| Tulchin Agency of traveling
and excursions invites admirers of history to visit one of the
most picturesque places of Vinnichina, Tulchin. Office employees
will take you on interesting and exciting excursions around the
town as well as to the museums and historic places of interest of
the district.
First written records of the town go back to
1607, where Tulchin was mentioned as a Polish fortress Nestervar
of the Brazlav province. At the second half of the XVIII century
Tulchin was the possession of Polish magnates Pototskie. The palace
of Stanislav Felix Pototskij, built on the project of French
architect Lakrya, remained till nowadays. The palace is considered
to be best example of Classicism in Ukraine. At the time of Pototskij
the palace gleamed with luxury and splendor: gilding and sophisticated
stucco moulding, grand furniture, walls decorated with the paintings
of Rafael and Rembrandt (three paintings of Tulchin are in the Paris
Lyvr). Holland designer Merx thoroughly thought over the interior
of every hall. Famous people of the time visited the palace; the
balls held there were not inferior to the best European feasts.
Palace of Pototskih
The park, designed around the palace by an
English gardener Miller was represented not only by local flora
but also by exotic trees and bushes and had a system of ponds and
canals. Arbors, fountains and sculptures decorated alleys. Some
historians claim that in the palace Stanislav Pototskij met his
future wife Sofia, for whom he later built a park of gorgeous beauty
in Uman.
Famous Russian poet A.S. Pushkin, Polish poets
Stanislav Trembetskij and Yuliush Slovatskij, writer Frantschishek
Kovalskij and others walked under the shadows of the trees in the
alleys.
At the time of Pototskij the Dominican monastery
(now it is the Church of Christ’s Birth), the Uspenskaja church,
a small palace, where in 1796-1797 an outstanding military leader
A.V. Suvorov lived, were built and the cemetery church was rebuilt.
In Pechera village, one of the most picturesque places in Tylchischina
a wooden church of the Blessed Virgin was built, here a mausoleum
of Pototskih, was created on the project of Ukrainian architector
V.V. Gorodetskogo.
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Memorial of A.S.
Suvorov |
In 1796-1797 A.S. Suvorov’s headquarters were
situated in Tulchin.
Here the great military man wrote his famous
work «The science of the victory». In the suburbs of the town the
rests of land constructions, where soldiers had their trainings,
wells, digged by Syvorov’s soldiers can still be found.
In Tumanovka, in the house where the he lived
a memorial museum of Syvorov has been opened. The exhibits of the
museum are devoted to the life of A.V Syvorov, his battle feat of
arms.
In 1806 the father of Ukrainian classic literature,
poet and dramatist I.P. Kotliarevskij, author of «Natalka Poltavka»
and «Eneida» visited Tulchin. Ukrainian artist I.M. Soschenko painted
the church in Nestervarka. Russian poet, author of more than 40
books K.L. Lesovskij spent his childhood in Tulchin.
The museum of Decembrists in Tulchin
offers its visitors to get acquainted with the Decembrist movement.
The council of the South community with P.I. Pestel as a head was
situated in the town. Russian poet Pushkin, Polish poet Yuliush
Slovatskij, poet A.P.Baratunckij came to visit their Decembrist
friends in Tulchin. The house where they gathered remained and nowadays
the museum of local lore is located there. P.I. Pestel was arrested
in Tulchin, which actually led to the defeat of the South Decembrist
community.
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Memorial of M.D.
Leontovich |
The memorial museum of M.D. Leontovich
tells about the life and creative activity of the Ukrainian composer,
conductor, father of Ukrainian chorus singing. Nikolaj Dmitrievich
was the teacher in diocesan women special school in Tulchin, organized
Tulchin choir.
Photographs, personal belongings, paintings
tell about the author of more than 150 adaptations of folk songs,
a great number of church liturgies, psalms.
In the Tulchin museum of local lore you will
get acquainted with the history of this wonderful town. Various
exhibitions are systematically held there.
Tumanovka is the only village in Ukraine to
have 3 museums. In the national art museum, named after T.G.
Shevchenko works of tumav masters, paintings of Ukrainian artists
such as V.Kasijan and S.Antonchik are represented. The exhibits
of the Tumanovka museum of local lore tell about the history
and residents of the village.
Tulchin Agency
of traveling and excursions invites you to get acquainted with the
history and the places of interest of the town. |
