Belarusian ARTS, MUSIC & DANCE on Sovetska Street (Budget Travel Belarus) {Grodno, BELARUS}
Budget Travel Belarus #4
With a reputation as a welcoming city, the soul of Grodno, Belarus is found on its pedestrian-only Sovetska Street. When the cars are gone, Belarusian arts, music and dance can flourish.
On weekends along Sovetska, local artists and musicians are on public display in this festive atmosphere. While historically Grodno had always been important, it has only been in the past couple of years when Belarus has opened its borders for visa-free travel to the city.
Take a leisurely stroll with Matt as he samples the arts, music, dance and cultural scene of Grodno as the vendors and performers open their stalls and spaces for him to enjoy the joie de vivre.
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Archaeological excavations in the Old Grodno Castle in 2015
Archaeological excavations in the Old Grodno Castle in 2015
Catholic churches of Belarus
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Grodno City Tour, 2018
The must-see historic Belarusian city of Grodno / Hrodna offers a wealth of heritage: churches, monasteries, old buildings surviving in entire blocks, not to mention the green parks and the embankment of the Neman river! It's definitely worth a day and a night before leaving for Brest or Minsk (more on minsktours.by)!
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The culture of Belarus is the product of a millennium of development under the impact of a number of diverse factors.These include the physical environment; the ethnographic background of Belarusians ; the paganism of the early settlers and their hosts; Byzantine Christianity as a link to the Orthodox religion and its literary tradition; the country's lack of natural borders; the flow of rivers toward both the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea; and the variety of religions in the region .An early Western influence on Belarusian culture was Magdeburg Law—charters that granted municipal self-rule and were based on the laws of German cities.These charters were granted in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by grand dukes and kings to a number of cities, including Brest, Grodno, Slutsk, and Minsk.
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The Jews in Belarus were the third largest ethnic group in the country in the first half of the 20th century. Before World War II, Jews were the third among the ethnic groups in Belarus and comprised more than 40% of the population in cities and towns. The population of cities such as Minsk, Pinsk, Mahiliou, Babrujsk, Viciebsk, and Homiel was more than 50% Jewish. In 1939 there were 375,000 Jews in Belarus, or 13.6% of the total population. Some 246,000 Jews of 375,000—66% of the Jewish population—were killed in Belarus during the Holocaust. According to the 2009 national census, there were 12,926 self-identifying Jews in Belarus. The Jewish Agency estimates the community of Jews in Belarus at 20,000. However, the number of Belarusians with Jewish descent is assumed to be higher.
Culture Of Belarus
The '''culture of Belarus''' is the product of a millennium of development under the impact of a number of diverse factors. These include the physical environment; the ethnographic background of Belarusians ( the merger of Slavic newcomers with Baltic natives ) ; the paganism of the early settlers and their hosts; Eastern Orthodox Christianity as a link to the Byzantine literary and cultural traditions; the country's lack of natural borders; the flow of rivers toward both the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea; and the variety of religions in the region ( Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Judaism, and Islam ) . An early Western influence on Belarusian culture was Magdeburg Law charters that granted municipal self-rule and were based on the laws of German cities. These charters were granted in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by grand dukes and kings to a number of cities, including Brest, Grodno, Slutsk, and Minsk. The tradition of self-government not only facilitated contacts with Western Europe but also nurtured self-reliance, entrepreneurship, and a sense of civic responsibility. In 1517-19 Francysk Skaryna ( ca. 1490-1552 ) translated the Bible into the vernacular ( Old Belarusian ) . Under the communist regime, Skaryna's work was vastly undervalued, but in independent Belarus he became an inspiration for the emerging national consciousness as much for his advocacy of the Belarusian language as for his humanistic ideas. From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, when the ideas of humanism, the Renaissance, and the Reformation were alive in Western Europe, these ideas were debated in Belarus as well because of trade relations there and because of the enrollment of noblemen's and burghers' sons in Western universities. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation also contributed greatly to the flourishing of polemical writings as well as to the spread of printing houses and schools. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Poland and Russia were making deep political and cultural inroads in Belarus by assimilating the nobility into their respective cultures, the rulers succeeded in associating Belarusian culture primarily with peasant ways, folklore, ethnic dress, and ethnic customs, with an overlay of Christianity. This was the point of departure for some national activists who attempted to attain statehood for their nation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The development of Belarusian literature, spreading the idea of nationhood for the Belarusians, was epitomized by the literary works of Yanka Kupala ( 1882–1942 ) and Yakub Kolas ( 1882–1956 ) . The works of these poets, along with several other outstanding writers, became the classics of modern Belarusian literature by writing widely on rural themes ( the countryside was where the writers heard the Belarusian language ) and by modernizing the Belarusian literary language, which had been little used since the sixteenth century. Postindependence authors in the 1990s continued to use rural themes widely. Unlike literature's focus on rural life, other fields of culture painting, sculpture, music, film, and theater centered on urban reality, universal concerns, and universal values.
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The history of the Jews in Lithuania spans the period from the 8th century to the present day. There is still a small community in that country, as well as an extensive Lithuanian Jewish diaspora in Israel, the United States and other countries. For more detail, see Lithuanian Jews.
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00:05:23 1 Etymology
00:10:47 2 History
00:10:56 2.1 Early history
00:12:10 2.2 Principality of Polotsk
00:12:46 2.3 Grand Duchy of Lithuania
00:14:57 2.4 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
00:17:22 2.5 Russian Empire
00:19:44 2.6 Belarusian People's Republic
00:20:43 2.7 Republic of Central Lithuania
00:22:21 2.8 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
00:27:24 2.9 Independence
00:28:46 2.10 Post-independence
00:30:25 3 Geography and climate
00:34:07 4 Governance
00:37:30 4.1 Election controversies
00:39:51 4.2 Corruption
00:40:35 4.3 Human rights
00:42:38 4.4 Foreign relations
00:47:17 4.5 Military
00:49:15 4.6 Administrative divisions
00:51:10 4.7 Capital punishment
00:51:39 5 Economy
00:51:48 5.1 Industry
00:57:33 6 Demographics
00:58:47 6.1 Languages
01:01:44 6.2 Religion
01:02:28 7 Culture
01:04:37 7.1 Arts and literature
01:04:46 7.2 Dress
01:09:57 7.3 Cuisine
01:10:47 7.4 Sport
01:11:33 7.5 Telecommunications
01:14:17 7.6 World Heritage Sites
01:15:00 8 See also
01:15:27 9 References
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Belarus (; Belarusian: Беларусь, IPA: [bʲɛlaˈrusʲ]), officially the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian: Рэспубліка Беларусь, Russian: Республика Беларусь), formerly known by its Russian name Byelorussia or Belorussia (Russian: Белоруссия), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital and most populous city is Minsk. Over 40% of its 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) is forested. Its major economic sectors are service industries and manufacturing. Until the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus, including the Principality of Polotsk (11th to 14th centuries), the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire.
In the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Belarus declared independence as the Belarusian People's Republic, which was conquered by Soviet Russia. The Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia became a founding constituent republic of the Soviet Union in 1922 and was renamed as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Byelorussian SSR). Belarus lost almost half of its territory to Poland after the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Much of the borders of Belarus took their modern shape in 1939, when some lands of the Second Polish Republic were reintegrated into it after the Soviet invasion of Poland, and were finalized after World War II. During WWII, military operations devastated Belarus, which lost about a third of its population and more than half of its economic resources. The republic was redeveloped in the post-war years. In 1945 the Byelorussian SSR became a founding member of the United Nations, along with the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian SSR.The parliament of the republic proclaimed the sovereignty of Belarus on 27 July 1990, and during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Belarus declared independence on 25 August 1991. Alexander Lukashenko has served as the country's first president since 1994. Belarus has been labeled Europe's last dictatorship by some Western journalists, on account of Lukashenko's self-described authoritarian style of government. Lukashenko continued a number of Soviet-era policies, such as state ownership of large sections of the economy. Elections under Lukashenko's rule have been widely criticized as unfair; and according to many countries and organizations, political opposition has been violently suppressed. Belarus is also the last country in Europe using the death penalty. Belarus's Democracy Index rating is the lowest in Europe, the country is labelled as no ...
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The history of the Jews in Lithuania spans the period from the 8th century to the present day. There is still a small community in that country, as well as an extensive Lithuanian Jewish diaspora in Israel, the United States and other countries. For more detail, see Lithuanian Jews.
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Jews in Russia have historically constituted a large religious diaspora; the vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. Within these territories the primarily Ashkenazi Jewish communities of many different areas flourished and developed many of modern Judaism's most distinctive theological and cultural traditions, while also facing periods of anti-Semitic discriminatory policies and persecutions. The largest group among Russian Jews are Ashkenazi Jews, but the community also includes a significant number of other Diasporan Jewish groups, such as Mountain Jews, Sephardic Jews, Crimean Karaites, Krymchaks, Bukharan Jews, and Georgian Jews.
The presence of Jewish people in the European part of Russia can be traced to the 7th–14th centuries CE. In the 11th and 12th centuries, the Jewish population in Kiev, in present-day Ukraine, was restricted to a separate quarter. Evidence of the presence of Jewish people in Muscovite Russia is first documented in the chronicles of 1471. During the reign of Catherine II in the 18th century, Jewish people were restricted to the Pale of Settlement within Russia, the territory where they could live or immigrate to. Alexander III escalated anti-Jewish policies. Beginning in the 1880s, waves of anti-Jewish pogroms swept across different regions of the empire for several decades. More than two million Jews fled Russia between 1880 and 1920, mostly to the United States and what is today the State of Israel.The Pale of Settlement took away many of the rights that the Jewish people of the late 17th century Russia were experiencing. At this time, the Jewish people were restricted to an area of what is current day Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. Where Western Europe was experiencing emancipation at this time, the laws for the Jewish people were getting more strict. The general attitude towards Jewish people was to look down on the religion and the people. It was as both a religion and a race, something that one could not escape if they tried. Slowly, the Jewish people were allowed to move further east towards a less crowded population. This was a small change, and did not come to all Jewish people, and not even a small minority of them. In this more spread out area, the Jewish people lived in communities, known as Schtetls. These communities were very similar to what would be known as ghettos in World War II, with the cramped and subpar living conditions.Before 1917 there were 300,000 Zionists in Russia, while the main Jewish socialist organization, the Bund, had 33,000 members. Only 958 Jews had joined the Bolshevik Party before 1917; thousands joined after the Revolution. The chaotic years of World War I, the February and October Revolutions, and the Russian Civil War had created social disruption that led to anti-Semitism. Some 150,000 Jews were killed in the pogroms of 1918–1922, 125,000 of them in Ukraine, 25,000 in Belarus. The pogroms were mostly perpetrated by anti-communist forces; sometimes, Red Army units engaged in pogroms as well. After a short period of confusion, the Soviets started executing guilty individuals and even disbanding the army units whose men had attacked Jews. Although pogroms were still perpetrated after this, mainly by Ukrainian units of the Red Army during its retreat from Poland (1920), in general, the Jews regarded the Red Army as the only force which was able and willing to defend them. The Russian Civil War pogroms shocked world Jewry and rallied many Jews to the Red Army and the Soviet regime, and also strengthened the desire for the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people.In August 1919 the Soviet government arrested many rabbis, seized Jewish properties, including synagogues, and dissolved many Jewish communities. The Jewish section of the Communist Party labeled the use of the Hebrew language reactionary and elitist and the teaching of Hebrew was banned ...
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00:00:41 1 Worldwide
00:01:47 1.1 Standing buildings
00:03:11 2 By country
00:03:20 2.1 Africa
00:03:29 2.1.1 Algeria
00:03:56 2.1.2 Egypt
00:04:20 2.1.3 Libya
00:04:38 2.1.4 Tunisia
00:05:31 2.1.5 South Africa
00:06:01 2.2 Asia
00:06:09 2.2.1 Afghanistan
00:06:27 2.2.2 India
00:09:18 2.2.3 Iraq
00:10:24 2.2.4 Israel
00:12:18 2.2.5 Jordan
00:12:34 2.2.6 Lebanon
00:13:40 2.2.7 Myanmar
00:14:06 2.2.8 West Bank
00:15:08 2.2.9 Syria
00:16:03 2.2.10 Turkey
00:18:05 2.3 Australia
00:18:49 2.4 Europe
00:21:59 2.4.1 Albania
00:22:41 2.4.2 Austria
00:24:59 2.4.3 Belarus
00:25:21 2.4.4 Bosnia
00:25:49 2.4.5 Croatia
00:27:36 2.4.6 Czech Republic
00:28:00 2.4.7 Denmark
00:28:15 2.4.8 France
00:29:44 2.4.9 Germany
00:30:26 2.4.10 Greece
00:31:02 2.4.11 Hungary
00:31:35 2.4.12 Ireland
00:32:10 2.4.13 Italy
00:33:42 2.4.14 Macedonia
00:34:49 2.4.15 Netherlands
00:35:22 2.4.16 Poland
00:36:38 2.4.17 Portugal
00:38:03 2.4.18 Romania
00:38:20 2.4.19 Russia
00:38:49 2.4.20 Spain
00:40:00 2.4.21 Slovenia
00:40:42 2.4.22 Ukraine
00:41:08 2.4.23 United Kingdom
00:42:04 2.5 North America
00:42:32 2.5.1 Canada
00:42:59 2.5.2 United States
00:44:43 2.6 South America and Caribbean
00:44:53 2.6.1 Recife, Brazil
00:45:24 2.6.2 Jamaica
00:46:03 2.6.3 Barbados
00:46:27 2.6.4 Argentina
00:46:52 2.6.5 Suriname
00:47:33 2.6.6 Curaçao
00:48:30 2.6.7 Sint Eustatius
00:48:56 2.6.8 St Thomas – United States Virgin Islands
00:49:16 3 See also
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Synagogues may be considered oldest based on different criteria. Many very old synagogues have been discovered in archaeological digs. Some synagogues have been destroyed and rebuilt several times on the same site, so, while the site or congregation may be ancient, the building may be modern. Still other very old synagogue buildings exist, but have been used for many centuries as churches, mosques, or for other purposes. And some very old synagogues have been in continuous use as synagogues for many centuries.
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Гродненский домик майстра небольшая прогулка, обзор Grodno Maistrov house a short walk, a review
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Гродненский домик майстра. Построен в 1768 - 1773 гг. арх. Мезером и Сакко. Одно из сохранившихся возведенных зданий для заграничных мануфактур. Домик - пример первой типовой жилой застройки конца XVIII в. Барочный фасад построен из кирпича и оштукатурен. Остальные стены из деревянного бруса. Такое соединение создавало впечатление застройки улицы каменными домами. В 1990 году здание передано музею Городища.
Grodno house Maistre. Built in 1768 - 1773 years. architect Mather and Sacco. One of the surviving buildings erected for overseas factories. House - a typical example of the first residential development in the late XVIII. Baroque façade is built of brick and plastered. The remaining walls of timber. This compound gave the impression of building street stone houses. In 1990 the building was transferred to the museum Mounds.