I love berry season!!!!!

Do you like berries? I love them! I am very pleased that the beginning of berry season!!!!

Belarus is rich in berries. In the woods a lot of blueberries, strawberries, raspberries. A little later came cranberries and cranberry.

In private gardens already finished strawberry fruit, but ripe raspberry, currant and cherry.

I love berries, and is unlikely to be able to tell which of them is the favorite. We eats them with sugar and milk, with ice cream, make cocktails, compotes cook. And that's not all.

Look what I brought today. Nyam-Nyam.

Chamber music

Do you like music? No.. Do you like chamber music?
There is a unique acoustics in The Sophia Cathedral.The oldest Czech firm “Riger Kloss» designed and established an organ and the concert hall of chamber music was open there in 1983.
So, velcome ! The concert of organ music takes place every weekend there. You will so lucky if visit Polotsk in November -many composers, musicants and soloists from different countries arrive in Polotsk and take part in the great festival called “The Bells of Sophia“.

You can see there

Ancient Laying

Coins from Kozyanki hidden treasure

Miniatures

A Model of Sophia cathedral ( 11 century)

Beautiful interior
and many other things....

The Sophia Cathedral

The first place you should visit – The Sophia Cathedral. Its constructed by Vseslav the Wizard in the middle of 11 century. The cathedral was religious, political, economic and cultural center of all Polotsk land.
Nowadays there is a museum of a history of architecture of the cathedral ( since 1987)

Lets start!!!

Someone ask me: « Is Belarus interesting for traveler?»
Of course !!!!!!!
Belarus today — is the country of century-old culture having hundreds of architectural monuments dating back to the 12th century; National parks and reserves, splendid places for recreation and leisure, areas covered with legends. This is the land, which gave birth to the thousands of celebrities in all aspects of human activity and this is the land of very hospitable people…
So, I try to tell you about what you should see in Belarus.
And I start from … Polotsk. Why? So, it’s the most ancient town in Belarus. And its my place of birth!!!

So, Polotsk is the most ancient city of Belarus and of all Eastern Slavs. It was mentioned for the first time by the ancient Slavonic Chronical « Story of Bygone Years » in 862.
Due to its very convenient geographical position( on « the road from Varangians to the Greeks») it carried out trade with many European cities and states. So its culture and economy grew rather rapidly. And very soon Polotsk was a center of a powerful Polotsk Principality which was competing in unifying Eastern Slavs with Russian Novgorod and Ukrainian Kiev.

At the photo - hotel "Dvina"

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!

Hi everyone, from all my heart I wish you a Happy New Year 2009. I wish that the New Year will bring hapiness in your family and that all your dreams come true.

H ours of happy times with friends and family
A bundant time for relaxation
P rosperity
P lenty of love when you need it the most
Y outhful excitement at lifes simple pleasures


N ights of restful slumber (you know - dont' worry be happy)
E verything you need
W ishing you love and light

Y ears and years of good health
E njoyment and mirth
A angels to watch over you
R embrances of a happy years!

Where did the Name "Belarus" Come From?

       Belarus (Belaya Rus) means "White Russia”. It is a very old term, and there's still no exact version of its origin.
      Historians say that:
1. "White" in old Slavic languages meant "free," pointing to the fact that Belarus was never invaded by the Tatars or under their control, unlike the other principalities later i Rus n the 13th - 15th centuries.
2. "White " that this name is older and served as a difference between Kievan Rus, "Black Rus" - a small territory in the western part of modern Belarus, and the territory known as "White Rus".
      What opinion more correct?
      They dont no. But it is clear that it is very old and originally corresponded to the territory where the ancestors of the Belarusians lived and where our republic located.
       By the way, some people say that Belarus is "white Rus because:
-there are a lot of birch trees in Belarus
- there are a lot storks
- belorusian are fair-haired, light-eyed and they carried white linen clothes
but these opinions are not supported by serious historians.