Attractions of Zvenyhorodka district

Maryanivka Manor was founded in 1880-1885 by a landlady named Maryana, who owned these lands at that time.

A 40-hectare park was laid out at the manor. Seedlings and tree seeds were imported from Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, as well as from North America (Canadian and silver linden and Canadian pine, which have survived to our time).

The main manor house was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the landowner Kozakovsky, who married Maryana's daughter. Other manor buildings are in a dilapidated state.

The historical-ethnographic museum complex in Boiarka was started in 2005 by the Suprun family of famous Ukrainian politicians. In 2006, the complex was included in the "Golden Horseshoe of Cherkasy Region" program due to the large number of archaeological monuments of different periods.

The complex is located on the territory of the village of Boiarka , which since 1967 has included the village of Poradivka.

The complex consists of the church of Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sofiya, a bell tower, a museum in an ethnographic style and a park with a cascade of ponds, islands, gazebos, etc. Currently, the museum is closed.

National Reserve "Taras Shevchenko Homeland" unites three ancient villages in which the childhood years of the future poet and artist were spent – ​​Moryntsi, where he was born, Shevchenkove, where he grew up and studied, and Budyshche, where he began his creative work. In total, there are 40 objects and monuments of the cultural heritage of Ukraine on the territory of the reserve.

The reserve was created in 1992 on the basis of the Taras Shevchenko Literary and Memorial Museum in Shevchenkove - the former Kerelivka. It was here that the estate of Taras's parents - Hryhoriy and Kateryna Shevchenko - was located, in which he spent his childhood, and which he repeatedly described in his works. The parental home was restored according to Shevchenko's drawings, the grave of his mother has been preserved in the garden, and a bronze sculpture of 13-year-old Taras has been installed. The original Deacon House, where little Taras learned to read and write, is of significant historical value.

In Moryntsy, the Taras Shevchenko Manor-Museum was created to mark the 175th anniversary of the poet's birth. The Moryntsy museum complex includes two reconstructed peasant huts: the hut of Yakym Boiko - Taras's maternal grandfather, and the neighboring hut Kopiya, in which the Shevchenko family lived for a year and a half. The estate has a monument to the poet's mother, Kateryna, with a little boy in her arms, and in the center of the village there is a sculpture of a kobzar with a bandura. Another landmark is the Chumak's House, which has been preserved since the 19th century and has been transformed into an ethnographic museum.

In the village of Budyshche, the summer house of the landowner Pavlo Enhelhardt, who owned the surrounding lands in the first half of the 19th century, has been preserved. Young Taras Shevchenko spent one summer in this estate as a kozachok (a boy on errands). Three old oak trees still stand in the park, in the hollow of one of which Taras hid his drawings. An old wooden windmill at the entrance to the village has also been preserved from Shevchenko's time. And at the crossroads between Moryntsy, Shevchenkov and Budyshche there is a sculpture "I was thirteen" - a young Taras with a lamb.

The large and magnificent three-seated Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Zhurzhyntsi was built in 1832 at the expense of the court adviser Vasyl Protopopov, who owned large land plots here, and his palace and park were located in the village itself.

During Soviet times, the palace was destroyed, and the temple was turned into a warehouse, which saved it.

In the 1990s, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was returned to the parishioners, and in the 2000s, its restoration was carried out.

The temple is made in the style of classicism, the bell tower is crowned with a high spire.

A two-story palace in the style of classicism was built in the middle of the 19th century on the outskirts of Shpola, which is called Verkhnya Dariivka, by the famous financier and statesman Oleksandr Abaza, who bought the Shpola estate from Count Orlov.

The main facade with white columns looks very simple and austere, but on the garden side there is an open terrace with a cast-iron colonnade with ornaments on plant motifs and monograms with the letter "A".

An outhouse from the beginning of the 20th century with wooden carvings has also been preserved.

In a small park with an artificial pond, local species of trees are presented, as well as several exotic ones: pyramidal oak, ironwood and others.

In the 19th century, the estate passed as a dowry to the daughter of Oleksandr Abaza Pelaheya, who married the diplomat Lev Urusov. In 1917, the Urusovs were forced to leave the estate and emigrate abroad, and a shelter for orphans and children of the repressed was placed in the palace. Now it is a specialized boarding school.

The estate in Budyshche was founded at the end of the 18th century by senator and hero of the Second Turkish War Vasyl Enhelhardt. The main residence of the Enhelhardt family was in Vilshana, and in Budyshche the landowner built a summer cottage for himself.

In 1828, the senator's son Pavlo Enhelhardt built a one-story brick manor house on the estate. The room was furnished with expensive things and accessories. The owner spent most of the summer months here.

Next to the manor house was a park with a cascade of ponds and centuries-old oaks. According to legend, in the hollow of one of the oaks, young Taras Shevchenko, who served as a Cossack (a boy on errands) in Engelhardt in 1828-1829, hid his childhood drawings. This oak has been preserved in the landscape park, it is called Shevchenko's.

During Soviet times, an eight-year school was located in the Enhelhardt estate. On the eve of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko's birth, the reconstruction of the estate began, which is still not completed. The National Reserve "Taras Shevchenko Homeland" plans to house a museum exhibition in the restored building.

So far, only the park with ancient oak trees, alleys, arches, benches, and fountains that recreate the atmosphere of Shevchenko's times is open to visitors.

Remains of manor buildings and a large 18th-century park near the former estate of Princess Varvara Holitsyna, wife of Prince Serhiy Holitsyn.

The princely couple settled in Kozatske in 1797. The personal secretary and teacher of the prince's children was the biker Ivan Krylov for 4 years. Here he wrote the play "Triumph or Pinch", the comedy "Pie", the fable "The Pig under the Oak".

In the center of the estate was a palace in the pseudo-Gothic style - with towers, galleries and halls. The luxurious landscaped park had a pond with a mounded island, waterfalls, gazebos and a family mausoleum. Only the Governor's House, in which Krylov's "Pydshchypa" was placed, the ruins of the wing, as well as several buildings of the end of the 19th century, which were erected by the next owners of the manor - Kyiv Governor Ivan Fundukley, Baroness Vranhel, and Princes Kurakin, have survived.

Currently, these premises are occupied by Vocational Training School No. 37, the building is in a state of disrepair. One of the buildings houses the church of Saint Barbara.

The wooden church of Saint Demetrius in the village of Zalizniachka near Yerky was built in 1773 and has survived to this day with some reconstructions.

The church is cruciform in plan, single-headed, with an octagonal central log, made of hewn oak beams. The composition of the building is dominated by the central volume, completed by a flat tent top on a drum. All facades are topped with triangular pediments. In the interior, the side branches are subordinate to the height-opened central volume and are connected to it by arches-cutouts.

The Saint Demetrius Church is considered a unique work of folk wooden architecture of the Right Bank, but the last reconstruction deprived it of its authentic appearance - the church was plastered with a cement "fur coat", dismantling part of the wooden frame.

The Church of Saint George (Yuriy) in Myzynivka was built in 1906-1908 on the site of another church known from the 19th century. When it became too small for the growing parish, the parishioners appealed to the church authorities for permission to build a much larger church.

The new church was consecrated as Saint George's. It had good proportions and a variety of decorative carvings, was quite compact and fit well into the landscape.

During Soviet times, the church was closed, crosses and bells were removed from it. The premises of the temple were turned into a warehouse. During the battle of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, the Germans used the bell tower of the church as an observation post. Soviet planes dropped five bombs on the church, but none hit. In the post-war period, grain was again kept in the Mizynov temple. It gradually collapsed.

In 1984, the "Ukrprojekrestavratsiya" institute conducted an examination of the church as an architectural monument, but restoration work began only 20 years later. Currently, Saint George's Church is in good condition. The grave of priest Lysyansky, dated 1897, has been preserved on the church perimeter.

Saint Michael's Orthodox Church was founded in Lysianka in 1723 and rebuilt in the second half of the 19th century.

In Soviet times, the large stone temple was closed, and in the late 1970s it was completely destroyed. In 2000, a new five-domed Saint Michael's Church was built in its place. Next to the church stands the priest's house, decorated with a huge painting.

The ancient Lebedyn Monastery of Saint Nicholas is located east of the village of Lebedyn in a picturesque and secluded location surrounded by forests and lakes.

It was founded by the nuns Mahdalyna and Tryfiliyeya in 1779 on the lands of Prince Frantsysk Ksaveriy Lubomyrskyi. The healing spring discovered by Saint Opanas has been preserved. The people call the Spring Mahdalynskyi" in memory of the first abbess of the monastery.

Initially, all the monastery buildings were wooden, but in the 19th century most of them were replaced by stone ones. Among them are the Saint Nicholas Church (1800) and the Barbarian Church (1839), which was destroyed during the Soviet era, but was rebuilt again in the 1990s. In 1837, a new 34-meter-high brick bell tower was built in place of the wooden one, through which the main entrance to the monastery was arranged (only a third of it has survived).

In 1929, the monastery was closed, the "Red October" commune was established on its territory, then a boarding school for homeless children, and later for children of the repressed. During the Second World War, the German authorities revived the monastery, but in 1961 it was closed again. Valuables were taken away, the bells were handed over to the museum of the city of Cherkasy. A tuberculosis hospital was placed on the territory, and then a boarding school.

The revival of the Lebedyn Monastery began in 1992. Today, two churches, a chapel, cell buildings are located within the walls of the monastery, and a little further away - a complex of farm buildings. All buildings, except the northern wall, are in excellent condition. The monastery belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Church of Saint Oleksandra in Yablunivka in the Lysyanka region was built in 1838 on the site of the old church of Joseph the Betrothed, founded in 1814.

The church-like stone Orthodox church in the name of Tsarina Oleksandra was built by Countess Sofiya Potoska with her mother's Oleksandra Branitska money. The architecture of the temple is very interesting and unusual for the Dnipro region. A characteristic feature is the two bell towers above the entrance.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a church and parish school operated at the church. In the 1930s, the church was closed, the premises were used as a warehouse.

In the 1990s, the church of Saint Oleksandra was restored and returned to believers.

A monument to the kobzar was erected near the House of Culture in the center of the village Moryntsi in 1964, to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet Taras Shevchenko, who was born in this village.

The bronze sculpture of a kobzar with a bandura in his hands conveys a generalized image of a wandering singer and musician, a keeper of Ukrainian folk traditions, who gave the name to the first book-collection of poetic works of Taras Shevchenko and became his folk name.

The author dedicated the work to Taras Shevchenko's poem-address "To Osnovianenko".

The Shpola Historical and Local Lore Museum was opened in 1980 as the "Museum of Revolutionary, Military and Labor Glory of Shpola Region" with a collection of five thousand items.

In the early 1990s, the museum experienced a period of decline. Since 2001, the museum has resumed work in the library building, and work has begun on creating new exhibitions: "Art Gallery", "Hall of Antiquities", "Ukrainian Living Room", "Money Marks of the Peoples of the World", "Soviet Period" and "Modern History of the Region".

The construction of a hydroelectric power station on the rapids of the Ros River in Stebliv was launched in 1931 in accordance with the GOELRO plan, which provided for the creation of a whole network of small hydroelectric power stations throughout the country.

As a result of the construction of the dam and the rise of the water level in the river, the landscape changed significantly - two thirds of the picturesque rocks and rapids were under water.

The dam was damaged during World War II. In 1952, it was restored and brought to a capacity of 2.8 thousand kW. It is currently rented from a private company.

The waterfall formed by the station is called one of the most powerful lowland waterfalls in the country.