Peski village is an attractive holiday destination in Belarus
Among the 15 agricultural towns of the Berezovsky district, the largest in terms of the number of residents and occupied area is Peski. Peski has been known as one of the oldest settlements in the Berezov region since 1503.
About the name of the village. One of the legends tells that in the estate belonging to the heir of Lev Sapieha, there was a pack of dogs. In Polish, a dog is a dog, hence the name. But there is also such an interpretation: the first settlers who got here, remembered the sand, which was neither passable nor passable.
By the way, the name of localities Peski is quite common, for example, there are villages of the same name in Kobrin, Pukhovichi, Mostovsky district, etc.
Starye Peski began with the Peski Estate (a monument of classical architecture and landscape art), owned by Aleksander Jagiellończyk on the northern shore of Lake Chernoe.
In 1503, Dmitry Kiyanin received the estate under the priviley of King Alexander. Through the dowry of great-granddaughter Barbara Sirutseva at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, it went to Yakub Puslovsky, podstoly Rechitsky, starost Okshatynsky, who bore the rare title of “royal oatmeal” (responsible for fodder for the royal stables). In the 17th century, Peski became the main residence of this kind of coat of arms of Szelig, which belonged to more than 3 centuries. Representatives of the family were major entrepreneurs, patrons, philanthropists, funders of palaces and temples.
At the moment, several outbuildings have been preserved from the estate complex in the village of Peski, the northern (entrance gate) and western brama and the manor wooden house itself. The stone gate that formed the entrance to the estate is designed in the neo-Gothic style. The gate is flanked by round cross-section towers, ending in a crenellated frame, and has a passage in the center in the form of a wide pointed arch, which was previously equipped with a drawbridge. The gate ends with a two-stage crenellated attic. The walls are decorated with relief belts, weights, crosses, coats of arms, and geometric ornaments. Adjacent to the gate is a one-story guardhouse, also decorated with a crenellated parapet and a pointed arch. This gate has a lot in common with the Bread Gate of the Tsaritsyno estate near Moscow-the work of a major Russian architect Bazhenov. In similar neo-Gothic forms, a small rectangular one-story outbuilding is also designed. Its facades are completed with a crenellated parapet, loosened by high and slender pointed niches.
At the end of the XVIII century, a palace was built (burned down in 1843), a stable, later rebuilt for housing and preserved to this day, as well as an entrance gate, a park made of rare tree species. Here grow species of oak (red and common), coniferous trees (Weimuth pine, European larch), local hardwoods. Once upon a time, to the right of the manor house was a two-story stone greenhouse “Pavilion of Roses” in the classicist style, in the architecture of which the motifs of the famous villa rotunda of the largest Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio were used.
Also in the village of Peski there is another small attraction, namely the wooden Trinity Church, built in 1827. This monument of wooden architecture of the early 19th century is also a remarkable object for tourists and travelers. Church is a place of balance and spiritual calm of the human soul. Coming to church, during the service, everyone gets the opportunity to get closer to God, to purify their soul. But not many people can imagine that church life does not end with prayer, but only begins…
Distilleries and brovars on our lands have existed for a long time. Count Frantishek Ksavery Puslovsky was the first to set up industrial production of alcohol. A distillery was built in Starye Peski in 1870, and it can be fully described as the first full-fledged industrial enterprise in the Berezov region. One of the main entertainments of the gentlemen was playing cards, and Count Wladyslaw Puslowski was so successful in this business that he won a distillation column in Warsaw at cards, which served at the distillery for many years before its reconstruction. It was this column that became a big breakthrough in the production of alcohol, as at that time it was the only one in Belarus that allowed obtaining first-class products.
The last owner of the estate was Vladislav (1871–1964), the son of Františka Xavier, who was married to Princess Christina Maria Pignateli, but he lived in Albertina.
The family of his youngest son Frantishka lived in Pisky until 1939. The estate’s land holdings in 1890 amounted to 11,774 tithes.
An idea of it is given by one of the lithographs from the watercolors of Napoleon Horde (1865)
and Yu’s notes.Nemtsevich, who visited the estate in 1819. The central position in the estate was occupied by the palace, located in the middle of the park. From him, according to the memoirs of Yu. Nemtsevich, who was received by Wojtech, had a picturesque panorama of the lake, the opposite bank of which seemed “ … a pale, blue strip, which was sometimes interrupted by green guy. Flocks of birds, white sails of fishing boats further emphasized the picturesque landscape.” The palace had a rich collection of paintings by domestic and foreign artists, an archive, a library of mostly French and Polish publications, a collection of ancient manuscripts, and a collection of weapons. Yu.Nemtsevich also mentions a beautiful church built by Voitech Puslovsky in the “fourth part of a mile from the palace”, which had a rare collection of icons.
The estate, which was laid out using romantic motifs, is compositionally disordered, neglected, but it is of cultural and historical value. Hydro-reclamation works along the lake shore had a negative impact on the state of the park. Bramas are in urgent need of conservation.
Since 1940, Peski has been the center of the village Council. There is a distillery, three schools, a steam and windmill, an outpatient clinic, a medical center, a reading hut, a post office, a hospital, and a shop.
In 1941–1944, Old Sands and New Sands were occupied by Nazi invaders. In the forest near the village of Starye Peski, the Berezovsky underground district committees of the CP(b)were basedB and LKSMB, editorial office of the underground newspaper “Flame”, partisan detachments.
One of the main types of natural resources is the forest and lakes, which cover almost the entire territory.
Lake Chernoe is located near the village of Peski. It is located in the basin of the Zhigulyanka River, which flows through the lake. The Drohobuzhka River comes out of the lake. With an area of 17.7 km2, Lake Chernoe is one of the ten largest reservoirs in Belarus.
The water volume is 23.01 million m3. According to this indicator, Lake Chernoe ranks 40th in the country. The length of the coastline reaches up to twenty kilometers. Great place for fishing, relaxing and swimming.
It is home to many types of fish: perch, white cupid, ruff, bream, roach and others. In the lake and its surroundings, a variety of vegetation is abundant. There are also a lot of berries — lingonberries, blueberries, raspberries, cranberries. In the forests surrounding the reservoir, you can find porcini mushrooms, aspen mushrooms, chanterelles.
How to get there: The most important transport routes of Belarus pass through the territory of the district: the Moscow — Brest highway, the Moscow — Warsaw railway. Directions: by car: on the M1 highway to Minsk, from Minsk to Beloozersk (about 235 km): on the M1 highway to the intersection with the R136 highway, turn left, on the R136 highway (Voiteshin (from the R2/E85 highway)-Khomsk-Drogichin) to Beloozersk (about 10 km) Lake Chernoe is located 1.5 km east of Belozersk. by train: to the station “Bronnaya Gora”, from the station “Bronnaya Gora” daily train Brest-Beloozersk (departure at 22:20) or by regular bus to Beloozersk, also from the bus station daily regular buses. Also by connecting buses from Brest and Minsk.
Where you can check in, have an interesting time and have a delicious meal: farmsteads “Shchedry Zayats”, “Sporovskaya”, “Nadezhda Planeta”, “Russian cuisine”, “Belye Rosy”, “Priozernaya”, “Khutorok”, “Banka v Peski”, “Zapovednoye”, “Gribnaya”, “ Shchedry hare”, “Zubachi’s arrival”, “Niva”,” Cornflower “ http://bereza.gov.by/new_page_7_3124/
Peski village is an attractive holiday destination in Belarus
