Attractions of Slobidka-Shelekhivska

The Literary Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova in Slobidka-Shelekhivska was opened in 1989 "in a house near a road with no traffic," as the poet herself described the house of her aunt Anna Vakar.

Akhmatova repeatedly visited her relatives in Podillya, often visited Slobidka-Shelekhivska, and wrote several poems there. In the 1920s, Akhmatova's mother Inna Horenko also settled here, where she lived until the end of her life.

The grave of Akhmatova's mother, her aunt and her husband have been preserved in the village cemetery.

In front of the museum, the first monument to Anna Akhmatova by Viktor Zayko, as well as two cast-iron benches and a street lamp from St. Petersburg, was installed in Ukraine.

The Literary Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova is a department of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Literary Museum.

A castle-like palace with three corner towers in the Neo-Gothic style was built over a pond in Slobidka-Shelekhivska in 1911 by the landowner Mykhailo Novytsky (Novynsky). A park with luxurious flower gardens was arranged around the palace.

On the wall on the right side of the facade, the engraved date of the construction of the palace and the family coat of arms of the Novytskys have been preserved.

In 1920, with the establishment of Soviet power, Novytsky and his sons went abroad, and the estate was nationalized. Initially, the palace housed a construction office, later a children's sanatorium with a school, which operated until 1989. Subsequently, the premises were temporarily leased to various enterprises, for some time a psychiatric hospital was located here. After the hospital closed, the building was not used and fell into disrepair.

In 2009, the mutilated estate of the Novytskys got a new private owner, who planned to give the palace a new life. The thickets were cleared, the roof was patched with slate, and the windows and doors were closed. However, the restoration of the estate itself never began.