Attractions of Brailiv

The palace and park complex in Brailiv on the banks of the Riv River was built in 1868 by the wealthy railway magnate Karl fon Mekk , who bought the Brailiv estate from Felitsian Yukovsky.

The two-story palace in the style of classicism is located in the middle of a picturesque park with ponds and bridges, which was arranged by the owner's wife, Nadiya fon Mekk.

The estate entered history thanks to its friendship with the composer Petro Chaykovsky. Their acquaintance was in absentia - for many years, by mutual agreement, they communicated only by correspondence. 5 times from 1778 to 1780, Chaykovsky visited the fon Mekk estate in the absence of his mistress. Here he wrote the opera "The Maid of Orleans" and several romances.

The palace was restored after the Second World War. Currently, the building houses the Brailiv Vocational Lyceum.

In the left wing there is a museum of Petro Chaykovsky and Nadiya fon Mekk. Visitors are introduced to the history of their relationship and the work of the composer. All exhibits (furniture, musical instruments, writing utensils) were given to the museum by the descendants of fon Mekk.

The Church of the Holy Trinity is the tallest building in Brailiv.

It was built on the site of a wooden and earthen castle in the 15th-17th centuries after the old Catholic church of the Trinitarian order was handed over to the Orthodox in 1832.

The Empire-style building has an unusual appearance for a church due to the very high bell tower, which makes it look less like a temple and more like a town hall with a tower.

In Soviet times, the building was converted into a workshop of a juice factory, on the territory of which it is still located. In 1990, the church was handed over to the Orthodox community of the Moscow Patriarchate.

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.