Kozelets-Baturin

Kozelets-Baturin. Excursion to Kozelets and Baturin will introduce you the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin, with the Hetman capital of Ukraine, where we will visit the museum Rozumovsky, Resurrection Church Baturyn fortress. Excursion to Kozelets and Baturin leave unforgettable pleasant experience, it is the places which is worth visiting.

 

The tour programme:

 

09.00 - Meeting at subway station Lisova exit, in Kiev.

Come to Kozelets, look Cathedral Christmas.

12.30 - come to Baturin. Dinner.

Then visit the National Historical and Cultural Reserve "Hetman's Capital", a museum Kochubey Cossack fortress, palace Razumovsky.

19.00 - return to Kiev (subway station Lisova)

 

Detailed description of visited sites:

 

Kozelets - this small town, which is on r.Oster. In the 16th century, was under Polish rule, which is based here its strengthening. The history of the city is closely connected to the family Razumovsky. Here is the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin with a 5-tiered iconostasis height of 27 meters.

Baturin - Hetman's Capital, which is located on the river Diet in Chernihiv region. The name comes from the Russian dialect word "Batur", which translates as "tower". In 2008, Buchanan received the city status.

It remained the residence of the Hetman K.Razumovskogo, under the authority of which the city passed in 1760, also we look Baturyn fortress citadel which was the residence of the Ukrainian Hetman: sinful, Samoilovich, Mazepa. Baturyn fortress was founded in 1625g. Polish patron Pyasochinskim. The National Historical and Cultural Reserve "Hetman's Capital" includes three defensive towers, walls, Hetman Palace and Church of the Resurrection. If you go out to the observation deck of the gate of the tower, you can see the wonderful panorama of the valley diet.