Glubokoe. Berezvechsky Basilian monastery.

Berezvechye, now a district of the city of Glubokoe, was once a separate suburb located near Lake Velikoe. This place, where spirituality, history and tragedy are intertwined, is connected with the Berezvechsky monastery of Basilian, whose fate is full of ups and downs.

In the 17th century, Joseph Korsak handed over Berezvechye to the Uniates, which served as the foundation for the monastery. In the period from 1756 to 1763, a stone complex was built according to the project of the Vilno architect Johann Glaubitz. The complex included a church and monastery buildings surrounded by a fence.

The monastery's history is rich in events. In 1839, it switched from Uniates to Orthodox, and in 1901 it became a convent. After 1919, the church became Catholic, and the monastery buildings were used to house Polish troops, as the Soviet-Polish border was located nearby. Unfortunately, the church was destroyed in the 1970s.

Since 1939, Berezvechye became a place of detention for political prisoners, and in 1941 Stalag camp No. 351 was established here, where about 27,000 Soviet and Italian prisoners of war died. The bodies of the dead were dumped into Lake Velikoe, which still preserves the memory of the tragedy. Locals avoid swimming in the lake in memory of the victims.

Despite the destruction of the church, the monastery buildings have survived to this day. They currently house a correctional colony.

An obelisk monument commemorating the fallen prisoners of war has been erected in the Borok tract.