Hil'cha Persha

Two villages - Gilcha Pervaya and Gilcha Vtoraya - are located next to each other on the scatter between Rovno and Ostrog. Once they were one village of Golche (Gulcha). It was first mentioned in 1466 in the act by which it entered the possession of Prince I. Ostrozhsky. In the period of the XVIII-XIX centuries. Golche had the status of a town. In the 70s. XIX century. part of the village was sold to Czech colonists, and since then it has been divided into two parts. On the outskirts of the village there is a source of St. Nicholas, the healing properties of the water from which were known even in the days of the Ostrozhskys. Poetess O. Pichlka (L. Ukrainka's mother), who was in Gilche with children, described the "path of God" of the holy stream in a short poem "Gulc ...

Two villages - Gilcha Pervaya and Gilcha Vtoraya - are located next to each other on the scatter between Rovno and Ostrog. Once they were one village of Golche (Gulcha). It was first mentioned in 1466 in the act by which it entered the possession of Prince I. Ostrozhsky. In the period of the XVIII-XIX centuries. Golche had the status of a town. In the 70s. XIX century. part of the village was sold to Czech colonists, and since then it has been divided into two parts. On the outskirts of the village there is a source of St. Nicholas, the healing properties of the water from which were known even in the days of the Ostrozhskys. Poetess O. Pichlka (L. Ukrainka's mother), who was in Gilche with children, described the "path of God" of the holy stream in a short poem "Gulcha".