This tour introduces you to the historical and cultural values and the main sights of the Belarusian Polesie. Along the route you will see a number of ancient religious buildings of various faiths; visit an ancient manor, a picturesque park with a rich history, an interesting museum, and finally you will have an unforgettable journey through the pristine marshes with amazing flora and fauna preserved only here. PS: the places here are rich in attractions, and it is not possible to include them in the program of one day, so they are divided into several excursions that are available on this website.

Our tour starts near the church, which was built in 1718 in the style of the Polessky school of wooden architecture with Baroque elements.

Dubenets. Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God.

The stone two-storey Olesha palace was built at the end of the 19th century.
The building is now in a neglected state. 
There is a large park around the palace, which was laid out in the English style.
The famous Soviet writer Yuri Karlovich Olesha (1899-1960), whom we know well from his work "Three Fat Men", comes from this family.

Berezhnoye. Olesha Manor.

The temple was built in 1884 on the foundation of an old church according to the traditions of Polesie folk architecture.

Berezhnoye. Paraskeva Pyantitsa Church.

Berezhnoye. The Church of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa.

St. Michael's Church was built of wood in 1796, and is a unique monument of the Belarusian Polesie school of wooden architecture combined with elements of the Baroque style.
On the territory of the church there is an almost three-meter bronze monument to Archangel Michael, whose name the ancient church bears. 

   St. Michael's Church is the main attraction of the agricultural town of Rubel. 

Rubel. St. Michael's Church.

The wooden Church of the Holy Trinity was built in 1906.
The interior has a four-tiered iconostasis with icons and banners.
During the war and during the Soviet years, the shrine always worked.

Belousha. Trinity Church.

The park, founded in 1885, houses a museum with a rich exposition highlighting the history of the Radziwill residence, a memorial stone, a group of boulders with sacred signs, and one of the entrances is decorated with wrought-iron gates.
The ancient park with large clearings, beautiful compositions and many exotic plants continues to amaze and inspire, and the old oak tree points to the place where the palace used to be.

Stolin. Mankovichi Park

To date, the museum has more than 20 thousand exhibits on display: collections of photographic documents, bonistics, numismatics, faleristics and much more, as well as a model of the Radziwill Palace, which used to decorate the estate. 

Stolin. Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The Stolin Synagogue was built in 1642 and is one of the oldest synagogues.
This synagogue is a unique monument of Jewish architecture in the transition period from Baroque to Classicism in the country.

The Main Synagogue

Stolin Synagogue

The architectural style of the Ascension Church, built in 1870, combines elements of traditional Russian Orthodox architecture and local building traditions. 
The interior of the Ascension Church is decorated with exquisite frescoes and icons.

Ascension Church

Stolin. Ascension Church

St. Elijah's Church was built in the 18th century during the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the traditions of folk wooden architecture with Baroque features.
There is a park with a lake that belonged to the Olesha family, along with a neo-Gothic palace that has not survived to this day.

Nizhny Terebezhov. St. Elijah's Church.

The church was built in a pseudo-Russian style.
The interior of the temple has an iconostasis with ancient icons from the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as a valuable copy of the Gospel from the 18th century.

Bukhlichi. Church of the Nativity of the Virgin.

The temple was built according to ancient Orthodox canons in 1903.
The interior has a two-tiered iconostasis with icons from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Olmany. Church of the Resurrection of Christ.

The largest complex of lowland, upland and transitional marshes, where sand dunes overgrown with pine and deciduous forests, as well as floodplain oak forests, have been preserved to this day in an intact state.
You can visit the Olmany Marshes ecological trail. To book an excursion, you will first need to contact the regional Museum of Local Lore in Stolin.

Stolin region (route 2): Dubenets-Berezhnoye-Rubel-Belousha-Stolin-Nizhny Terebezhov-Bukhlichi-Olmany-Olmany Marshes Landscape Reserve.

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