Tarasova Gora - as the Shevchenko memorial in Kaniv for more than a century and a half belongs to the highest in the symbolic sense of the peaks of Ukraine. This uniquely beautiful and picturesque Dnipro mountain (Kanivskaya - Krych) has been known since the times of the Cossacks as part of one of the monasteries of the Zaporozhian Sich as the tract of Cherneche, became widely known due to the extremely important event in the history of the Ukrainian nation that took place here 22 (10 Art. Art.) May 1861. On that memorable day, the Ukrainian community fulfilled one of the most important covenants of its national prophet Taras Shevchenko - return from a foreign country to Ukraine and forever be with his people.
Tarasova Gora - as the Shevchenko memorial in Kaniv for more than a century and a half belongs to the highest in the symbolic sense of the peaks of Ukraine. This uniquely beautiful and picturesque Dnipro mountain (Kanivskaya - Krych) has been known since the times of the Cossacks as part of one of the monasteries of the Zaporozhian Sich as the tract of Cherneche, became widely known due to the extremely important event in the history of the Ukrainian nation that took place here 22 (10 Art. Art.) May 1861. On that memorable day, the Ukrainian community fulfilled one of the most important covenants of its national prophet Taras Shevchenko - return from a foreign country to Ukraine and forever be with his people.
The Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos rises on the Black ...
The Shevchenko National Reserve (the city of Kaniv, Cherkasy region) ...
Already on the day of the burial of the poet May 22, 1861, the priest of the Assumption Cathedral, Archpriest Hnat Matskevich appealed to his contemporaries and their descendants: "Reverend to our hometown, Ukraine; we have the remains of Taras Shevchenko! "
This historic event, which Sofia Rusova described as "the first fact of the social national life of Ukraine," Ukrainians owe it first of all to Gregory Chestahovsky, Alexander Lazarevsky and Bartholomew Shevchenko. These are they - his friends on behalf of the Ukrainians of St. Petersburg, fulfilled Shevchenko's will forever to return to Ukraine. Immediately after the burial of the poet, a high grave was laid under the Cossack tradition, which became a place for pilgrims to the admirers of the creativity and life feat of the Ukrainian genius. A high oak cross was installed on the mound. In the years 1867-68, the community carried out work on the accomplishment of the grave: it acquired the appearance of a bicolore, lined with stones and covered with steppe grass, a burial-burial ground.
In July, 1884, at the expense of Vasyl Tarnovsky-Jr. and the Old Community, instead of a wooden cross, a cast-iron crucifix was constructed in the Termen plant in Kyiv with a height of more than six meters and weighing more than 250 pounds (4000 kg). Also, a hut-guard was built, in the one half of which the first folk museum of Shevchenko was arranged - "Tarasovaya hotel", and in the second lived guard Ivan Yadlovsky.
In 1918, the Shevchenko Memorial began to take care of the state - the Council of Ministers of the UNR on June 10, 1918, it was recognized as a national property. Simon Petliura, the chairman of the Kyiv Provincial People's Council, and Vasyl Koroliv-Old, authorized by the provincial council for the care of the grave of Shevchenko, developed a thorough draft law on the creation of a cultural and educational institution, which has not been fully implemented.
On August 20, 1925, by the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR, the territory around the grave of Shevchenko with a total area of 4 acres (4 hectares) was declared a state reserve and transferred to the charge of the People's Commissariat of Education.
On May 1, 1923, the Bolsheviks threw the monument cross from the grave of Taras Shevchenko, as a symbol of religion, and instead, in July, they established a temporary monument - the cast-iron bust of Kalen Tereshchenko.
The present-day appearance of the Shevchenko Memorial was acquired on June 18, 1939, with the installation of a bronze monument on the grave of the poet (Sc. Matvey Manizer, architect Yevgeny Levinson) and the construction of the literary-memorial museum (architect Vasyl Krichevsky, Petro Kostyrko).
During the Second World War, the memorial suffered considerable losses: the Nazis completely destroyed the museum exposition, and in 1943 the museum was converted into a labor camp. After the liberation of Kanev, the reserve resumed its activity and already in May 1944 the museum received the first visitors.
There is also the grave of Ivan Yadlovsky, the long-time caretaker of the Shevchenko Memorial, the Tarasov's Lutheran Museum (Tarasova Svitlytsia) (1884, reproduced in 1991), and the memorial sign (2009) in memory of Oleksa Hirnyk, a fighter for independence and the unification of Ukraine, on Tarasivaya Gora. (1912-1978). A memorial sign to the Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Horseshoe (2007) was installed at the foot of the Mountain and a Church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin (2014) was built.
Already on the day of the burial of the poet May 22, 1861, the priest of the Assumption Cathedral, Archpriest Hnat Matskevich appealed to his contemporaries and their descendants: "Reverend to our hometown, Ukraine; we have the remains of Taras Shevchenko! "
This historic event, which Sofia Rusova described as "the first fact of the social national life of Ukraine," Ukrainians owe it first of all to Gregory Chestahovsky, Alexander Lazarevsky and Bartholomew Shevchenko. These are they - his friends on behalf of the Ukrainians of St. Petersburg, fulfilled Shevchenko's will forever to return to Ukraine. Immediately after the burial of the poet, a high grave was laid under the Cossack tradition, which became a place for pilgrims to the admirers of the creativity and life feat of the Ukrainian genius. A high oak cross was installed on the mound. In the years 1867-68, the community carried out work on the accomplishment of the grave: it acquired the appearance of a bicolore, lined with stones and covered with steppe grass, a burial-burial ground.
In July, 1884, at the expense of Vasyl Tarnovsky-Jr. and the Old Community, instead of a wooden cross, a cast-iron crucifix was constructed in the Termen plant in Kyiv with a height of more than six meters and weighing more than 250 pounds (4000 kg). Also, a hut-guard was built, in the one half of which the first folk museum of Shevchenko was arranged - "Tarasovaya hotel", and in the second lived guard Ivan Yadlovsky.
In 1918, the Shevchenko Memorial began to take care of the state - the Council of Ministers of the UNR on June 10, 1918, it was recognized as a national property. Simon Petliura, the chairman of the Kyiv Provincial People's Council, and Vasyl Koroliv-Old, authorized by the provincial council for the care of the grave of Shevchenko, developed a thorough draft law on the creation of a cultural and educational institution, which has not been fully implemented.
On August 20, 1925, by the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR, the territory around the grave of Shevchenko with a total area of 4 acres (4 hectares) was declared a state reserve and transferred to the charge of the People's Commissariat of Education.
On May 1, 1923, the Bolsheviks threw the monument cross from the grave of Taras Shevchenko, as a symbol of religion, and instead, in July, they established a temporary monument - the cast-iron bust of Kalen Tereshchenko.
The present-day appearance of the Shevchenko Memorial was acquired on June 18, 1939, with the installation of a bronze monument on the grave of the poet (Sc. Matvey Manizer, architect Yevgeny Levinson) and the construction of the literary-memorial museum (architect Vasyl Krichevsky, Petro Kostyrko).
During the Second World War, the memorial suffered considerable losses: the Nazis completely destroyed the museum exposition, and in 1943 the museum was converted into a labor camp. After the liberation of Kanev, the reserve resumed its activity and already in May 1944 the museum received the first visitors.
There is also the grave of Ivan Yadlovsky, the long-time caretaker of the Shevchenko Memorial, the Tarasov's Lutheran Museum (Tarasova Svitlytsia) (1884, reproduced in 1991), and the memorial sign (2009) in memory of Oleksa Hirnyk, a fighter for independence and the unification of Ukraine, on Tarasivaya Gora. (1912-1978). A memorial sign to the Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Horseshoe (2007) was installed at the foot of the Mountain and a Church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin (2014) was built.