The Zakrevsky estate, the pearl of the Poltava region, is located in the village of Berezovaya Rudka, 30 km from the district center of Piryatyn and 150 km from Kyiv. For 160 years, the village was owned by five generations of the old noble family of Zakrevsky. The estate, having built a palace with two outbuildings and created a large park over the Rudka river, was founded at the end of the 18th century by Grigory Osipovich Zakrevsky. The wooden palace burned down during a fire and in its place in 1838 Platon Zakrevsky built a neo-baroque stone two-story palace. T.G. repeatedly came to visit Zakrevsky. Shevchenko, who began to write the poem "Caucasus" here, and also painted portraits of members of the Zakrevski family. In front of the palace on the central flower bed there is a monument to T. Shevchenko. Currently, the palace houses the Berezovorudsky Agricultural College, and in one of the wings there is a local history museum, the exhibits of which tell about the history of Berezovaya Rudka and the Zakrevsky estate.