Poltava pyramids. Where to go for the weekend: Poltava Pyramids. Centenary pyramids in Poltava region

And I said that I won’t write on LiveJournal anymore - yeah! In the fall, exacerbations always begin - including graphomania. Moreover, I was able to go to places that were new and little known to me. However, I wouldn’t have gone much if it weren’t for Comrade Zh.Z., who suggested both the route and personal transport for its implementation.



Although I try to find some beauty in the everyday life of the towns and villages of central Ukraine, which are similar to each other like two peas in a pod, Pyryatynshchyna, perhaps, has no tourists good transport won't surprise you. These are places for hunters, fishermen, and kayakers. Our first stop is at the brewery in Velikaya Krucha. A brewery-restaurant with a landscaped area designed to look like “Ukraine of the 19th century.” Although the brewery is positioned as the First, in reality it was founded only in 1993, and, as far as I understand, it is the first in an independent country.

Nearby is a small “windmill”, which once really was one, but now hastily been added with a non-working propeller. But the structure itself is authentic, which may interest history buffs.

But the Velikokruchevo store is an allusion to the theme of primary accumulation of capital and capitalism itself in the Ukrainian outback. It is surprising that during the USSR, there were workers in all departments in the building, including a large store with spare parts for transport.




In addition to the brewery, there are two attractions in V. Krucha - this little patch overlooking the Uday Valley and the water tower built in 1911 by the Storozhenkov landowners. Restored in 2002 and now serves as something of a VIP room local complex recreation(?).


Locals call this entire area "camping". Perhaps some local periodic holidays are held here.


Mayors of cities, officials and all those who receive much more money through bribes than from official salaries - LEARN ABOUT MANAGEMENT IN A REAL WAY! Is there a hole in the asphalt? Throw soil into it and plant ornamental grass or bushes! Eco-friendly, beautiful, saves time and money. Learn!



Next we go to Piryatin. Having visited several dozen similar towns, I can say that Piryatin is perhaps one of the most deprived of any interesting things. It seems like an old town, an excellent location at the junction of regions... But if it weren’t for the movie “Queen of the Gas Station” and one historical church, there’s absolutely nothing for tourists to do here.

In general, Piryatin, whatever one may say, is a transshipment point for transport coming from the east to Kyiv. And this imposed its own stigma of fluidity and lack of capital on the town.

Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. Founded in 1781, rebuilt in the 19th century. A typical representative of Ukrainian Baroque.

It would seem that there is nothing else to do in these places and you can go further to the Zakrevsky palace and park complex in Berezovaya Rudka. But no, I convinced myself and Zh.Z (and the rest showed no will at all). the fact that you could stop by the Uday sanatorium, a well-known place in the stalking community. This sanatorium is notable for the fact that it had simply colossal underground spaces. After all, it was designed for the recreation of the most senior leaders of the Ukrainian SSR. But the collapse of the Union caught the sanatorium at the moment of construction. And we are at the point of dismantling even the foundation. Out of grief, I didn’t even take a single photograph of the wasteland, so I’m only presenting what “Uday” was like a couple of years ago.

There was another interesting place in the area - a bridge over the Uday swamps. It seems like 200 meters. The walk to it from the remains of the sanatorium is 3.5 kilometers, but it felt like we walked a good ten in both directions. For the guys who have no interest in swamps, this whole walk was completely unnecessary... And the bridge turned out to be so shaky and dilapidated that only R.I. dared to walk a hundred meters across it. However, the locals don’t care – they come here every day.

Near Berezovaya Rudka, which was the possession of the Zakrevsky Cossack dynasty, there is the inconspicuous village of Vechirki. Taras Shevchenko visited the Zakrevskys several times, traveling to nearby villages, including Vechirki. This church, although it has now lost its original appearance, was painted by Shevchenko. A copy of the painting is kept in Berezovaya Rudka.

Well, actually the Zakrevskys’ possessions. In 1752, the farmstead (now a village) was bought from Hetman Skoropadsky by Joseph Zakrevsky, a bully of the Zaporozhye army. Under his son Grigory Zakrevsky, the estate began to be built. Over the course of several generations, it acquired its current form. The Cossack dynasty owned the palace and park complex until 1917.

However, the Zakrevsky men practically did not live here. Despite the considerable money allocated for the park and palace complex (almost 100 hectares!), the men spent most of their lives in St. Petersburg.





Central Palace (1838) made in neo-baroque style. Moreover, from the backyard it is much more attractive than from the facade. There, in the backyard, there was once a fountain and the beginning of a park. There are 40 species of trees and shrubs in the Park. Nowadays there is an agricultural technical school on the territory.

Ignatius Zakrevsky, who was Stolypin’s son-in-law and held important positions in the Russian Empire, eventually went as an imperial envoy to Egypt. From there he brought his passion for the pyramids. During one of the returns to their homeland, by order of Zakrevsky, this pyramid-tomb was built, which became a family crypt. The local church, both now and then “its own”, made only minor adjustments to Ignatius’s plans. Therefore, part of the walls was painted with Egyptian motifs with frescoes, and the other part - with biblical quotes and images. The cross at the entrance shared space with the statue of Isis.

Perhaps the Zakrevsky family would have rested peacefully in this pyramid if not for the revolution. The tomb was plundered in 1917. Soon it was turned into a fertilizer warehouse. And then the deep but dry crypt came in handy for storing dairy products in barrels. In the 1980s, a cultural center was built nearby, and they wanted to demolish the pyramid with tractors as it was unnecessary. But the structure turned out to be solid - nothing happened. And the cultural center, by the way, is now abandoned. It was also not possible to restore the pyramid - it turned out to be in disrepair. Perhaps the Zakrevskys, offended by revolutionary barbarity, do not want any changes. Who knows who knows...

Ukraine has its own Egyptian pyramids, and their appearance is inextricably linked with Egypt itself, because those who built them were inspired by this country and its traditions. We also have three pyramids, which, according to their creators, have a unique healing property and can cure many ailments.

By the way, Ukraine holds the record for the number of pyramids in Europe. IN Poltava region there are two (they are more than 130 years old). Of course, their size is far from the tombs of the pharaohs, but these are also family crypts, and the fate of these structures is in many ways similar to their Egyptian prototypes.

Centenary pyramids in Poltava region

The first of the pyramids is located in With. Commandant Kobelyaksky district, Poltava region. And it was erected here on the orders of naval officer Alexander Bilevich, who was also a participant in the Russian-Turkish war. On duty, he visited Egypt several times and became imbued with the local culture. He was especially struck by the tombs of the pharaohs. So Bilevich became the first to bring this tradition to Ukraine.

In 1864, Bilevich began construction. He planned to build a 15-meter pyramid from massive granite blocks mined from a local quarry. They had to be transported to the top using wooden chutes. And to give the structure strength and durability, they mixed a lime mortar with egg whites and fresh blood of livestock.

Construction lasted 13 years.

Tombs of Sofia

Scientists believe that the pyramid was originally conceived as a church, but in 1877 the officer’s beloved wife, Sophia, suddenly died, and he decided to make a tomb out of the pyramid. And in 1915, Alexander Bilevich himself was buried here.

This pyramid local residents called St. Sophia Church. It consists of three tiers, interconnected by a winding complex system of corridors and underground passages. At the bottom there is a crypt, where they found their last refuge Alexander and Sofia Bilevich. Services were held on the first floor - the altar and iconostasis were located here, and the second served as a bell tower. An Orthodox cross was installed on top of the structure.

Like the Egyptian pyramids, the fate of the Bilevich tomb was tragic. In the post-war years it was looted, partially destroyed and a chemical warehouse was set up here. It was only in the early 2000s that a local entrepreneur became interested in the fate of the pyramid and decided to restore it. Now tourists come to her and listen with enthusiasm about the difficult and interesting story this building.

Pyramid of Zakrevsky

The Zakrevsky tomb is also in the shape of a pyramid, 9 meters high, located in the village of Berezovaya Rudka Piryatinsky district of the same Poltava region. It was built by the famous landowner and sugar magnate Ignatius Zakrevsky.

The Zakrevsky dynasty was widely known far beyond the borders of not only the Poltava region, but also Ukraine. Intelligent gentlemen, among whom were many military men, diplomats, prosecutors and landowners.

Under Emperor Alexander III, Ignatius Platonovich served as ambassador to Egypt and never tired of admiring the greatness and mystery of this country.

In 1989, having returned from a distant business trip, he decided to erect a pyramid-tomb over the grave of his parents. He took the matter very seriously.

The edges of the structure clearly coincided with the cardinal points, as was the case in the Egyptian pyramids. The entrance to the family crypt of the Zakrevsky family was guarded by a statue of the goddess Isis - a symbol of family fidelity and protector of the dead. The sculpture was more than 2,000 years old, and it was specially brought from Egypt.

The inside of the pyramid was painted with quotations from the Bible on one side and Egyptian frescoes on the other. The walls are made of sand-lime brick and covered with a layer of cement that imitates tiled cladding. Inside the chapel, in the center, there was an altar and a crypt with four arches and a large stone cross in the center, and another iron one on top.

Immediately after the completion of the pyramid, Ignat Zakrevsky died. The daughters buried their father in the family crypt.

But in 1917, the peace of the Zakrevskys who died forever was disturbed. The pyramid was plundered, the statue was thrown away, the frescoes were destroyed, and the bodies of the representatives of the dynasty were thrown into a ditch and, only thanks to the chairman of the “red” rangers, Nadezhda Stetsenko, the Zakrevskys were secretly reburied.

The time has come to serve the pyramid as a warehouse for dairy products. The room temperature was conducive to the storage of perishable products.

The second wave of desecration of the Zakrevsky tomb occurred in the 80s of the last century. Local authorities decided that it simply did not fit into the local landscape. The tomb would definitely have been demolished, but... The time for mysticism has come. The structure did not succumb to any destructive force. Even a bulldozer. Is it mystic, lime mortar on yolks and fresh blood, but the tomb still stands.

Next to the pyramid there is a park and family estate Zakrevskikh. The once legendary Grebinka wrote the words to the well-known romance “Black Eyes.” And in the summer of 1843, he brought Taras Shevchenko himself to the Zakrevskys, who was absolutely fascinated by Anna Zakrevskaya. After this visit, the Ukrainian poet came to visit the owners more than once in 1845-1846. On one of these visits, he painted portraits of the couple.

Modern Ukrainian pyramids

Recently in Kindrovka village Another 6-meter pyramid appeared not far from Kremenchug. It was built by local resident Vladimir Markovsky, completely copying the famous pyramid Cheops, but in miniature. By the way, the enthusiast spent only a year on construction, and the pyramid itself cost him 10,000 UAH. The man claims that he did not use a single nail during construction. And he erected it in order to study the influence of the structure on humans and study its positive impact on people’s health. He is confident that his pyramid is capable of healing and harmonizing space.

And here on the territory of the regional hospital for war invalids in Vinnitsa There is a healing granite pyramid, where even the doctors themselves refer patients for procedures. It took 250 tons of granite to create it. One of the authors of this unusual project claims that the pyramid accumulates cosmic energy. A special field is also created around it, which has a beneficial effect on specific organs. To make it easier for people to understand what and where to treat, there are benches with instructions around the structure.

Last year in the city of Galich Ivano-Frankivsk region local beekeeper Viktor Bilash built a “bee pyramid”. The author of this unusual structure assures that there are no analogues to his work in Ukraine. The pyramid itself is strictly oriented towards the cardinal directions. Not a single nail was used in its construction. It was erected together with bioenergeticists and pyramidologists in order to bring their plan to life as competently as possible. The height of the structure is 3.8 m.

Poltava pyramids

The Poltava Pyramids are two pyramidal structures located in the Poltava region (Poltava region), Ukraine.

First dilapidated nine-meter pyramid located in the village of Berezovaya Rudka. The base of the pyramid is quadrangular, the edges of the side faces are clearly oriented to the cardinal points. It is, of course, not as old as the pyramids in Giza, but their fate is somewhat similar. Like the Egyptian pyramids, it was plundered and dilapidated... And it appeared pyramid in Berezovaya Rudka in 1898, the local landowner, Ignat Zakrevsky, ordered the construction of a chapel of such an unusual shape over the grave of his parents. And soon he himself died in Cairo. The daughters embalmed their father's body and, having transported it to their homeland, buried it in the family crypt-pyramid. At that time, it looked completely different: the outside of the pyramid was covered with cement, imitating slab cladding. From the south, the entrance to the three-story chapel was guarded by an angel, which, as old-timers say, was actually a statue of the winged goddess Isis, brought by Zakrevsky from Egypt. Inside there was a cruciform crypt with 4 niches, an altar in the middle of which was a large stone Orthodox cross, and the walls were covered with biblical writings and frescoes in the Egyptian style.

In the eighties, the pyramid began to interfere with local authorities - it did not fit into the wonderful architectural ensemble, consisting of a club and a cemetery! But it was not there. The solution used in construction was mixed with cement with the addition of egg whites. So either the solution was too tough for the bulldozer, or other forces intervened, but the pyramid survived.

Second Poltava pyramid located in the village of Komendantovka. A 15-meter tetrahedral pyramid, with a 10x10 m square at its base, appeared in the village in 1877. It was built by Alexander Belevich, a former naval officer, on his estate. During his stay in Egypt as part of a limited contingent Russian troops, he had a chance to see the tombs of the pharaohs. This made such a strong impression on Alexander Dmitrievich that, upon returning to his homeland, he decided to build his own pyramid on his lands. Construction lasted 13 long years. The pyramid was built from granite blocks, which were lifted up along wooden gutters, and the lime mortar was mixed with egg whites and the blood of freshly killed cattle. It is believed that the pyramid was originally intended as a church. But in 1877, Sofia, A. Belevich’s beloved wife, suddenly dies, and the pyramid becomes a tomb. Here, next to his wife, in 1915 the former officer himself found his last refuge.

Sophia Church, as the pyramid in Komendantovka is officially called, has three levels. The lower one consists of 3 burial chambers connected by underground passages. On the first floor there was an altar and an iconostasis (divine services were held here), and the second floor served as a bell tower. The building was crowned with an Orthodox cross.

The fate of this pyramid is also tragic. In the post-war years, it, like the Zakrevsky tomb, was looted and the burial place was destroyed. The building was equipped with a warehouse for chemical fertilizers. And at the beginning of the new millennium, a local entrepreneur, concerned about the fate of the pyramid, restored the extension that had burned down a long time ago. Everything would be fine, but the partially restored pyramid now boasts metal tiles, plastic windows and “fashionable” facing bricks...

Do you want to see the beautiful pyramids and are preparing a trip to Egypt? Or maybe you shouldn’t go so far, but visit the Poltava pyramids on Slavic land? Local residents are very proud of this incredible cultural and historical monument.

Amazing and strange Poltava pyramids

Ukraine has already become famous among scientists for its ancient pyramids. Two are truly unique and are tombs. One is located in the village of Komendatovka, Koblevsky district, and the second is located at the ancient museum of the village of Berezovaya Rudka, Priyatinsky district.

The pyramid in the village of Komendatovka is much younger than its Egyptian comrades; it was built not so long ago by an officer of the Russian fleet, Alexander Dmitrievich Bilevich. The officer visited Egypt and was very inspired by the great Egyptian pyramids. At that time, the Suez Canal was being built and Egyptomania was gaining momentum every day.

As soon as Alexander Dmitrievich returned home, he began construction of his own tomb. The construction of the tomb pyramid took 13 years, but the result was worth the effort. Granite blocks were used as building material, which were lifted up along wooden gutters using cables.

The pyramid has three small underground rooms that are connected by corridors. On the first floor there was an altar with an iconostasis, and on the second there was a bell tower. Unfortunately, with the advent of Soviet power, the fate of the pyramid was quite tragic. The tomb was destroyed and used for storing chemicals, but later local residents restored the church.

The second pyramid was built by Ignatius Platonovich Zakrevsky. Ignatius Platonovich was an ambassador to Emperor Alexander III and after visiting Egypt he also became ill with the ancient pyramids. The construction was absolutely classical and it was also used as a family tomb. Her specialty was that she was multi-religious. It contained a Christian altar, Holy Scripture, Egyptian frescoes, and the entrance was guarded by the goddess Isis. Unfortunately, the Bolsheviks desecrated and destroyed this Ukrainian pyramid as well.

Sights of Poltava

Be sure to visit these great sights of Poltava. After all, a lot of effort and faith was invested in the construction of the pyramids; they have incredible energy. Local residents are confident that the pyramids are capable of healing, and the offenders who participated in their desecration could not live to be 40 years old or lost their minds.

Picturesque Ukraine is famous not only for its pyramids, but for everything interesting places Ukraine and locals cannot reach. Kharkov, Odessa, Poltava and other cities have something to show you and boast about. Historical, cultural, ethnic attractions await their guests.
It is worth noting that in addition to the Egyptian ones, there are many more pyramids in the world: these are

 

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