Strange looks like a lone bell tower in the middlewater, is not it? How can this be? After all, this religious building necessarily accompanies a temple, church or monastery. However, the bell tower of St. Nicholas Cathedral can become the physical evidence of the existence of this. Kalyazin (Russia, Tver region) attracts many tourists precisely because of this unusual building.
In fact, once on this place stood the mostan ordinary monastery, suburban life was in full swing, merchants were trading with their goods. In the XII century, this place was called “Nikola on Zhabnya”, as well as the city-forming monastery. Later Nicholas Cathedral was built here. This name is mentioned in church annals. Although in our time it is often called Nikolsky. Nearby was founded the Trinity Makaryev monastery, located on the left bank of the Volga River. The bell tower itself was built in Kalyazin in 1796-1800. In total there were 12 bells on it, but the largest one was cast in honor of the accession to the throne of Emperor Nicholas II. He weighed as much as 501 poods. If you translate into the usual units for us, you get more than 8 tons. And the mysterious legend is connected with it. But more about that later.
In the 30s of the twentieth century, at the time of the universalelectrification, at a time when religion was actually banned, on the site of the Trinity Monastery, and the entire settlement, it was decided to arrange a reservoir. Most of the city Kalyazin ceased to exist. The bell tower of St. Nicholas Cathedral is practically the only reminder of the ancient city. All residents were relocated, the buildings were destroyed, but they decided not to touch the bell tower. Why - hard to say. They say that it was decided to leave it instead of a lighthouse or use it as a parachute tower. But this decision was the beginning of the legend, which was mentioned above.
So, the bell tower in Kalyazin was supposed to stayintact, but the bells have no place left on it. Probably, everyone saw films in which it was shown how the bells were dropped from high and broken. So it was this time. However, the largest bell (we remember that it weighed more than 8 tons) simply did not pass through the arched opening. Since he was on the top tier. It was decided to lower it below and throw it away from there. However, no overlap could bear such a weight, and as a result, the bell was in a deep basement. The workers planned to lower it down, rather than lift it up, there was very little time left before the flooding, and therefore they decided to leave it where it was. The bell tower in Kalyazin along with most of the city was flooded. Instead of five tiers, only four remained above the water surface; more than seven meters were under water. And since then, locals have repeatedly heard the ring of the bell itself. He appeared on the eve of the tragic events: the alarm bell June 22, 1941 predicted the Great Patriotic War, heard the ringing on the eve of the Battle of Stalingrad and Kursk, the bell became the forerunner of atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Afghan war, the earthquake that destroyed Ashgabat.
True or not, hardly anyone will say for sureEspecially since the witnesses of those events are not alive. However, repeated attempts to stop such rumors ended in failure. As a result, it was decided to fill that unfortunate basement with an 8-ton giant.
Now the bell tower in Kalyazin is on a smallan island where many residents and guests of Russia go on a tour with pleasure. Although some aborigines no-no and yes, they listen sometimes - it does not predict the alarm of a terrible tragedy ...
