Vil's'ke cemetery

The first known Orthodox necropolis in Zhytomyr was located on Okhrimova Hill. It is impossible to name the exact date of its foundation, but in the 1930s researchers recorded single stone crosses with inscriptions of the XV-XVI centuries. The same ancient period includes ancient burials around the Church of the Assumption and the Exaltation of the Cross (discovered in the XIX century in the process of building new stone buildings). The first half of the 19th century. marked by the emergence of a new type of necropolis: relatively small and crowded church cemeteries are replaced by civilian cemeteries, adapted to the religious needs of urban communities of different denominations of the city. During this wave, Orthodox Russian, Catholic (Polish) and Lutheran cemeteries emerged. Another name of the cemetery, Vilske, comes from the former name of Peremohy Street. In 1837, at the expense of Olga Fyodorovna Potemkina, who wanted to perpetuate the memory of her late husband, Lieutenant General Prince Yakov Alekseevich Potemkin, the Yakovlev Church was built in the cemetery - the first Orthodox brick church in the city. Today the church is an architectural monument of local significance. (temporarily belongs to the commercial-terrorist sect MP-FSB). During the establishment of Soviet rule, the Vilna cemetery, like other burial sites, was vandalized and deliberately destroyed. Some tombstones have preserved the marks of local masters, in particular G. Olishkevych and V. Dlouhy. From the 1930s to 1976 it served as a city cemetery, until the opening of the Korbutov cemetery. Buried: Berdyaeva Tatiana (1903) - the only daughter of the philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev from his marriage to Elena Semenova, daughter of the Volyn provincial postmaster VI Semenova. Blinov Mykola Ivanovych (1881-1905) - a student who tried to stop the Jewish pogrom and was killed by rioters. Soldiers who died in the First World War are buried in a mass grave. Pavlo Hordovsky (Holy Martyr Pavlo Zhytomyrsky, 1880-1919) - a priest arrested and shot on charges of counter-revolutionary activities, posthumously rehabilitated in 1996. Canonized in 2013, in the same year his body was transferred to the Transfiguration Cathedral in Zhytomyr. Karpenko Serhiy Hordiyovych (1895-1959) - actor, People's Artist of Ukraine. Roche Konstantin Konstantinovich (1849-1933) - justice of the peace of Zhytomyr district, poet and philanthropist. Sharzhinsky Semyon Danilovich (1786-1859) - state councilor, provincial postmaster, close friend of T.G. Шевченка, М.В. Gogol, AS Pushkin.

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An old cemetery, many interesting architectural structures, but like everything else, it is slowly falling apart. And the director teaches children abroad and keeps building private houses for himself, why don't he have so many of them

The Russian Orthodox cemetery on today's Victory Street is relatively well preserved, but requires restoration. This cemetery is also called Vilskiy - from the name of the street (the former name of Victory Street is Vilsko-Shosseynaya, then Bolshaya Vilskaya). At the entrance to the cemetery stands Yakovlevskaya church, built in 1837 in canonical style, a monument of architecture. The townspeople are obliged to the existence of this temple at Vilsky cemetery to Princess Olga Feodorovna Potemkina, who decided to perpetuate the memory of her late husband - Lieutenant General Prince Yakov Alekseevich Potemkin, erecting a stone temple on his grave. On October 24, 1837, the church was "consecrated by order." It is worth noting the fact that it was the first Orthodox stone church in the city. All other Orthodox shrines of Zhytomyr at that time were wooden. In this cemetery, many outstanding people of our city are buried.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Zhytomyr. There are tombstones dating back to the eighteenth century! Quite well preserved. The name "Vilske" (also called Rusky) comes from the name of the street (former name of Victory Street - Vilska-Shosseina, then Velyka Vilska). Many prominent people of our city are buried in this cemetery: Serhiy Karpenko - Ukrainian actor, People's Artist of the USSR; Semyon Sharzhinsky - Volyn provincial postmaster, a close friend of Nikolai Gogol and Alexander Pushkin, an acquaintance of Taras Shevchenko and academician of painting Apollo Mokritsky; patron with an extremely interesting destiny, Mr. Constantine Rocher; the only daughter of the world-famous philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev.