Kyiv Oblast offers travelers a range of different interests: designated natural areas and a diverse museum landscape in Pereiaslav. The National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve “Pereiaslav” is located in the city and brings together more than 20 museums covering various fields. The “Mezhyhiria” Garden Art Park and the “Zalissia” National Nature Park complement the nature theme, each with different designations and purposes. When planning your trip around a particular theme, you can first choose between cultural history and natural areas.
Natural areas with different focuses
The “Mezhyhiria” Garden Art Park is located in Novi Petrivtsi, Vyshhorod District, Kyiv Oblast. It is part of the Emerald Network and a park of national importance within Ukraine’s Nature Reserve Fund. It is also described as Ukraine’s “youngest” park.
The “Zalissia” National Nature Park is also part of Ukraine’s Nature Reserve Fund. It is a state institution of national importance for nature, recreation, culture, and education. Their designations emphasize different aspects: one centers on a garden art park, while the other is an institution with nature, recreation, cultural, and educational purposes. This can help you decide what kind of connection with nature you want from your trip.
A variety of museums in Pereiaslav
The more than 20 museums of the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve “Pereiaslav” cover a range of fields. The Museum of Kobzar Art offers a distinct perspective on cultural history. It presents the origins and development of this art, as well as its contemporary traditional folk and folkloric and stage-academic forms. It thus explores both historical development and different forms in the present day.
The collection includes documentary and material evidence, artworks, and the musical and poetic works of kobzars. The main collection comprises 242 exhibits, including 26 banduras. The instruments are displayed alongside other objects and artistic works that illustrate different aspects of kobzar art.
The open-air Museum of Folk Architecture and Everyday Life of the Middle Dnipro Region also has a towel museum with 300 towels from different regions. The Museum of the History of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and a museum of Ukrainian customs are located on the same grounds. These collections offer different cultural focuses from the Museum of Kobzar Art and add textiles, church history, and customs to a visit to Pereiaslav’s museums.
Taras Shevchenko and the history of Pereiaslav
The Taras Shevchenko Testament Museum was established on April 18, 2008, in Pereiaslav, in the former manor house of physician A. Kozachkovskyi. The exhibition presents the history of the region during the Cossack era in chronological order from Taras Shevchenko’s perspective and recounts his stay in the Pereiaslav area. It thus combines a regional historical context with a focus on a specific person and his time in the area.
The museum’s fifth room is a memorial room where Shevchenko stayed overnight during visits to the Kozachkovskyi family. He wrote his poem “Zapovit” on the night of December 24–25, 1845, at A. Kozachkovskyi’s house in Pereiaslav. The former home of A. Kozachkovskyi was built in 1820. Together, these details give the museum and its location both a temporal and a literary dimension.
Ivan Kozlovskyi and Marianivka
Another cultural landmark is the I. S. Kozlovskyi Memorial Museum and Estate in Marianivka, the singer’s birthplace. It was established in 1995. The museum includes a park with a mausoleum and intersecting avenues. Ivan Semenovych Kozlovskyi planned the park with architect Yakiv Drutskyi in the 1960s.
Here, the singer’s memory and the park’s design come together: the memorial site includes both the mausoleum and the intersecting avenues. For choosing a cultural focus, Marianivka offers a different perspective from Pereiaslav’s variety of museums—one centered on an individual life and the park associated with it.
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