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Cemetery in Bialogrodka

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Cemetery in Bialogrodka

The Catholic cemetery in Bialogrudok is located in the centre of the village among bushes and trees, on the right side of the road leading from Izyaslav to Bilyhirya. It is a badly deteriorated cemetery, the tombstones are devastated and fragmented, although, according to Zbigniew Hauser, there are many indications that there were interesting and impressive monuments in this necropolis from the early 19th century. The author lists 12 of them, including four unnamed ones. The oldest preserved tombstone in the cemetery attracts attention - a brick pyramid with the tombstone of Krystyna Cecenowska, who died in 1825. Other older inscriptions date from 1848 from the ornamented skull and tibia tombstones of Anna and Tomasz Zastyrca and the "Piotrowski family". A magnificent gravestone from the early 20th century in the form of a knotted tree with a knotted cross has also survived, as has a monument with an inscription partly in Russian. Underground excavations were made under both monuments. An interesting but inscriptionless object is an almost 10-metre high stone column overturned and broken into fragments. It is very likely that Hauser only replaced part of the gravestones, as he himself admits that the overgrowth prevented a thorough inspection of the site.

Bibliography:

  • Hauser Zbigniew, „Podróże po cmentarzach Ukrainy”, t. IV, „Województwa: wołyńskie, podolskie, bracławskie i kijowskie”, Kraków 2009, s. 173-175.

Author:

Alicja Czuber-Filonik
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