Attractions of Myrhorod district

The Myrhorod State Ceramic Technical School was founded in 1896 as an art and industrial school named after Mykola Hohol, which graduated masters in the production of pottery, terracotta, majolica, porcelain and earthenware products.

The main body is made in the style of the French Renaissance.

In 1992, the young Kateryna Bilokur, a future famous folk artist, tried to enter the Myrhorod Technical School of Ceramics, but was not accepted due to lack of secondary education.

Currently, it is the Mykola Hohol Art and Industrial College of Myrhorod.

The museum exhibition has existed at the school since its foundation. The exhibition was based on 20 copies of famous sculptures by Falcone, Adamson, Pimenov and others. A unique majolica iconostasis (1902) from Myrhorod Holy Assumption Cathedral is kept here.

The Holy Dormition Cathedral in Myrhorod is the oldest religious building in the city.

It was built in 1887 on the site of a wooden temple founded in 1648 by the Cossack colonel Matviy Hladky. The temple in the style of classicism was painted by students of Viktor Vasnetsov.

The altar part was decorated with a unique ceramic iconostasis made at the Myrhorod School of Arts and Crafts (now the Myrhorod Ceramic Technical College) - its fragment is exhibited in the technical College museum.

During Soviet times, the Dormition Church was closed, and it fell into disrepair over the years.

In 1998, the cathedral was reconstructed, a belfry was built, and bells were installed (their ringing is considered therapeutic). Now the interior is decorated with modern paintings by Volodymyr Tkachenko.

The National Museum-Reserve of Mykola Hohol was created in the village of Hoholeve (formerly Vasylivka, Yanivshchyna), where the writer spent his childhood and youth.

The museum was opened for the writer's 175th birthday.

The estate is recreated from photographs, drawings, plans, letters and memories of contemporaries, as the original buildings burned down during World War II. The parents' house and the wing with Hohol's office have been restored, the ponds, the romantic grotto on the shore and the age-old garden have been preserved.

In the recreated interiors of the living room, dining room and bedrooms, there is an exhibition that gives an idea of the Hohol era and tells about the writer's life and work. In particular, the first editions of Hohol's books, original portraits, some interior items, personal belongings of the writer and members of his family are presented.

In the park opposite the museum is the grave of Hohol's parents.

In the warm season, starting from the month of May, night theatrical performances are held.

Myrhorod Museum of Local Lore was organized on the initiative of the famous artist and ethnographer Opanas Slastion (Slastyon), who worked for a long time in Katerynoslav with the famous historian Dmytro Yavornytsky.

The exhibition presents a variety of materials about the history of Myrhorod. The museum is located on the site where in the XVII-XVIII centuries. was Myrhorod fortress. In memory of this, in 2007 a Square of Cossack Glory was opened in front of the museum building, a monument to the Myrhorod Cossacks and a Cossack cannon were erected - a memorial sign on the site of the Myrhorod Fortress (sculptor Dmytro Korshunov).

The museum is named after its founder - Myrhorod Museum of Local Lore named after Opanas Slastion.

The Savior and Transfiguration Church in Velyki Sorochyntsi is the temple-tomb of Hetman Danylo Apostol.

It was built in 1732 in the Ukrainian Baroque style popular on the Left Bank of Dnipro. According to one of the versions, the project of the temple was developed by the outstanding Ukrainian architect of the 18th century, Stepan Kovnir, the author of several buildings of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the Klovsky Palace in Kyiv. It was built by local masons. Initially, the Sorochynskyi temple had nine baths, but after one of the fires, four baths had to be removed.

The Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior is distinguished by the richness of the decoration of its facades. Its interior is decorated with a unique seven-tiered filigree carved linden iconostasis with dimensions of 17 by 20 meters and more than a hundred icons, crowned with a double-headed eagle.

In 1809, the future writer Mykola Hohol was baptized in the Transfiguration Church in Velyki Sorochyntsi.

Hetman Danylo Apostol, who died in 1734, is buried in the crypt under the church, as well as his wife Ulyana, his daughters and son, Myrhorod colonel Pavlo Apostol.

A monument to Danylo Apostol is located next to the Savior and Transfiguration Church.

The Khrystanivka Zemska School is located on picturesque cliffs above the Sula River. This is one of the fifty schools of the Lokhvytsia zemstvo that have survived in the Poltava region, built at the beginning of the 20th century according to the project of the artist and ethnographer Opanas Slastion (Slaston), who designed buildings in the style of Ukrainian Art Nouveau, which "correspond to the national taste and acquired features of national originality". Among the characteristic features are large hexagonal doors and windows, which were popularly called "Shevchenko windows".

In 1995, the school was closed. Currently, one wing houses a paramedic-midwifery station.

The former Zemska school building is located at the entrance to the village of Ryhy from the Krynytsia side.

It was one of the fifty schools of Lokhvytsia zemstvo, built in the first half of the 20th century according to the project of the famous architect and ethnographer Opanas Slastion (Slaston) in the style of Ukrainian modernism with the use of folk-style romantic decorative elements. A characteristic feature is the trapezoidal window and door openings, as well as the tented roof with folds.

The decorative tower above the vestibule was dismantled during the Soviet era, when the building housed the Ryhy Village Cultural Center.

The building of the Myrhorod City Council in the center of the city was built in 1912. Architecture in the Art Nouveau style.

Currently, the Myrhorod District State Administration is located in the City Council building.

The first Literary and Memorial Museum of Mykola Hohol in Ukraine was opened in Velyki Sorochyntsi in the restored house of the Sorochyntsi doctor Trokhimovskyi, where the future writer was born in 1809.

The museum was initiated by the artist Amvrosiy Buchma, who in 1929 took part in the filming of the film "Sorochynsky Fair".

During the Second World War the building was destroyed, reconstructed in 1951 without preserving the original layout. The interiors of the 19th century have been restored.

The exposition of the Mykola Hohol Literary and Memorial Museum includes the writer's personal belongings, the first editions of his books, documents, a portrait of Illya Repin's work, and others.

The pond in the center of the city, next to the Assumption Church, was immortalized by Mykola Hohol as the "Myrhorod Puddle" in the story "How Ivan Ivanovych quarreled with Ivan Nykyforovych".

In 2009, to the 200th anniversary of the writer, a monument to Hohol, about three meters high, was opened on the embankment. It became the basis of a sculptural complex dedicated to the heroes of Gogol's works: Ivan Ivanovych with Ivan Nykyforovych, Khlestakov, the blacksmith Vakula and Oksana, the incomparable Solokha, Pot-bellied Patsyuk, the pig.

The People's Museum of the History of the Myrhorod Resort was opened in 1998 on the second floor of a separate building on the territory of the Khorol sanatorium.

The exhibition is dedicated to the history of the health resort and its founder, the zemstvo doctor Ivan Zubkovsky, who was the first to evaluate the healing properties of "Myrhorodska" mineral water back in 1914. This happened after, on the initiative of the city administration, drilling of an artesian well began in Myrhorod to provide the city with tap water. The brackish water from the spring was deemed unsuitable for drinking, but Zubkovsky sent samples for analysis, and it turned out that the chemical properties of the water are similar to the healing mineral waters of the springs of Baden-Baden and Aachen.

The museum exposition presents a model of the first Myrhorod water hospital, which opened in 1917 (the original building with the tower has not been preserved).

A resort area in the center of Myrhorod on the Khorol River.

The first water hospitals using the properties of the well-known "Myrhorodska" mineral water began to appear here after 1915 through the efforts of the military doctor Ivan Zubkovsky. He used mineral water to treat diseases of the digestive organs and musculoskeletal system.

Now the best balneological sanatoriums of the city are located on the territory of the resort park, a beach is equipped on the bank of the river. A monument to Ivan Zubkovsky was erected.

The museum of the Myrhorod resort is open.

The fair in the village of Velyki Sorochyntsi has been held regularly since the 19th century. The Sorochyntsi Fair (Sorochynsky Yarmarok) became famous thanks to the works of Mykola Hohol.

At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, the village fair was held five times a year. It was closed in the 20s of the 20th century, but revived in 1966. Currently, representatives of various manufacturing enterprises from all corners of Ukraine gather annually at the National Sorochyntsi Fair, offering their products to visitors. In recent years, a folklore and ethnographic section has been equipped, where souvenirs and handicrafts of the best masters of Ukraine are sold.

The fair takes place in the penultimate week of August every year. In the rest of the time, you can explore the field of the Sorochyntsi Fair with models of houses, windmills and other traditional wooden structures.

The three-story building of the teachers' seminary in Velyki Sorochyntsi was erected in 1905.

It was the first educational institution that trained teachers in Poltava Region. The church functioned during the seminary. In 1922, the seminary was renamed Velyki Sorochyntsi Pedagogical Courses, then Pedagogical College, Pedagogical School.

Today it is Velyki Sorochyntsi sanatorium-boarding school. There is a museum of spirituality at the school.

The Museum of Local Lore in Velyki Sorochyntsi was created in 2008 on the basis of the people's Museum.

Located in a two-story building of the former children's library, to which a carved wooden veranda is attached.

The museum covers the history of the entire Myrhorod region from ancient times to the present day. In particular, tools of the 18th-19th centuries, Ukrainian clothing and household items, a model of a Ukrainian peasant's house of the 19th century, as well as a unique model of the Velyki Sorochyntsi Savior and Transfiguration Church of the 18th century, the family tomb of the Hetman of the Left Bank of Ukraine Danylo Apostol, which is located nearby, are presented.