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Fairytale St. Nicholas Church (Former Guest House) in Bilorichytsya
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Bilorichytsya is a village with a population of about 1,100 people located in the Pryluky district of Chernihiv Oblast, 166 km southeast of Chernihiv.
The main attraction of the village is the following unusual and picturesque outbuilding for visitors (1878) – all that remains of the estate of Elena Volkonskaya-Rakhmanova, the daughter of the Decembrist Sergei Volkonsky. Bilorichytsya on Google Maps. Photos by: Maxim Ritus.
The estate belonged to her since 1873. Alexander Yulievich Yagno, an architect, artist and master of artistic ceramics, lived and worked in the village. He was directly involved in the construction of residential and utility buildings of the Rakhmanov estate.
The complex included a palace (1886), a guesthouse (1878), a bakery and a church (1850). The palace was destroyed during the Second World War. The church was dismantled in Soviet times – in 1962. Today, the former guest house is the Church of St. Nicholas.
In this architectural monument, the forms of Russian (the 17th-18th centuries) and Ukrainian folk architecture are mixed eclectically. The building resembles a traditional Ukrainian house divided into two parts. The first floor is stone, the second one is wooden.
And this is what the now lost Rakhmonov Palace looked like (1886).
Tags: Chernigov oblast · Chernihiv city · church
