Smolensk. City walks

"A Smolenskaya wall laid Boris Godunov himself. He said: The Smolensk Wall will now become a necklace of all Rus Orthodox to the envy of the enemies and the pride of the Moscow state. True, the prince of Trubetskaya chiefly discarded: Like in that necklace, the lice will start, and they will not survive. Naturally, he meant not in the literal sense of the word, and the enemies of the country, which could well capture Smolensk. So it soon happened - in the troubled time the Polish military took the fortress".
Smolensk is a city in the west of Russia. But the neighborhood with the "Enlightened Europe" did not always go for the benefit of Smolensk. In the case of war, he was delivered, as a rule, first. About these and other pages of the history of the long-suffering, but unbending town of Smolensk - in this book