Sofiyivka Park, Uman
The park
Det var intressant att se hur manga som lat sin bild bli tagen i bjorkskogen i parken. Det ar latt att glomma bort hur vackra vara svenska bjorkar ar nar vi har dem runt om kring oss hela tiden.
How do you describe a park like this? I don't know. I guess there is a special park descrition language as there is wine tasting language? I found the park very beautiful and spent six hours walking in it, I also plan to spend another hour or two tomorrow morning.
It is a style that we would call "English" so any comparision with Versaille in Paris must be the scale and effort in it and not the actual look the park. The park is "natural" and romantic, there are hardly any geometric shapes, there's little pruning, but there are pavilions, the island of love, sculptures of Eros and Venus, an underground river lots of swans etc. But it is tasteful and it is very big, some 200 hectares. There is quite a collection of trees. You can see more about the park on. http://www.sofiyivka.org.ua/index_en.html
If you like parks and nature this is surely a prime tourist location in Ukraine, in particular for couples. Most people visiting the park seem to be couples and you might end up feeling a bit lonely with all that "coupling" going on around you!
There were perhaps 1000 people I met in the park today I heard no other language than Ukrainian and Russian.
Sofia
As intersting as the park itself is perhaps the life of the person of which the park is named (I believe I saw a movie about her some time ago, can that be correct?) > Sofia Potovsky
Count Felix Pototsky began construction on what would later be known as Sofiyivka Park in 1798 as a gift to his new bride, the legendary beauty Sofia. Sofia had been born in Greece, then was sold into slavery by her parents while 12 years old. The Polish Ambassador to Turkey bought her as a gift for the Polish King Stanislaw August; however, while traveling back through Ukraine she met the son of the Polish army commander, Jozef Witte, who fell in love with the 15 year old and bought her from the ambassador. The newly married Madame Witte quickly became a celebrated society figure among the Polish gentry. She soon took up delivering diplomatic mail and was rumored to use the opportunity to spy for the Polish king as well as Catherine the Great.
Sofia eventually left her husband and two children but was soon remarried to the Polish Count Pototsky in Uman. He adored Sofia and designed the park as a memorial to her beauty and incorporated in it the mythology of ancient Greece. Long before the park was finished, the Count uncovered an affair between his son from his first marriage and Sofia. Brokenhearted, he grew seriously ill. Sofia supposedly spent two days on her knees begging for his forgiveness, but the count died without forgiving her. She finished the park herself during a brief affair with the Russian Count Potemkin, then lived out her days in melancholy. The fact that a freak earthquake pushed her graveyard out of the Uman churchyard has the locals convinced that she was a witch.
More about her on http://ukraineplaces.com/western-ukraine/queen%E2%80%99s-garden
Det var intressant att se hur manga som lat sin bild bli tagen i bjorkskogen i parken. Det ar latt att glomma bort hur vackra vara svenska bjorkar ar nar vi har dem runt om kring oss hela tiden.
How do you describe a park like this? I don't know. I guess there is a special park descrition language as there is wine tasting language? I found the park very beautiful and spent six hours walking in it, I also plan to spend another hour or two tomorrow morning.
It is a style that we would call "English" so any comparision with Versaille in Paris must be the scale and effort in it and not the actual look the park. The park is "natural" and romantic, there are hardly any geometric shapes, there's little pruning, but there are pavilions, the island of love, sculptures of Eros and Venus, an underground river lots of swans etc. But it is tasteful and it is very big, some 200 hectares. There is quite a collection of trees. You can see more about the park on. http://www.sofiyivka.org.ua/index_en.html
If you like parks and nature this is surely a prime tourist location in Ukraine, in particular for couples. Most people visiting the park seem to be couples and you might end up feeling a bit lonely with all that "coupling" going on around you!
There were perhaps 1000 people I met in the park today I heard no other language than Ukrainian and Russian.
Sofia
As intersting as the park itself is perhaps the life of the person of which the park is named (I believe I saw a movie about her some time ago, can that be correct?) > Sofia Potovsky
Count Felix Pototsky began construction on what would later be known as Sofiyivka Park in 1798 as a gift to his new bride, the legendary beauty Sofia. Sofia had been born in Greece, then was sold into slavery by her parents while 12 years old. The Polish Ambassador to Turkey bought her as a gift for the Polish King Stanislaw August; however, while traveling back through Ukraine she met the son of the Polish army commander, Jozef Witte, who fell in love with the 15 year old and bought her from the ambassador. The newly married Madame Witte quickly became a celebrated society figure among the Polish gentry. She soon took up delivering diplomatic mail and was rumored to use the opportunity to spy for the Polish king as well as Catherine the Great.
Sofia eventually left her husband and two children but was soon remarried to the Polish Count Pototsky in Uman. He adored Sofia and designed the park as a memorial to her beauty and incorporated in it the mythology of ancient Greece. Long before the park was finished, the Count uncovered an affair between his son from his first marriage and Sofia. Brokenhearted, he grew seriously ill. Sofia supposedly spent two days on her knees begging for his forgiveness, but the count died without forgiving her. She finished the park herself during a brief affair with the Russian Count Potemkin, then lived out her days in melancholy. The fact that a freak earthquake pushed her graveyard out of the Uman churchyard has the locals convinced that she was a witch.
More about her on http://ukraineplaces.com/western-ukraine/queen%E2%80%99s-garden
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Postat av: Gunnard
..thanks for the well informative posts.
wish you good health and God bless you??
........ for the manager who kept ur bike griiiiiiii(a joke!!! teh teh teh!!!!).
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