Where, where? In Non-Moscow! The village of Lyutye Boloty
There are many bizarre names of settlements in Russian regions. Village Loch, farmstead Fun Life or a village Greedy people "NeMoskva" wrote about them. Today we're heading to a village with an unfriendly name. Fierce Swamps.
📍The village is located in the Porkhov settlement of the Pskov regionThe etymology of the name is mysterious, as the settlement is located on a dry, elevated site. Some believe that the village was surrounded by impassable swamps in ancient times. There is even local legendIt's said that Peter the Great's army once found itself in those swamps, and the soldiers sank a cannon there. The Tsar, they say, cursed the place and called it "fierce," meaning merciless and merciless. Today, the swamps can be found closer to the regional center—Podsadskoye and Molkovskoye, about a hundred kilometers from the Fierce Swamps— Polistovsky natural a nature reserve with vast wetlands.
📍Tourists come to Lyutye Boloty because of the name, but mostly they visit the ruins Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior, which was first mentioned in 1414. It is located 12 kilometers from the village, and is all that remains of the Velikopustynsky Monastery. According to some sources, was kept here The oldest icon of the Pskov school, dating from the mid-14th century, is "Christ Almighty." Locals believed it protected them from plagues, fires, and Lithuanian raids.
In the 1930s, the monastery was destroyed, and the icon ended up in the Pskov Museum-Reserve. In modern times, it has been transferred to the Spaso-Eleazarovsky Monastery for "temporary storage." The church was not restored during the Soviet era; attempts were made to restore it in the 2010s, but they were unsuccessful. not finished.
📍What else is the village famous for? Perhaps the poet's song Gleb Gorbovsky, which contains the following lines:
The village of Lyutye Bolota
Hanging mosquito noise
Planes drilled through the night
keeping old people awake
📍And in Lyutye Boloty they also love the Village Day holiday and celebrate it on a grand scale. On other days, there's not much to celebrate: there's practically no work in the village, and Pskov volunteers organize activities for the residents. humanitarian aidThe village is dying out. In 2000, it had a population of 225 people; by 2020, left a little over a hundred.
