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School supply drive aimed to help families in need
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Oak Park, River Forest townships team up to host annual school supply drive and back-to-school social
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With the first day of school just around the corner, the local townships aim to make sure that children and teens have what they need to start the year right. This year, the Oak Park and River Forest townships’ annual school supply drive returns with a back-to-school social where families in need can grab stuffed backpacks, enjoy snacks and even get a haircut.
“School is important,” said Moriah Gale, an administrative assistant in the youth services department. “You should have all the tools that you need, and that’s what helps you succeed during the school year. I believe every child has the right to that.”
The drive – which began last month and runs until Aug. 5 – helps families with children in preschool to 12th grade and are from Oak Park and River Forest. Suggested donation items include backpacks, bags, crayons, pencils, folders, glue and rulers. Donors can purchase items through an Amazon wish list where supplies can be sent directly to the township office, or they can drop off their items at the office. The office is located at 105 S. Oak Park Ave. in Oak Park and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Last year, the National Retail Federation reported families with children in elementary school through high school would spend around $850 on school supplies, an amount likely to increase this year due to inflation.
“The price of life is going up, and so let’s try to help these kids, any families, by taking that burden off the table for them,” said Dominique Hickman, manager of Girls on the Rise, another program part of the townships’ youth services department. “A child feels it when they’re not prepared for the first day of school. They feel it, [and] their friends, their classmates notice it.”
Last year, the townships gave away 180 backpacks, which were packed with basic school supplies, but they hope to exceed that number with a goal of 200, said youth services director Megan Traficano. Traficano told Wednesday Journal that her team has worked over the past weeks to spread the word about the drive and connect with other groups and organizations. Flyers posted across the communities also include a QR code, allowing people to find the Amazon wish list.
Traficano also spoke about the return of the back-to-school social, an event previously coupled with the school supply drive that was paused during the pandemic. The event will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 12 at the township.
“We have partners in the community that are coming and setting up tables, and some of them will have activities for kids and giveaways,” Traficano said, adding there will also be face painters and a barber who will be cutting children’s hair for free.
“We just want it to be a fun time, too,” she said about the social.
Apart from the collection drive and upcoming festivities, the township year-round accepts donations for its hygiene closet, which offers free personal care products for children and teens. Suggested donation items for the closet include face wash, deodorant, shampoo, socks, tampons and sanitary napkins, hairbrushes and soap bars. A complete list can be found on the township website at https://oakparktownship.org/ or through its Amazon wish list. Like the school supply collection drive, the township is only accepting personal care products that are new and sealed.
More ways to help
Another organization is also looking to make an impact on families in need in Chicagoland. Cradles to Crayons (C2C), a nonprofit with locations in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, is planning on giving away 70,000 backpacks filled with school supplies for free for children in need in the Chicago area.
While the backpacks are already accounted for, C2C marketing and communications director Stephanie Held said the nonprofit is working on providing essential items such as clothes, backpacks and personal care products through its 70-plus network of partners, including New Moms in Oak Park and the Austin Childcare Provider’s Network.
Held told the Journal there are two ways families can help C2C. They can donate money or new and gently used clothes. Items needed are new underwear and socks and unopened diapers and pull-ups, as well as diaper wipes. The nonprofit is also looking for shoes for newborns up to an adult size 10, pajamas sizes 2T and up, new hygiene items and books for babies and young children up to age 12. An expanded list can be found on https://www.cradlestocrayons.org/chicago.
Donations can be dropped off at various locations in the city or across the Chicago suburbs, Held said. Exact addresses for drop-offs can also be found on the nonprofit’s site.
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Let’s get acquainted with the short history of the digital schools invented by Peter I: we will find out what they taught the subjects of the reformer tsar, why parents did not want to send their children to them, and how they are connected with the comedy “Undergrowth”.
The appearance of secular elementary schools, initiated by Peter I, made a revolution in the Russian education system. Digital (i.e., arithmetic) schools stood apart among educational institutions, where they trained the future technical intelligentsia. The only building of the digital school that has survived to this day is the white-stone chambers of the 16th-17th centuries on Varvarka, where, under Ivan the Terrible, the residence of the English merchant company was located. Now it houses the Old English Court Museum, which is part of the Zaryadye Park.
For a long time historians’ mentions of the existence of a school here had no direct documentary evidence. However, in 2010, museum staff found two documents in the holdings of the Russian State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg, which stated that one of the digital schools of the time of Peter the Great had been located in this building since 1720. The history of the school is in a joint article by mos.ru and the Mosgortur agency.
First teachers and first students
Faced with a shortage of competent specialists for state and military service, Peter I proclaimed education a matter of national importance. He entrusted it to his closest associate Yakov Bruce, a legendary inhabitant of the Sukharev Tower, a man of science and a “sorcerer”. From Bruce’s homeland, from Scotland, a professor at the University of Aberdeen Henry Farkason was discharged – in Russia he was renamed Andrei Danilovich Farvarson. Arriving in Arkhangelsk in 1698, in 1701 he already opened the School of Mathematical and Navigational Sciences in Moscow, for which the Sukharev Tower was allocated.
Pupils of the school were among the first in Russia to get acquainted with the international language of mathematics – Arabic numerals , having gained access to the treasures of world technical literature. In those days, they still used the archaic and rather inconvenient system of letter counting, inherited from the ancient Greeks and Romans. It was extremely difficult to make mathematical calculations – the calculations turned out to be very cumbersome when it came to large numbers. Even the study of foreign languages did not have such important consequences for the country as the development of Arabic numerals.
In the same 1701, the Artillery School was opened in Moscow, a little later – the Medical School (1707) and the Engineering School (1712). The work of these specialized schools was significantly hampered by the lack of initial training among students. Peter I solved this issue by creating four types of primary schools: Russian, digital, mining and garrison. Boys from noble families, children of officials – clerks, clerks, as well as clergymen were admitted to digital schools.
Can’t get married, study
The decree of Peter I on the opening of digital schools for the education of “little children from different ranks” was issued in March 1714. According to him, such educational institutions were to be opened in all provinces and provinces for the compulsory education of children aged 10 to 15 years. It was difficult to avoid studying: Peter I forbade young men who dropped out of school to marry. Such young people in the 18th century were called the biting word undergrowth. Do you remember the comedy of the same name by Denis Fonvizin and the favorite phrase of its title character Mitrofanushka? “I don’t want to study, I want to get married,” he said.
“Send to all provinces several people from mathematical schools to teach noble children, except for those from one palace, the order of tsyfiri and geometry, and impose a fine such that they will involuntarily marry until they learn this. And for that, to the bishops about this, so that wedding memorials are not given without the permission of those to whom schools are ordered. From the decree on the opening of digital schools.
Schools were proposed to be placed in bishops’ houses (church-administrative institutions) and monasteries, and to support them at the expense of the provinces’ income. This caused dissatisfaction on the part of the clergy and local authorities, who often, contrary to the will of the sovereign, refused to provide premises and support teachers at their own expense.
Children were taught by pupils of vocational schools. Pupils were given lessons in “digital wisdom” , the basics of geometry, and also taught writing and reading.
Digital School on Varvarka
Digital School on Varvarka began its work in 1720. For her, the courtyard of the Nizhny Novgorod Metropolitan was assigned, which was located on the former Old English Court from 1676.
It is known from the surviving documents that the teachers and the assembled group of students who arrived in Moscow waited for a long time to be provided with a room: “out of an imminent need, the above-described Nizhny Novgorod metochion was allocated for this science.” How long this wait lasted is unknown.
One of the two surviving inventories describing the numbered school in the chambers of the Old English Court was compiled by the attorney Kachalov and witnesses in 1722:
“The building in the courtyard is stone, small, upper and lower, with small cellars; in the rooms, the floors are partly plank or log, partly brick or earthen; all the furniture consists of several spruce tables (one oak) and wooden benches; the windows are mostly glass, but one is mica, and several hay and closets are completely empty, one, however, with an iron grate; one image without a salary, the roofs are dranichnaya, and partly popular prints, dilapidated; the rest of the garden: 7 apple trees, 2 broken pears, 2 apple stumps, 7 currant bushes; there is nothing in the yard gorodba…”
The second brief description of the digital school on Varvarka is preserved in the “report of the Holy Governing Synod dated May 23, 1722”. It said that two teachers, on the instructions of the Moscow Provincial Chancellery, were allocated two residential chambers in a stone building, which were used as rooms for classes with children. The three lower chambers were reported to be occupied by “their teachers’ lodgers”, i.e. the teachers rented out part of the premises to supplement their own purse.
Today, the premises where the digital school was located occupy the main floor of the building. During the restoration of 1968-1972, the same residential chambers were discovered, which in earlier documents are referred to as the Treasury Chamber and the Kitchen. The three lower chambers, where people who rented housing from teachers, now house an exposition, a museum shop and a cloakroom.
The documents contain information about the number of students for that period: “Yes, they have a hundred schoolchildren” . How long such a large number of students studied and how many of them managed to graduate from the Moscow digital school on Varvarka, the researchers have not yet found out.
Petitions from the nobility and the closure of the school
Measures of pedagogical education in arithmetic schools were harsh: corporal punishment was relied on for wrongdoing. Some of the students ran away. Since 1716, the sovereign began to receive petitions from representatives of different classes with requests to release their children from compulsory education in digital schools. The tsar went to meet the requests and was the first to free the children of the nobility, and from 1720 – the merchants.
To a greater extent, the extinction of the first arithmetic schools was influenced by Spiritual Regulations of 1721, written by an associate of Peter I Feofan Prokopovich. This document gave the clergy the right to open episcopal schools for the children of clergymen, who at that time made up half of all students of digital schools. In the end, all classes, except for the raznochintsy, were exempted from compulsory education, the children went to secular schools only at the request of their parents.
By the end of the reign and life of Peter the Great, practically every Russian province had two schools: secular and spiritual. Like many other undertakings of Peter I, the education system built by the reformer tsar fell into decay shortly after his death. Digital schools did not find support from either the nobility or the clergy: their representatives sought to isolate their children from other classes. The Admiralty Board tried to save digital schools by combining them with bishops’ schools, but the Holy Governing Synod was categorically against such initiatives. In 1744, a decree of the Governing Senate was issued on the connection of the remaining institutions with garrison schools – the lowest military educational institutions: “those special Arithmetic schools will not be , but will be connected with the garrison schools, as it was done in Moscow.”
During the short period of their existence, the schools of arithmetic helped to carry out one of the key tasks of Peter the Great’s reforms in the field of education. Their graduates turned out to be indispensable on the ships of the young Russian fleet and where the sovereign’s service required knowledge and high professionalism. And the famous “Arithmetic” – an educational encyclopedia compiled by Leonty Magnitsky at the behest of Peter I, later fell into the hands of the young Mikhail Lomonosov, irrevocably changing both his fate and the fate of Russia.
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Oak of Love in Lavy (Valuisky urban district)Photo: from the archive of the Baratov family
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Family oak in Khomutsy
Ivnyansky district, with. Chomuttsy, st. Vygon, Khomutchansky park
GPS coordinates: 51.1243790, 35.9501490
Back in the days of the settlement of the cities of the Belgorod line by service people, the Sedikov family settled in Khomutsy and founded their farmstead. The strong owner was the head of the family. He had a big house, a mill and many children. When a son was born, the owner planted an oak tree so that the sons would grow up brave, with iron willpower and achieve their goals. At 19In 29, the family was dispossessed and expelled. The villagers never knew where.
In 1980, when laying the park, the house was broken down, several oaks were cut down, and only one was left. It was planted around the 1860s in honor of the birth of the son of the family. Today, the oak is a monument to the family, in the village they call it that – the family oak. They believe that the age-old symbol of a faithful and strong family protects couples in love. According to the local belief, earlier, when a guy negotiated a wedding with a girl, he went with her to the cherished oak, and they walked around it three times. And now the custom has been preserved in the village: newlyweds come to the oak tree on their wedding day so that their families are strong and healthy.
Eva Oak in Ivna
Ivnyansky district, settlement Ivnia, st. Gaidara, 30
GPS coordinates: 51.0525658, 36.1405138
The long-lived oak, known among the local population under the name “Eva”, grows in the center of the village of Ivnya. At the time of the foundation of the village, back in the beginning of the 18th century, this territory was covered with dense oak forests. Over time, most of them were cut down. The surviving tree is a part of those ancient oak forests.
In 1852, the Ivnya land belonged to Senator Alexander Karamzin, son of the famous Russian historian Nikolai Karamzin. After his death, the estate was bought by Count Peter Kleinmichel. He opened a tree nursery in 1882 and planted a garden of 20 acres. But even then, centuries-old oaks grew in the noble estate. Ancient trees are covered with many legends. According to one of them, on the territory of the count’s estate there were two huge oak trees, popularly called Adam and Eve. Some say that Adam was split by lightning, so they had to cut him down. Others say that he suffered from bombing during the Great Patriotic War. And someone claims that Adam simply rotted away, and so they had to be “separated” from Eve – diseased trees were removed when the nursery was planted.
Yusupov oaks in Rakitny
settlement Rakitnoe, st. Proletarskaya, 2
GPS coordinates: 1) 50.8348051, 35.8345766; 2) 50.8344727, 35.8347225
In the center of the village of Rakitnoye there is an old estate that belonged to the famous family of the Yusupov princes, who owned the Rakityan lands from 1728 to 1917. Two long-lived oaks grow in the courtyard of the princely estate. They say they are over 300 years old! According to legend, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II rested on a bench under them in December 1911 years old
They say that the emperor was delighted three times as a guest at the Yusupovs. The first time he was shown Yusupov brick and Borisov clay products. The second, when he was taken into a spacious room, in the center of which sat a huge tamed bear. And the third, when Nicholas II was offered to rest on a bench under a huge oak tree. The hosts served the emperor a samovar with herbal tea in the cold, and he dozed right under a huge oak tree.
By decision of the Executive Committee of the Regional Council of People’s Deputies on August 19In 1991, one oak was recognized as a natural monument.
According to legend, oaks fulfill cherished desires: you need to mentally pronounce it and touch the thick trunk with your palms.
Oak of Shatokhin in Dunayka
Graivoron district, s. Dunayka
GPS coordinates: 50.5502823, 35.5328739
At the end of the 19th century, a large landowner Alexei Ivanovich Shatokhin lived in the village of Dunayka. He had starch and brick factories, land. The landowner’s house was located in the center of the village in the park. Only the lord’s stables have survived to this day. The linden alley was famous, at the end of which a centuries-old oak tree grew. And now he stands in his place. There is a custom in the village: the newlyweds come to the mighty oak tree so that the family is friendly and strong.
Sheremetev Oaks in Borisovka Monastyrsky, 2
GPS coordinates: 1) 50.6116045, 35.9956842; 2) 50.6116072, 35.9958377; 3) 50.6111481, 35.9972855
Oaks on the territory of the Forest on Vorskla site are the same age as the time of Emperor Peter the Great. Trees grow in the Custom Grove, which Field Marshal Boris Sheremetev founded at the beginning of the 18th century. It was not easy for the grove: in the post-revolutionary years, the forest was cut down to equip vegetable gardens, and during the years of World War II, the German line of defense stood in the reserved oak forest during the battles on the Kursk Bulge … And yet, many centuries-old trees have survived to this day, among which are two oaks – centenarian in the Sukachev glade and one in the courtyard of the reserve’s estate. Giant oaks, according to the tales of great-grandfathers, are natural healers, giving health, happiness to newlyweds, and getting rid of many ailments to old people.
Oaks in Dubovoe
Belgorodsky district, Dubove village
GPS coordinates: 1) 50.5350398, 36.5855767; 2) 50.5354150, 36.5867656
According to legend, the famous oak in the village of Dubove (today it is more than five measures in circumference!) Is the oldest tree in the Belgorod region: the age-old giant was planted in 1654 by Prince Grigory Romodanovsky and Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky in honor of the reunification of Russia and Ukraine. And here it is not! It’s just a very beautiful legend! In 2013, specialists from Moscow examined an oak tree from Dubovoye. It turned out that in 2013 he turned “only” 184 years old. However, the name “Oak of Bogdan Khmelnitsky” has stuck to it over the years. By the way, in the same year, within the framework of the All-Russian program “Trees – Monuments of Nature”, he was given federal conservation status.
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Few people know, but in the park of the village of Dubove next to the famous “Oak of Bogdan Khmelnitsky” in the whole district, another giant oak grows with a girth of more than three meters. Be sure to find it using the coordinates!
Titovsky oak
Schebekino, Titovsky Boro
GPS: 50.3931730, 36.8693856
Oak debris grows on the territory of the Titovsky boron in Shebekino. At 19In 91, it was included in the list of regional natural monuments of the Belgorod region as “an oak at the age of 250 years. ”
Titovskiy Bor has been known since the 19th century. Then it belonged to the landowner Nikolai Batezatul. The forest was named after the village of Titovka. Mushrooms here were apparently invisible. Peasants were even allowed to collect them, however, under the supervision of guards. The landowner took a small part of the mushrooms they picked, and the peasants took the rest home. During the Great Patriotic War, fighters defended themselves in the forest and partisans hid. You can still find their trenches, dugouts and firing positions, and you can even see traces of shrapnel and shells on the century-old oak.
Pansky Oak in Dmitrievka
Shebekinsky district, s. Dmitrievka
GPS coordinates: 50.5049088, 36.9945673
Pansky oak grows between the villages of Yablochkovo and Dmitrievka. In 2013, the “long-liver” was included in the list of natural monuments of Russia. He is a real giant: 35 meters high, the girth of the trunk is 6. 5 meters, and the span of the crown is 25 meters. It is said to be over 500 years old! The tree miraculously survived, outliving thousands of its fellows, because at the beginning of the 17th century, most of the local oak forests were cut down for the construction of the Belgorod defensive line.
According to legend, under the shade of a giant oak, Peter the Great himself rested. Allegedly, returning from the Battle of Poltava, the tsar became interested in the work of water mills on the Korocha River, so he stopped along the way. Most likely, this is a legend and protected the tree – it was not cut down, and it has survived to this day. It also survived during the Great Patriotic War, when in 1943 the Germans came to Yablochkovo and wanted to set fire to the village. The advanced units of the Soviet army recaptured the village, the enemies retreated, but by the time of liberation it had burned down almost to the ground. But the oak remained whole and unharmed!
Volkonsky Oak in Sabynino
Yakovlevsky district, s. Sabynino
GPS coordinates: 50.7704670, 36.7393796
A mighty oak grows on the site of a former park on the estate of the princes Volkonsky. They planted him back in the time of Catherine II. The princes actively participated in the public life of Russia, therefore famous guests often visited them. They say that even Tsar Nicholas I himself visited (he baptized children). A family friend was the famous poet Konstantin Balmont.
The estate had a park of linden and maple trees that grew in even rows from north to south. In the floodplain of the Seversky Donets, a linden alley and a mighty oak are still preserved. According to the testimony of local residents, in order for the oak to grow in wetlands, an iron sheet was first inserted during planting. Now, at the base of the oak, you can see a huge hole into which a person can easily crawl through. In 1943, a shell exploded in an oak tree. But another blow happened 20 years ago: in a hole from a shell, someone decided to make a fire . .. But the tree turned out to be strong: it survived both during the war years and after modern barbarians.
Oak in Obukhovka
Starooskolsky district, s. Obukhovka
GPS coordinates: 51.1906471, 37.9858658
A giant oak with a four-century history grows in a specially protected area of the Stary Oskol forestry in the Obukhovskaya Dacha tract. The natural monument of regional significance remembers the times of Peter the Great, who allegedly passed through these lands after an unsuccessful campaign against Azov. At the beginning of the 17th century, the forest in which the oak grows belonged to the Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa. Representatives of the count family of Orlov-Davydov, who owned the Obukhov forest in 19, liked to come to the oak.th century. Not far from the oak, the house of the lordly clerk Permeisky, built back in 1910, has been preserved. According to the memoirs of the old-timers, the Esperanto writer Vasily Eroshenko used to visit the oak.
What is unusual is that a powerful tree trunk is compressed by iron rings several centimeters thick. A few years ago, a crack appeared at the base of the crown, through which water entered the trunk. With the onset of cold weather, it froze, and the ice slowly destroyed the long-lived oak from the inside. To save the tree, at 19In 97, the oak trunk was ringed with metal hoops. They gave him strength.
Oak in Ninovka
Novooskolsky district, s. Ninovka
GPS coordinates: 50.7426845, 37.8226179
The long-lived oak in the village of Ninovka is located in a picturesque place – on the edge of the forest near a birch grove. Locals suggest that he is already about 400 years old. The legend about the age-old tree dates back to the 17th century: Ukrainians, fleeing the Polish-gentry oppression, moved to the eastern regions, in particular, to the territory of the present Novooskolsky district. To expand farmland and build estates, people cut down forests. Most likely, the oak survived from that time.
Tired travelers hid under it from the bad weather. He was a witness to those times when the monks dug caves in the chalk mountains. The glade under the oak is famous for the fact that the famous Soviet singer, folk song performer Maria Mordasova performed here. Now, under the crown of the giant oak, every year they hold the festival “To the Mighty Oak – Beautiful Impulses of the Soul.”
Oak in Old Redkodub
Krasnensky district, village Old Reddub
GPS coordinates: 50.9388003, 38.3637586
An oak tree with a curly crown and a wide trunk covered with deep cracks has been around for more than three centuries. In ancient times, it grew in a very old oak forest, which belonged to the landowner Barchuk. From those majestic oak forests, the village of Stary Redkodub got its name. Next to the oak grows an aspen, wounded by a lightning discharge. Maybe it was because of this neighborhood that the oak leaned a little to the side. A unique exhibit of wildlife was included in the Red Book of the region and in the national register of old-growth trees in Russia. It stretched to a height of up to 50 meters, and three adults can hardly grasp its trunk.
Oak of Love in Lava
Valuysky district, with. Lava
GPS coordinates: 50.2552940, 37.9616787
The famous sanatorium “Krasnaya Polyana” is located in the Valuysky district. It is located near the village of Lava on the banks of the Oskol River. It is on its territory that the Oak of Love lives. They named him so for a reason. According to legend, a young couple met near a long-lived oak – the daughter of the merchant Parmanin and the miller Korenev. The girl asked her fiancé to build an estate overlooking Valuiki. He built it, of course. It was located not far from the very oak, symbolizing their love. But, unfortunately, the lovers were not destined to get married…
The manor in that place has long been gone, but tourists constantly come to the oak. Previously, on its bark, children painted the names of those they were in love with, so that he would help them achieve mutual sympathy, wrote requests with wishes, exchanged notes hidden in the branches. Now the tree has been fenced off and nothing can be drawn or left on it. Oak is over 300 years old. Its height is 26 meters, and the trunk diameter is 1.38 meters.
In search of giant oaks
A student of Lyceum No. 9 Egor Baratov found, examined, photographed from different angles, described the appearance and measured the girth of the trunk of Belgorod giant oaks. He collected so much information that he wrote a whole research paper “Giant Belgorod Oaks – Eyewitnesses of Past Epochs” and took many first places with it at All-Russian competitions: “First Steps in Science” (on it Yegor was even awarded the medal “The Future of Russian Science”), scientific youth forum “Step into the Future” (his research was recognized as “the best work among the young participants of the forum”), student research festival “Vector” , competition “Young researcher” and international competition of scientific research and creative works of students ” Start in Science” …
Egor Baratov / Photo: from the archive of the Baratov family
Why, yes! What painstaking work – it took a whole six months to complete it! In search of long-lived Belgorod oaks, Yegor studied many scientific works and articles of local historians, interviewed local residents and went on a real expedition (thanks for the help to his parents!) To find and see oak giants live. Let’s tell you, this was not an easy task – to find some oaks, because there were no exact coordinates of the location at hand. It is recognized that a couple of times we even got a little lost, but local residents always came to the rescue. And – hurrah! – found as many as 17 giant oaks growing in various parts of the Belgorod region. Of course, probably somewhere deep in the forests there are still many centuries-old oaks. If you meet such people, be sure to tell us guys. Well, Egor, as you probably already noticed in the material, also determined the exact GPS coordinates of each tree! Now, knowing them, any tourist or researcher will easily find ancient oaks, and will not stray in search of them.
“From our calculations (Egor calculated the age of oaks using a special formula – author’s note), we can conclude that the age of giant oaks in the Belgorod Region does not exceed 250 years. The oldest oak is Pansky in the Shebekinsky district, and the youngest is Family in the village. Khomuttsy, his age does not exceed 100 years. Almost all the trees examined by us have an age significantly lower than “folk rumor” ascribes to them. So, next to the well-known Pansky Oak there is a tablet and a stone with a commemorative plaque, indicating the age of 500 years. But according to our calculations, he is no more than 250 years old, ”said Yegor.
Egor made a map of the location of the giant oaks, using a 3D printer made a colorful three-dimensional layout of the “Giant Trees of the Belgorod Region”, compiled a guidebook and designed the photo album “Giant Oaks”. And also thanks to Egor, the oak in the village. Dunayka in the Graivoronsky district and Titovsky in the city of Shebekino were included in the national register of old-growth (protected!) Trees in Russia. Well done, Egor! I was not too lazy and sent an application with all the information to the organizers of the All-Russian program “Trees – Monuments of Wildlife”. What is interesting – in one of the local history expeditions, Yegor collected acorns, out of six he even managed to grow small oaks. Now he is thinking where it is better to plant them: on his site or in a park near the house …
Would you like to learn more about Egor’s research? Watch the video!
Olga Mushtaeva
Park of the noble estate in the mountains
Gorai Park of the Lorer-Rozenov (Gorai)
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-year-old manor is located in the village of Gorai (Pskov Region, 25 km to the city of the island). You can get there by the highway St. Petersburg – Republic of Belarus.
At the end of the 18th century, the Gorai lands belonged to the Pskov landowner Agafya Konovnitsyna, married to Korsakova. Her husband Ivan Korsakov was the first governor of the Pskov district.
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After the wedding, the newlyweds went to Europe. Traveling around Europe, they were so impressed by the gardens they saw in Italy that they decided: it is imperative to create the same park at home. On their estate, the Laurers rebuilt the house and laid out a park. The construction of the estate in the Alexander Empire style and the laying out of the park were completed in 1816-1817.
It is believed that its architect was the Frenchman Thomas de Thomon, the one who designed the ensemble of the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island and the Stock Exchange in St. Petersburg. But this is not known for certain. However, based on old photographs, we can say that the estate really looked like a palace, and its garden was truly luxurious.
The manor house was built in the center of the hill. Two descents from the hill (southern and eastern) were decorated as three-tiered terraces lined with lindens and finished with marble. There was a greenhouse in the manor park.
A distinctive feature of the park space of the manor’s estate is the isolation of internal compositions. Hence the careful development and thoughtfulness of the planning elements.
After the Lorerov, the owner of the estate in Gorai since 1870 was Baron Georgy Vladimirovich Rosen, a pupil of the Lorerov. In 1907, the noble assembly of the Pskov province elected Georgy Rosen as a trustee of the village of Mikhailovsky and the colony named after. A. S. Pushkin, created in it for elderly writers and teachers. From 1910 until 1918, the Gorai estate belonged to Olga Nikolaevna Rosen, the wife of G. V. Rosen.
In the southern quarter of the park, a large dug pond was arranged, having the shape of a polygon, with an island and a gazebo on it. The pond was periodically cleaned, water was dumped into a small stream behind the park. Thanks to the springs, the pond quickly filled with water. It is known that the bottom of the reservoir was lined with limestone slabs. A fir alley led from the center of the park to the pond.
The rectangular contour of the park is surrounded by an earthen rampart, along which rows of lindens and oaks have survived to this day. The basis of the plantings of the park are lindens, maples, oaks.
Previously, the park was decorated with trees rare for the Pskov land – Siberian firs, white acacias, fragrant and white poplars, felted lindens. From shrubs and today grow willow spirea, common lilac, yellow acacia.
It is believed that Pushkin visited his friends in Gorai. Isn’t the same oak still standing in the Gorai park? Decembrists were also here: Nikolai Lorer, Mikhail Naryshkin, Alexander Nazimov, the Konovnitsyn brothers and their sister Elizaveta, who was not afraid to follow her husband to Siberia. All this makes Gorai a truly unique place for the region and the country.
The revolutionary period after 1917 did not spare the unique man-made corner of the Pskov land. In 1918, the master’s building was looted and destroyed. However, a wooden school was built in its place… After the war, a 2-story extension was made to it (sometimes tourists confuse it with a manor house). At the end of the Soviet years, a one-story building also appeared. Together they create a single complex. Of the old buildings, a glacier, a stone barn have been preserved …
The old empty Gorai school itself is already a museum, which can also become a tourist attraction. It has its own inviting atmosphere. It’s like you’re in another world. You walk along the empty corridors with the expectation that the bell will ring now, and the young pioneers will run out of the offices …
In 1976 the park was taken under state protection as a natural monument.
From the old buildings of the manor on the upper platform of the hill, the carriage house and part of the master’s stone house have survived to this day. A modern school building and a sports ground were built on the site of the manor house. If there is little maintenance behind the park, then the pond is littered and partially overgrown.
Once upon a time, Gorai was considered one of the best estates in the Ostrovsky district. Excursions were taken here 30 years ago. Unfortunately at 9In the 0s of the 20th century, everything fell into disrepair, and the beautiful pond was covered with mud.
At present, Italian-type terraces with ledges of inclined planes instead of stairs and overgrown trellis lindens along the edges of the terraces are well preserved from the compositional structure of the park.
Most of the alley and ordinary plantings, landscape groups also survived.
By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 20, 1995 No. 176, the estate was given the status of a monument of history and culture of federal significance.
In 2019, students and teachers of the Gorai branch of the Kryukov School developed the project Gorai Park … 200 years later and were among the winners of the 4th All-Russian competition of projects “Cultural Mosaic of Small Towns and Villages”. Within the framework of the project, it is planned, with the help of the local population and partner organizations, to create a tourist infrastructure in the village of Gorai – to improve the park, install tourist stands and signs, as well as develop excursions, hold a photo exhibition, and print information booklets about the estate.
In addition to local residents, journalists, representatives of the tourism industry, officials, students of the Russian International Academy of Tourism will be involved in the improvement and popularization of the manor park. Volunteers from among the members of the “Weekend Club” will take part in the preparation of thematic excursions and creative evenings, for which methodological seminars for guides will be held.
As a result of the project, its participants, including children and youth, will get to know the history and traditions of their small homeland better, learn how to work together to develop their territory, and receive ample opportunities for the realization of creative and organizational skills.
It is planned that the village of Gorai and the Lorerov-Rozenov park will become a separate excursion route, which will “revive” and unite the village, create new jobs, and improve the standard of living of the local population. In the future, prospects for the implementation of new joint projects with the Tallinn Pushkin Museum and the State Pushkin Memorial Museum-Reserve will open up.
In the oak forest, where ten 200-year-old oak trees have survived, we plan to organize historical quests for children in the area “Secrets of the Old Park”. In the place where the greenhouse once stood, to break the “Garden of Impressions” with plants rare for our region. And to create a small Italian garden in the free places of the park to show tourists what the park looked like two hundred years ago.
“We have already purchased a lot of plants: conifers, birch with red leaves, hawthorn, red vesicle, yellow-leaved, early-flowering plants, several types of barberry.