Attractions of Parkhomivka

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Parkhomivka was part of the Podhorichani count estate.

The first wooden church in Parkhomivka was founded back in 1704, in its place Count Ivan Podhorichani built a five-domed wooden church after 1769, and in 1808 the widow of Count Varvara Podhorichani (Shydlovska) decided to build a new stone church .

The single-domed church in the style of classicism was designed by Kharkiv provincial architect Petro Yaroslavskyi, who is considered the founder of the Ukrainian school of classicist architecture. An interesting feature of the architecture of the Intercession Church is two bell towers. According to experts, this is a peculiar interpretation of the three-domed church, an echo of the Ukrainian folk architecture of the 17th century.

A feature of the interior is the choirs in the three branches of the building. The painting on the sails and above the main entrance has been preserved.

In the 1960s, the church was closed and turned into a warehouse. Only 50 years later, the Intercession Church began to be used for its intended purpose again.

The Parkhomivka Art Museum named after Panas Lunov is a unique art gallery, nicknamed the "rural Hermitage".

The gallery was created in 1955 by village teacher Panas Lunov as a branch of the school museum. The exhibition was based on paintings bought by Lunov at a post-war Kharkiv flea market, as well as donated by Kharkiv artists. Later, the collection was replenished with canvases donated to the village gallery by many museums of the USSR.

At the request of Lunov, the unique exposition was placed in the former palace of Count Pidhorichani, which previously housed the office of the sugar factory.

Today, the Parkhomivka Museum collection includes about 6,000 exhibits: paintings by Rembrandt, Gauguin, Van Dyck, Benoit, Manet, Bryullov, Shishkin, Aivazovsky, Levitan, Repin, Vasnetsov, Roerich, Malevich, drawings by Shevchenko, posters by Mayakovsky and others.

The pearl of the collection are four works by Pablo Picasso, donated to the museum by Illya Erenburh, including the famous painting "Dove of the World", which became a symbol of the anti-war movement.