Description of the attraction
Not far from the town of Pereslavl-Zalessky, on the coast of Lake Plescheevo, where the architectural monument "Kleshinsky complex" is located today, there is a huge boulder - the Blue Stone, which is a natural monument. Currently, the stone has a gray-blue color and gradually, slowly sinks into the ground.
Since ancient times, this stone has been called miraculous. According to the statements of a number of living old-timers, among whom there are numerous and most diverse legends passing from generation to generation, if you stay on this stone for a while, you can be healed of many types of diseases, and infertile women can have children.
The history of the Blue Stone began in the distant past of our country. Today historians, collaborating with archaeologists, have proven that the first settlement on the coast of Lake Pleshcheyevo was isolated about two thousand years ago. The first settlers in this area were pagan Finns, who, surprisingly, did not accept bloody sacrifices. This area of residence of the Finns was attractive because it was here that the mountain was located, the height of which reached 30 meters above the water level, because from this point all the surrounding environs were perfectly visible.
During the period when the tribe inhabited the mountain, the Blue Stone already existed and was located at its very top. It is clear that the pagan settlers deified a huge boulder and made a small flat area around it, and a special pagan prayer house was built on its edge.
Over time, these territories, near Lake Plescheevo, began to be populated by the gray Slavs as the Finns left this area. The Slavs who came were also pagans, but they worshiped Yarila - their pagan god, but at the same time, they preserved the former shrine of the people that preceded them. An imposing settlement was built next to the stone, in which the Slavic pagan tribes lived; it was named Ticks. Thus, it was this territory that served as the starting point for the emergence of the future city of Pereslavl-Zalessky.
Throughout its long history, the blue stone has always been famous for its incredible strength, which has survived to this day.
During the existence of Russia, when the Orthodox faith was already firmly rooted, the population of the Pleshcheyevo Lake regions, including Orthodox Christians, did not stop worshiping the extraordinary boulder and continued to deify it. During this period of time, Orthodox priests, preaching almost every time, tried to convey to the local residents that not a miraculous, but an unclean force lives in the stone, which poisons the souls of those who worship and deify it. It is worth noting that no warnings and reproaches could stop people from worshiping the empowered stone. Even today, a large number of people come to the Blue Stone, leaving their offerings at its foot and asking for help, recovery and praying for the fulfillment of desires.
The time has come, and the local priests insisted on throwing a stone off the cliff - everything happened according to the planned plan. Thus, the stone was already at the very foot of the mountain, but even here a large number of people gathered, who, as before, worshiped the stone.
In the early years of the 18th century, representatives of the Orthodox faith suggested throwing a boulder into a pit and filling it with earth from above, which was done by order of Vasily Shuisky.
After some time, the fishermen who came to these territories were surprised to notice that the stone was still in its place. No one could understand exactly how the 12-ton boulder ended up on the surface of the earth.
In 1788, the construction of a temple was laid on the site of a boulder, so it was decided to lay it in the foundation of a nearby bell tower under construction. In the winter season, when the lake was covered with ice, they wanted to move the Blue Stone to the ice, but the ice could not stand it and the stone ended up at a depth of 5 m. A year later, local fishermen noticed that the stone was beginning to "get out" to its original place, and today it lies at its previous location, although it sinks more and more into the ground.
