The bell tower in Kalyazin is a flooded forerunner of the tragedy

Strange looks like a lone belfry in the middle of the water, is not it? How can this be? After all, this religious building necessarily accompanies the temple, church or monastery. However, the bell tower of the St. Nicholas Cathedral can become a material proof of the existence of such a thing. Kalyazin (Russia, Tver region) attracts many tourists because of this unusual structure.

In fact, once in this place there was a very ordinary monastery, the suburban life was boiling, merchants traded their goods with might and main. In the XII century, this place was called "Nikola na Zhabne", as well as the city-forming monastery. Later, here was built Nicholas Cathedral. It is this name that is mentioned in church annals. Although in our time it is often called Nikolsky. Nearby was founded Troitsky Makaryev Monastery, located on the left bank of the Volga River. The bell tower in Kalyazin itself was erected in 1796-1800. In total, there were 12 bells on it, but the biggest cast in honor of the accession to the throne of Emperor Nicholas II. He weighed no less, and 501 pounds. If you translate into the usual units for us, it will be more than 8 tons. And it is with this mysterious legend. But more about this later.

In the 1930s, at the time of general electrification, at a time when religion was actually banned, on the site of the Troitsky monastery, and the entire settlement, it was decided to build a reservoir. Most of the city of Kalyazin ceased to exist. The bell tower of the St. Nicholas Cathedral is almost the only reminder of the ancient city. All the inhabitants were relocated, the buildings were destroyed, but they decided not to touch the bell tower. Why - difficult 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 appearance of the legend, which was mentioned above.

So, the bell tower in Kalyazin should remain undisturbed, but there were no more places left for the bells. Probably everyone saw movies that showed how the bells were thrown off the hill and crashed. So it was this time. However, the biggest bell (we remember that it weighed more than 8 tons) in the archway simply did not pass. Since he was on the upper tier. It was decided to lower it below and throw it out from there. However, no overlap could bear such a weight, and as a result, the bell was in a deep basement. Workers planned to lower it down, and not to raise it, there was very little time left before flooding, and so they decided to leave it where it was. The bell tower in Kalyazin together with most of the city was flooded. Instead of five tiers above the surface of the water there were only four, more than seven meters were under water. And since then, locals have repeatedly heard the sound of that bell. He appeared on the eve of the tragic events: the alarm on June 22, 1941 predicted the Great Patriotic War, heard the ringing on the eve of the Stalingrad and Kursk battles, the bell became a harbinger of atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Afghan war, the earthquake that destroyed Ashgabat.

True or not, it is unlikely that someone will say exactly, especially since there are no witnesses of those events alive. However, repeated attempts to stop such rumors failed. As a result, it was decided to fall asleep that ill-fated cellar, along with an 8-ton giant.

Now the bell tower in Kalyazin stands on a small island, where many residents and visitors of Russia go on excursion with pleasure. Although some aborigines are not-no, yes, and sometimes they listen - does not the alarm sound a terrible tragedy ...