The city of Lubny
Embroidered Tour: East (Day 12)
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 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 21 read here http://www.turpravda.ua/ru/blog-231882.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
We arrived in Luben by train "Intecity", to go - a pleasure (for which praise PJSC "Ukrzaliznytsia"). Our coordinators Tatiana and Valentina were already waiting for us at the station.
From the ship to the ball, we immediately went to the village of Mgar (20 minutes, fare 8 UAH).
Here we told the Mound of Sorrows, where a wonderful woman local historian and poet Natalia Shablya was waiting for us (by the way, here, in Poltava region, every 2nd woman is named Natalia).
At the initiative of the writer Oleksa Kolomiyets and the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation in 1990, near the Mhary Monastery on Zazhur Hill, the Mound of Sorrow was built, for which land was brought from all regions of Ukraine.
In the same year the cross was erected and consecrated. In 1993, the memorial itself was built according to the project of architect Anatoliy Ignashchenko. This is the first Holodomor monument in Ukraine. Going down from Zazhur Mountain you will notice an alley of planted birches.
Each tree is signed and planted in memory of the liquidators and victims of the Chernobyl disaster.
We went down to the Savior-Transfiguration Mgar Monastery. The monastery was founded in 1619 at the expense of Princess Raina Mohylyanka Vyshnevetska and was built by Metropolitan Isaiah Kopynsky (then abbots of Gustynsky and Pidhorsky). According to legend, the monastery on this site existed before the Tatar invasion of the XIII century.
In 1692 on the site of a wooden church, at the expense of Hetmans Ivan Samoilovich and Ivan Mazepa, and designed by the talented Vilnius architect Johann-Baptist Sauer (John Baptist - author of Trinity Cathedral in Chernihiv) in collaboration with locals. Pyryatynsky built a stone Transfiguration Cathedral.
What was surprising was the fact that animals are being tortured in the zoo on the territory of the monastery ...Somehow it is not very pleasant to walk around the monastery and watch the birds gut rabbits and chickens.
I do not understand why the monastery has a zoo at all? ! !
Then we returned to Luben and had lunch in the library with its wonderful staff.
In the afternoon we went to the village of Roztochchya, where we had an excursion to the Research Station of Medicinal Plants. It was opened in 1916.
A unique place in itself and the only one in the former Soviet Union, where they studied medicinal plants. The first industrial procurement and cultivation of medicinal plants in Ukraine date back to the early eighteenth century. During this period, "spare pharmacies" were opened, in 1706 - in Glukhov, 1709 - in Lubny, to supply medicine to the tsarist army. Over time, pharmacy gardens are organized for them.
Thus, since the Petrine hours, Lubny district has become a center of industrial procurement and cultivation of medicinal plants. Evidence that in the Lubny region, as nowhere else in Ukraine and Russia, there were the most wholesale barns, where peasants bred dried potions, is a historical reference, according to which 83% of the population was engaged in harvesting herbs.
From the mentioned "pharmacy gardens" some medicinal plants entered the culture, which have not lost their medical value even today: calendula, peppermint, foxglove and others.
In the pre-revolutionary period, the Lubny Society of Agriculture carried out work on the organization of sales and improvement of the culture of medicinal plants. It is known from literary sources that in 1901 alone, 25.000 poods of medicinal herbs were sent abroad from the Lubny station. The total cost of raw materials harvested and exported to Germany, England, France and other countries was about 200 thousand rubles. Therefore, it is not accidental to create the first center for the study and cultivation of medicinal plants in the Lubny land.
We took a walk, tasted different plants and drove to cook a delicious kulish on the fire.
Having prepared kulish and fried sausages, we went to bed tired and wondered about colorful dreams. Since we had a day and a light program, for tomorrow we were preparing for the usual intensive program.
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 .
The purpose of the event is to reveal the tourist potential, diversity and beauty of Ukraine, to symbolically unite the western and eastern regions, to promote the development of rural areas, to promote active recreation and a healthy lifestyle.
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