Attractions of Orativ

The Orativ Local Lore Museum was founded in 1993 and is subordinated to the Department of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Orativ Village Council.

The institution is located in the former library in the center of the village of Orativ.

The museum collection is more than 2,000 items. The ethnographic collection includes home-woven embroidered shirts from the villages of Yakymivka, Chovnovytsia, Lopatynka, Mervyn, Orativ, Rozhychna, ceramics of local potters, as well as various items of Ukrainian folk life.

The Church of Saint Stanislav was founded in Orativ in 1765 at the expense of magnate Stanislav Oransky. In 1845, the old church was rebuilt in the neo-Romanesque style at the expense of the parishioners.

In 1856, Apollo Kozhenovsky and Eva Bobrovska, the parents of the writer Dzhozef Konrad (Dzhozef Teodor Konrad Kozhenovsky) were married in this church.

In Soviet times, the church building was used as a cinema, then as a cultural center. In 1996, the church of Saint Stanislav was returned to the Catholic community of Orativ.

The Orativ manor was founded by retired general Mykhaylo Voronovych, who moved to Orativ from St. Petersburg in the second half of the 19th century.

On the banks of the Zhyva River, he laid out a landscape park and built a two-story palace with side towers in 1892.

During Soviet times, the building was rebuilt beyond recognition and covered with tiles, and was used as an orphanage.