quarters of the Upper City, passing along the edge of the former Upper Market Square. Here, once male and female Uniate Basilian monasteries formed a kind of defense knot. The core of the monastery was the Church of the Holy Spirit, built on the site of an Orthodox wooden church around the 1650s.
In the photo on the left is the Church of the Holy Spirit, on the right is the Gostiny Dvor, in the perspective you can see the building of the Belarusian State Academy of Music.

Plan of the Basilian monastery complex. Reconstruction by L. Ivanova based on materials by V.M. Denisov. In the upper part there is a convent, in the lower part there is a male monastery with the Church of the Holy Spirit.

The monasteries were a kind of fortress. The male building with the church formed its southwestern side. Women's building - northeast. They were connected to each other by a covered gallery with small loophole windows, which at the same time was an entrance gate in its lower tier. There is nothing on the plan on the fourth side, but it is very likely that initially the monastery courtyard was nevertheless closed by a stone wall: it is mentioned in documents of the 17th century (“... a stone fence and battles upper and lower” ). The pearl of the complex was the church - a single-nave temple without towers with a five-sided apse covered with cross vaults resting on massive internal buttresses. High lancet windows, faceted form of the apse, vaults, buttresses refer to the Gothic style. The Renaissance is the main facade, all built on a combination of pilasters of the Corinthian order, and the Baroque influence is already felt in the figured shield.

Dimensional drawing of the main façade, 1843.

The main artistic feature of the Church of the Holy Spirit was the painting of flat niches on the facade with frescoes depicting saints. The structure of the niches and the order in which they were filled with frescoes corresponded to the Orthodox iconostasis. Art historians happily rub their hands - this is almost never found in the cult architecture of Europe: so that the iconostasis and immediately on the facade.

The main facade of the Minsk Church of the Holy Spirit. Reconstruction by Sergei Baglasov. It is very curious to compare its difference from the same measured drawing of 1843 (see above).

In the 19th century the church was taken away from the community, “donated” to the Orthodox and rebuilt in a pseudo-Russian style. Demolished in 1950. In 2011, the Church of the Holy Spirit was recreated from scratch. The measurement drawing of 1843 officially served as the basis for the reconstruction. The building is currently used as a children's philharmonic.
View of the remodel of the Church of the Holy Spirit from the northwest. In the foreground is the sculptural composition "City Scales".

View of the main facade of the Church of the Holy Spirit from the west. Compare with the drawings of the facade of 1843 and you will understand what the difference is, for example, the design of the lower tier.

Another angle. In the background, the Church of St. Joseph of the Bernardine Monastery.

View from the Church of the Holy Spirit on the Upper Market Square with the Church of St. Joseph of the Bernardine Monastery and the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the Bernardine Monastery.

Opposite the heavily rebuilt buildings of the Basilian monastery is the sculpture "The Crew", the prototype of which was the governor's carriage. The joke is that, as Dmitry Shelekhov writes to me in a personal, this "carriage" is a copy of Tobolsk and Kursk. There, what also served as a prototype for the carriage of governors?
In the background is the building of the Belarusian State Academy of Music

Carriage in Tobolsk. Photo by Dmitry Shelekhov. Minsk sculpture is undoubtedly cast in the same mold. Just a little more rough on the surface.

And this is a Kursk carriage. Still, they say there is a similar one in Dolgoprudny. Photo from the expanses of tyrnet.

Unfortunately, I did not go to the building of the Basilian Monastery and I have to use someone else's photo.
This building was very well, not in our opinion, restored. Wooden windows, natural tiles, a baroque figurative shield restored as in its best times, no bulbs for you - why not always do this? I haven't been inside, though.

But back to the Upper Market Square. Modern view of the Bernardine monastery and the Church of St. Joseph. The church was built in 1652 and rebuilt several times. In 1752 he received late baroque decor. In 1860 the monastery was abolished, the buildings were confiscated. The last time the building of the church was restored in 1983, at present, archives are located in it and the adjacent buildings of the monastery.

It's time to get back to the car. Now we will sell in a slightly different way along Musical Lane. Building number 1 is often seen in tourist photos. To the left is Herzen Street, which we observed at the very beginning of the report.

We go down the Muzykalny lane and turn back to the new office building and the quarter with the former Czech embassy

That's all for now.
Summary: As we can see, Minsk is one of those cities of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Commonwealth, which has almost completely lost its historical appearance. However, due to a strange quirk of the leadership of the USSR, local restorers tried to recreate it to the extent of their depravity. And everything would be fine, moreover, this reconstruction could serve as an example for a number of Russian cities, completely, for a number of reasons, that have lost their heritage, but on the example of Minsk there was a strange substitution of concepts in the Belarusian restoration. This highly controversial and somewhat curious experience "out of hopelessness" in an effort to imitate civilized Europe was taken at the forefront of the current restoration. Now every collective-farm Belarusian builder imagines himself an architect, and then a restorer, reproducing this unique Minsk experience serially as a carbon copy, trying to build up our future with dubious antique replicas, while demolishing the remains of a genuine national treasure with the other hand to the right and left.
And what is this? The original heritage does not look presentable and it is not clear whether it is freshly plastered multi-colored houses under an onduline with chimneys.
For this case, Lotman's quote is more appropriate than ever - restoration is a legalized form of the destruction of heritage.

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Through the narrow streets of history

A corner of the old city - Minsk of the 19th century - is comfortably located in the very center of the capital. Narrow cobbled streets, low houses, unusual layout - all this is the Trinity Suburb. And it is simply impossible not to come here!

In those distant times, when the city was just beginning to grow, people settled in the suburbs that surrounded the upper city and the castle. Troitskoye was one of the largest Minsk suburbs. It was separated from the old part of the city by the Svisloch, but already in those early years, gati and bridges were built here, and communication with the city was constant. Regarding the name of the suburb, historians suggest that it arose in the 15th century. The suburb was called Trinity, because there was a defensive redoubt of the Holy Trinity (from the Church of the Holy Trinity).

This suburb was also called Trinity Hill, it arose in the 12th-13th centuries and until the 19th century was considered a suburb of Minsk. It was impossible to locate the city center here - the terrain was inconvenient for defense. In the XIV century, the Ascension Monastery was erected here, in which there was a wooden church, on the site of which in 1620 Anton Maslyanka built a stone church. People began to settle around the monastery. In the XV-XVII centuries, earthen ramparts and ditches were dug around this territory.

The suburb until the 16th century was wooden. It was connected to the city with the help of a gati, and later - a bridge. In the second half of the 16th century there were already two bridges. It was after the construction of the bridge that trade revived, the suburb began to develop much faster, the main street Troitskaya was built. Now it bears the name of Maxim Bogdanovich, and before that it was called M. Gorky and Aleksandrovskaya. Along Troitskaya Street one could get to Svisloch, and from there along the Khlusov Bridge to the Lower Market, which was the oldest shopping area in Minsk and was located next to the Castle. In the 16th century, Troitskaya Street became a continuation of the main city street of Nemiga.

In the place where the handsome opera house now stands, there used to be the Trinity Market. In the very suburbs, a school was opened in 1771; it operated at the Mauritanian monastery. In 1809, there was a big fire in Troitsky, after which a women's diocesan school and a theological seminary were built here (now it is the Suvorov School).

The Trinity Suburb gradually became a kind of center of attraction for the most diverse segments of the population. Here, in one of the houses, populists gathered, meetings were held. In addition, the city's rooming house, founded in 1892, was located here. In winter, homeless people lived here, who hunted on Troitskaya Hill and the Lower Market. The nochlezhka stood next to the Alexander Bridge. In addition, not far from Svisloch, there was the first public city bath in Minsk, which was destroyed in the 1960s.

On the outskirts of the Trinity suburb - on the very bank of the Svisloch - one of the oldest mills in the city worked. The city authorities did not want to support it themselves, as it required a lot of money, so they rented it out. Written information has even been preserved that in 1838 "a four-stone water flour mill on the Lower Market" was leased out on a pledge of 3,815 rubles for 12 years.

The Trinity Suburb was inhabited mainly by artisans, merchants or the military - in general, people of the middle class. It was here that the famous poet Maxim Bogdanovich was born, for some time the family of Yanka Kupala lived here.

The most destructive for the Trinity suburb were the 1930-1940s. At that time, a large number of buildings of the Ascension Monastery, the Catholic cemetery of the 16th-18th centuries, and an old street that ran along the Svisloch were destroyed. The Great Patriotic War also contributed to the destruction of the suburbs. The demolition of buildings continued after the war.

The reconstruction of this area started by chance. In 1962, Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Minsk. During the tour, he asked where the historical center of the city was and what was there now. The owners of the city were confused, as there was nothing to show the Secretary General. This was the impetus for the restoration of the Trinity suburb. True, restoration work began only twenty years later - in 1982. They ran until 1985. The watchmen do not approve of the result of these works - the spirit of antiquity, the soul of the suburb, has disappeared. But still, this place is one of the most beloved in the city, despite its decorative effect.

In the Trinity Suburb there are a large number of cafes, shops, souvenir shops and museums. Among the latter, the Museum of Belarusian Literature, which is located on M. Bogdanovich Street, stands out. On Starovilenskaya Street there is a branch of the State Museum of the History of Theater and Musical Culture of the Republic of Belarus (V. Golubka's living room). In addition, the Literary Museum of Maxim Bogdanovich was opened in the Trinity Suburb.

Having visited the Trinity Suburb, it is impossible to pass by the Island of Tears. This island is a monument to fallen soldiers. It was opened in 1996, it was originally conceived as a monument to the soldiers who died in Afghanistan. Now the Island of Tears is intended to remind of all the natives of Belarus who died in wars on the territory of our country and abroad. The central element of the memorial is the chapel, it resembles the Church of the Holy Savior, built by Efrosinya of Polotsk. The base of the monument consists of figures of mothers mourning their sons. Mourns the heroes who did not save, and the angel. The authors of the memorial were the sculptor Yu. Pavlov and the architects M. Korolev, T. Koroleva-Pavlova, V. Laptsevich, G. Pavlova, A. Pavlov, D. Khomyakov. From here - from the Island of Tears - a beautiful view of the Trinity Suburb, the Upper City, as well as Pobediteley Avenue

It is probably difficult to find a place in Minsk that would be better known to tourists than the Trinity Suburb. This is the visiting card of the city, the image of which can be found both on postcards, stamps, souvenirs, and on some banknotes.

View of the suburb from the Nemiga (photo: Sergey Sandakov, 2009)

Trinity Suburb is the historical center of Minsk located on the banks of the Svisloch River. This is one of the few places in the capital where paving stones have been preserved, and low houses make your imagination move a couple of centuries back…

Trinity suburb in winter (photo: Anton Makovsky, 2011)

Historians believe that the Trinity Suburb area was already inhabited in the 12th-13th centuries, and numerous references to this territory in written sources of the 16th-17th centuries allow us to judge the presence of a city center here in the 14th-15th centuries. The area was built up with wooden houses in which artisans, merchants, peasants and soldiers lived.

In 1809, a terrible fire destroyed all the wooden buildings of the Trinity Suburb. The architectural layout of the area, which has survived to this day, the inhabitants of the city owe to the plan for the restoration of the suburbs, developed after the fire.

Historical center of Minsk (photo: Sergei Sandakov, 2013)

In the 80s. 20th century restoration work was carried out to attract tourists to the Trinity suburb. Unfortunately, the restorers failed to avoid extremes: present view of the suburb has little in common with the historical, and part of the buildings of the XVII century. along the Communal Embankment and was completely demolished. Moreover, literally a hundred meters from the suburbs, a 25-storey residential complex "At Troitsky" was erected, during the construction of which the provisions of the Law on the Protection of Historical and Cultural Heritage were not taken into account ...

"At Troitsky" /on the left in the photo/ (Sergey Sandakov, 2013)

Today, the Trinity Suburb area is home to many museums, shops, cafes and restaurants.

Houses of the Trinity Suburb (photo: Anna Zelenko, 2005)

The largest object in size on the territory of the suburb is located in the center of the square, which is the area of ​​the Paris Commune. This is a favorite resting place for citizens, where even in the summer heat you can find a pleasant coolness, sitting on a bench in the shade of tall trees.

Museums of the Trinity Suburb

1. State Museum of the History of Belarusian Literature (Bogdanovicha St., 13)
2. Literary Museum of Maksim Bogdanovich (Bogdanovich str., 7A)
3. Branch of the State Museum of the History of Theatrical and Musical Culture of Belarus "Vladislav Golubka's Living Room" (Starovilenskaya St., 14)
4. House of Nature (Bogdanovich St., 9A)
5. Trinity Pharmacy (Storozhevskaya St., 3)
6. Art Gallery "Beaumond" (Communal embankment, 2)

• There is a legend that a mighty oak grew on Trinity Hill, near which many kings of the Commonwealth stopped to rest on their way to Minsk.
• From the end of the XVI century to the middle. 20th century on the site of the square and the Opera House was the largest market of the capital - Trinity.
• The fates of two classics of Belarusian literature sang in the Trinity Suburb: Maxim Bogdanovich, who was born here, and Yanka Kupala, whose family also lived in the suburb for some time.

How to get there

You can get to the Trinity Suburb by metro, exit at the Nemiga station