A monument to prominent statesman Lew Sapieha (1557-1633) will be unveiled in Lepel, Vitsyebsk region, on September 11, BelaPAN reports. In 1586, Sapieha founded a city called Bely (White) Lepel two mile away from Stary (Old) Lepel, which was first mentioned in historical records in 1439. The cities later merged and became known as Lepel….
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Dracula was not bloodthirsty, just misunderstood
Vlad the Impaler, the medieval Romanian prince who inspired the character of Count Dracula, was not a blood-thirsty tyrant, he was simply a misunderstood victim of bad Western European propaganda, a new exhibition has claimed. The show, which has just opened in Bucharest, attempts to rehabilitate Vlad Tepes, also known as Vlad Dracula or Vlad…
