Mound Vrevo
   Photo: Mound Vrevo

Vrevo - this is a very ancient city, located in the Pskov region, which lies between the village and the town of Pushkin Mountains of the island. The main attraction of the settlement is the hill on which in medieval times was located some fortress. At that time settlement belonged to Pskov suburbs, while there were monasteries and temples. Over time Vrevo became a district center, and then turned into a graveyard; during the 20th century it became Vrevo village. To date, there is no settlement resident, but before the end of the 1990s there was still life in full swing. At the village gathered people from the neighboring villages, because there operated shops, a school, a village club.

The largest part of the space in the fort occupies, as in ancient times, the cemetery, which is seen even at the entrance to the village and stands in a long ridge that runs along the main road. Cemetery - especially older, although almost all ancient graves were destroyed, which can not be identified. On this site you can find the ancient stone crosses. Besides, on the territory of the settlement arrangement exists and the current cemetery, where burials are particularly noteworthy. For example, on a small area of ​​the cemetery, on the left side of the road, there is the burial of Mary Rezitskoy clairvoyant or "Russian Vanga" of the gift which is still legendary. Here is buried nearby and Vlas Stepanov, who was known as an experienced beekeeper, whose grave closes a huge stone slab.

At the site of the ancient city is located and noble necropolis, where burials are members of the Caucasian battle of Major General Vrevskaya Hippolyte Alexandrovich, as well as the Governor General at the Turkestan - Vrevskaya Alexander Borisovich. Not far from this place is the grave of his mother - Vrevskaya Eupraxia Nikolayevna, who was a good friend of Pushkin AS It is believed that with the image Eupraxia Nikolayevna he wrote the image of Tatyana Larina from his novel "Eugene Onegin".

The unique reference to the settlement in the Pskov chronicles appears at a time when there was a siege Vrevo in 1426 the army of Vytautas, who was a great Lithuanian prince.

Scribe books dating from the years 1585-1587, tell of a sharp reduction in the number of taxpaying households located on the facade of the ancient city. In the third book devoted scribe chronicles, designated settlement completely empty. To this period of time were only traces formerly a monastery - Pokrovsky female and male Elias. It can be said that until the 18th century was the center of all Vrevo Vrevskaya County at the Pskov province, and after the county was abolished, became a parish in the churchyard Myasovskoy Ostrovsky district of the same province.

Some of the previously owned Vrevskaya county land was granted by the Russian Emperor Paul I Prince Kurakin. By 1810 Kurakin erected in the castle church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. This temple was made odnoprestolnym and is Gothic. In addition, the church was provided with a richly fulfilled sacristy, and a variety of precious utensils. Consecration of Paul and Peter held next year in February month. The church stood in the castle for a brief period - immediately after the death of the prince began to be permanent destruction, and in 1828 the temple vault completely collapsed.

Not far from the settlement Vrevo are such names like: Aleksandrova, Golubov, Mikhalev. These estates were once united by a certain fact that in a certain period of time the owners are representatives of one of the noble families - Vrevskaya barons. These estates were completely looted and then burned during the 1917 revolution.

Currently fort is part of the territory of the State memorial natural landscape and the historical and literary museum-reserve named after AS Pushkin called "Mikhailovskoye."

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