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Famous BelarussiansA large part of his life – including gaps spanning entire years – remains a mystery for Tadeusz Andrzej Kosciuszko biographers. Even his birth date. He was born around 1130 in the city of Turov , capital of a powerful principality, the city with developed culture (the oldest hand-written manuscript of Belarus the Turov Gospels of XII century was kept there). Vseslav Brachislavich is the most famous Polotsk prince he ruled from 1044 till 1101 and gained a nickname "the Magician". Nowadays Vitebsk is well known as Mark Shagal’s motherland, perhaps, he was the only artist who loved his native town so much, that painted it in almost every work of him. The first prince of the Great Principality of Lithuania (union of the chronicled Litva, situated in the central part of contemporary Belarus, and Polotsk principality) with the capital in Novogrudok. There is a modest white church on the territory of Saint-Efrosinya Monastery, which attracts orthodox pilgrims and tourists from all over the world.
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You will get acquainted with the thousand years old history of the city development, get to know about its interesting and difficult destiny, have a stroll about Trajetskaje Pradmestse (Trinity Suburb) and the Upper Market – one of oldest places of Minsk.
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