Transition from spring to summer (Slavsko)!
Everyone associates Slavsko with skis, snow, mushrooms, berries, and trout.
I came to Slavsko either in winter or in summer. But this time, luck smiled at me, and I saw the transition period from spring to summer. It's a miracle!!!
But everything is in order. May this year in Kyiv turned out to be enchanting (according to weather forecasters). And in full confidence that such weather was all over Ukraine on Trinity, my friends and I decided to go to the 10th anniversary plein air in Slavsko. Train Kyiv-Uzhgorod night on the road and early in the morning already in place. But it was like that before. Now the situation is changing. A number of electric trains have been canceled, new Hyundai trains have appeared (with prohibitive ticket prices) and buying a ticket for the Kyiv-Uzhgorod train is now a problem.
As in the proverb "If it decreases in one, then it will arrive in another. " Less trains - more minibuses and buses. Buses depart from the South Station. And everyone can leave. Carriers, seeing such a number of people who want to go, added cars.
That's how we do it. We sit in a comfortable bus Kyiv-Rivne and by 11 pm already in Rivne. There was a hope that we would take a bus to Lviv, but there is no such thing. So, let's go to the railway station. And here, without any problems, we buy tickets for the passing train St. Petersburg-Lviv, and in Lviv we calmly transfer to the Kyiv-Uzhgorod train. Since many students and tourists travel from Kyiv to Lviv for the weekend, the trains in Lviv remain half free. And according to the schedule at 7-40 in the morning we are in Slavsko.
Station, we are met, 5-7 minutes and we are there. This is the great advantage of the town. The station is located in the center, and getting from it to any address is not a problem. It is impossible not to notice that the roads have completely spread out after the winter. Or rather, to say that they simply do not. And a lot of puddles, puddles and puddles. Unlike Kyiv, summer has not yet come. The whole of May was cold and rainy. And on the eve of our arrival (after all, it is already June), the cold and rains receded.
Let's count. We left Kyiv at 18-30. We arrived at 7:40. Net travel time 11-10 hours.
This is an hour and a half more if you get there by train. But you can get there, which is good. After all, we went to the anniversary. For the tenth time Slavsko hosts a plein air of artists. A definition pops up in memory that the tenth wedding anniversary is called a tin (pink) wedding. Tin symbolizes flexibility - the spouses already know each other so well that they understand everything perfectly, give in when necessary. But this is what we see in the open air. Measured rhythm, coherence in work. Yes, well done organizers. Ten years ago, this young couple Oksana and Dima Arefieva, driven by love for their native land and art, with the help of the Maxim Culture and Sports Foundation under the patronage of the Lviv National Academy of Arts and Lviv artists Orest Kosar, Orest Manyuk and Viktor Stognuty, embodied and gave life to plein air in Slavsko . Over the years, plein airs have become international, because. the geography of arriving artists is expanding. In truth, art has no boundaries. The participants were artists from Ukraine, Russia, Israel, etc.
By the way, plein air is translated from French as "in the open air. " Everyone works in nature. Some go to the mountains further away, others have enough near the house - the mountains are visible here too, and someone goes on a hike to put their impressions on canvas in the evening. Everyone has their own style of writing and their own style of work.
But, despite being busy, artists do not forget about the younger generation. In the neighboring city of Skole, a Charity Forum was held, where the artists successfully held master classes.
And I, since I was in Skole for the first time, decided to go and look at the town, which is already 600 years old and is located on the banks of the river with the interesting name Opir. Russian rebuff.
Historians point out. That the first written mention of Skole dates back to March 5.1397. And the legend of Prince Syatoslav testifies that the settlement arose much earlier - around the beginning of the 11th century. “Here, in 1015, Prince Svyatoslav, the son of Vladimir the Great, with his daughter and warriors, died at the hands of his brother Svyatopolk the Accursed. During the attack, Svyatopolk exclaimed: “How many of them! ” This is how the name "Skole" was formed.
According to other statements, the name comes from the word "rock", since the valley in which the city is located is surrounded by rocks.
Now the wooden church of St. Panteleimon, which has survived to this day, is of interest in the city. It was erected by masters of the Boiko school in the 17th century and originally bore the name of St. Paraskeva. In 1760, a square two-tier bell tower was added to it, designed by S. Shkolovets. Earlier, believers entered the temple through the passage in it. Services are still held here. And since a small room cannot accommodate everyone, a video broadcast was organized on an ordinary TV set outside.
We return to Slavsko, which (like Skole) is located on the banks of the Opir River between the Beskid and Gorgan ridges. There are practically no winds here, and there are no industrial enterprises for 100 km around. Only the picturesque nature of the Carpathian forests and mountains.
And the hosts and organizers of the plein air, Dima and Oksana, are waiting for us at the Arefyev Estate. How cozy and homely in the house! It is not difficult to understand why people, having been here once, come back again. The fact that there are completely all household amenities is understandable.
And when you go on vacation, what do you ask after clarifying the issue of amenities? You, like everyone else, ask: Is it cozy there?
It's cozy here. Imagine that in all the rooms, corridors, dining room - everywhere there were paintings, you will not see this anywhere.
The title of an art and tourist center has been deservedly assigned to the Arefyevs' estate.
And you can buy the picture you like. There are still banknotes and a desire to purchase a painting, then you can visit the Maxim art gallery, which also presents works by plein air artists.
This is the kind of trip I had in Slavsko. Two days have passed, the air has warmed up and it feels like summer is coming. Blueberries bloom in the forest. And the diversity is such that it is impossible to describe. From violets to poppies. And everything blooms at the same time!
After what we have seen, we can say that a holiday in Slavsko is a holiday all year round!
For some, the ski "Mecca" in winter, and for some, the center of green tourism.
