…so, go to the page of the tour, typing in the browser address database “Heritage of Brest fortress” www.brestdatabase.by. On the screen – views of the Northern gate of the citadel and a small control panel tour. It is interactive. Guest must control the course of the tour, choose which “rooms” to go.
And maybe, somewhere and return, because the developers hid here and there, not noticeable at first glance, “secrets”, tips, annotations, hidden photos, drawings. To understand “management” was simply, and together we quickly learned to deploy the General plan of the fortress, to move from object to object and even to find clues. And I will tell you: the younger, four year old daughter has attracted the interest of photography and retrootkrytki that can be detected, if you click on a special symbol – a tiny picture with the rolled area. So you can access the old photo of the city of Brest and its citizens, military personnel news and much more. And his son, the second grader was thrilled to find a hidden clue, which revealed the gun, 1830 – the so-called “Shuvalov unicorn”. It is the only surviving gun-howitzer with the original carriage, as explained further opened the text. Elder, 15-year-old son found out that if you go in tour from your computer and from your phone, it can be connected to virtual reality glasses – and then the effect of the present walks and the green open spaces of the fortress, and under its low dark arches is generally stunning. The tour allows guest to look at those sites, where you do not get a regular visitor at the Museum area. Nataliya Zdanevich Manager – cultural studies Foundation, project consultant, explained that the fortress more than a memorial was created at this place.
– We conducted a study of the inventory revealed that mastered and used as a Museum area, only about 30-35 percent of the territory of the fortress. And the “invisible” remains more than 60 percent. But it is a place where the intersection of different historical and cultural layers. Our Foundation tries to draw attention to this area, we show that there are unique cultural heritage.
the whole family we have studied nine included in the tour complexes 22 and spherical panoramas. By the way, the audio guide leads a tour just 25 minutes (and so even my younger children watched it to the end). But you can arbitrarily time to devote to each object with multiple interactive elements. By the way, the fortress is about 4 square kilometers, situated on the territory of the two countries. We also learned that construction began in 1833, and in 1842 it was functioning. And understood what bastions, casemates and caponiers, and some internal logic to obey the structure of the castle. And as the reality presented first heroic dneither of the great Patriotic war, when a small citadel remained impregnable to the enemy’s rear.
From the North gate of the citadel we passed through the largest of the fortifications of the fortress of Brest – Kobrin. Through surviving objects of the XIX century came to the memorial complex “Brest fortress-hero”. Dozens of items, living details permanently etched in my memory. For example, we learned that in the Brest fortress was located on 300 dovecote pigeons, which the defenders used to communicate. What in the XIX century the shells were brought up in the fortress not completely “ready”, and the Assembly proceeds immediately, in special rooms – “laboratory panels”. Were able to examine in detail the inside of the caponier, which, presumably, was captured wounded by the legendary major Pyotr Gavrilov.
In the Brest fortress will be a big event on June 22, 2020 the planned opening of the Museum “defence of the Eastern Fort”. The exhibition will include several rooms (two of them on the street). Here will talk about how to build a line of FORTS; on the fate of the military and their families; the hospital, which then was deployed; about the history of the saved banner. The Museum will install a sculpture of Hero of the Soviet Union Pyotr Gavrilov.
Personality Gavrilova, who in the summer of 1941 actually led the defense of the Fort, attracted great interest from my eldest son. He found a full biography of the legendary major, who was able to capture only after 32 days of resistance! In the hands of the Nazis Gavrilov got seriously wounded, unconscious (from all of his group he was left alone). All the years of war Pyotr Gavrilov held in German concentration camps, and after the war were persecuted as surrendered. Popularly known hero it was only in the fifties. In 1957 Peter Gavrilov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
the Staff of the memorial complex created the concept of the Museum; restoration and preservation was performed in Minsk restorers. Here are trying to preserve the authenticity of the objects. The visitor will see flamethrowers and melted the bricks under the arches of the casemates and rough jagged stair treads, and low arched corridors. The restoration of the Fort and Museum areas was financed from the funds of the Union state budget, which participates in the reconstruction of the Brest fortress is not the first year.
