MONASTERY ZAMUCHAWIECKI „RITUS GRÆCI NON UNITE” Monastery of Saint Simeon Stylite in Brest as presented in archival sources of RGADA (Moscow), Russian State Military Historical Archive (Moscow), Russian State Historical Archive (St. Petersburg) and National Historical Archives of Belarus (Minsk)., 2021
The monastery, founded in the Zamuchawiecki suburb of Brest at the end of the 15th century, was a... more The monastery, founded in the Zamuchawiecki suburb of Brest at the end of the 15th century, was an integral part of the city space, a center of the spiritual life of the urban Orthodox population for three centuries. It represented the archaic development of the city under Ruthenian law, until the monastery was closed in the 19th century like the Uniate and Roman Catholic convents in Old Brest-Litovsk were closed earlier.
The application of interdisciplinary research methods has uncovered the beauty of the old city. Numerous previously unknown sources like property deeds of Brest residents dating back to the period 15th - 18th centuries, that are available in the archives of several countries, old plans and maps being overlaid on satellite data like the OpenStreetMap allowed to read anew the space of Zamuchawiecki suburb as the oldest in Brest.
Introducing numerous sources of scientific value, the article facilitates further urban studies of the devastated Old Brest, focusing on the significance of the sources regarding the monastery of Saint Simeon Stylite.
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urzędnicy, rycerstwo i szlachta województwa brzeskiego zgłaszali narastające
problemy. Dalsze katastrofalne wydarzenia, których konsekwencje, jak widzimy, dotąd
nie zostały pokonane, zupełnie zmieniły ustrój prawny Brześcia. Już po kilku latach po III rozbiorze Rzeczypospolitej prawa miejskie zupełnie zlikwidowano,
dawni obywatele zostali wypchnięci ze swojego miasta przez tłumy przybyszów
niezaprzyjaźnionych z prawem miejskim i swobodami, które ono dawało.
Translated by Oleg Medvedevsky
The application of interdisciplinary research methods has uncovered the beauty of the old city. Numerous previously unknown sources like property deeds of Brest residents dating back to the period 15th - 18th centuries, that are available in the archives of several countries, old plans and maps being overlaid on satellite data like the OpenStreetMap allowed to read anew the space of Zamuchawiecki suburb as the oldest in Brest.
Introducing numerous sources of scientific value, the article facilitates further urban studies of the devastated Old Brest, focusing on the significance of the sources regarding the monastery of Saint Simeon Stylite.
In the article by I.Laurouskaya, PhD, titled “SPOJRZENIE NA DZIEDZICTWO UNII POPRZEZ DOKUMENTY WIZYTACYJNE RUIN TWIERDZY BRZESKIEJ" (A VIEWPOINT ON THE HERITAGE OF THE BREST CHURCH UNION BASED ON THE THE DOCUMENTS OF VISITATIONS AND A STUDY OF RUINS IN THE BREST FORTRESS), published in Polish in Acta Collegii Suprasliensis vol.XVI ISBN 978-83-7702-367-9, Lublin-Supraśl, 2012, pp.217-241,
there is a comparison of written and iconographic sources, an analyzes of the development of the detached territory in Berestye (Brest-Litovsk), called “The City of Holies”, peculiarities of the spatial arrangement of the main Greek Catholic shrines in the city: Saint Nicolas Cathedral and Saints Peter and Paul Church of the Basilian Monastery. For the first time the Acts of Visitations in 1819 and 1823 are published.
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У артыкуле І. Лаўроўскай “SPOJRZENIE NA DZIEDZICTWO UNII POPRZEZ DOKUMENTY WIZYTACYJNE RUIN TWIERDZY BRZESKIEJ” (ПОГЛЯД НА СПАДЧЫНУ БЕРАСЦЕЙСКАЙ ЦАРКОЎНАЙ УНІІ ПРАЗ ВІЗІТАЦЫЙНЫЯ ДАКУМАНТЫ І РУІНЫ БРЭСЦКАЙ КРЭПАСЦІ”, апублікаваным на польскай мове ў Acta Collegii Suprasliensis t.XVI ISBN 978-83-7702-367-9, Lublin-Suprasl, 2012, с.217-241,
супастаўляюцца пісьмовыя і іконаграфічныя крыніцы, аналізуецца забудова адасобленнай тэрыторыі Бярасьця (Brześc Litewski) пад назовам “горад святых”, адкрываюцца асаблівасці прасторавай кампазіцыі галоўных уніацкіх святынь: катэдральнай царквы св.Мікалая і царквы св. Пятра і Паўла базыліанскага манастыра. Упершыню публікуюцца візітацыйныя Акты з 1819 і 1823гг.
The article( in Belarusian), published in the materials and reports of the 3rd International Scientific and Practical Conference “Knigazbor of Berestye. Problems and perspectives of Research”, ISBN 978-985-7092-86-7, Minsk, 2016,p.p. 160-171, titled “ЮРЫДЫКІ І МАЁМАСЬЦЬ РАДЗІВІЛАЎ У БЕРАСЬЦІ ЛІТОЎСКІМ ПАМІЖ XVI - XVIII СТСТ.” (JURYDYKI AND ESTATES OF THE RADZIWIŁŁS IN BREST-LITOVSK IN THE 16th-18th CENTURIES),
studies the property changes in the spatial structure of the city Berestye (Brest-Litovsk) after it was granted Magdeburg urban law (August 15, 1390), outlines the areas and localization of the private jurydyki of the Radziwiłłs (in the Zaugrinetsky and Zamukhavetsky suburbs), defines the localization of the Calvinist meeting house (also known as Saint Barbara church) and the first printing house in the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania, established by Nicholas Radziwiłł the Black in the mid-16th century, and two Radziwills courts in Brest.
Meanwhile the advance of computer technologies opens up new vistas for researchers, facilitating the process of integration and comparison of the previously stored data with the contemporary geodesic maps, satellite images . These quite inexhaustible possibilities evoke modest optimism that modern technologies can speed up the urban research of devastated cites.
Satellite mapping technology provides a chance to overlay old and present-day maps and analyze the changes of urban spatial forms in the course of time. Such technologies encouraged the author to carry out a research of the layout of chartered Brest-Litovsk. The choice of the theme for the research was determined by the town’s unique role in the history of Europe as well as by the fact of its merciless destruction in 1835, numerous databases in both textual and cartographic sources, sporadic results of archaeological researches since the town was first mentioned in 1019 .
The proposed analysis of the urban spatial layout is based on three CONSTANT (control points) (that are stable, seen found in old plans). Though they are actually among ruined structures at present, they can be easily traced, to feature the spatial pattern of the former layout of the old Brest-Litovsk . The aim of the analysis is to study the former layout of charted Brest-Litovsk. The author has presented and applied in the analysis a methodology of interdisciplinary research regarding the original urban layout of Brest-Litovsk and evaluation of its devastated historic area.
By means of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) the analysis has been performed on the basis of some selected well- preserved constant points, correlating them with those on the available old town plans. This method can also be applied in a research of a layout of similar destroyed settlements
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urzędnicy, rycerstwo i szlachta województwa brzeskiego zgłaszali narastające
problemy. Dalsze katastrofalne wydarzenia, których konsekwencje, jak widzimy, dotąd
nie zostały pokonane, zupełnie zmieniły ustrój prawny Brześcia. Już po kilku latach po III rozbiorze Rzeczypospolitej prawa miejskie zupełnie zlikwidowano,
dawni obywatele zostali wypchnięci ze swojego miasta przez tłumy przybyszów
niezaprzyjaźnionych z prawem miejskim i swobodami, które ono dawało.
Translated by Oleg Medvedevsky
The application of interdisciplinary research methods has uncovered the beauty of the old city. Numerous previously unknown sources like property deeds of Brest residents dating back to the period 15th - 18th centuries, that are available in the archives of several countries, old plans and maps being overlaid on satellite data like the OpenStreetMap allowed to read anew the space of Zamuchawiecki suburb as the oldest in Brest.
Introducing numerous sources of scientific value, the article facilitates further urban studies of the devastated Old Brest, focusing on the significance of the sources regarding the monastery of Saint Simeon Stylite.
In the article by I.Laurouskaya, PhD, titled “SPOJRZENIE NA DZIEDZICTWO UNII POPRZEZ DOKUMENTY WIZYTACYJNE RUIN TWIERDZY BRZESKIEJ" (A VIEWPOINT ON THE HERITAGE OF THE BREST CHURCH UNION BASED ON THE THE DOCUMENTS OF VISITATIONS AND A STUDY OF RUINS IN THE BREST FORTRESS), published in Polish in Acta Collegii Suprasliensis vol.XVI ISBN 978-83-7702-367-9, Lublin-Supraśl, 2012, pp.217-241,
there is a comparison of written and iconographic sources, an analyzes of the development of the detached territory in Berestye (Brest-Litovsk), called “The City of Holies”, peculiarities of the spatial arrangement of the main Greek Catholic shrines in the city: Saint Nicolas Cathedral and Saints Peter and Paul Church of the Basilian Monastery. For the first time the Acts of Visitations in 1819 and 1823 are published.
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У артыкуле І. Лаўроўскай “SPOJRZENIE NA DZIEDZICTWO UNII POPRZEZ DOKUMENTY WIZYTACYJNE RUIN TWIERDZY BRZESKIEJ” (ПОГЛЯД НА СПАДЧЫНУ БЕРАСЦЕЙСКАЙ ЦАРКОЎНАЙ УНІІ ПРАЗ ВІЗІТАЦЫЙНЫЯ ДАКУМАНТЫ І РУІНЫ БРЭСЦКАЙ КРЭПАСЦІ”, апублікаваным на польскай мове ў Acta Collegii Suprasliensis t.XVI ISBN 978-83-7702-367-9, Lublin-Suprasl, 2012, с.217-241,
супастаўляюцца пісьмовыя і іконаграфічныя крыніцы, аналізуецца забудова адасобленнай тэрыторыі Бярасьця (Brześc Litewski) пад назовам “горад святых”, адкрываюцца асаблівасці прасторавай кампазіцыі галоўных уніацкіх святынь: катэдральнай царквы св.Мікалая і царквы св. Пятра і Паўла базыліанскага манастыра. Упершыню публікуюцца візітацыйныя Акты з 1819 і 1823гг.
The article( in Belarusian), published in the materials and reports of the 3rd International Scientific and Practical Conference “Knigazbor of Berestye. Problems and perspectives of Research”, ISBN 978-985-7092-86-7, Minsk, 2016,p.p. 160-171, titled “ЮРЫДЫКІ І МАЁМАСЬЦЬ РАДЗІВІЛАЎ У БЕРАСЬЦІ ЛІТОЎСКІМ ПАМІЖ XVI - XVIII СТСТ.” (JURYDYKI AND ESTATES OF THE RADZIWIŁŁS IN BREST-LITOVSK IN THE 16th-18th CENTURIES),
studies the property changes in the spatial structure of the city Berestye (Brest-Litovsk) after it was granted Magdeburg urban law (August 15, 1390), outlines the areas and localization of the private jurydyki of the Radziwiłłs (in the Zaugrinetsky and Zamukhavetsky suburbs), defines the localization of the Calvinist meeting house (also known as Saint Barbara church) and the first printing house in the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania, established by Nicholas Radziwiłł the Black in the mid-16th century, and two Radziwills courts in Brest.
Meanwhile the advance of computer technologies opens up new vistas for researchers, facilitating the process of integration and comparison of the previously stored data with the contemporary geodesic maps, satellite images . These quite inexhaustible possibilities evoke modest optimism that modern technologies can speed up the urban research of devastated cites.
Satellite mapping technology provides a chance to overlay old and present-day maps and analyze the changes of urban spatial forms in the course of time. Such technologies encouraged the author to carry out a research of the layout of chartered Brest-Litovsk. The choice of the theme for the research was determined by the town’s unique role in the history of Europe as well as by the fact of its merciless destruction in 1835, numerous databases in both textual and cartographic sources, sporadic results of archaeological researches since the town was first mentioned in 1019 .
The proposed analysis of the urban spatial layout is based on three CONSTANT (control points) (that are stable, seen found in old plans). Though they are actually among ruined structures at present, they can be easily traced, to feature the spatial pattern of the former layout of the old Brest-Litovsk . The aim of the analysis is to study the former layout of charted Brest-Litovsk. The author has presented and applied in the analysis a methodology of interdisciplinary research regarding the original urban layout of Brest-Litovsk and evaluation of its devastated historic area.
By means of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) the analysis has been performed on the basis of some selected well- preserved constant points, correlating them with those on the available old town plans. This method can also be applied in a research of a layout of similar destroyed settlements