National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve Pereyaslav

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For 100 kilometers from the capital's hustle and bustle, in the shade of trees, is the real cradle of Ukrainian culture. The national historical and ethnographic reserve "Pereyaslav" is one of the largest in the country. And we can say with confidence that it most fully reflects the life of the inhabitants of the Ukrainian village.

The history of this reserve began with the city museum of local lore, which in 1951 occupied only three rooms in Taras Shevchenko's friend's house. In 1979, on the basis of this museum, which was created for 25 years, the national historical and ethnographic reserve Pereyaslav appeared.

This is a unique place, where more than 370 objects and monuments of Ukrainian culture are represented. On the territory of the reserve there are 25 museums, which store 166 000 exhibits, reflecting different milestones of the history of the Ukrainian people. There are items of the Trypillian and Chernyakhov cultures, Scythian times, military equipment and clothes of Cossacks, Ukrainian towels, musical instruments, tools, old printed publications and much more.

Visitors have the opportunity to visit the homes of the ancestors of Ukrainians, wooden churches, manors of the poor, middle peasants and well-to-do peasants, a smithy, a tanner's workshop. You can also see how the zoo looked like, and view the windmills located on the territory of the reserve.

It is also interesting that here, on the river Soup, was found a stone-age park, a unique reminder of the distant past.

Museums of this region are interesting because they are located directly in the monuments of architecture - churches, former petty-bourgeois and landowners' houses, peasant huts, etc.

Attracts with its originality and uniqueness museum of architecture and life of the Middle Dnieper, which is directly under the open sky. He collected on 30 hectares of 13 thematic museums, organically merged into one. There are 185 objects, 104 of which are monuments of folk architecture of the 18-19th centuries. The museum presents 20 thousand works of folk art, tools and household items. The decoration of the museum is two picturesque ponds, an amazing park in which tens of thousands of trees and bushes grow, real "living" yards and gardens.

Every museum is a real house, which still breathes the past and continues its leisurely existence. Exhibits of the museum give an idea of the life of the joiner, blacksmith, beekeeper, healer, poor man, potter, cooper and weaver.

In the museum of bread you can trace the history of the formation of agriculture from antiquity to modern days. Unique bread-making technique, a real baker's house, windmills, earth barns reflect the life of people of past centuries. There is a unique collection of relict wheat, dishes from the Trypillian culture for the storage and processing of grain and even the clothing of farmers.

In the museum of beekeeping - various tools for care of bees, household things of beekeepers, tools.

Visiting the mail museum, you will feel the atmosphere that existed at the postal station of the 19th century.

In the museum of the towel are collected towels from all over the country, representing a variety of techniques and symbols.

The museum of medicinal plants is interesting with the unique herbarium and phytoplantations of medicinal plants.

The only in Ukraine Museum of Land Transport represents a collection of 1400 vehicles, beginning with the period of Tripoli culture.

Undoubtedly, the museum of space is also interesting. Here you will see the real armchair of the spaceship, the spacesuit and the parachute of Yuri Gagarin, as well as the original rocket.

A unique collection of products from wood, carpets, toys, glassware and art glass you can see in the Museum of Decorative and Applied Art.

And this is not all that can surprise the guests with an amazing open-air museum. On the territory of the reserve there are also unique architectural monuments. The oldest of these is housing from the bones of a mammoth, whose age is about 13 thousand years.

Separate attention deserves the Ascension Cathedral, built with funds from the Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa. Since 1701 there is the Peresopnytsia Gospel in it, and to this day the Presidents of Ukraine take the oath. In the cathedral there is a monumental diorama "Bukrinsky bridgehead" depicting the famous battle of the Great Patriotic War. On canvas, whose width is 28 meters, and height - 7 meters, back in 1975 was depicted the offensive of Soviet troops near Kiev. The artists painted directly from the photos of the soldiers participating in the battle, so all the people in the picture are real.

Also preserved here are the St. Michael's Cathedral of the 11th century, the wooden Cossack church of 1606, the St. Michael's Church in 1666, the Ascension Monastery of the 17-18th centuries, the house of the Pereyaslavsky Collegium in 1753, the Assumption Cathedral in the late 19th century.

Is there another place on the map of Ukraine, which is so believable and fully aligned with the ancestors of today's Ukrainians? Once in the reserve, it seems that the skilful artist has drawn a true picture of the past, calm and fascinating, bordered with numerous flowers and trees.

Национальный историко-этнографический заповедник Переяслав