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Cemetery in Mogilev Podolskiy

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Cemetery in Mogilev Podolskiy

In the municipal cemetery in Mohylov Podilsk, still active, there is a section with Polish tombstones. The cemetery itself is quite large located in the north-eastern part on the left side of the road to Nemirov. The Polish part is small and relatively badly neglected, but there are well-preserved and formally diverse tombstones. According to local tradition, this cemetery was once exclusively Polish. tombstones with Polish inscriptions can be found on both sides of two alleys, at the end of which stands a dome-covered chapel. The oldest Polish tombstones date to the 1840s.

According to Zbigniew Hauser, the most impressive tombstones are located in the part of the cemetery adjacent to the wall on the side of the Nemirov road. These include a monumental cross of black marble on rocks on the grave of Zofia Gawrońska, who died in 1908, and a tall monument topped with a cross, decorated with a chalice and an anchor on the grave of Olimpia Sielecka, who died in 1910. In this section there are also monuments in the form of a knotted tree topped with a cross, and one of the oldest - a monument with a Polish inscription: the tombstone of Stanisław Drużbowicz, who died in 1845, in the shape of an obelisk. Along the first avenue are monuments in the Neo-Gothic style, interesting in their form: Rudolf Rożniatowski and Maria Rożniatowska, as well as a very interesting monument richly decorated with arcades and a harp and a branch in memory of Franciszek Żuliński, a music teacher in Kamieniec Podolski, founded by the inhabitants of that town. It bears the signature 'bertolino'. On the other side of the alley is a plot of eight gravestones, four of them in the form of tombstones, separated by an iron fence. In 2001, during his second visit, Hauser recorded only 58 tombstones, and 19 were no longer found. Some of them were rediscovered during clean-up work. The cemetery was cleared of overgrowth and the tombstones underwent basic renovation as part of the campaign organised by Studio Wschód "Save a grave from oblivion". Several more tombstones were found in the overgrowth, including the oldest tombstone of Wincenta Moszyńska (d. 1840) and a tombstone with an inscription from 1845 in the unique form of a stone coffin on two supports placed on the grave of Karolina and Stefan Pleszkiewicz http://www.studiowschod.org.pl/rmohylow2013.htm; http://www.studiowschod.org.pl/jampol2016.htm .

Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Documentation has been made for the cemetery (49 cards). Information about the cemetery published (see bibliography).

Bibliography:
  • „Cmentarze polskie poza granicami kraju” , raport, oprac. B. Gutowski, Warszawa 2022 (maszynopis).
  • Hauser Zbigniew, „Podróże po cmentarzach Ukrainy”, t. IV, „Województwa: wołyńskie, podolskie, bracławskie i kijowskie”, Kraków 2009, s. 289-295.
  • Dokumentacja wykonywana przez Chrześcijańsko-Demokratyczny Związek Polaków w Winnicy Polskie cmentarze na Podolu. Dokumentacja dostępna na stronie nekropolis.in.ua.
Author:
Bartłomiej Gutowski, Alicja Czuber-Filonik
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