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Velikiye Sorochintsy or
Bol'shiye Sorochintsy; formerly referred to simply as
Sorochyntsi) is a village in the
Poltava OblastPoltava Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava....
(
provinceOblast 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
UkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev is both the capital and the largest city of...
. The village is located in the Myrhorodsky Raion (
districtA raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. 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 almost always translated as "district"...
) of the oblast, at around , and is famous as both the birthplace of the great writer
Nikolai GogolNikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing and identity....
and the location of the
Sorochyntsi FairThe 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
slavicThe 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...
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
The earliest recorded mention of the settlement is in the 1620s. In 1646, the village became the domain of a Polish Prince from the
WiśniowieckiWiśniowiecki 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
CossackCossacks were originally members of military communities in the uninhabited borderland areas in the steppe that lies North of Black Sea...
regimental government headed by the future
hetmanHetman was the title of the second highest military commander used in 15th to 18th century Poland, Ukraine and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, known from 1569 to 1795 as the Rzeczpospolita....
,
Danylo ApostolDanylo 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 baroqueUkrainian Baroque or Cossack Baroque is an architectural style that emerged in Ukraine during the Hetmanate era, in the 17th and 18th centuries....
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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 FairSorochyntsi Fair or Sorochynsky Fair is a large fair held in the village of Velyki Sorochyntsi near Poltava in the Myrhorodskyi Raion of Ukraine....
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Natsiolnal'nyi Sorochyns'kyi yarmarok, ,
translit.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 EmpireThe 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.
Famous people
On , famous writer
Nikolai GogolNikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing and identity....
was born in Velyki Sorochyntsi. His short story
The Fair at SorochintsïThe 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 UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
issued a postal stamp showing the monument and the museum.
In 1845, the great
UkrainianUkrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly—citizens of Ukraine...
poet
Taras ShevchenkoTaras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, artist and humanist. His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian language...
visited the village for the archeologial commission, compiling the history and architecture of
PoltavshchynaPoltava Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava....
. There has been a street named in his honor in this village for over a half a century.
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