OLD CHRISTIAN CEMETERY IN BRASLAU: HISTORY AND EPIGRAPHY
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The article examines the history of the old Christian cemetery in Braslau as an important part of the cultural landscape of the city and a place of memory for the community of its residents. With the help of periodicals, archival sources, cartographic materials, interviews and field research of the cemetery itself, various aspects of the development of the Braslau neropol are traced. The coexistence of two confessions in the cemetery space, the most valuable historical monuments, their epigraphy in Russian, Polish and Belarusian are considered.
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S. HRUNTOU, Center for the Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature Researches of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk
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