Velyki Sorochyntsi
Encyclopedia
Velyki Sorochyntsi is a village in the Poltava Oblast
(province
) of central Ukraine
. It can be translated as the Grand Sorochyntsi. The village is located in the Myrhorodsky Raion (district
) of the oblast, at around 50°0′3"N 33°9′4"E, and is famous as both the birthplace of the great writer Nikolai Gogol
and the location of the Sorochyntsi Fair
.
The current estimated population is around 4,037 (as of 2006 http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=1135294376&men=gpro&lng=fr&gln=xx&dat=32&geo=-23&srt=npan&col=aohdq&geo=504129394).
The name of the village came either from the slavic
word Soroka (magpie) or Sorochka (shirt). There are many legends explaining the name of the village as the location of the Magpie's kingdom or of some magical shirt.
The earliest recorded mention of the settlement is in the 1620s. In 1646, the village became the domain of a Polish Prince from the Wiśniowiecki
family. By the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, the village was the location of a Cossack
regimental government headed by the future hetman
, Danylo Apostol
, who in 1670 founded the Sorochynski Mikhailovsky Monastery. He went on to build the Ukrainian baroque
Church of the Transfiguration ' onMouseout='HidePop("47761")' href="/topics/Romanization_of_Ukrainian">translit.
Preobrazhens'ka tsekrva) in 1732, also in Sorochyntsi, where he was buried two years later. (Nikolai Gogol was later baptized in this same church. http://www.imath.kiev.ua/~skolyada/kolyady.html)
Since the middle of the 18th century, the large Sorochyntsi Fair
' onMouseout='HidePop("23704")' href="/topics/Romanization_of_Ukrainian">translit.
Natsiolnal'nyi Sorochyns'kyi yarmarok, , translit.
Sorochinskaya yarmarka) has been held in Velyki Sorochyntsi. Recurring five times a year in the time of the Russian Empire
, the fair is now held annually since its revival after a 40-year moratorium during Soviet rule. Since the Presidential Decree of August 18, 1999 http://www.oga.mk.ua/php/smi.php?lng=en, the fair bears the status of the National trade fair http://www.ukraine-eu.mfa.gov.ua/eu/ua/publication/content/4225.htm. The fair is a large showcase for traditional handicrafts made by skilled craftsmen, including Reshetilivka embroidery, rugs, Opishnya ceramics, as well theatrical performers who re-enact scenes of village life from famous Ukrainian stories.
From 1925 to 1931 the city was called Neronovychi after the Ukrainian People's Secretary
of Military Affairs, Yevhen Neronovych
.
was born in Velyki Sorochyntsi. His short story The Fair at Sorochintsï
made the small village, and its fair, world-famous.
On August 23, 1911, a monument to Nikolai Gogol (by the famous Russian sculptor Ilya Ginzburg) was installed in the village. There is also the Gogol Memorial Museum in the village. In 1983 Soviet Union
issued a postal stamp showing the monument and the museum.
In 1845, the great Ukrainian
poet Taras Shevchenko
visited the village for the archeologial commission, compiling the history and architecture of Poltavshchyna
. There has been a street named in his honor in this village for over a half a century.
Once being categorized as a town the village is also a birthplace of other notable Ukrainians such as Hetman Danylo Apostol
, writer Volodymyr Samiylenko, and many others.
Poltava Oblast
Poltava Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava.Other important cities within the oblast include: Komsomolsk, Kremenchuk, Lubny and Myrhorod.-Geography:...
(province
Oblast
Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic countries, including some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"...
) of central Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
. It can be translated as the Grand Sorochyntsi. The village is located in the Myrhorodsky Raion (district
Raion
A raion is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet countries. The term, which is from French rayon 'honeycomb, department,' describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district"...
) of the oblast, at around 50°0′3"N 33°9′4"E, and is famous as both the birthplace of the great writer Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
and the location of the Sorochyntsi Fair
The Fair at Sorochintsï (short story)
The Fair at Sorochyntsi is the first story in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Ukrainian-born Russian writer Nikolai Gogol...
.
The current estimated population is around 4,037 (as of 2006 http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=1135294376&men=gpro&lng=fr&gln=xx&dat=32&geo=-23&srt=npan&col=aohdq&geo=504129394).
The name of the village came either from the slavic
East Slavic languages
The East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of Slavic languages, currently spoken in Eastern Europe. It is the group with the largest numbers of speakers, far out-numbering the Western and Southern Slavic groups. Current East Slavic languages are Belarusian, Russian,...
word Soroka (magpie) or Sorochka (shirt). There are many legends explaining the name of the village as the location of the Magpie's kingdom or of some magical shirt.
History
Wisniowiecki
Wiśniowiecki is the name of a family notable in the history of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. They were powerful magnates in Ruthenia of Rurikid or Gediminids descent. The family traditions traces their descend to Gediminids, but modern historians believe there is more evidence for the Rurikid...
family. By the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, the village was the location of a Cossack
Cossack
Cossacks are a group of predominantly East Slavic people who originally were members of democratic, semi-military communities in what is today Ukraine and Southern Russia inhabiting sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper and Don basins and who played an important role in the...
regimental government headed by the future hetman
Hetman
Hetman was the title of the second-highest military commander in 15th- to 18th-century Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which together, from 1569 to 1795, comprised the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, or Rzeczpospolita....
, Danylo Apostol
Danylo Apostol
Danylo Apostol , was a Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine and Ukrainian Cossack starshina.Born in a noble Cossack family of Moldavian boyar origin, Danylo Apostol was a prominent military leader, polkovnyk of the Myrhorod Regiment, and a participant in the Russian campaigns against the Ottoman...
, who in 1670 founded the Sorochynski Mikhailovsky Monastery. He went on to build the Ukrainian baroque
Ukrainian Baroque
Ukrainian Baroque or Cossack Baroque is an architectural style that emerged in Ukraine during the Hetmanate era, in the 17th and 18th centuries....
Church of the Transfiguration ' onMouseout='HidePop("47761")' href="/topics/Romanization_of_Ukrainian">translit.
Romanization of Ukrainian
The romanization or Latinization of Ukrainian is the representation of the Ukrainian language using Latin letters. Ukrainian is natively written in its own Ukrainian alphabet, a variation of Cyrillic....
Preobrazhens'ka tsekrva) in 1732, also in Sorochyntsi, where he was buried two years later. (Nikolai Gogol was later baptized in this same church. http://www.imath.kiev.ua/~skolyada/kolyady.html)
Since the middle of the 18th century, the large Sorochyntsi Fair
Sorochyntsi Fair
Sorochyntsi Fair or Sorochynsky Fair is a large fair held in the village of Velyki Sorochyntsi near Poltava in the Myrhorodskyi Raion of Ukraine....
' onMouseout='HidePop("23704")' href="/topics/Romanization_of_Ukrainian">translit.
Romanization of Ukrainian
The romanization or Latinization of Ukrainian is the representation of the Ukrainian language using Latin letters. Ukrainian is natively written in its own Ukrainian alphabet, a variation of Cyrillic....
Natsiolnal'nyi Sorochyns'kyi yarmarok, , translit.
Romanization of Russian
Romanization of the Russian alphabet is the process of transliterating the Russian language from the Cyrillic alphabet into the Latin alphabet...
Sorochinskaya yarmarka) has been held in Velyki Sorochyntsi. Recurring five times a year in the time of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
, the fair is now held annually since its revival after a 40-year moratorium during Soviet rule. Since the Presidential Decree of August 18, 1999 http://www.oga.mk.ua/php/smi.php?lng=en, the fair bears the status of the National trade fair http://www.ukraine-eu.mfa.gov.ua/eu/ua/publication/content/4225.htm. The fair is a large showcase for traditional handicrafts made by skilled craftsmen, including Reshetilivka embroidery, rugs, Opishnya ceramics, as well theatrical performers who re-enact scenes of village life from famous Ukrainian stories.
From 1925 to 1931 the city was called Neronovychi after the Ukrainian People's Secretary
People's Secretariat
The People's Secretariat of Ukraine was the executive body of the Provisional Central Executive Committee of Soviets in Ukraine. It was formed in Kharkiv on December 30, 1917 by the Russian and other local Bolsheviks as the Ukrainian Soviet government and the opposition to the Central Rada and the...
of Military Affairs, Yevhen Neronovych
Yevhen Neronovych
Yevhen Neronovych was Ukrainian politician, Bolshevik activist, member of the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviet government.-Biography:...
.
Famous people
On , famous writer Nikolai GogolNikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
was born in Velyki Sorochyntsi. His short story The Fair at Sorochintsï
The Fair at Sorochintsï (short story)
The Fair at Sorochyntsi is the first story in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Ukrainian-born Russian writer Nikolai Gogol...
made the small village, and its fair, world-famous.
On August 23, 1911, a monument to Nikolai Gogol (by the famous Russian sculptor Ilya Ginzburg) was installed in the village. There is also the Gogol Memorial Museum in the village. In 1983 Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
issued a postal stamp showing the monument and the museum.
In 1845, the great Ukrainian
Ukrainians
Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...
poet Taras Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven...
visited the village for the archeologial commission, compiling the history and architecture of Poltavshchyna
Poltava Oblast
Poltava Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava.Other important cities within the oblast include: Komsomolsk, Kremenchuk, Lubny and Myrhorod.-Geography:...
. There has been a street named in his honor in this village for over a half a century.
Once being categorized as a town the village is also a birthplace of other notable Ukrainians such as Hetman Danylo Apostol
Danylo Apostol
Danylo Apostol , was a Hetman of the Left-bank Ukraine and Ukrainian Cossack starshina.Born in a noble Cossack family of Moldavian boyar origin, Danylo Apostol was a prominent military leader, polkovnyk of the Myrhorod Regiment, and a participant in the Russian campaigns against the Ottoman...
, writer Volodymyr Samiylenko, and many others.