Among the great number of a holiday events there was an opening ceremony of the Museum on the battlefield in Tsar’s Nikolai II’s presence. Initially it was planned to place the Museum in the annex of St. Sampsony church situated near the Common grave of Russian warriors but afterwards a separate small single-storey building for [...]
After successful completion of negotiations Tsar Peter I arrived to his headquarters deployed in the hamlet Krytoi Bereg on the left bank of Vorskla river.
The house of the Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotlyarevsky was bought in 1751 by deacon of the Cathedral of Assumption (grandfather of Kotlyarevsky) Ivan. The writer has lived almost all his life in Poltava. He was buried there in 1838.
The building of the Poltava zemstvo was erected in 1903-1908 on the project of V. Krichevsky with the using of projects of E. Shirshov and M. Nikolaev. This building became the standard of the Ukrainian architectural style. The coats of arms of province towns decorate the building and make it solemn. Two high towers with [...]