Attractions of Zhytomyr district

The Lutheran Church in Zhytomyr was built in 1896 near the complex of the Zhytomyr Male Gymnasium.

The land for the construction of the Lutheran church was allocated for the Lutheran community of Zhytomyr by the widow of the German colonist Vilhelm Knaak. The project of the church in the style of modernized Gothic was developed by the architect Arnold Yensh.

The building is made of red brick. The architect managed to achieve excellent plasticity and harmony of architectural forms.

Daniyil Rikhter, the grandfather of the famous pianist Svyatoslav Rikhter, who was born in Zhytomyr in 1915 and lived in a small house next to the church, played the organ in the kirsha.

In Soviet times, a gym was placed in the building.

Since 1996, the church belongs to the "Christmas" Independent Church of Evangelical Baptist Christians. Restoration was carried out, Sunday school was opened. The organ has not yet been restored - it is being replaced by a mock-up.

The Metropolitan Chambers were built in Radomysl in the 17th century, when the city came under the ownership of Bishop Anastasiy Sheptytskyi and soon became the residence of the Uniate Metropolitans.

After the transition of Radomyshl under Russian rule, the metropolitan chambers were not used for some time and fell into disrepair. The tsarist government intended to use the former metropolitan building for a public school, but the city's Catholic community managed to get the building back. The metropolitan chambers were first rebuilt into a chapel, and later, in 1804, a Roman Catholic church was opened at the expense of Princess Tsetsyliya Radzyvill.

During the Soviet rule, the church was rebuilt beyond recognition - the bell tower was removed, a portal with columns was installed in front of the entrance, and the building of the former metropolitan chambers and the church acquired the typical features of Soviet monumental classicism, losing all signs of an architectural monument of the 18th century. Since 1954, the House of Culture has been located here.

The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the high bank of the Teterev River in Chudniv looks spectacular from the Zhytomyr-Khmelnytskyi highway.

It was built in 1772 at the expense of the city's Orthodox community.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin was built in Kodna in 1841 at the expense of the then owner of the village, Mykhaylo Korzhenevskyi, on the site of a burnt wooden church.

The temple is made in the style of classicism. On the walls of the facade of the church there is a massive portal with four columns, and the upper part is decorated with a round dome of slightly flattened shape. Due to its four large columns and rectangular shapes, the church resembles the traditional temples of Ancient Greece and Rome, but it is still closer to the temples of the latter, because it has a Tuscan architectural order.

The three-tier bell tower was built at the expense of the parishioners in 1865. Decorative paintings from the beginning of the 20th century have been preserved in the interior of the church.

Together with the bell tower, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin has the status of an architectural monument of national importance.

The stone church of the Nativity of the Virgin was founded in Starosiltsi in 1773 by the village owner Yosyp Yakubovsky near the old wooden Greek Catholic church. After his death, his butler Amalytsky and priest Dimitriy Matskevych completed the construction.

The temple is made in the Polish Baroque style. It housed the miraculous icon of the Mother of God for centuries, which was brought here by the monks of the Pochaiv Larva. Under the altar was the tomb of the builders of the temple. Presumably in the 1830s, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was converted to Orthodoxy.

It is an architectural landmark of local importance.

The People's History and Local Lore Museum of the village of Kryve in Zhytomyr region was founded in 2003 on the initiative of local historians.

The museum is located on the territory of the Kryve Gymnasium named Yosyp Yurkevych. The gymnasium bears the name of its founder, the famous doctor and public figure Yosyp Yurkevych, who was born in Kryve in 1853.

The main part of the museum exposition is also dedicated to the Yurkevych family and their friends and neighbors of the Rylskys, who lived nearby in Romanivka. In particular, personal belongings and documents handed over to the museum by the descendants of Yosyp Yurkevych are presented.

The People's Museum of the Kodnia Village History was founded in 1976 and is located in the local House of Culture.

In the museum, you can learn about the history of the village of Kodnia from ancient times, get acquainted with archaeological finds, Cossack artifacts, and archival documents.

The main exhibition is devoted to the events of the "Koliivshchyna" uprising in Haydamac. As you know, after the defeat of the rebel units led by Maksym Zaliznyak and Ivan Honta by Polish and Russian troops, more than 200 Zaporozhians and Haydamaks were executed by the decision of the Polish court in Kodnia.

The exposition presents copies of documents related to the Haydamak movement in Ukraine, maps, samples of Cossack weapons, ancient tools of peasant work and life, materials about the history of Kodnia.

The postal station in Berezyna, on the 121st kilometer of the Brest-Litovsky highway, was built in 1846 according to the exemplary project of "Houses of the II class with a hotel", a characteristic feature of which is the arrow windows in the neo-Gothic style.

The original details of the porch decoration have been preserved: granite steps, patterned canopy brackets above the door.

In 1941, the postal station housed the headquarters of the German army that was advancing on Kyiv.

The Museum of Flora and Fauna of the Radomyshl Region was opened in 1968 at the initiative of the director of the local forest and hunting industry Andriy Filipovych.

The museum is located on the territory of a small arboretum with a decorative pond, a rose garden, neat lawns and alleys.

The first hall of the museum tells about the history of the State Forestry Industry (1936). The first "Druzhba" chainsaw, photos, etc. are presented.

In the remaining three halls, flora and fauna are presented: stuffed animals of large herbivores (red deer, elk), scenes from the life of forest roe deer, a family of wild boars, wolves and a raccoon dog. Among birds, the golden eagle stands out due to its size (2-meter wingspan).

The museum has a collection of minerals and a large collection of butterflies.

The Romanivka Literary and Memorial Museum-Manor of the Rylsky Family in Zhytomyr region is located in the village of Romanivka, which now belongs to the Kvitneve village hromada.

Since the middle of the 19th century, the Rylsky family of Ukrainian cultural and public figures lived here. Having purchased Romanivka in 1844, the marshal of the Skvyra nobility, Teodor Rylsky, established a family estate here and built a manor house. Among his descendants, ethnographer and economist Tadey Rylsky, teacher and translator Ivan Rylsky, poet and linguist Maksym Rylsky owned the Romaniv estate.

During the Soviet rule, the Rylsky manor house housed a school where Maksym Rylsky taught in 1921-1923. Back in 1965, a museum room was created at the school, and in 1991, a literary and memorial museum was opened. The interior of Rylsky's room is partially reproduced, memorial items, books, photographs and documents are exhibited, the interior of the classroom of the old village school is presented.

In the park part of the manor museum, there is a bust of Maksym Rylsky.

Every year in May, the literary and artistic festival "Romanian Spring" is held on the territory of the museum.

The Historical and Local Lore Museum of the village of Ryzhany in Zhytomyr region was founded in 1987.

The main museum exhibition in three halls is located in the premises of the Ryzhany Lyceum. In particular, archaeological finds from the nearby village of Kropyvenka, materials about the foundation and development of the village of Ryzhany, historical photos, old land deeds, and household items of Polishuks are presented.

In a separate hall, there is the "Flax Museum", which introduces the process of creating linen cloth and Polishuks embroidery, as well as the history of the local Volodarsk-Volynsky flax factory.

A subdivision of the Museum of History and Local Lore is also the "Museum of the Polishuks Rushnyk", opened in 2015 in the nearby premises of the Ryzhany Club. More than 130 original embroidered linen towels, traditional clothes of the Polishuks, agricultural objects are presented here.

The Dominican monastery was founded in Liubar in 1634. At the same time, Prince Stanislav Lubomyrsky built the first Dominican church.

In the middle of the 17th century, the temple was destroyed by the Cossacks during the War of Liberation. In 1752, it was rebuilt again by Frantsishek Ferdynand Lubomyrsky, it was consecrated in the name of Saints Michael and Yan Nepomuk.

In 1864, the Dominican monastery was closed, the church became a parish church. During the Soviet rule, the temple was also closed.

Today it is an active church of Saint Michael the Archangel and Saint Dominic. Restoration is underway.

The well-preserved school building of the Saint George Basilian Monastery in Liubar was built in 1775.

It was part of the complex of Saint George's Monastery, which was founded in 1666 as a Jesuit Greek-Catholic monastery (according to other data, in 1604 as an Orthodox monastery). Since 1752, a school has been operating at the monastery, with 450 children studying in six classes. After the Jesuit order was dissolved, the monastery and school became Basilian.

The school building is in the baroque style, brick, two-story, with a figured pediment. The walls of the building are reinforced with buttresses.

The premises of the school are still used for their intended purpose - the Liubar Vocational Lyceum is located here.

The Seminary Church of Saint John of Dukla in Zhytomyr is an architectural monument of national importance.

Located close to the central square of the city.

The building in the neoclassical style was built in 1838-1842 as the church of the Lutsk-Zhytomyr Theological Seminary instead of the burned down church of the Franciscan monastery founded in 1763.

Until 1917, a theological seminary was located in the monastery building, and during the Soviet regime - the Military Commissariat.

In 1992, the church of Saint John was returned to the Franciscan fathers, consecrated in 1997. The monastery is active.

Saint Michael's Cathedral in Zhytomyr is considered an architectural landmark of the 19th century, it is one of the oldest stone religious buildings in the city.

It was built at the expense of Zhytomyr merchant Mykhaylo Khabotin, who was later buried under the altar part of the church.

The famous pianist Svyatoslav Richter was baptized here.

Until 1927, Saint Michael's Church operated as a temple of the Ukrainian autocephalous Orthodox community, then it was closed. In Soviet times, the "Znannya" society and a puppet theater were located here.

Today it is an active church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. In 1991, restoration began. There is an Orthodox Sunday school at the cathedral.