Tourist Poltava hits: count the teeth of a mammoth in Poltava and buy a perfect fat in Mirgorod

POLTAVA: from monument to Galushka Museum of long-range aviation

The city rightly can be called the heart of Ukraine. Confirmation — a list of the museums of Kotlyarevsky, Korolenko, Panas Myrny, and even long-range aircraft. One of the biggest institutions of such kind of Museum. He occupies a building which is an example of the architectural style of Ukrainian Baroque. In the Museum — room 41 and 300 thousand exhibits! The very popular ten-meter skeleton of a mammoth and a huge oxen-drawn cart. Here you can see that the most expensive and fashionable now embroidered with a pattern of white threads had emerged from the poor (colored threads were expensive). Show and your own version of 30 pieces of silver for which Judas sold Christ, and the unique moonshine from clay.

Here are preserved many monuments of very different directions: from the battle (many associated with the battle of Poltava) to the absolutely peaceful that transmit national character — the same monument dumplings. Because of all this to Poltava you can go for the whole weekend — you're sure to find something to do.

The best lookout in the city of Ivanova Gora. In the past on the hill above the Vorskla constantly erected fortifications. The latter was the earthen fortress of Poltava. In the EIGHTEENTH century, it is three months held back the advance of the Swedes. Today on Ivanova mountain reconstructed one of 15 wooden towers of the castle.

VORSKLA: alloy and "hemp Yanukovych"

There are active entertainment. In Nyzhni Mlyny (30 minutes drive from Poltava) is a travel camp. Here, you and archery, and race for the kilometer-long the path of health (required with the stumps a La Mezhyhiria), and quests, and rafting on the Vorskla river on a catamaran or kayak. The conditions are ideal in order to take the first steps in aquatic sports: the flow of the river leisurely, sometimes rapids. Many of the gently sloping shores of sandy beaches. Be prepared for the fact that people here are much to the imagination — and the pot of dumplings in a kayak to take for the sake of laughter. "If God forbid kayak overturned in the first place saving treat," joked our guide.

The GREAT VILLAGE: the birthplace of Gogol 

Very soon life here will score key. From 16 to 21 August in the village praised by Gogol will are satisfied with a pilgrimage to the famous Sorochyntsi fair. The program of the event, with all its variety, is quite clear — trading, performances of popular artists, Ethnography in the form of craftsmen and a Museum. At noon, guests are welcomed personally by Nikolay Gogol and characters of his books (actors of Poltava music and drama theatre). A trip to the fair is reasonable to combine with a tour of the house where Gogol was born (now a Museum), and the Spaso-Preobrazhenskiy Cathedral where the cross of the future writer.

DIKANKA: the intrigue of court, witches, and gallery

Locals claim that "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka" was a huge success partly due to the toponym "Dikanka". Here it is now an urban-type settlement, and in the XIX century in Dikanka aristocrats lived Kochubey, which was once visited by Emperor Alexander I. the visit Vasiliy Kochubey built a triumphal arch similar to the one that was in St. Petersburg. To pass through it could only be elected. The rest moved to the bypass — the Avenue of oaks that would later be called kochubeevskiy. From the glorified in Pushkin's "Poltava" trees survived only a few. And in the time of Pushkin they were about fifty.

In short, in the capital of the Empire of Dikanka had heard. And the appearance of the book marked "near Dikanka" caused quite a stir — the audience was expecting the descriptions of the intrigues in the Royal court. Here it is, the PR-Gogol! The rest of the work to win the love of the audience has already played the talent of the author.

In Dikanka visit St. Nicholas Church with the tomb of the kochubeev kind, and the Church where Maria Gogol-Yanovskaya begged son called Nicholas. About the appearance of the temple is composed of a beautiful legend. Once, after a storm on one of the oaks appeared the icon of St. Nicholas. It was brought to the temple, but after the next thunderstorm icon was back on the tree. When this happened three times, decided on the spot, which returned to the icon to build a Church.

Still, make sure to go to an art gallery. It is small: eight small rooms, which collected five hundred exhibits. The gallery bears the name of Mary Bashkirtsevoy is an artist born in Poltava and became the first woman whose work was exhibited in the Louvre.

In Dikanka year round something is going on. In may come here to see the huge flowering lilac grove. Ivan Kupala is a folk festival. "Every year in early January, come to us from Peter TV crew and asked to show them Dikansky witches, at least one! — smiling guide. — What have themselves to portray".

HOHOLEVE: the Covenant of the mother and the missing head

The village gogolevo (shyshats'kyi R-n) — place, where was Nikolai Gogol. "Midsummer celebrations" it attracts up to 10 thousand tourists. Love hoholeve artists here that neither the area, the beauty, it is possible to write the picture. And the area some particularly attractive — I want to stay here. No wonder the Gogol Museum, there are even night theatre shows on the motives of Gogol's works "Chi you VI ukraïnsku nich?". However, with the beginning of the war in the East arrange the show rarely: it has become less popular. But in the afternoon you will take a theatrical performance. When the guide will lead you into the living room and talk about family traditions, from the next room you will come... mom Gogol! And it's not just an actress, and gogoleve and tour guide that knows all about Gogol. For example, the fact that men in the family often Gogol died at the age of 40 years. What strange behavior of Nikolai Gogol partly inherited from his mother, who was able to laugh, and after 10 minutes to go in the room not to let anyone to cry. In her last will and Testament in the office of a beloved son of Nikolenka in the wing and in the grotto by the river no one must enter. And in the Park you will be met Gogol's heroes.

Please pay special attention to the picture of the "all Seeing eye" in the office of the writer. Yeah, that face is rather scary, but tourists manage to see him as a writer and I of Christ. Gogol considered this painting a talisman, believed that she protects him from all evil. Here you will be told that lethargy Nikolay Vasilyevich — the legend: the writer buried the dead. Another thing in the coffin really is no his head. They say she was in Moscow Bakhrushin theatrical figure, and then disappeared. Where is she now, nobody knows. According to one version, the head was dug up by the monks of Danilov monastery and gave Bahrushina, on the other — that it took the ceremony.