The small village of Bobrytsia outside of Kiev probably wouldn’t be very well known if it wasn’t for its Rozhanytsia Festival.  This festival which has been held the last two years is dedicated to a church holiday in the village as well as reviving many Ukrainian wedding traditions that people are probably not even aware still exist.  It is also the home to a small, yet comprehensive museum about the village’s history.  The museum does not yet have it’s own space, but Mykola Kovalchuk, a resident of the village, has spent the last two years collecting artifacts that tell the villages story.  The collection so far has antique clothing, household, items, and over 2,400 photographs and documents that reveal the village’s history.  There is also a published history of the town called ‘An Immortal Part of Ukraine: My Little Bobrytsia’, which Kovalchuk and other villagers put together.

The village itself dates back to the 11^th to 12^th centuries when it was the first defensive structures of the town of Bilhorod.  In the 1600s the area started to see more and more people settling there during the rule of Hetman Bohdan Kmelnytsky.  The River Irpin runs close to the village’s boundaries and at the time it marked the border between Poland and the Cossack lands.  The village’s historical collection notates how many of the people were treated from the 1600s through today and it outlines the history vividly and is definitely a collection worth seeing and a town worth visiting.

You can get more information on the Rozhanytsia Festival at Dehb.com

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