Attractions of Myrhorod district

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 first Church of the Annunciation in Lokhvytsia was built in 1740.

After the wooden church burned down, a new stone church was built in the same place in 1800 in the forms of classicism with elements of the Rus style.

During Soviet times, the dome was destroyed, the premises were used as a local history museum.

Today, the Church of the Annunciation is an active church of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Church of the Assumption in Vepryk was built in 1821 in the Empire style by the landowner Semen Masyukov.

Four powerful pylons carry arches that support a tall cylindrical drum with a hemispherical dome. The northern and southern facades are decorated with four-column porticoes, and the eastern one with a composite order colonnade.

In the interior, the western part is divided into three naves by composite colonnades. The upper part of the walls and pylons is surrounded by a cornice decorated with stucco rosettes.

An architectural monument of national importance.

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 Literary and Memorial Museum of David Guramishvili tells about the life and work of the great Georgian poet of the 18th century.

The classic of Georgian literature, who lived in Myrhorod for the last 32 years of his life, wrote about contemporary Georgia, Ukraine and, of course, Myrhorod region.

Guramishvili wrote his famous works on Ukrainian soil: many of them merged Georgian and Ukrainian landscapes, alternated poems based on Ukrainian and Russian songs. His poems were widely translated into Russian (Mykola Zabolotsky and others) and Ukrainian (Mykola Bazhan).

Guramishvili died in 1792 and was buried in the Myrhorod Ascension Church. In 1949, a monument was erected on the poet's grave.

The museum presents editions of the poet's works and books about him, Georgian and Ukrainian items of folk life of the past centuries, samples of 18th century weapons, works of fine and decorative and applied art, products of local craftsmen, Georgian souvenirs, etc.

Dibrivka Horse Farm No. 62 in the village of Dibrivka, Myrhorod region, was founded in 1888 by Grand Duke Dmytro Romanov, and since then has been one of the leading stud farms that breed trotting horses.

The Dibrivka type of the Oryol trotter is now considered the standard harness horse both in Ukraine and in Russia. A complex of residential and industrial premises of the 19th century has been preserved. There is a wide area for training and walking horses in nature, it is also possible to learn riding in an indoor arena.

At the Dibrivka Horse Farm, you can buy thoroughbred horses of various ages of trotting and new-Oleksandrian heavy-carrying breeds. In addition, there is a workshop for the production of koumiss on the basis of the plant.

Excursions are conducted. There is a museum.

The Assumption Cathedral in Hadiach was founded in 1831 at the expense of the merchant Ivan Marulyev.

In 1934, the church was closed by the Bolsheviks, and after the Second World War it was dismantled for building materials.

Restored in 1998 at the former place in its original form. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

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 Church of the Holy Intercession in the village of Plishyvets in the Poltava region is considered one of the most multi-domed in Ukraine.

Before her, there was an ordinary three-headed wooden temple in Plishyvets, but by the end of the 19th century it had completely fallen into disrepair. For help in building a new church, local residents turned to their countryman, the rector of the moscow seminary, Archimandrite Parthenius, who managed to raise funds for the construction of a large stone church.

At the bishop's request, the famous architect Oleksandr Kuznetsov created a project of the church in the Cossack Baroque style - a copy of the Trinity Cathedral in Samar. The nine-headed Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, 45 meters high, is made in the shape of a cross.

The gilded 6-tiered iconostasis about 10 meters high, made in a moscow icon-painting workshop, was lost during the Soviet era, the bell tower was blown up in 1934, but the church itself survived even after it was hit by 7 shells during the Second World War.

Currently, the Holy Intercession Church in Plishyvets belongs to the UOC of the moscow Patriarchate, and restoration is underway.

The monument to Ivan Zubkovsky, the founder of the Myrhorod resort, was opened in 1998 for the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Doctor and public figure Ivan Zubkovsky researched and proved the healing value of Myrhorod mineral water, thanks to which in 1917 the first water hospital with 5 baths was opened in Myrhorod.

The monument to the work of the architect Serhiy Ruskykh and the artist Mykola Tsys is a bas-relief with the inscription: "To the founder of the Myrhorod resort, the zemstvo doctor, a public figure from grateful countrymen."

The literary and memorial museum of the Drahomanovy family was created in 1991 in the city Hadiach, where the outstanding Ukrainian public figure Mykhaylo Drahomanov was born, as well as his sister, the famous writer Olena Pchilka, the mother of the poetess Lesya Ukrayinka.

The exhibition includes 170 exhibits that reveal the fascinating period of the Drahomanovs' life and work.

The most interesting exhibits: the "Egyptian woman" statuette, which Lesya Ukrayinka brought from her trip to Egypt; Scythian amphora of the III-II centuries BC; handmade oak furniture set of the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century. .

The Khomutets Palace is the ancestral estate of the Cossack family of the Apostols, where the Decembrist meetings were held in the 1820s.

The wooden palace was built in Khomutets by the future Hetman of Ukraine Danylo Apostol in the 18th century. Later, the estate was inherited by the Russian writer, historian and public figure Ivan Muravyov-Apostol. After settling in Khomutets, he replanned the park and added stone wings to the palace, connecting them to the main building with semicircular passages.

Ivan Muravyov-Apostol's sons Matviy, Serhiy and Ipolit, who were active participants in the Decembrist movement, held secret Decembrist meetings here with the participation of Pavlo Pestel, Mykhaylo Bestuzhev-Ryumin and others.

In Soviet times, the palace housed a veterinary and zootechnical school, and a room-museum of the Decembrists was opened.

Recently, the building is in an extremely neglected state and is collapsing. The stucco with the coats of arms of the former owners has been preserved.

In a regular landscape park with an area of 15 hectares, there is a trinity oak, planted by Ivan Muravyov-Apostol in honor of his three sons.

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 Museum of Local History 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.

The Lokhvytsia Museum of Local Lore named after Hryhoriy Skovoroda is located in the old one-story building of the county court, built in 1865.

The museum was founded in 1919 on the basis of the collection of the local real school. Among the exhibits of the museum are collections of Cossack weapons, archaeological finds, sacred objects, samples of decorative and applied art, weapons of the Second World War period.

The museum is named after the poet and thinker, native of this region Hryhoriy Skovoroda. Part of the exposition is devoted to his life and work.

In the courtyard of the museum there are samples of weapons and military equipment from the Second World War.