Kaniv - Trakhtemyriv - Velykyi Bukrin - Kaniv
Embroidered Tour: East (Day 21)
Day 1 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-225712.html?
Day 2 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-225757.html
Day 3 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ua/harkov/blog-225947 .html
Day 4 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-226002.html
Day 5 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-226092.html
Day 6 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-226182.html
Day 7 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-226252.html
Day 8 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-226272.html
Day 9 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/en/blog-226512.html
Day 10 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-226632.html
Day 11 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-227462.html
Day 12 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/en/blog-227487.html
Day 13 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-228327.html
Day 14 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-228382.html
Day 15 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-228867.html
Day 16 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-228887.html
Day 17 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-230447.html
Day 18 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/en/blog-230477.html
Day 19 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-231887.html
Day 20 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-230592.html
Day 22 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-231897.html
Day 23 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-232597.html
Day 24 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/en/blog-232602.html
Few people in Ukraine know anything about the mysterious Trakhtemirs. The Trakhtemir Peninsula is located 50 km north of Kaniv. From here we are on our way today.
Trakhtemyriv is a village in Kaniv district, a former city, capital and residence of hetmans. How did it happen that we do not know anything about such an important place for our ancestors. We will correct this situation.
Thus, the Trakhtemir Peninsula is the most mystical and least populated part of Kyiv and Cherkasy regions. There are very few people here, and those who are, often seem freaks, eccentrics, lunatics, sorcerers, characters, witches or something worse.
In the heart of the peninsula - once the residence of hetmans and the main Cossack shrine, and now the ruined village lives only two or three people, one of them - Guardian, Scythian - aka Oleg Georgievich, whom many followers consider praise, stalker local anomaly and forces of the peninsula. We also visited him.
When they entered the yard, they saw a house with Trypillia paintings and a man resembling Rubin Hood near a green dress. For some reason, plastic windows immediately caught my eye.
Then my husband invited us home, where we saw many works of art, collections of knives, artifacts, boxes of cookies. Charging the phone, the scales under the bed and the clean look and the fact that my husband invited us home immediately do not allow me to call him a recluse.
Mr. Oleg has been living here for 29 years, says he has no children (ke-khe although the Internet says otherwise), has been married 5 times, but says he never wanted to and does not know what something is needed. God sends him food (packs of pastries).
They asked what he was doing the other day, saying that he was guarding the sanctuary. And he says that he never "worked" because "work" comes from the word slave, and he is a free man. By the way, Oleg speaks Russian and calls himself a "hermit" who has departed from civilization, there is no corresponding word in Ukrainian, and he does not like a hermit. He says that friends and good people help him live. He turns to doctors and has a cell phone, the so-called hermit. I really don't like when the press exaggerates everything, and you imagine in your head such a hermit shaman, and you come and see an uncle who was simply lured by the city. What is good is that Oleg promotes love for nature.
And chases all sorts of uncultured people ("pigs") who do not clean up after themselves.
Somehow I didn't like it there, and my head ached that I wanted to get out of there as soon as possible, which we did.
The final depopulation of the peninsula took place during the construction of the Kaniv Reservoir, which accompanied the flooding of many nearby villages and, consequently, the resettlement of residents; in the 1990s - due to the capture of the peninsula by the then oligarch I. Bakai, who created the first private reserve in Ukraine on 11.000 hectares and hoped to completely get rid of bipeds, which hindered his elite hunting. Bakai's methods were comprehensive, raiding, intimidating, and aunts to poisoning wells and exotics such as bringing hundreds of venomous tropical snakes into the countryside.
The symbol of the oligarch's rule was the construction of a helipad on the site of the Cossack cemetery of the XVII century and the destruction of ancient graves.
Now the estate and all the good of the oligarch have burned down.
And the remains of the cemetery remained where we went.
As soon as I got up, I already felt some salutes in my head, the magnetic arrow was spinning like wild. Very strange and pleasant place. I am very afraid of the cemetery, but this is where it was very calm and pleasant to walk. Our Cossack said that in ancient times, if it was necessary to leave children somewhere, they were left in the cemetery.
Under the supervision of ancestors.
There are very old graves with ancient mystical symbols.
It is said that in 1660, near Trakhtemirov, near the Zherdeva valley, the famous "Black Council" took place, where Vyhovsky was overthrown and Bohdan Khmelnytsky's son Yuri was elected hetman, who was later ordained a monk he stood).
There are two options for location (with at least two dozen versions) - at the bottom of the reservoir, or in a "parallel world underground", and, as usual, can find it only a particularly spiritually cleansed advanced person. The history of the monastery is lost in the XI century: in the Ipatiev Chronicle in 1096 and 1168 the town of Zarub with the monastery is mentioned. Today you can hear tales about another pagan temple that preceded the Orthodox Church.
The peninsula is now a know-how land where local villagers and local corrupt authorities are cutting down forests and poaching, surrounded by beautiful prospects for green, historical and esoteric tourism, eco-farming, recreation and archeology.
It is a pity that such sacred cities allow the nation to beg.
Then we went to the village of Velykyi Bukryn to visit a real Cossack and the main character of the film "Black Cossack" Vasyl Seredenko, where we listened to Cossack fables and inspected the farm of a neighbor Pavlovich.
After the village relaxation they drove to Kaniv.
Here I met with representatives of the Embassies of the Netherlands and Germany, who had just arrived in Kaniv to prepare for the bike ride.
Bought, met the sunset and marvel at the color dreams)
Christina Zhuk
Embroidered Way Tour is an amazing journey through the coolest places of the Embroidered Way route, which is carried out by four popular Ukrainian travelers on June 5-28.2017 .
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