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Chigirin district

Museum of Bogdan Khmelnitsky is located in a renovated in 1995, two-story building public places ( povetnoy council ) early. XIX century. At the foot of Castle Hill , where the Lower Town Hetman capital. The exhibition Cossack weapons , household items , etc. Fligely is administration of the National Historical and Cultural Reserve Chigirin. Nearby is the restored Church of the Saviour , and the Chapel of the Holy Veil... more>>

The first capital of the Cossack republic. Chyhyryn was founded in the sixteenth century, and rather soon after its foundation, in 1592, it was granted the Magdeburg Law. By the mid-seventeenth century, the population of Chyhyryn was about 50,000 people, whereas in Kyiv, for comparison, there lived at that time hardly more than 10,000 people. The Hetman’s residence was a sprawling... more>>

Subotiv. The village of Subotiv, which is situated seven kilometers from Chyhyryn, was the place where Khmelnytsky would go to stay to find some respite from the business of ruling. There was a garden, even a little zoo and an apiary to entertain the Hetman. The Hetman’s estate in Subotiv used to belong to Khmelnytsky’s father Mykhailo who was... more>>