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Brailov Cemetery (Brahilov)

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Brailov Cemetery (Brahilov)

In the Catholic cemetery in the western part of Brahilov (now Brailov), almost all the gravestones are with Polish inscriptions. Zbigniew Hauser found 26 of them in fairly good condition. The cemetery was already functioning in the first half of the 19th century, and burials were still organised there in the 1970s. The oldest surviving tombstone has an inscription with the date of death in 1846 and belongs to the Głowacki family. It is a magnificent monument topped by a statue of the Virgin Mary with Child, unfortunately the statue is with its head chipped off. Other notable gravestones include a cross-shaped monument on rocks with a black marble plaque bearing a rhymed inscription on the grave of Maryla Sokolowska (d. 1906), and a knotted tree with a knotted cross from the early 20th century commemorating the Counts of Choiseul-Gouffie.

There is a fairly well-preserved chapel in the cemetery.

Bibliography:

  • Hauser Zbigniew, „Podróże po cmentarzach Ukrainy”, t. IV, „Województwa: wołyńskie, podolskie, bracławskie i kijowskie”, Kraków 2009, s. 371-372.

Author:

Alicja Czuber-Filonik
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