One of the Seven Wonders of Sumy, the manor house "Round Yard" is a horse yard of the Nadarzhinsky-Golitsyn estate in the town of Trostyanets. In fact, it is not a round, but an oval construction with four towers, which combines elements of Gothic and Ukrainian baroque.
Color photograph of Vvedensk Refectory Church, built 1677-1679, Chernihiv. The pillarless Vvedensk church is one of the oldest in the group of Chernihiv monuments of the 17th century.
Illina Church, the oldest of the Trinity-Illina Monastery, Chernihiv. The modern appearance of the Illina Church is the result of reconstructions in the 10th , 2nd, and 18th centuries.
A wooden skete, rebuilt in early 2000s in the traditions of early Russian wooden architecture of the 16th–17th centuries. Part of the Holy Mountains Lavra of the Holy Dormition.
Three ink sketches of Popov Manor House (also known as Vasylivka Castle) showing the original ideas of the architect, displayed alongside modern detailed watercolors by Oleksandr Kharlan.
Nova Kakhovka is a young town in the north of Tavria, built in the 1950s for the builders of the Kakhovka hydroelectric complex. All the buildings here were built to a unified plan, constructed in haste, and they turned out to be monotonous and unexceptional. Then Hryhorii Dovzhenko, an artist and a follower of the Boichukist school, came to the town. Together with his colleagues, Dovzhenko created 80 unique carved panels which would come to decorate the walls of every building and change the face of the town. Later the Soviet press would criticise Dovzhenko for “architectural excesses”. Today his pieces are considered to be an artistic phenomenon which contemporaries named “stone vyshyvankas”. These days, the ornaments are under threat — not just from the passage of time, but from building insulation and the “modernisation” of the facades as well. Thanks to the actions of local activists, however, the “stone vyshyvankas” are gradually being restored to the town.
