Chersonesos in Sevastopol, as he is almost never seen

• Chersonesos in Sevastopol, as he is almost never seen

In many cities and countries, there are places that are visited by tens and hundreds of thousands of tourists, taking pictures and talking about them.

And when you come and you come to a place you do about it the story or report, and then spread on the pages of your website or blog, you are sure to find a few people who will say: "dupe", "how much you can", or simply pass by the scene, not seeing it. Indeed, now it is difficult for someone with something to surprise, and sometimes even interested. Especially the fact that the man was able to see more than once.

So I have sometimes becomes difficult to remove or to talk about a certain amount of space.

In such cases, I often resort to night-time shooting. After all, as a rule, all the tourists and not only they are at these sites during the day, and shooting in low light itself is quite specific ...

Today a short story about one such large tourist facilities, located in Sebastopol - Chersonesos.

Night story, of course ..

Chersonesos in Sevastopol, as he is almost never seen

In fact, a lot of text this time I will not write, that is to one day have already done the bulk material of the main monuments and sights of the ruins of the Greek city -.. Neotkrytochny Hersonissos. In this story, I decided to limit ourselves to a brief designation of its main sites. So, the first of the most popular tourist sites, which decorates almost all photo reports or publications of Hersonissos. But which, incidentally, has no relation to the ancient city ...

However, its beautiful location on a hill by the sea, and the mossy surface, probably symbolizing the people's minds hoary antiquity, making it one of the attractions of Chersonese and a rare visitor does not ask the guide to tell his story. Here it is: The inscription on the bell barely read: "This bell was cast ... St. Nicholas in Taganrog from Turkish artillery weight (351?) Peck of 1776 the month of August ... the number."

In 1803, by decree of Emperor Alexander I, he was sent to Sevastopol and was intended for the construction of St. Nicholas Church. Once infamous for Russia the Crimean War of 1853-1856. allied forces of Britain and France were taken from Sevastopol, among other trophies 13 church bells. Many decades later, at the Notre Dame Cathedral bell was found with Russian inscription, which no one could remember how he got there. Diplomatic efforts made by both sides, and particularly the French consul in Sevastopol Mr. L. Gay, Bell returned to the belfry of the monastery of Kherson, where he allegedly was taken out.

In 1925 the monastery was abolished by the new government, and two years later all its bells shipped to the smelter. This sad fate avoided only one bell, mounted on the bank as a signal, at the suggestion of the Office to ensure the safety of navigation in the Black and Azov Seas. In foggy days he and his clear thick ringing had to give signals to passing ships.

Vladimir's Cathedral. He restored a little more than ten years ago on the site of the temple was destroyed during the war.

In turn, the previous structure of the temple, was erected in the middle of the XIX century on the site of a medieval cruciform church. It was built in honor of Prince Vladimir of Kiev, which, according to the Russian Primary Chronicle, was baptized in Chersonesos.

The streets of the ancient city. Of course, they all lead to the sea

The residential quarter and the chapel of the XIII century

My self-portrait on the streets of the ancient city. I can not leave the place without the tourist megaposeschaemogo own pictures, "I'm on the background ..."

The shore by the sea, which came out the streets of the ancient city. Somewhere here was the pier for boats, where every day hundreds of people have worked hard, loading and unloading ships arriving. In the heyday of the Chersonese, he was a major point of transshipment cargo delivered by sea

in the Vladimir cathedral in the light of the full moon

Perhaps the most popular tourist place that is almost impossible to take a picture of the day to about him was empty.

One of the two business cards or posters Chersonese.

It's Basilica in 1935. Surprised such a strange name, is not it? The fact is that no one knows how this temple was called in the ancient Chersonese. And it called for the opening of the year during excavations GD Belov in 1935.

View from the opposite side. He, too, is never empty during the day.

In fact, this basilica - the imprinted archaeological site of Chersonesos. According to the workers of the reserve "Chersonese", once visitors armed with cameras, for the first time see its white columns, they immediately cease to hear the guide. They want to immediately take a photo here.

Leave Chersonese without imprinting itself on the background of the Basilica and the sea - it's like to go out of Egypt, not photographed against the backdrop of the pyramids, and from Rome - the Colosseum in the background. Who, then, to believe that you were there?