Where to go: Korets

You should take with you:

• - headdress for travelers;
• - clock;
• - a collection of poems by Alexander Pushkin;
• - readiness to look into the beehive-monastery;
• - ten hryvnias.

From time immemorial, Korechchyna was the (epic) center of spirituality. Only here there is a unique village, where a priest lives in almost every house. The natives preach the word of God even in Japan. Another phenomenon of Korets, (certainly sacred) is that here - the highest concentration of churches. In the town, where a little more than 7 thousand locals, there are as many as ten temples. For this it is called the local Mecca. And the most significant attraction is the Holy Trinity Convent. He is one of the few who was not closed by the Soviet authorities.

The monastery was founded by Prince Samuel Koretsky. And among the nuns were the sisters-princesses. It was they who started the artistic tradition of embroidering with gold. Her. By the way, support to this day. There is a miraculous icon in the monastery, a well with healing water, and stories about the patrons of the monastery. One of them is about Pushkin's first bride Anna Andro (as a girl, Olenina). She, by the way, is buried here.

So if it is interesting to hear how a secular beauty from St. Petersburg, who was in love with a genius poet, found herself in Korca, why the clock is not turned behind the walls of the monastery, and still worship the ancestral icon of the Koretsky princes, which works wonders, see the monastery apiary with hives in in the form of temples, then this route is for you.