The Museum Barricade Photo: Museum Of Panas Mirny

The Poltava Museum of Panas Mirny, a famous classic of Ukrainian literature, is located on the outskirts of Poltava. It was here in 1903 Ukrainian writer purchased a small wooden one-storey house, which Mirnyi lived the last seventeen years of his life (from 1903 to 1920). Away he visited L. Ukrainka and O. Pchilka, M. Kotsyubynsky, V. Stefanik, N. Lysenko and M. Zankovetska.

Troublesome work to create the Museum's collection was begun in the pre-war time. One of the first donors of Museum exhibits was Alexander M. Rudchenko - the writer's widow. The existence of the Museum began in July 1940 To 1960, the Museum occupied the entire house P. Peace. In 1989, in the new building was opened literary exposition. For 20 years the Poltava Museum was led by the son of the writer M. Rudchenko.

The number of memorial items farmstead-Museum of the writer is one of the richest in Ukraine. It holds about 1 thousands of personal belongings, documents, photographs and books, which are housed in seven rooms of the house. The Museum features over 150 manuscripts P. Peace, and his older brother I. Bilyk (I. Rudchenko), with whom he wrote the novel "do not roar oxen when mangers are full? ". More than 280 sheets epistolary heritage of Ukrainian classics and his family, journal archive "Native land", first printed texts of the works of P. Peace and memories of it's contemporaries.

Here grows about 1,000 shrubs and trees, and around a small pond their branches scattered weeping willows. At the end of the alley grow three hundred year old oaks. In 1951, in the courtyard of the estate erected a monument P. Peace, and in 1976 the estate was declared a nature reserve of local importance. The writer's grave is located in the mountain Green guy, near the Museum-estate.

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