Daily routine in the countryside. We sew a Christmas gnome. Kitchen utensils, baked goods

Happy moments of life in the village. This week we will sew with you a Christmas Bearded Gnome. We’ll bake shortbread with apricot jam and visit an ancient defense church. There is a legend that the Synkovichi Church was founded by Grand Duke Vytautas in gratitude for the fact that he escaped from the pursuit of Jagiello in the local forests. Modern art critics and architectural historians believed that the temple was built at the beginning of the 16th century, possibly at the expense of the Great Hetman of Lithuania Konstantin Ostrozhsky, the founder of the similar Trinity and Prechistenskaya churches in Vilna. However, recent restoration work has shown that the building dates back to 1320. Archaeological research has shown that initially a castle was built on the site of the existing church. It was built on a hill in the middle of a marshy swamp at the confluence of several streams. By the beginning of the 15th century, only ruins remained of the castle and in its plac