Attractions of Poltava district

The Poltava Literary and Memorial Museum of Panas Myrny is located on the outskirts of Poltava, at the end of the former Tretya Kobyshchanska Street.

It was here in 1903 that the writer bought a small one-story house, where he lived for the last 17 years of his life. He was visited by Lesya Ukrayinka and Olena Pchilka, Mykhaylo Kotsyubynsky and Vasyl Stefanyk, Mariya Zankovetska and Mykola Lysenko.

In 1940, a museum was opened in the estate. More than 150 manuscripts of Panas Myrny and his brother Ivan Bilyk, about 1,000 personal belongings of the writer's family, books, documents and photographs are collected in seven rooms. The writer's son Mykhaylo Rudchenko managed the museum for over 20 years.

In 1951, a monument to Panas Myrny was erected in the yard of the manor - a bronze bust of the writer on a labradorite pedestal.

In 1989, a literary exposition was opened in the new premises.

Poltava Museum of Local Lore after Vasyl Krychevsky is located in the former building of the present places of the provincial zemstvo.

The building of the provincial zemstvo was built by the architect Vasyl Krychevsky in the Art Nouveau style with elements of the Ukrainian folk style (this fact caused dissatisfaction of Emperor Mykola II). The interior painting was made by prominent artists Serhiy Vasylkivsky and Mykola Samokysh. The facade is decorated with coats of arms of county towns of the province.

The foundation of the exposition of the local history museum in Poltava was laid in 1891 by the scientist Viktor Dokuchayev. Today there are more than 300,000 exhibits in 40 museum halls and vaults. Among the rarities - the ancient Egyptian collection, works of ancient and oriental art, Cossack relics.

The Poltava Local Lore Museum after Vasyl Krychevsky is temporarily closed for restoration.

The Poshyvailo Potter's Family Memorial Museum-Estate is dedicated to representatives of one of the oldest pottery dynasties of Opishnia.

A collection of pottery by masters of the Poshyvailo dynasty and works of other types of folk art are presented.

During the tour, guests are introduced to the history of the creation of the manor museum, the interiors of the house, and family photos.

The Memorial Manor-Museum of the Poshyvailo Family in Opishnia is a subdivision of the National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery.

The Saint Nicholas Church in Dykanka is the ancestral temple-tomb of the Kochubey family.

The church was built in 1794 by count Viktor Kochubey on the territory of the count's estate, on the site of the old wooden church of the 17th century. According to legend, there was a stump on this place, on which the icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker appeared. Before this image, the mother of Mykola Hohol prayed for the health of her future son, named the child in his honor.

When constructing the Nicholas Church, the architect Mykola Lviv used the style of Moravian rotunda churches. The internal volume is covered by a complex double dome system with petals of glass frames that open in the summer. When singers in choirs sing, it seems that the sound comes from heaven. Also a unique system of air heating and ventilation of premises.

The stained oak iconostasis and fragments of the original painting have been preserved. The belfry above the gate is made in the style characteristic of Catholic churches.

In the basement there is a crypt with original sarcophagi, in which several generations of Kochubeys rest.

In Soviet times, a museum of atheism was opened in the premises. Currently, the Nicholas Church is active and is used by the UOC community of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Nearby, there are 800-year-old Kochubey oaks, planted at the entrance to the former princely estate from the Poltava side.

The Savior Church (Spaska Church) is one of the oldest churches in Poltava, an example of traditional Ukrainian architecture.

The exact date of foundation is unknown. The first mentions of the Savior chapel of the Transfiguration Church are found in the 17th century. The official date of construction is considered to be 1705, when Savior chapel was rebuilt at the expense of Colonel Ivan Iskra as an independent wooden temple on the site of the burned-down Transfiguration Church.

According to legend, after the victory over the Swedes on the field of the Battle of Poltava, Peter I, who was resting in the house of Colonel Kelin next to the temple, offered a prayer of thanks for saving the city here.

In 1845, a stone tent was built over the church, and two years later a small stone belfry was erected. In 1849, a monument to the resting place of Peter I was erected nearby.

The Triumphal Arch in Dykanka is the village's business card, the only surviving civil structure of the Kochubey family estate.

The ceremonial entrance to the estate was decorated with a classic triumphal arch in honor of the arrival in Dykanka of Emperor Oleksandr I, whose close associate was Prince Viktor Kochubey.

Triumphal Arch was built by the architect Luyidzhi Ruska to commemorate the victory over Napoleon in 1812, it was decorated with copper bas-reliefs with battle scenes.

The Museum of Ukrainian Wedding was opened in 2008 in the House of Culture of the village of Velyki Budyshcha near Dykanka.

The exhibition presents wedding dresses of different times, household items, embroidered shirts and towels.

In addition to a tour of the museum, there is an offer to perform a Ukrainian wedding ceremony.

The Reshetylivka workshop of artistic crafts was founded in 1905 by the Poltava provincial zemstvo as an exemplary and demonstration weaving workshop.

Unique hand-made tapestry carpets, famous Poltava embroidered towels, national clothes with delicate embroidery, etc. were made here.

In Soviet times, the workshop was transformed into an artillery, then into a factory named after Klara Zetkin.

Today it is one of the oldest enterprises of folk arts and crafts in Ukraine. Its products adorn the interiors of many government buildings, embassies of Ukraine, high-class hotels, etc.

Visitors can observe the work of craftsmen, make an individual order or purchase finished products.

The Poltava Educational House named after Mykola Hohol was built in 1901 according to the project of academician Oleksiy Trambytskyi, the St. Petersburg architect of the Directorate of Imperial Theaters.

The theater building is made in the Neo-Renaissance style. Rectangular in plan, the audience hall for 1,100 seats with balconies and boxes, an orchestra pit and a compact stage box resembled in miniature the stage of the famous Milanese theater La Scala.

During the Second World War, the theater was destroyed, in the post-war years it was restored to its original architectural form and adapted to the "Wizoria Kolos" cinema (now a 3D cinema).

The exposition of the Dykanka State Historical and Local Lore Museum named after Dmytro Harmash is located in 9 halls and has 8,000 exhibits.

Among them is a handmade chest of Kochubey, decorated with a bizarre pattern, and which served as a treasury in the Trinity Church. Chest in the XVIII century. presented to Judge Kochubey Hetman Ivan Mazepa, but the legend attributes the masterful work on it to the blacksmith Vakula, Hohol's hero from "The Night Before Christmas".

You can see the Polovtsian woman, an old locomotive (steam tractor), Mykola Hohol's posthumous mask. Also presented are valuable finds from Scythian burials, household items, works of art by local masters.

Souvenir products are sold.

Employees of the Museum of Local Lore conduct tours of Dykanka.

Kochubey oaks in Dykanka are a monument of nature and history.

Three oaks growing in a row are the remains of a large oak avenue that decorated the entrance to the Kochubey manor on the ancient Poltava road, laid through the Mykolaivsky forest. Another oak tree stands alone, near the forest department. The age of the trees is about 800 years, the diameter of the trunk is 1.5-1.8 meters, the height is 20-22 meters.

According to legend, the oaks were planted by the Zaporizhzhia General Clerk Vasyl Kochubey and Colonel Ivan Iskra on Kochubey's birthday. Another legend tells that under one of these oaks, young Motrya Kochubey, the daughter of the general clerk, met her elderly lover, Hetman Ivan Mazepa.

Kochubey oaks were sung by the poet Pushkin in the poem "Poltava".

The lilac grove on the outskirts of Dykanka was laid out in 1822 by the owner of these lands, Prince Victor Kochubey, on the site of a clay quarry where raw materials for his brick factory were mined.

According to legend, Kochubey created this floral miracle to please his terminally ill daughter Hanna. Lilac seedlings of 40 varieties were brought to Dykanka from different countries of the world.

Now the lilac grove is under the protection of the regional landscape park "Dykanskyi". To date, only 5 varieties of lilac have survived, but due to the large area of the grove (2.5 hectares), it is called the largest in the world.

Every spring, during the flowering of the lilac, Dykanka becomes a place of tourist pilgrimage. Every year in the middle of May, the traditional holiday "Songs of the Lilac Grove" is held.

The Poltava Art Museum is located in the new building of the Art Gallery (built in 1999; architect Yuriy Oliynyk).

The first art gallery in Poltava was started in 1919 by the Ukrainian archaeologist-scientist Mykhaylo Rudynskyi based on the collection of the itinerant artist Mykola Yaroshenko, which was presented to him. Among the 100 paintings were the works of Ivan Shishkin, Vasyl Polenov, Volodymyr Makovsky, Illya Repin, Vasyl Maksimov and others. The collection included artistic values from the nationalized estates of the Kochubeys (Dykanka), the Galagans (Sokyryntsi), the Kapnists (Obuhivka), and the Repnins (Yahotyn).

The collection of Western European paintings includes unique works by Giovanni Tiepolo, Peter Paul Rubens, Melchior de Hondecuter, Adrian van Ostade, Elizabeth Viget-Lebrun, Carl Peters and others.

For a long time, the Poltava Art Museum was located in the former mansion of the landowner Bolyubash (1912), but due to the state of emergency of the premises in 2000, it was forced to move to the current location.

The Poltava Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Mykola Hohol is the main and oldest theater stage of the region.

The year of his birth is considered to be 1808, when the "Poltava Free Theater" was opened in the city, which was managed by Ivan Kotlyarevsky from 1818. In 1901, a new building was built for the Poltava theater - the Educational House.

After the Second World War, the damaged building was converted into a Kolos cinema, and in 1958, a new pompous building was built for the Hohol Drama Theater, designed by the architects Oleksiy Krylov and Oleh Malyshenko.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Hohol Theater was considered one of the best in Ukraine. His production of "Natalka Poltavka" with the participation of People's Artist of the USSR Ivan Kozlovsky was successfully staged in Moscow.

In 2006, a monument to the legendary Marusa Churai, nicknamed the monument to Ukrainian song, was erected in the square next to the theater.

One of the first museums in Poltava was established in 1909 on the battle field of Poltava near the Mass grave of Russian soldiers to mark the 200th anniversary of the victory of the Russian army over the Swedes.

The collection includes more than eight thousand exhibits: works of art, weapons, awards, flags, uniforms and equipment of the Russian and Swedish armies, personal belongings of Petro I and his associates. The sounded diorama of the Poltava battle is established.

Nearby - a monument to Peter I, Sampson's Church (1895) and the mass grave of Russian soldiers, a cross on the grave of Swedish soldiers and a Monument to fallen Swedes from Russians.

Two redoubts (field fortifications of the Russian army) were restored, one of which is located on the opposite side of the road, and the other - near the "Poltava Battle Field" museum building.