Manor-Museum of I.P. Kotlyarevsky

The garden of the outstanding writer I. Kotlyarevsky was recreated in 1969 according to a drawing by T. Shevchenko, made from nature in 1845. There is a residential house, a barn and a well-crane, which are buried in the greenery of the garden. Kotlyarevsky lived in Poltava most of his life. He studied at the Poltava Theological Seminary, later was the director of the Poltava Theater, even was part of the Poltava Masonic lodge. In his Poltava house, the classic of Ukrainian literature created most of his works, in particular, the famous Aeneid. In the house restored to the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birth, details of the old building are mounted. Inside very reliably recreated the atmosphere of the XIX century. Here are stored personal belongings of the writer, awards, handwritten pages of his works, the first editions of books.