Attractions of Vorzel

The country house of Countess Nataliya Uvarova in Vorzel was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the manufacturer Karl Septer.

Countess Uvarova (in maidenhood Tereshchenko) liked the then fashionable architecture of the building with a romantic tower and weather vane. After buying it, the countess decorated her possessions with various rare plants and trees of valuable breeds. A fountain was installed near the house, gravel paths were laid.

After the February Revolution in 1917, the Uvarovys and the entire Tereshchenko family emigrated to England. In Soviet times, a school was opened in the house of the countess, where the Ukrainian writer Valeryan Pidmohylny studied.

Today it is the Museum of History and Culture "Uvarov House", the exhibition hall is open. Concerts are held on weekends.

The tulip tree or tulip liriodendron is not directly related to tulips - it is a relative of the magnolia.

It comes from the north-east of America, where it reaches a height of 50-60 meters. It has a leaf of an unusual shape - without a tip. The tree got its name thanks to the delicate yellow-green flowers, similar to tulips.

In Vorzel, a tulip tree was planted in 1914 at the manor of Zherebtsov, secretary of the Kyiv Zemstvo Administration. This tulip tree is one of the largest in Ukraine (they say that there are only two of them in the country, but in fact there are about 30). Its height is about 30 meters, and the diameter of the trunk is more than one meter. Blooms in late May - early June.

The branch of Oshchabank in Vorzel is located in a one-story brick building with a wooden veranda - the former dacha of the Russian nationalist and monarchist, anti-Semite and Ukrainophobe Vasyl Shulhin, which was built at the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1917, Shulhin was a member of the Temporary Committee of the State Duma, accepted the abdication of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II. He was one of the ideologues of the creation of the White Guard, one of the founders of the Volunteer Army, as well as the author of memoirs "Days", "1920", "Three capitals", "Letters to emigrants" and others.

The interior of Shulhin's house is partially preserved.