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The Best Attractions In Zhytomyr Oblast

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The Best Attractions In Zhytomyr Oblast

  • 2. Radomysl Castle Radomyshl
    Radomysl Castle is a historical and cultural complex created in 2007–2011 by Olga Bogomolets MD, a Ukrainian doctor and public activist. The castle's center is an old flour mill built in the town of Radomyshl in the late 19th century by Polish engineer Piekarski. The mill was constructed upon the ruins of a paper mill built in 1612 by the order of the archimandrite of Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra Yelisey Pletenecki . During research conducted during the reconstruction of this building, it was discovered that it had been planned to be used as a fortress. Since 2011, Radomysl Castle is part of the Council of Europe’s cultural project called Via Regia, its purpose is to promote cultural exchanges by means of tourism between European countries.
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  • 4. St. Michael Archangel Cathedral Zhytomyr
    Saint Olga was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Svyatoslav from 945 until 960. She is known for her obliteration of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband Igor of Kiev. Even though it would be her grandson Vladimir that would convert the entire nation to Christianity, her efforts to spread Christianity through the Rus’ earned Olga veneration as a saint. While her birthdate is unknown, it could be as early as AD 890 and as late as 5 June 925. Saint Olga, who was the first Russian saint of the Orthodox Church, is the patron of widows and converts.
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  • 7. St. Michael's Cathedral Zhytomyr
    Saint Olga was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Svyatoslav from 945 until 960. She is known for her obliteration of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband Igor of Kiev. Even though it would be her grandson Vladimir that would convert the entire nation to Christianity, her efforts to spread Christianity through the Rus’ earned Olga veneration as a saint. While her birthdate is unknown, it could be as early as AD 890 and as late as 5 June 925. Saint Olga, who was the first Russian saint of the Orthodox Church, is the patron of widows and converts.
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  • 10. St. Sophia Cathedral Zhytomyr
    Saint Sophia's Cathedral is a Catholic temple that serves as the principal church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, Ukraine. The temple was built between 1746 and 1748 and was founded by Bishop Samuel Jan Ozga. After a fire in 1768, the temple was converted into a building of three ships in the classical style. The church is now an eclectic building with a preserved Baroque interior. In Soviet times, was closed to the faithful for several years, the priests were arrested and sent to labor camps. Since 1991, after the fall of communism the cathedral was restored and enlarged.
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  • 12. Korolenko Museum Zhytomyr
    Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a Russian short story writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian of Ukrainian and Polish origin. His best-known work include the short novel The Blind Musician , as well as numerous short stories based upon his experience of exile in Siberia. Korolenko was a strong critic of the Tsarist regime and in his final years of the Bolsheviks.
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