Attractions of Myrhorod district

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

The monument to Mykola Hohol in Velyki Sorochyntsi is one of the first monuments to the writer in Ukraine. It is also considered one of the best in the world.

The residents of Sorochyntsi decided to perpetuate the memory of a great compatriot in 1909, when they celebrated the centenary of his birth. The author of the monument project is St. Petersburg sculptor Illya Hintsburh.

The monument was inaugurated in 1911 near the house of doctor Mykhaylo Trochymovskyi, where Hohol was born in 1809. The bronze sculpture depicts a writer sitting in deep thought.

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 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).

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Velyka Bahachka was built in 1710 at the expense of Andriy Stefanovych, a Bahachka centurion. A new iconostasis was installed in the church in 1738. In 1860, the church was placed on a stone plinth and a wooden bell tower was added. There was a school at the church, taught by deacon Lavrentiy Babichenko and palamar Taras Tkach.

During the Soviet rule, the Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin was destroyed in 1937. After Ukraine gained independence, the question of restoring the temple arose. At first, church services were held in the rented premises of the "Vesnyanka" factory. Later, a new church was built by the efforts of the parishioners.

The modern building of the church is a copy of the building of 1710 and the first service was held in 2001.

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.

Saint Nicholas Church in Vepryk was built in 1823 in the style of classicism.

The central part is crowned by a hemispherical dome on a tall cylindrical drum, above the western vestibule - a two-tier bell tower, completed by a dome with a spire. The northern, southern and western facades are decorated with four-column Tuscan porticos with triangular pediments.

In the interior of the Saint Nicholas Church, the remains of an oil painting of the 19th century have been preserved.

Until recently, the temple was in an extremely deplorable state, but restoration is currently underway.

An architectural monument of national importance.

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. 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 was erected near the church.

The Shyshaky Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1967.

There are about 2,000 exhibits in 6 rooms: archival documents, archaeological finds, relics from the Second World War, etc. Permanent expositions tell about the nature of the region and the history of Shyshaky.

Among the most interesting exhibits: a copper cauldron from the Scythian period, a battle mace and ax of the 13th century, a saber of the 14th century, a Cossack pistol, a grain grinder, the first Shyshaky telephone, a radio receiver from the period of the Second World War.

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.

Velyka Bahachka village museum of local lore is located in a one-story building in the center of Velyka Bahachka.

The exposition tells about the history of the region from ancient times to the present, in particular about the founding of the village in Cossack times and the participation of the Cossacks of the Bahachka Hundred in the wars of that time.

In front of the museum is a Soviet divisional cannon D-44 post-war production, and in the yard - a German cannon from the anti-tank self-propelled artillery Marder II.

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.