Attractions of Zhytomyr district

A beautiful neo-Renaissance manor house with Gothic elements in Turchynivka belonged to the Tereshchenko family of rich sugar millers and patrons.

The construction was started in 1899 by Fedir Tereshchenko, as the date on the facade reminds us. The construction was completed in 1901 by Nataliya, the daughter of a sugar factory, who married Count Serhiy Uvarov, a leader of the Berdychiv County nobility.

The building is made of terracotta bricks, almost all decorative elements are also brick. The facade is decorated with the coat of arms of the Uvarov family with the letter U. The interiors are decorated with moldings.

The palace is located in an old park on the bank of a pond (XIX century), which remained from the previous owners of the estate. Nearby is a utility building with an elegant tower.

Since Soviet times, the palace has housed the Turchynivka Vocational Lyceum, thanks to which the building is kept in good condition.

The Velyki Korovyntsi Local Lore Museum of the Chudniv City Council was founded in 1961 by the efforts of teachers and students of the local school.

His exposition tells about the past and present of Velyki Korovyntsi.

A separate exposition is dedicated to the family of Ukrainian industrialists and patrons of Tereshchenko, to whom the village belonged since 1870. Fedir Tereshchenko built a sugar factory, a hospital, two schools, a church, a railway station and other infrastructure facilities.

The Ivanovychi Village History Exemplary Museum was opened in 1991 and is located in three rooms of the Ivanovychi Lyceum.

About 500 exhibits highlight the main stages of the development of the Ivanovychi village from the 17th century to the present day, as well as the features of the folk life of its inhabitants at different times. A model of a traditional peasant house is presented.

The exhibitions "From plant to fabric" and "From grain to bread" tell about ancient methods of farming, weaving technology and other folk crafts.

Separate expositions highlight the events of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the Second World War, the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The Zhytomyr Literary and Memorial Museum of Volodymyr Korolenko was opened for the 120th anniversary of the outstanding writer and public figure in the building where he spent his childhood and youth.

Korolenko became famous as an active member of the populist movement and the author of many literary works, the most famous of which are: "The Forest is Roaring", "Blind Musician", "In a Bad Society", "Doomsday", "Speechless", "Children of the Dungeon".

The exposition is arranged in seven halls according to the chronological principle, and includes 10,000 exhibits: personal belongings, lifetime editions of Korolenko and contemporary writers, works of graphics, painting, sculpture, and applied art.

The three-story building of the water mill in Pavoloch is located near the dam on the Rostavytsia River. The mill was built in the 19th century, when a large Jewish community lived in the village.

The Zhytomyr Regional Literary Museum is located in an ancient two-story building in the Art Nouveau style, built at the beginning of the 20th century.

The exhibition consists of four sections: French writer Honore de Balzac, Zhytomyr theater artist Ivan Shevchenko, poet-translator Borys Ten and the family of composer Mykhaylo Skorulskyi.

The ancient mansion built in the 19th century on Castle Square for the head of the Zhytomyr Catholic Diocese is called the Bishop's House in Zhytomyr.

Currently, the Zhytomyr Regional Local Lore Museum is located here, founded back in 1865, when Volyn Governor Mykhaylo Chortkov exhibited his collection of samples of 48 minerals and rocks in the public library.

Then the exhibition was supplemented by the coin collection of the leader of the Zhytomyr nobility, Symonych, materials of the Volyn Diocesan Antiquities, nationalized art collections of Counts Ilinsky-Stetsky from Romanov and Baron Ivan de Shoduar from Zhytomyr.

Currently, the funds of the Zhytomyr Museum of Local Lore include 150,000 monuments of history and culture, but the exposition presents only a small part, which relates to the historical events of the first half of the 20th century. The main exhibition space is occupied by the art department of the museum, where a unique collection of works of fine art by Italian, Dutch, French, Polish and Russian masters of the 16th-20th centuries is presented.

The historical exhibition is planned to be opened in the magistrate's house.

The building of the regional state philharmonic named after Svyatoslav Richter was built in Zhytomyr in 1858 as a city theater on the initiative of the Polish playwright and public figure Yuzef Ihnatsiy Krashevski, who was also the theater's artistic director.

At that time, the theater building was considered one of the best in Ukraine.

Currently, the Zhytomyr Philharmonic Hall is an architectural monument of local importance.

Zhytomyr State University named after Ivan Franko is located in the center of the city in a complex of buildings of the former male gymnasium.

Construction of a gymnasium for boys began in Zhytomyr in 1862. For many years, it was the largest and most authoritative educational institution not only in Zhytomyr, but also in the whole of Volyn. First, the main building was built, later two auxiliary buildings were added on the sides - for the gymnasium teachers' apartments and for the library. In front of the main entrance was a front garden with rare trees and a fountain in the center. A large garden adjoined the houses.

Until now, the complex has been completely preserved, but the educational building of the gymnasium was reconstructed after a pedagogical institute was opened in it in 1919.

Today it is Zhytomyr State University named after Ivan Franko.