Attractions of Bohodukhiv district

Parkhomovsky Art Museum named after P. Luneva - a unique art gallery, nicknamed the "Rural Hermitage". The gallery was established in 1955 by the village teacher Panas Lunyov as a branch of the school museum. The basis of the exhibition were paintings purchased by Lunyov at the post-war Kharkiv flea market, as well as donated by Kharkiv artists. Subsequently, the collection was supplemented by paintings donated to the village gallery by many museums of the USSR. At Lunev's request, a unique exposition was placed in the former palace of Count Pidhorichany, which previously housed the office of the sugar factory. Today, the collection of the Parkhom Museum has about 6,000 exhibits: paintings by Rembrandt, Gauguin, Van Dyck, Benoit, Manet, Bryullov, Shishkin, Aivazovsky, Levitan, Repin, Vasnetsov, Roerich, Malevich, drawings by Shevchenko, posters by Mayakovsky. Four works by Pablo Picasso donated to the museum by I. Ehrenburg, including the famous painting "Dove of the World", which became a symbol of the anti-war movement.

The Hryhoriy Savvych Skovoroda Literary Memorial Museum is located in the former estate of the Kovalevsky landowners, where the great Ukrainian philosopher died in 1794 (according to other sources, in the building of the former church-parish school). The house has a memorial room - a "quiet cell", where Skovoroda loved to work and in which he ended his life. In a cozy, well-planned park, maintained in perfect condition, preserved memorable places associated with the great thinker. This is the skeleton of a huge 700-year-old oak on the shore of a pond with a memorial sign (1972, sculptors L. Zhukovskaya, D. Sova), under the cover of which wrote a philosopher, a well and a huge wooden landlord's barn, on a wide lawn in front of which events organized by the museum are held. Not far from the manor house in the park is the grave of Hryhoriy Skovoroda. On the stylized tombstone under the roadside stone (1972, sculptors D. Sova, L. Zhukovskaya) carved a laconic and surprisingly capacious, worthy of a great philosopher author's epitaph: "The world caught me, but did not catch." A modest monument to Hryhoriy Skovoroda was erected at the entrance to the square (1972, sculptor I. Kavaleridze, architect V. Gnezdilov).