Attractions of Kremenets district

Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Kremenets was built in the Baroque style as a church of the Franciscan monastery, founded in 1606 at the expense of the princes Vyshnevetskys (according to legend, the founder of the monastery was Queen Bona).

The Franciscan monastery had a fraternal school and a printing house, where the "Kremenets Grammar" was printed. In 1832, after the defeat of the Polish uprising and the beginning of the Russification of Western Ukrainian lands, the monastery was closed, and the church was reconsecrated as the Orthodox Nicholas Cathedral of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate. During the reconstruction, the church lost its Gothic-Renaissance appearance and acquired Baroque features.

In 2023, after almost 200 years of being used by representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Kremenets returned to state ownership and was transferred to the Kremenets-Pochaiv Historical and Architectural Reserve.

On December 6, 2023, the first service in the Ukrainian language was held in the Saint Nicholas Cathedral on the occasion of Saint Nicholas Day.

The ruins of the Church of Saint Stanislav's are located on the opposite bank of the Horyn River from the Vyshnevetskyi Palace and are clearly visible from the palace and park terraces.

The church was built in the 18th century on the territory of Staryi Vyshnivets, near the old castle of the 14th-15th centuries. Destroyed in the 19th century.

The Church of Saint Stanislav in Kremenets was built in the 19th century at the expense of the parishioners after the Russian authorities took the Franciscan monastery from the Catholics and converted it into the Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Nicholas.

Saint Catherine's Church in St. Petersburg was taken as a model for the new Catholic church. In 1908, the church was decorated with Czech stained glass windows.

At the entrance to the church of Saint Stanislav, a highly artistic marble bowl with a bas-relief of the Mother of God, made in 1872 by the famous Volyn sculptor Viktor Brodzky, attracts attention. To the left of the entrance is a monument to Yuliush Slovatsky by the Polish sculptor Vatslav Shymanovsky.

An organ with 8 registers has been preserved.

The Transfiguration Church in Shumsk was founded as a church of the Franciscan monastery in 1715.

The monastery in Shumsk itself was founded by the Volyn voivode Malynsky back in 1637, and was originally a Basilian (Uniate) monastery. In 1676, one of the voivode's descendants, who converted to Catholicism, handed over the monastery to the Franciscans.

The church was made in the Gothic-Renaissance style, the building had a defensive character. At the end of the 18th century, a three-tier bell tower was added. In 1837, the church was rebuilt in the Ukrainian Baroque style and became an Orthodox church.

Above the entrance, the coat of arms of the family of the founders of the Malynsky temple is still preserved.

The Shumsk Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1985 on the initiative of a local history teacher, Ivan Babiy. It was originally housed in the former house of the baker Stefaniak, built in 1930, when the city was part of Poland. In 2022, the museum moved to the premises of the former lyceum.

On the first floor, guests are greeted by a stone cross, which is the hallmark of Shumsk. It stands on the background of a panoramic photo of the city center. Also on the first floor there is an ethnographic exhibition designed in the form of an old Ukrainian house with a light room and a pantry.

The nature department introduces visitors to the geographical and natural conditions of the region, its flora and fauna. The ancient history department presents materials about the founding of the city in princely times, the participation of residents in the Liberation War, and the creation of the Church of the Transfiguration. A significant part of the exposition of the new history department is devoted to the period of the Second World War and the national liberation struggle of the UPA against the Nazis and Soviet invaders: weapons, photographs, documents, models.

The exhibition "Fight for Independence" tells about the modern Russian-Ukrainian war. Artifacts from the front are presented here: flags of combat brigades, photos of defenders, military formations, casings from spent shells, military trophies. A memorial corner "Heavenly Guardians of our Land" has been decorated.

The People's Museum of the History of the Village of Stizhok was opened in 1982. It received the status of "People's Museum" in 1993.

From the beginning, the museum occupied one room in the local school. In 1985, a new cultural center was built in the village, into which the museum exposition was moved.

Carefully selected exhibits, carefully designed stands, and the overwhelming number of original items in the museum tell the story of Styzhok, starting from the time of settlement of this area and up to the present day.

A separate exposition highlights the events of modern Ukrainian history.

Twin Houses in Kremenets are unusual in terms of architecture, a residential building in the Baroque style.

It consists of two symmetrical parts, which are covered with separate gable roofs and differ slightly from each other in design details.

According to legend, twin brothers once lived here.

Restoration is planned.

The Ulas Samchuk Museum is located in Kremenets in the main building of the Ulas Samchuk Lyceum. It was opened in 2005 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth as the cabinet-museum "Ulas Samchuk's Svitlytsya". It acquired the status of a literary museum in 2010.

The museum's exposition highlights the life and creative path of Ulas Samchuk, honoring the memory of the writer. Among the exhibits are student lists, pages of class magazines, a statement, pages of the student almanac "Youth" of Ulas Samchuk's gymnasium period; photographs, documents from the writer's stay in Rivne in 1941-1943. Among the valuable exhibits are photographs of the writer from different years, his family, friends; books published by the artist in Munich, Toronto; photo documents, press materials from past years, current publications, memoirs about Ulas Samchuk, works of the writer published in independent Ukraine, works of his contemporaries. A significant number of books of the writer's creative output came from the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and the USA.

The museum's exposition has sections: "Childhood and Youth of Ulas Samchuk (1905-1921), "Study at the Kremenets Gymnasium (1921-1927)", "First Emigration (1928-1941)", "Return to the Homeland (1941-1943)", "Stay in camps for the displacement of persons (1943-1948)", "Second Emigration (1948-1987)", "Honoring the Memory of Ulas Samchuk in Ukraine", "Havrylo Chernykhivskyi - a Researcher of Ulas Samchuk's Creativity", "Honoring the Memory of Ulas Samchuk in the Lyceum".

On February 19, 2016, a memorial tablet dedicated to the memory of Ulas Samchuk was unveiled on the facade of the Lyceum.

The palace in the English Neo-Gothic style was built in Bilokrynytsia by the landowner Chosnovsky in the middle of the 19th century on the site of a defensive castle founded in the 16th by the Zbarazsky princes.

The first wooden castle was burned by the Tatars, after which Yuriy Zbarazky rebuilt it in stone (ancient cellars, earthen ramparts and one bastion have been preserved). At the beginning of the 19th century, the castle completely burned down. Landlord Chosnovsky, having bought Bilokrynytsia from the Radzyvill, reconstructed one of the parts of the castle into a ceremonial residence.

The last owner of the palace was an official of the Kyiv Governor-General, a secret adviser, Count Oleksandr Voronin. After Voronin's death, according to his will, the Bilokrynytsia Palace was transferred to the agricultural school. Now it is the Kremenets Forestry College.

A small museum of the history of Bilokrynytsia, the college and the palace itself has been opened in the premises of the college dormitory.

The Yuliush Slovatsky Literary Memorial Museum was opened in Kremenets in the estate of Yanushevsky (the poet's grandfather), where he spent his childhood in 1814-1828.

Yuliush Slovatsky is one of the most famous Polish poets of the Romantic period. He was born and lived in Kremenets for many years, and then repeatedly praised his hometown in his works. Many objects in the Kremenets are connected with the name of Slovatsky: his native house, the lyceum to which his father taught, his mother's grave in the Tunytsky cemetery.

The museum exposition is located in eight rooms, each of which reflects a certain stage of the poet's creative path. The museum has 1,500 exhibits. Since 2004, the museum has had an extensive exposition "The Hour of Thought of Yuliush Slovatsky".