Attractions of Nizhyn district

The Borzna Memorial Art Museum "Manor of the People's Artist of Ukraine Oleksandr Sayenko" was opened in 1996 in the house of the Sayenko family in the town of Borzna, Chernihiv Region.

The exposition highlights the life and work of the famous Ukrainian decorator, whose name is included in the UNESCO list of outstanding figures of world culture.

Oleksandr Sayenko was born in Borzna in 1899. Due to an illness, he lost his hearing and speech as a child, but thanks to the patronage of the Sayenko neighbor, the writer Hanna Barvinok (wife of Panteleymon Kulish), he entered the St. Petersburg Imperial School for the Deaf and Dumb. He became most famous for his works in the field of monumental and monumental-decorative art in the straw inlay technique.

The exposition of the museum presents such famous works as "Kozak Mamay", "Semen Paliy" and others. Also on display are carpets, tapestries, scraps of Sayenko's work, a collection of Ichnya tiles collected by him, and family memorabilia.

The Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary was built in Novyi Bykiv in 1801-1804 in the Empire style by order of Count Kyrylo Rozumovsky, the last Hetman of Ukraine.

The cruciform structure has an elongated western vestibule, which is combined with a two-story belfry. The western, southern and northern entrances are decorated with four-column porticoes of the Tuscan order with triangular pediments. The church is crowned by a hemispherical dome with a hollow lantern.

In its forms, the church is identical to the Church of the Resurrection in Baturyn, the residence of Rozumovsky.

Assumption Church belongs to the community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Bakhmach Historical Museum named after Mykola Hnatovych Yaremenko offers to get acquainted with the history of one of the oldest Slavic cities.

The exposition covers all epochs: Ancient Rus, the Liberation War, the hetmanship of Ivan Mazepa, the construction of the Kursk-Kyiv railway.

The estate of Baron Mykola Meyendorf (Mayendorf) was built in Novyi Bykiv at the end of the 19th century, when a sugar factory was opened in the village.

The two-story neo-Gothic palace is decorated with a decorative tower.

Currently, the building is in a dilapidated state.

The Baturyn Krupytsky Saint Nicholas Monastery was probably founded before the Tatar-Mongol invasion.

It is believed that the first temple was built at the place of the appearance of the icon of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (the present territory of the hermitage).

According to legend, it was called Krupytsky after the monks were saved from starvation during the Mongol-Tatar siege thanks to the cereal that fell from the sky.

In the 17th century, the monastery was revived as a men's monastery, was under the patronage of Ukrainian hetmans and Russian tsars. It was burned by the Russians during the Baturyn massacre in 1708, but was soon revived.

In 1922, the Krupytsky Monastery was closed, all buildings were dismantled.

In 1999, a new stage of revival began, the accidentally found miraculous icon of Saint Nicholas was returned to the church. It is part of the National Historical and Cultural Reserve "Hetman's Capital".

The Bobrovytsia Historical and Local Lore Museum is located in the very center of the city of Bobrovytsia.

Founded in 1986 at the expense of doctor Mykhaylo Zamchynsky. The basis of the exhibition was a collection of exhibits collected by local schoolchildren from a group of young trackers.

In 6 exhibition halls, ancient tableware, ceramics, objects made of metal, bronze and copper, ancient icons, towels, folk clothes and household items are presented.

Documents about the life and activities of the Decembrists Volkonsky and Podzhio, who are buried near Bobrovytsia, are also presented.

The People's History and Local Lore Museum was opened in the city of Borzna in 1962. He received the status of "People's Museum" in 1968. It is located next to the Borzna Lyceum.

The museum's collections include over 1,700 exhibits, including two unique Ukrainian-language collections by Liubov Yanovska, a gramophone, and a collection of 70 towels dating from the beginning of the 20th century.

The wall of memory "We Remember. We Will Not Forget. We Will Not Forgive" was recently opened as a symbol of gratitude and respect for our compatriots who died in the struggle for the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine.

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Maherka (former suburb of Nizhyn) was built in 1775 on the site of an old wooden church as a burial place for Colonel Petro Rozumovskyi at the expense of his wife.

The church is tetraconch with four apses.

In 1860, a warm church with a two-story bell tower was completed from the west, connected to the main volume by a long hall, according to the project of the Falovych county surveyor.

In Soviet times, the temple premises were used as a cinema hall and film storage. In 1991, the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross was handed over to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The historical and memorial museum-reserve of Panteleymon Kulish was founded in 1999 in the Motronivtsi hamlet, on the outskirts of the Olenivka village.

Ukrainian writer Panteleymon Kulish spent the last years of his life here, in the "Hannyna Pustyn" manor. He settled in Motronivtsi after the "Em decree" of 1876, according to which it was forbidden to publish any texts in the "Little Russian dialect", with the exception of artistic works and historical documents. Kulish's collection "Khutirska philosophy and poetry distant from the light" prepared here was banned by the censorship on the basis of this very decree.

On the territory of the farm, the manor of Kulish himself, as well as his wife and colleague Hanna Barvinok, was restored, monuments were erected, graves were arranged, a garden was planted and a pond was dug. The complex quite faithfully reflects village life.

The Holy Annunciation Monastery in Nizhyn was founded in 1702 by Metropolitan Stefan Yavorskyi, whose brother served at that time as abbot of the Saint Nicholas Cathedral.

The Annunciation Cathedral was built in 1716 according to the project of the architect Hrigory Ustinov in the Baroque style. Had a second name - Nazareth the Virgin. Fragments of paintings of the XVIII-XIX centuries have been preserved inside.

The complex also includes the Peter and Paul Church with a bell tower (1803), the abbot's house with a refectory and cells (1808), as well as 12 monastery shops.

In 1999, the complex was handed over to the UOC community of the Moscow Patriarchate, the men's monastery is in operation, but the restoration of the buildings is being carried out very slowly. Church shops are used as shops, hairdressers, etc.

The Assumption Church in Fastivtsi was founded in 1743.

Initially, the temple was built using elements and techniques of Russian professional architecture.

In 1863, the stone Church of the Assumption was rebuilt in the style of romanticism using elements of Rus architecture. This especially affected the architecture of the bell tower, which was completed.

The Holy Intercession Church in Baturyn is one of the churches of the hetman's capital, the confessional of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.

The first wooden church, built on this site in the 17th century, burned down during the Baturyn tragedy, arranged by the Russians.

The five-domed stone temple was rebuilt in 1789 in the Ukrainian Baroque style. Nearby was the building of the church and parish school.

The Holy Intercession Church complex was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936.

The revival of the church began in 2000 at the expense of the Ukrainian diaspora, and after 8 years the restored Intercession Church was consecrated.

The Church of the Intercession was built in Nizhyn in 1757-1765 and has not been rebuilt since then.

The stone temple is made in a strict baroque style with almost no decor. In the interior you can see paintings of the end of the 18th century.

In the 19th century, an elegant two-tier bell tower in the Empire style was added to the western facade of the Intercession Church. It is decorated with skillfully executed four-column porticos and triangular pediments with a clear rhythm of dentils.

Today, the Intercession Church belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The two-level church of John the Theologian in Nizhyn was built in the 18th century on the site of a wooden church (1619).

The architectural style of the church is characterized as a transition from Baroque to early Classicism, where experts see the hand of the famous Kyiv architect Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi. There was a warm church on the first floor, and a cold one on the second.

Saint John of Kronstadt blessed the city and its inhabitants from the balcony of the Saint John the Theologian Church when he visited Nizhyn in 1893 on his way to Kyiv.

The church was restored in 1954-1955, since then its premises have been used as an archive.

Ancient frescoes, interesting openwork stairs and fences have been preserved. Negotiations are underway regarding the return of the Orthodox Church.

Nearby is a monument to the navigator Yuriy Lysyanskyi, whose father served in this church.

The Kochubey estate in Tynytsia is an architectural monument of national importance.

It was founded by the descendants of the general judge Vasyl Kochubei, who owned the village in the 19th century. The center of the composition is the manor house of the Kochubeis, built in the 18th century. A beautiful thick pine alley leads to the house.

The palace building is one-story, stone, rectangular in plan, with a strictly symmetrical composition of facades. Further in the park is the treasury building with a second floor added, which changed the original appearance of the building.

The park in Tynytsia was founded at the same time as the Sokyryntsi park by the efforts of Hryhorii Galagan in the first half of the 19th century. In general, a complex planning system of several park sites with alleys has been preserved. The architectural structure of the park is very interesting: four alleys - spruce, maple, chestnut and linden - converge in rays to the center.

Until 2006, there was a vocational school on the territory of the complex. At the moment, the buildings and the park are in a deplorable condition.