Sivershchyna Travel Guide

адрес: ул. Коцюбинского, 3, г.Чернигов, 14000, Украина тел.: +38 0462 677-481 Стоимость экскурсионного обслуживания: 100 грн. www: www.kotsubinsky.org E-mail: kotsubinsky_museum@ukr.net

время работы музея: ежедневно с 09:00 до 17:00 Суббота и Воскресенье с 10:00 до 17:00 экскурсионное обслуживание на иностранных языках: стоимость входных билетов: 10 грн./дети; 20 грн./взрослые

Летом 1898 Михаил Коцюбинский вместе с семьей поселяется в доме на тихой черниговской улице. Здесь писатель проведет 15 последних своих лет. Черниговский период был самым плодотворным в его творческой и общественной жизни. Здесь были написаны его лучшие произведения: “Иntermezzo”, “Fata morgana”, “Цвет яблони”, “Дорогой ценой”, “Хвала жизни”, “Тени забытых предков”.

Дом Коцюбинского посещало много литераторов, актеров, художников и ученых того времени. Выдающийся композитор Николай Лысенко исполнял на рояле любимые мелодии Михаила Михайловича. В гостиной проводились литературные «субботы», в которых принимали участие писатели Б. Гринченко, М. Вороной, М. Чернявский, В. Самойленко, М. Жук. Михаил Коцюбинский был наставником многих талантливых молодых людей, в частности, Павла Тычины, Василия Эллана-Блакитного, Аркадия Сказки и других.

К 70-летию со дня рождения классика в сентябре 1934 года в доме писателя был основан Черниговский литературно-мемориальный музей-заповедник.
Небольшой одноэтажный деревянный дом М. Коцюбинского стоит в центре двора. В комнатах воссоздана обстановка, в которой жил писатель со своей семьей. Неповторимая духовная аура словно и сейчас живет в этих стенах, привлекает людей. Простые скромные вещи, окружавшие писателя, дают возможность представить его быт, предпочтения, вкусы.

В столовой хранятся изделия народных мастеров, которые собирал писатель. В помещениях, где жили дочери писателя и его мать с младшим сыном Романом можно увидеть интересные сувениры, которые М.Коцюбинский привозил из своих многочисленных путешествий. В кухне хранится домашняя утварь, типичное для конца XIX – начала ХХ веков.
В двух книжных шкафах – мемориальная библиотека писателя, где хранится более 1500 книг. Среди них интересные первые печатные издания его произведений, книги с автографами Бориса Гринченко, Ивана Нечуя-Левицкого, Максима Горького, Ивана Франко, Панаса Мирного, немало очерков о жизни Коцюбинского и его творчестве.

В последние годы жизни писателя гостиная служила ему и рабочим кабинетом. Стол с письменными принадлежностями и мебель помогают посетителям представить, как работал автор. Создается впечатление, будто хозяин этой комнаты только что отдожил перо и чернильницу, чтобы немного отдохнуть во время прогулки в саду.

Сад семьи Коцюбинских, воспроизведен в том же виде, который он имел при жизни писателя и является настоящим украшением усадьбы. Здесь есть деревья, которые лично посадил выдающийся мастер слова, особенно привлекает столетняя ель, что раскинула свои мощные ветви над мемориальным домом. На клумбах цветут любимые цветы писателя: мальвы, маки, розы и др. Михаил Михайлович любил отдыхать в сиреневой беседке, среди благовоний многочисленных цветов и трав. Есть здесь также экзотические субтропические растения – агавы, которыми писатель любовался в Италии, а теперь они украшают музейный сад.

Неподалеку от дома Коцюбинских в 1983 г. было открыто помещение литературной экспозиции музея. Здесь можно узнать о знаменательных датах и событиях из биографии и литературной деятельности писателя. Представлены документы, фотографии, письма, личные вещи, а также незаконченные произведения и первоначальные варианты текстов с редакторскими правками самого Михаила Михайловича. Литературная экспозиция отражает разные этапы творческой жизни писателя.

Литературно-мемориальный музей-заповедник – не только сокровищница литературного наследия М. Коцюбинского, но и центр исследовательской работы по вопросам изучения литературной деятельности писателя.

address: 1, Preobrazhenska str., Chernihiv, 14000, Ukraine tel.: +38 0462 64-71-45 Guide ordering: +38 0462 64-59-64 Cost of guide services: depends on the theme of the excursion www: naiz3.ucoz.com E-mail: oldcher@gmail.com

open hours of the museums: daily from 10:00 till 18:00 avaliable excursions in foreign languages: entrance fee: 5 through 15 UAH and depends on the visited object

It is one of the main tourist sites of Chernihiv and Ukraine. It consists of 29 unique architectural and historical monuments. Six sacral monuments had been built by XIII century and thus belong to the oldest ones in Eastern Europe.

Some of them are functioning temples and monasteries (Our Savior and Transfiguration Cathedral XI c.; the Church of St. Parasceva Pyatnytsa late XII-early XIII cc.; St. Uspenskyy (Dormition) Eletskii monastery XI-XVIII cc. and Holy Trinity and Elias Monastery Cathedral XI-XVIII cc.), the others are museums. Borys and Glib Cathedral exhibits three thematic expositions: “The Cathedral – an architectural monument of XII century.”, “Architecture and the ancient craft of Chernigov (XI-XIII cc.)” Religious Antiquities of XVIII- XIX cc. “.

Three halls of the Collegiums premises (early XVIII c.) house permanent exhibition “The Art of Chernihiv XVIII-XIX centuries.». Each room is dedicated to specific iconography: professional, old believers and folk.

Very interesting and the most visited museum of reserve are St. Anthony Caves and St.Elias Church (XI c.). /a

address: 6, Gorky str., Chernihiv, 14006, Ukraine tel.: +38 0462 64-70-06 Guide ordering: +38 0462 77-46-16 Cost of guide services: 20 UAH per group www: halahan-art.com E-mail: artmuseum1@mail.ru

open hours: daily except Monday from 09:00 till 17:00 avaliable excursions in foreign languages: entrance fee: 4 UAH for adults; 3 UAH for students; 2 UAH for children

Chernihiv Regional Art Museum is one of the youngest in the Ukraine. It opened its doors to visitors in 1984.

The basis of the museum’s collection, his pride and ornament has composed the collection of the Galagans family which consisted of works of West European, Ukrainian and Russian art of the XVII – the beginning of the XX centuries, folk paintings and in particular the famous Cossacks Mamais, the portraits of eight generations of this famous Cossack and sergeant major kin and their famous relatives – the Razumovskies, the Daragans, the Markeviches and Lamsdorfs, which numbered about 100 works.

To date, the main museum funds comprise almost 8,5 thousand pieces of fine and decorative art starting from the XVI century. A special place in the museum’s exposition is alloted for icon-painting works, mostly Ukrainian, among which there are the canonical “Archangel Michael”, a collection of Deiparous icons and peculiar folk icons which originally interpret the image of the patron saint.

The collection of works by well-known Ukrainian and Russian academic artists is quite significant. Among them is “Girls are foretelling their marriage with the help of garlands” by I.Sokolov, “Gothic bridge in Sokyryntsi park” by A. Voloskov,” Autumn plowing in Malorossia” by M. Klodt, “Storm on the Sea” by I. Aivazovsky and many others.

Section of Western European art is rather small but arousing strong interest. The works of the Italian school of the XVIII century is represented whith the picture “Raising of Cupid by Venus and Mercury” by Jacob Ross and ” The Coronation ” by Michele Schiavone. Dutch and Flemish painting is represented with the works of genre art and battle-scene painting such as “The military camp” by Bloom P. Van Standard, “In the Tavern” F. Shveer and the variety of still life paintings and canvases on mythological and evangelic items. The real decoration of the section are works of Dutch and Flemish masters of XVII-XVIII centuries: “Concert” by Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen , dated 1626, “Still life with strawberries” Theodore Caspar Smits, as well as the works of unknown artists.
French Art of XVIII – XIX centuries is represented with the names of such famous painters as G. Robert ( “The ruins of old castle”), E. Meissonier (“Admirer of pictures”), J. Trezer, E. Falconet, Francois Granet.

Considerable interest arouse bronze ebbs from the works of the greatest masters of French sculpture of XVIII-XIX centuries such as Felix Lecomte ( “Marie Antoinette”), Gustave Doré (“Madonna with Child “), Francois Pomponius (“Cosette”), as well as animalistic sculpture by Pierre Jules Mena.

Unique in the museum collection are paintings by German artists. Among them is the only painting in the Ukraine that represents the Romantic movement in German painting of the first half of the XIX century – “Anne Boleyn behind bars” by Carl Vogel.
The influence of German Romantic painting is traced in some works of the Austrian portrait painter Henry Golpayna ( “Portrait of Maria Komarovskaya”). Classic landscape “Bay of Naples” by Johann Rauch introduces the interesting attempts of this landscape and animal painter to master the secrets of plein air painting.

The bigger part of the museum’s collection includes works by Ukrainian coryphaeuses of the XX century – M. Zhuk, M. Samokish, S.Shishko, V. Kostetski, N.Glushchenko, S.Grigoryev, M. Deregus, T. Yablonska, A. Kotzki and many other representatives of socialist realism.
Considerable part of the collection represent the works of decorative art of Ukraine, created by professional artists, as well as original masters for nearly two centuries. Applique, embroidery and painting, glass and porcelain, ceramic and wood are represented by such well-known names as Saenko, M. Timchenko, M. Primachenko, I. Appolonov, G.A. Denysenko, A. Shtepa and many other famous masters.

The collection of traditional folk toys from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus is very distinctive and amounts about 350 pieces of wood, clay, straw, and dough.
The museum is located in a former girls’ high school on the Val (Rampart) next to Chernihiv Historical Museum named after V. Tarnovsky.

Address: 4, Gorky str., Chernihiv, 14006, Ukraine tel.: +38 0462 647-073 Guide ordering: +38 0462 699-930 Cost of guide services: 30 UAH per group www: choim.org E-mail: museumtarn@cg.ukrtel.net

Open hours: Daily except Thursday: from 09:00 till 16:30 Saturday and Sunday: from 10:00 till 17:30 (summer period) avaliable excursions in foreign languages: entrance fee: 6 UAH for adults; 4 UAH for children

Chernihiv Historical Museum named after Vasiliy Tarnovskyi Junior is one of the oldest historical museums in Ukraine. It was established in 1896. The basis of the museum became a unique collection of Ukrainian antiquity, which V.Tarnovskyi (Jr.) bequeathed Chernigov.
Historical exposition and museum administration is located in the former building of the Governor. It an architectural monument (early XIX century) located on the territory of Chernihiv Detynets (Rampart).
The exhibition is located in 16 halls and represents different periods of the history of Chernihiv from ancient till modern times. There is a rich collection of archeological finds, old books, rare documents and articles of the Cossack epoch.

Very popular among the visitors is diorama “Mezin site” which gives an idea of the life of prehistoric man in the late Paleolithic period. The settlement discovered on the Desna river near the village Mezin has become known worldwide due to unique works of primitive art found there. Among them are bracelets, stylized figurines decorated with the oldest in the world carved meander tracery, mammoth bones painted with ocher and other products.

The archaeological section draws attention with its collection of crosses -encolpions, ancient jewelry and ornaments, weapons of X-XIII century., the treasure of ancient hryvnia of Chernihiv type (X century), seals, whorls, and amphorae with graffiti, as well as finds from Viking settlement in Shestovitsa village – the largest in Ukraine. Interesting exhibits are genuine arming of Russian warrior.

Exceptional value has the collection of historical artifacts of Ukraine XVII-XIX centuries gathered by Vasiliy Tarnovsky. It includes weapons, military equipment, household and cult things associated with the names of Ivan Mazepa, Semen Paliy, Pavlo Polubotok Vasiliy Dunin-Borkovsky and many others. The museum possesses family archives of famous Cossack families, 156 Hetman’s ordinances, the collection of Cyrillic incunabula (including 2 copies of the Ostrog Bible, 53 Gospels in precious covers, made by jewelers in Ukraine, Russia and Western Europe). There are samples of weapons and Cossack outfit of that time.

A unique exhibit is the frame of icon case of Chernihiv Icon of the Mother of God Elias. The frame consists of 18 individual ornamented silver plates. This unique jewelry masterpiece was created in 1695 on the order and by the means of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.
The museum also has a hall devoted to the events of the end of XVII – beginning of XVIII century. That was the period when Russia fought for access to the Black and Baltic seas. Chernihiv Cossack regiments took active part in those campaignes of Peter I.

Ethnographic collection is interesting by examples of both traditional folk art (embroidery, weaving, costumes, pottery, woodcarving), and the the beadwork embroidery dated XVII-XVIII century, Collection of musical instruments is one of the largest collections, which historical museums can boast in Ukraine.

A separate exposition tells about the history of the city of Chernihiv in the VII – beg. XX century.