Attractions of Cherkasy district

The Art Gallery of the Korsun-Shevchenkivsky State Historical and Cultural Reserve is located on the third floor of a three-story outbuilding of the Lopukhin-Demidov Palace in Korsun-Shevchenkivsky, and is part of the research department of the reserve. Paintings, graphics and sculptures of the 18th-21st centuries are exhibited in 14 museum halls. In particular, three works by the famous Ukrainian artist and pedagogue of the XIX century, one of Taras Shevchenko's closest friends Ivan Soshenko are presented: "Forum of Julius in Ancient Rome", "Temple of Vesta - an ancient Italian temple in Rome", "Port of Kuma. Italy". During the restoration of Soshenko's latest painting on the reverse, an engraving "Port in Kumy" by the famous Italian artist and engraver Domenico Cunego with a similar plot was discovered, which now occupies a special place in the exhibition. Also presented are paintings by Luigi Iorini, Oleksandr Lopukhov, Vasyl Nepiypyvo, Andriy Chebykin, Mykola Yesipenko, some modern masters.

The Cherkasy Art Museum is housed in the former Communist Party's city committee, which was vacated after the August 1991 events. The exposition is formed from the former private collections of Count Bobrynsky, Princes Lopukhin, Bilokopytov, which were transferred in 1918 to the Cherkasy Historical and Pedagogical Museum named after Taras Shevchenko. The Department of Decorative and Applied Arts introduces the folk art of the middle Dnieper. The second chapter presents the iconography of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the beautiful portrait painting of the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Cherkasy Regional Museum of Local Lore is located in a modern building built in 1985 in the historic center of the city, near the Hill of Fame (Castle Hill). The project was designed by local architects Kondratsky, Sobchuk, Fursenko. In 30 halls there are sections of the nature of the region, archeology, ethnography, history of the region XIV - beg. XX century, as well as new and modern history from 1917 to the present. A total of 12,000 exhibits were presented. Cossack flags and a copy of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's first letter to Russian Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich asking for help in the war with Poland, written in Cherkasy on June 8, 1648, are kept here. Other rare objects of Cossack times are presented, including stove tiles of the second floor. XVII century with a relief plot "Three Musketeers" and the inscription "Zholdak".

The Historical Museum of the Korsun-Shevchenkivsky State Historical and Cultural Reserve is located on the territory of the Lopukhin-Demidov Palace in Korsun-Shevchenkivsky, and operates as a research department of the reserve. More than 2,000 exhibits in six halls reveal the history of Korsun in the context of the history of all of Ukraine from ancient times to the present. Fragments of Trypillia pottery, items from Cimmerian and Scythian burials, Slavic ornaments, a Polish cannon, armor and weapons of Poles, Ukrainians and Moscow archers are presented. Also on display are items from the princely palace of the Lopukhin-Demidov. The dioramas "Anti-serfdom uprising of 1855 in the Korsun region" and "Battle of Korsun in 1648" give a clear idea of the key historical events of the region. Separate sections of the exposition tell about collectivization and the Holodomor, about the participation of Korsuns in the First and Second World Wars, the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921 and the Russian-Ukrainian War.

The house of the estate manager in Kamianka is part of the former estate of the Decembrist family of V. Davydov. The house was built by the son of the Decembrist Leo. Because his father was exiled to Siberia and deprived of property, the son was not entitled to the father's inheritance. Then he was invited to the position of chief manager of the Kamyansky estate. That is, de facto he managed his estate, but de jure it did not belong to him. He built a house for his family and office space on the plot allotted to him. P. Tchaikovsky, whose sister was married to Davidov, often stayed in this house. In the 1920s, the Kamyanskaya Cheka was located here, later a polyclinic and a children's music school named after Tchaikovsky. Currently, the Kamyanka Historical Museum, the Kamyanka Art Gallery and the office of the Kamyanka Historical and Cultural Reserve are located here.

The Tsibulsky House in Cherkasy is a historic building in the city center, built in the middle of the 19th century. Belonged to the family of merchants of the first guild, was the tallest building in the city at the time. From July 18 to 22, 1859, Taras Shevchenko stayed here with his friend E. Tsybulsky. In Soviet times, a museum of one book was opened here - "Kobzar" by Shevchenko. Lifetime and posthumous editions of the writer are presented, in particular the rare "Kobzar" of 1840.

The museum is located in a two-story building of the former Basilian school, founded in 1781 by the Uniate priest B. Fizykevych at the expense of Count S. Poniatowski, who then owned the city. The school was closed in 1838. Later, the house was also used for its intended purpose as a school. The second floor was built in Soviet times. In 1990, the Museum of Folk and Decorative Art, which had previously been located in the neighboring building of the Assumption Cathedral, moved to this building. The museum has more than 5 thousand exhibits: a collection of glass of the XIII-XVI centuries, wooden products, paintings. There is a collection of samples of traditional Ukrainian clothing and household items from three central regions - Cherkasy, Kyiv and Poltava. In particular, the primitive works of the People's Artist of Ukraine Maria Pryimachenko, the unique embroidery of the artist S. Ustymenko and others are presented.

Tarasova Mountain in Kaniv is a national shrine of the Ukrainian people, a place of worship in memory of the outstanding poet-prophet Taras Shevchenko. Probably on this mountain in the XI century. The Kaniv Cave Monastery was founded, after which it became known as the Monk's Mountain. In the middle of the XIX century, having visited these places, T. Shevchenko wanted to buy a plot of land here for the construction of the estate, but his plans did not come true. After his death in St. Petersburg, Shevchenko was first buried in the Smolensk cemetery, however, at the request of the public, on May 10, 1861, the coffin with the poet's ashes was delivered to Kaniv. According to the will, he was buried on a high Dnieper cliff, which has since been called Tarasova Mountain. A mound and a cross were placed on the grave. The Tarasova Svitlytsia Museum was opened in the former house of I. Yadlovsky's tomb overseer. In 1925, the Shevchenko National Reserve was established in Kaniv. In 1939, the largest monument to Shevchenko in Ukraine was erected, and a 342-step staircase with the Lily fountain was built. In 2010, after many years of restoration, the Taras Shevchenko Literary Memorial Museum was opened.

The Taras Shevchenko Museum opened in 2014 on the territory of the Naganovsky Inn in the village of Moshny, where Shevchenko lived a few days after his release from arrest in 1859, during his third (and last) trip to Ukraine. A residential building has been preserved from the inn, where the main exposition of the museum is located. In 2013, before the opening of the museum, the building was overhauled, the roof was covered, and the concrete foundation was poured. But all the walls, thresholds, floors and stove with a couch remained original. The layout of the house is also preserved. The rooms exhibit original furniture of the XIX century, household utensils, embroidered towels, icons. All the buildings in the courtyard of the former inn are recreated according to descriptions and drawings.

The first Taras Shevchenko National Museum on Chernecha Hill in Kaniv "Tarasova Svitlytsia" appeared long before the creation of the Shevchenko National Reserve. As early as 1884, at the same time as the arrangement of Shevchenko's grave was completed, a house was built next to it. In one half of it lived the first caretaker of the grave Ivan Yadlovsky, opened the first national museum of the poet with a book of reviews. The house was dismantled in the 1930s, during the construction of a memorial on Tarasova Hill, but was restored in 1991. The museum exposition presents a copy of a portrait of Shevchenko donated to the museum by artist Ilya Repin, a copy of a towel embroidered for the museum by Lesya Ukrainka, an icon depicting Shevchenko in the image of a saint. In the second half, the room of the guard of Shevchenko's grave with the original samovar of Ivan Yadlovsky on the table was restored.