The Oleksa Dovbush Museum in Ivano-Frankivsk was established in 1995 on the basis of the private collection of the famous historian V. Grabovetsky, who for 50 years studied the Carpathian insurrectionary movement of the Opryshki of the 16th – 19th centuries. and the life of the legendary hero Oleksa Dovbush, a noble robber and national avenger who fought for the liberation of the enslaved peasantry. The small museum exposition consists mainly of documents and paintings, as well as some ethnographic materials. The most interesting exhibit is the legendary ax of Dovbush, which was kept for two centuries by the descendants of witnesses to the death of a robber in the village of Kosmach.
Last update
11/27/2021
Categories | Museum / gallery |
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Date of foundation | 1995 |
Address |
Ivan Mazepa Street, 1
Ivano-Frankivsk |
Coordinates |
48.92093° N, 24.7064° E
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Phone | +380 3422 25 729, +380 98 920 1999, |
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