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Temple , Architecture
The Intercession Church in Fastiv is a masterpiece of Ukrainian wooden architecture in Central Ukraine.
It was built in 1740 on the site of the ancient temple, founded by the famous Fastiv colonel Semen Paliy. The three-log Intercession Church is distinguished by harmonious proportions and completeness of forms. An arcade gallery surrounds the temple along its perimeter.
In 1781, the temple bell tower was built. In Soviet times, a thorough restoration was carried out.
On June 23, 2022, the Intercession Church officially transferred to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Ivana Ohiyenko Street, 1 Fastiv
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Architecture , Museum / gallery
The National Center of Folk Culture "Ivan Honchar Museum" was created in 1993 on the initiative of the People's Artist of Ukraine Ivan Honchar, co-founder of the Ukrainian Society for the Preservation of Historical and Cultural Monuments, and one of the largest open-air museums in the world - the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine.
The museum is housed in an ancient building - an architectural monument of the 18th century. The exposition is based on the private collection of Ivan Honchar, who in Soviet times searched for and collected highly artistic works of Ukrainian folk art, as well as the works of professional painters who could not enter state museums for ideological reasons.
A large collection of icons of the 16th-18th centuries, fabrics, ceramics, and musical instruments is presented.
Lavrska Street, 19 Kyiv
Palace / manor , Museum / gallery
The Memorial Museum-Manor of Ivan Kozlovsky is located in the village of Maryanivka near Vasylkiv, where the outstanding Ukrainian tenor was born in 1900.
At the age of seven, Ivan went from here to Kyiv to study at a church school at the Saint Michael Monastery. He sang in Saint Sophia Cathedral.
His wonderful voice and the combination of folk motifs with classics in his work brought Kozlovsky world fame.
The singer visited his homeland many times. In a small house under a thatched roof, photographs, personal belongings, film materials, gramophone records with Kozlovsky's concerts are kept.
On the bank of the river, next to the house, there is a cozy park where mallows, apple trees, oaks, lindens, thuja and sycamores grow.
Shkilna Street, 3 Maryanivka
Museum / gallery , Monument
The memorial of Hetman Ivan Mazepa was created in the village of Mazepyntsi, where he was born in 1639.
It was here in 1994 that the first monument to Mazepa in Ukraine and Europe was opened (sculptor - Yevhen Horban.). The monument was built on the initiative and at the expense of Ukrainian philanthropist Mariyan Kots, who lives in the USA.
The memorial complex also included the wooden church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (2007) and the Park of Cossack Glory (2009). Tree saplings were planted on the territory of the future park, a small museum was opened, and a cross was erected in honor of the Ukrainian Cossacks.
Ivana Mazepy Street Mazepyntsi
Temple , Architecture , Theater / show
The Roman Catholic Church of John the Baptist was built in Bila Tserkva in 1812-1813 by Count Ksaveriy Branytskyi on Castle Hill, where the nursery was located during the princely times.
According to one of the versions, an ancient church stood on this place, which gave the city its name. Branytskyi built the church in memory of his son Oleksandr, who died in childhood.
In the plan of the building lies the Latin cross, traditional for Catholic architecture, stretched on the east-west axis. The interior of the church is decorated with ornamental moldings with openwork rosettes complex in terms of plot and technique. The church is painted with monumental paintings by unknown masters. A white marble stele in memory of Kateryna Branitska-Sanhushko has been preserved on one of the walls.
In 1990, the organ of the Czech firm Rieger-Kloss was established. Today, the Church of John the Baptist is the Bila Tserkva city organ and chamber music hall with a 300-seat hall.
Soborna square, 4 Bila Tserkva
Museum / gallery
The museum of the famous folk artist Kateryna Bilokur was created in a village house in Bohdanivka, where she lived almost all her life - from 1909 to 1961.
Here she began to paint in her unique, unique style. The lack of a high school diploma did not allow her to receive an art education, but it was replaced by natural talent, perseverance and love of art. She independently mastered the technique of painting and compositional skills, finding herself in the genre of still life. Bilokur's paintings have been exhibited at many regional and national exhibitions.
The interiors of the house-museum are preserved, the artist's personal belongings, numerous photographs and documents, as well as some paintings are presented.
A monument to Kateryna Bilokur has been erected in front of the house.
Kateryny Bilokur Street, 74 Bohdanivka
The National Museum of Arts named after Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko in Kyiv presents the world art of Europe, Asia and the Ancient World in Ukraine.
The exposition is based on the artistic collection of the Khanenko family - prominent Ukrainian entrepreneurs, collectors and philanthropists of the XIX-XX centuries. The museum is located in their family mansion, built in the late XIX century in the style of historicism using artistic features of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo.
The Khanenko Museum represents about 4,000 years of art development in different parts of the world, more than 1,000 works in a permanent exhibition. Western European art of the XIV-XVIII centuries is represented by the works of such masters as Francois Boucher, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacques-Louis David, Giovanni Bellini and others. Among them are two masterpieces of Spanish painting - "Still Life with a Chocolate Mill" by Juan Surbaran and "Portrait of Infanta Margarita" by Diego Velázquez. The Khanenkos themselves valued the painting "Venus Dedicates Bacchanalia in the Secret of Love", which was attributed to Titian, but modern researchers have concluded that it is only an imitation of the master of an unknown Venetian artist of the XVII century.
The museum also has a huge collection of art from the Middle and Far East: Japanese Nets, Chinese porcelain, Persian rugs and Tibetan bronze sculptures. A small collection of artifacts from South America and Africa is presented.
Tereshchenkivska Street, 15-17 Kyiv
Park / garden
Khreshchaty Park on the hill near the beginning of Volodymyrsky descent in Kyiv is also called Kupetsky (Merchant's) Garden. Initially, this area was part of the Tsarsky (City) Park, until the Kyiv merchants leased from the city a corner of the garden adjacent to the building of the Merchants' Assembly (now the National Philharmonic of Ukraine).
In 1982, in honor of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the USSR, a sculptural composition consisting of the Arch of Friendship of Peoples and two sculptural groups below it was installed on the Dnipro Creek behind the Philharmonic. In 2022, during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the sculptural part of the monument was dismantled, and the arch was renamed the Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian People.
A picturesque panorama of the Dnipro opens from here. The Water Museum is located nearby in the water tower (1877). The building next to it, resembling a fairy-tale castle, is the new premises of the Kyiv Academic Puppet Theater (2005).
Khreshchaty Park is connected to the City Garden by a 60-meter Park Bridge (1912) - one of the most romantic places in Kyiv. Also known as the Bridge of Lovers (according to tradition, lovers leave inscriptions and ribbons here) or the Devil's Bridge (the unlucky often chose this place to settle scores with their lives).
Volodymyrsky descent, 2 Kyiv
Historic area
Khreshchatyk is the main street of Kyiv, the most popular place for city walks from the 19th century to the present day.
The name comes from Khreshchaty Yar, from which the street began in the area of the current Yevropeyska (European) Square. In turn, the name of the ravine is associated with the baptism of Rus or with the word "christened" - cross-shaped.
For a long time it was a wasteland, the first houses appeared in the 18th century. Due to its favorable location between the Upper Town, Podil and Pechersk, Khreshchatyk quickly became the central and most fashionable street of the city. Most of the old building was destroyed in 1941, after the war it was rebuilt in the "Stalinist" style.
The street starts from the Yevropeyska Square, which is dominated by the modern building of the Ukrainian House. The square tower above the House of Trade Unions became a business card of Kyiv thanks to the electronic clock light board installed in 1981 (now it is replaced by plasma panels). The oldest building on Khreshchatyk is the Kane Hotel (1874), which now houses the Central Deli. Expensive shops and restaurants can still be found in Passage (1914) and on Arkhitektor Horodetsky Street. The street ends at Bessarabian Square, where the oldest indoor Bessarabian Market in Kyiv (1910-1912) is located.
On weekends and holidays, Khreschatyk turns into a pedestrian zone. Concerts and other mass events take place here.
Khreshchatyk Street Kyiv
Architecture
The palace in Baroque style was built in Klov (present-day Lypky), in the possessions of the Kyiv Pechersk Monastery, to house the honored guests of the Lavra.
The authors of the project were the German architect Yohan Schedel and the Ukrainian architect Pero Neelov, the construction was supervised by the self-taught serf architect Stepan Kovnir. In 1863, the third floor was completed. The interior was painted by Ukrainian artists in 1757.
Klovsky Palace was never destined to serve its purpose - representatives of the royal court who visited Kyiv did not stay here. The palace briefly housed the Lavra printing house, later a military hospital. Later, various educational institutions were located in it, and in Soviet times - museums.
In recent years, the building was completely restored, and it housed the Supreme Court of Ukraine. The walls and ceiling were decorated with sculptures of ancient Roman and ancient Greek gods of justice and fairness. The furniture is made according to the author's drawings in the style of the middle of the 18th century.
Excursions are planned.
Pylypa Orlyka Street, 8 Kyiv
Historic area , Park / garden
The Knyshovy memorial park complex in Boryspil was created in 2007 on the territory of the historical cemetery, where many famous people are buried: ethnographer-folklorist and author of the words of the national anthem of Ukraine Pavlo Chubynsky, Decembrist Vasyl Lukashevych, hero of the Soviet Union Mykhaylo Babkin.
During the Holodomor of 1932-1933, people who died of starvation were buried here. In 1934, the Knyshova Church and Chubynsky's grave were destroyed.
Currently, the territory of the park has been cleaned and arranged, and the creation of a memorial complex is underway. Saint Nicholas Church was rebuilt.
Kyivskyi Shlyach Street, 33/1 Boryspil
The Museum of Kobzar Art in Pereyaslav is located in an old house, where in the early XX century there was a shop of the Pereyaslav merchant Arkhyp Marchenko. It is a part of the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Pereyaslav".
About 250 exhibits tell about the history of the origin and development of Kobzar Art, about the life of the most famous Ukrainian bards, as well as about modern trends in kobzar art - traditional folk and folklore and stage-academic.
The oldest exhibits are authentic ancient Rus musical instruments: whistles, tambourines and harps. A special place in the exposition is occupied by the traditional Ukrainian kobza - a lute-like string plucked musical instrument, which was an indispensable companion of the Zaporozhzhian Cossacks.
In addition to the Cossack kobza, the museum exhibits lute, zither and bagpipes, as well as 26 banduras, which are more modern and sophisticated musical instruments. In particular, there are banduras that belonged to a prominent kobzar of the XIX century. Hnat Honcharenko and the famous master Oleksandr Korniyevskyi.
The museum hosts concerts of Pereyaslav kobzars and other events.
The back side of the building is decorated with artistic ceramic tiles on historical subjects, which tell about the princes and bishops of Pereyaslav.
Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, 20 Pereyaslav
The central square of the Lower City, on the site of which was the main market of ancient Kyiv.
In the 13th-18th centuries, Kontraktova Square was the administrative center of the city and the venue for the Contract Fairs, the Magistrate's building with the Voytova Tower was located here, with which the decisions of the city authorities were announced (it was built in 1714, burned down in 1812).
In the center of the square is the Guest House (1809-1811), where merchants who came to fairs stayed. Nearby is the "Samson" fountain (1754), which was part of the ancient water supply and attracted pilgrims with the legend of the healing properties of its water. The square also houses the Contract House (1815-1817), which served as a venue for concerts and balls.
The tall bell tower of the Greek Church of Saint Catherine (1741), restored in the 1970s, stands out. Its premises now belong to the National Bank.
Kontraktova Square Kyiv
Architecture , Museum / gallery , Theater / show
An incredibly beautiful building in the shape of a fairy-tale castle is located in Khreshchaty Park near the European Square.
The Puppet Theater was founded in Kyiv in 1927, until now it occupied several different premises. The current building was built according to the original project of the architect Vitaly Yudin in 2005 on the site of the children's stereo cinema "Dnipro". 2 auditoriums: large (300 seats) and small (110 seats), there is also a "Throne Hall" and an aquarium with rare sea creatures.
There is an exhibition-museum of dolls at the theater. Excursions "Getting to know the puppet theater" are conducted (by prior order).
Nearby is the light and music fountain "Thumbnail".
Mykhayla Hrushevskoho, Street, 1A Kyiv
Entertainment / leisure
The Kyiv funicular is an exotic rail transport that directly connected Podil with the Upper Town in 1905. It became the second in the Russian Empire after Odesa.
Before the construction of the funicular from Poshtova Square to Mykhaylivska, only winding paths and wooden stairs led down the slope of Volodymyrska Hill, which created significant transportation difficulties for the townspeople. The funicular was an ideal solution that allowed transporting people and goods for a short distance on steep slopes.
The construction was carried out for two years by means of the Belgian joint-stock company, which had a monopoly on trams and horse-drawn carriages in Kyiv. The wagons' equipment and bogies were made in Switzerland. After the accident in 1928 (the cable broke and two carriages collided, but no one was injured), the funicular was reconstructed, the road was extended by 40 meters (before that, the lower station was located on Borychiv Tik Street), new comfortable carriages were manufactured at the Kyiv Electric Transport Plant. Two more reconstructions were carried out in 1958 and in 1984-1986.
The design of the junction in the middle of the road is interesting. Here, the outer rails are continuous, and the inner rails are separate. Accordingly, the inner wheels of the wagons have two flanges, and the inner wheels are cylindrical.
A diorama of the Volodymyr hill is located in the pavilion of the upper station of the funicular.
Petra Sahaydachnoho Street, 3 Kyiv