Dykanka

The exposition of the Dykanka State Historical and Local Lore Museum named after Dmytro Harmash is located in 9 halls and has 8,000 exhibits.

Among them is a handmade chest of Kochubey, decorated with a bizarre pattern, and which served as a treasury in the Trinity Church. Chest in the XVIII century. presented to Judge Kochubey Hetman Ivan Mazepa, but the legend attributes the masterful work on it to the blacksmith Vakula, Hohol's hero from "The Night Before Christmas".

You can see the Polovtsian woman, an old locomotive (steam tractor), Mykola Hohol's posthumous mask. Also presented are valuable finds from Scythian burials, household items, works of art by local masters.

Souvenir products are sold.

Employees of the Museum of Local Lore conduct tours of Dykanka.

Kochubey oaks in Dykanka are a monument of nature and history.

Three oaks growing in a row are the remains of a large oak avenue that decorated the entrance to the Kochubey manor on the ancient Poltava road, laid through the Mykolaivsky forest. Another oak tree stands alone, near the forest department. The age of the trees is about 800 years, the diameter of the trunk is 1.5-1.8 meters, the height is 20-22 meters.

According to legend, the oaks were planted by the Zaporizhzhia General Clerk Vasyl Kochubey and Colonel Ivan Iskra on Kochubey's birthday. Another legend tells that under one of these oaks, young Motrya Kochubey, the daughter of the general clerk, met her elderly lover, Hetman Ivan Mazepa.

Kochubey oaks were sung by the poet Pushkin in the poem "Poltava".

The lilac grove on the outskirts of Dykanka was laid out in 1822 by the owner of these lands, Prince Victor Kochubey, on the site of a clay quarry where raw materials for his brick factory were mined.

According to legend, Kochubey created this floral miracle to please his terminally ill daughter Hanna. Lilac seedlings of 40 varieties were brought to Dykanka from different countries of the world.

Now the lilac grove is under the protection of the regional landscape park "Dykanskyi". To date, only 5 varieties of lilac have survived, but due to the large area of the grove (2.5 hectares), it is called the largest in the world.

Every spring, during the flowering of the lilac, Dykanka becomes a place of tourist pilgrimage. Every year in the middle of May, the traditional holiday "Songs of the Lilac Grove" is held.

The Triumphal Arch in Dykanka is the village's business card, the only surviving civil structure of the Kochubey family estate.

The ceremonial entrance to the estate was decorated with a classic triumphal arch in honor of the arrival in Dykanka of Emperor Oleksandr I, whose close associate was Prince Viktor Kochubey.

Triumphal Arch was built by the architect Luyidzhi Ruska to commemorate the victory over Napoleon in 1812, it was decorated with copper bas-reliefs with battle scenes.

The Art gallery named after Mariya Bashkyrtseva is the art department of the Dykanka Historical and Local Lore Museum.

The gallery is located in the premises of the former Zemstvo school, built in 1904.

The fund collection of the gallery includes more than 1,000 works. These are mainly the works of amateur local artists, professionals of the second half of the 20th century, and contemporary artists whose creative path is connected with this region.

The greatest interest of visitors is the memorial room of the artist and writer Mariya Bashkyrtseva, where life-size copies of her canvases are presented.

Also on display is a collection of works of art related to the work of the writer Mykola Hohol. In particular, a smooth-embroidered portrait of Hohol by Reshetylivka masters is presented.