Our story 5 34 2021

– Nelson Mandela: 27 years in prison before becoming president; – Uladzimir Dubovka: 28 years in prisons and exiles: “We did not sink and morally decay”; – Space Belarusian monastery in London and its father: Alexander Knudson; – Window on the West: why exactly the Belarusian Library and Museum named after Skaryna in London became the largest project of the Belarusian diaspora”; – The light of Ilya Repin: the artist was fascinated by Dzvina, “touched” Belarusians and could not get enough of the dawn; – “Belarus” by Repin: dignity and energy; – Miracles near Lavrishav: how the imperial bureaucracy in the 19th century eliminated the Belarusian Fatima in its infancy; – Joseph Brodsky: the pursuit of the “wonderfully wrong” poet helped him become world famous; – Five versions about the spy Oleg Piankovsky: 60 years have passed, but it is still unknown whether he was a hero who saved the world, a traitor greedy for money or a participant in a mega-staging; – Whose pearls were scattered in Mogilev: the story of the founding of St. Joseph’s Cathedral; – “Steam Man” Vasyl Kozlovsky: gypsy boots, Japanese kamikaze and drunk driving; – Travel to flooded Nubia: in Egypt you can not only enjoy the warm sea and waste time, but also travel to the heritage of the pharaohs; – Wormwood. The Swiss made absinthe on its base, the Italians – vermouth, the Georgians – tarragon. And we have been preparing bitter wormwood for a long time.