Vyborg. The town, which is not
Vyborg. The town, which is not
alkopona collected business cards of the city that we would never see.
Vyborg - a city with a glorious past, a medieval picture that if the lick, you can safely drive a lot of tourists, and Sweden, and say: Look, what city you have pressed. While it turns out otherwise, we can bring here Swedish tourists, and say, Look what we've lost. Nowhere else in Russia, my heart was not excruciatingly painful in Vyborg. Many of the buildings are destroyed, but still hold on to his seat. Today I will tell you about the three buildings in the city, which will not return because there was not horns or feet from them.
New Cathedral Vyborg
By the end of the nineteenth century, half-Russian Vyborg believers were divided into two Lutheran communities, some believe in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, the other in a rural community, but their number is considerably increased and the parish could not accommodate everyone. So in 1891 and got the idea to build a new impressive cathedral, for centuries, to the envy of their ancestors, to the property of descendants.
The decoration of the cathedral were not only impressive beauty of the interior, but also an amazing body, but not simple, and the largest in the whole of northern Europe.
eogotichesky handsome that today would be a major hallmark of Vyborg, on the background to the Chinese self and bought issued in their own country magnets. It is presented to him maybe even a fancy name like Notre Dame de choice and to dedicate a couple of songs.
But these lands came the war, and as a result of fighting the temple was destroyed, so he looked in 1941.
It could still be saved even after the war, the Soviet Commission has brought the temple to the list of monuments. But does our government support of religion? No. Therefore, finally decided to demolish the cathedral and broken down into its place Square, the center of which must be a monument to Stalin ideal.
Since the city was not his first business card.
Restaurant Esplanade
Even a century ago, the city had one restaurant, the fame of which spread far beyond the city. It came out of the St. Petersburg sample local dishes, so enjoy the interiors.
This crown of wooden architecture was the model of the restaurant business in the city. To tell the truth, these restaurants in our time is to meet with difficulty.
The first time there was a Russian restaurant called Belvedere, but it burned down, and in its place the Finns have built a new building, called Esplanade. That ye may feel the swing, you know, even in the restaurant was open air stage.
Here, three times the most famous orchestras acted week.
Successful future again interrupted by the war. The restaurant was destroyed in modern times it wanted to recover and passed six months ago, to the delight of tourists like the restaurant building, but its former greatness will not return.
Railway station in Vyborg
Now you may ask, Wait a minute, where did the train come after we have seen the building, walked on legs?. Yes, but the fact that the station of the city has gone through as many as three of regeneration and had to visit different guises: in wood, granite and Soviet. This Phoenix that city.
The first birth he was in the construction of the railway linking Helsinki and St. Petersburg, and then began the most prosperous history of the city, who was sitting in the middle of the transport path of friendly regions of the empire and collect a lot of carrots with trains passing by.
City flourished like tulips in the Netherlands, and at the beginning of the XX century it was decided to upgrade the station building, unbecoming such a wonderful city have a temporary wooden structure, and by 1913 the results of competitions in Vyborg miracle appeared.
The handsome red Finnish granite became another hallmark of the city and in a smart tuxedo seen arriving in Vyborg guests.
But like the previous architectural buildings fell in the liberation battles for the city.
Restore his image and likeness did not dare to have done a new version in the style of Stalin's empire, but he was far from his predecessor.
To date, only the building of the luggage box office tells us about the past greatness.
Here they are three buildings of the city's past, who have suffered at the time of the war and were finished off his own people, on whose graves have not been born nothing beautiful. According to the results of this post I want to hang in the air is only one question: Is the current government of the city knows what the building will be next on the list?.