Attractions of Zhmerynka district

The Holy Trinity Brailiv Monastery, founded in 1635 in Vinnytsia on the initiative of the magnate Mykhaylo Kropyvnytskyi, has occupied the complex of the former Catholic monastery since the middle of the 19th century.

In 1740, Voivode of Volyn Frantsishek Potocki founded it as a monastery of the Catholic Trinitarian order. The monks of this order, exotic for Ukraine, specialized in the redemption of Christians from Turkish captivity. The first monastery buildings were wooden. The construction of the current architectural ensemble was completed in 1778 by the Podillya magnate Stanislav Potocki. The monastery consisted of a church with a tall baroque tower and cells attached on both sides. In 1787, the Polish king Stanislav Avhust specially visited Brailiv to admire the monastery's paintings by the artist John Prachtel (buried on the territory), which are now partially restored.

After the Polish uprising of 1831, the Trinitarian monastery was closed, and in 1845 the Trinity Convent from Vinnytsia was transferred to it. During the reconstruction, in order to give the church an Orthodox appearance, a tented finish was added to the tower, a small figure of eight was erected over the gable roof, and a gate in the Moscow Baroque style was built in front of the entrance.

The main shrine is the icons of the Brailiv-Pochaiv Mother of God and the Brailiv-Chenstokhova Mother of God.

The Carmelite monastery was founded in Bar in 1531, but soon the wooden buildings were destroyed.

In 1616, the construction of a college and a Jesuit monastery was started on the ruins. It, in turn, was destroyed during the Liberation War of 1648-1654, but the stone monastery building was partially preserved. Reconstruction began in 1701 and continued intermittently until 1787.

The church and the cell building are made in the form of a single building in the Baroque style, which looks little like a temple. In 1908, the belfry over the gate was built.

For some time, the complex belonged to the Orthodox Church, but now its owners are Benedictine missionary sisters.

The Orlovsky Palace in Severynivka was built at the beginning of the 19th century and has remained almost unchanged to this day.

Severyn Orlovsky was a stingy person and did not want to invest a lot of money in the construction of a magnificent palace according to the project of a famous architect. From the outside, the building was quite modest, but from the inside it was impressive with luxury and splendor.

The richest collections of paintings, silver, ancient coins, stamps, etc. were gathered in the palace. Unfortunately, the interiors were not preserved. Some paintings from the Severynivka Palace are now exhibited in museums in Warsaw and Kyiv.

A park was built around the palace, the architect of which was Dionysius Mikler. At the end of the park there is a sandstone rock that offers a magnificent view.

Next to the palace, a large-scale building of the former arena with a gate has been preserved.

During Soviet times, the palace building was covered with tiles. Currently, the Severynivka Rehabilitation Hospital is located here.

The Sharhorod Museum of Fine Arts represents the works of Ukrainian artists of the 60s and 80s of the 20th century: Odaynyk, Derehusov, Lemeshko, Lozovy, Shchebryakov and others.

The greatest value is the tapestry "Sharhorod - the land of Podillya", created according to the sketches of a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Yuriy Kyzymov.

The palace of the Shchenovsky landowners in the village of Nosykivka is one of the little-known architectural monuments of Vinnytsia region, an example of Podillya manor construction at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century.

Until 1905, the estate in Nosykivka was owned by the Korevytsky landowners. After the fire that destroyed the manor house, Stanislav Korevytsky sold it to Stanislav Shchenovsky, the son of the Polish sugar farmer Ihnatsiy Shchenovsky from Kapustiany. Shchenovsky built a new palace in the style of romanticism and laid out a large decorative park with a pond. In Soviet times, it housed a hospital, a pharmacy, a school and a post office.

The estate is located on a hill in the middle of an old park. It is surrounded by a wall with a guard at the gate. The palace is decorated with a decorative tower that overlooks the surrounding area. Stucco decor and fragments of wooden decorative elements in the neo-Gothic style have been partially preserved in the interior of the palace.

The restoration and transformation of the palace into a tourist attraction is planned at the initiative of the activists of preservation of historical and cultural heritage.