Mindovga Mountain is a hill in Novogrudok located on the territory limited by Minskaya, May 1 streets and a pedestrian crossing connecting Minskaya and May 1 streets.
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History
It is assumed that in the 13th century, the founder of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, King Mindovg , was buried here. This proposition was mentioned in the first monograph on Navahrudak , published in Latin in Lviv in 1795. Shortly before his death, at the hands of his political opponents, he abandoned Catholicism and was buried in a pagan rite under a mountain ( barrow ).
According to another version, such a name could arise from the fact that on this mountain and around it, perhaps, the coronation of Mindovg took place, which received from Pope Innocent IV the crown and title of King of Lithuania - the first and only one, since according to the annals, the coronation took place not in the castle , but near it.
The legend of Mount Mindovga gained particular popularity thanks to the famous poet, a native of Novogrudok, Adam Mickiewicz , in whose works góra Mendoga appears more than once [1] [2] [3] .
According to another legend, later on the top of the mountain was a marble tombstone on which stood an image of a girl with the face of an angel . A beauty named Krysia was buried here, which became the prototype for many sculptures and murals in the churches of Vilna . The author of Vilnius sculptures, as well as a tombstone on Mount Mindovga, was an Italian sculptor Giovanni Peretius in love with Rat.
Around the end of the XVII century. Mount Mindovg housed a city-wide Christian cemetery. A significant number of monuments of stone and metal, as well as wooden crosses “on the mountain” are reflected in photographs of the first third of the twentieth century. This cemetery has ceased to be used for burials since the early 1920s. Some tombstones have survived. The oldest tombstone on Mount Mindovga, which has survived to this day, dates from 1820.
In July 1993, at the city holiday on the occasion of the 740th anniversary of the coronation of Mindovg, at the foot of the mountain, a memorial sign of sculptor V.M. Flyer.
In September 2014, a metal sculpture of Mindovg with a height of about 2.5 meters was erected near the mountain [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Immortalized Mifa Vakol remembrance of the Litўskam Prince Mіndoўgu ў Navagrudok
- ↑ Kraўcevіch A. Blukanne pa myth // Belaruskaya Dumka No. 5, 2013.
- ↑ Pear A. Does Novogrudok need a monument to Mindovg? // Belarusian Dumka No. 8, 2013.
- ↑ Monument to the knight in Novogrudok (Russian) . Date of treatment July 1, 2018.
Literature
- Дzyаржўны спіс гісторика-cultural kashtoўnastsey Republic Belarus: [Davennіk] / Warehouse. V. Ya. Ablamsky, I. M. Charnyaski, Yu.A. Barysyuk - Mn .: BELTA, 2009 .-- 684 p. - ISBN 978-985-6828-35-8