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Cemetery in Pohrebyszczy

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Cemetery in Pohrebyszczy

The cemetery is located on the right side of the road to Vinnitsa. It is approached through a neo-Gothic brick gate - a rarity in Ukraine, according to Zbigniew Hauser. It contains tombstones from the late 19th century and early 20th century. These are tombstones of the nobility. The oldest preserved monument dates back to 1880. These were rather grand and well-made monuments, but unfortunately most are damaged - overturned, broken, with missing elements. Hauser lists 21 tombstones, of which 3 are unnamed.

Of note is a gravestone in the form of a magnificent rock with a sculpture of a woman supporting herself on it (the figure's head has not survived). The monument is signed by a stonemason from Warsaw - P. Plecki of 55 Dzika Street.

Some of the magnificent monuments have left plinths without a cross, as in the case of the monument to the Kraczkiewicz family, where a bronze marble plinth decorated with an acroterion remains, or the monument to Seweryn Burczak-Abramowicz (d. 1885) with an inscription which is a fragment of a psalm: "Thy commandments I loved O Lord / and had in hatred all iniquity / Ps. 118 v. 127".

Zbigniew Hauser also mentions that a stone with an epitaph dedicated to Adam Rzewuski, which was funded by his wife Jadwiga, was found at the parish church in Pohrebyszczy during renovation work. The stone was removed from the church in Soviet times. Considering the date of the couple's death, it can be dated to 1888 -1889. of the Rzewuskis. The epitaph is very elaborate and engraved on the front and sides of the so-called "Rzewuski stone".

Documentation (10 cards) was made for the cemetery (stored in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage). Information about the cemetery published (see bibliography).

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Bibliography:
  • „Cmentarze polskie poza granicami kraju” , raport, oprac. B. Gutowski, Warszawa 2022 (maszynopis).
  • Karta dokumentacyjna obiektu zabytkowego poza granicami kraju, powiat nadwórniański, zbiór przechowywany w Ministerstwie Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego, Warszawa..
  • „Nekropolis. Projekt inwentaryzacji polskich cmentarzy na Podolu„”, katalog on-line, www.nekropolis.in.ua.
  • Hauser Zbigniew, „Podróże po cmentarzach Ukrainy”, t. IV, „Województwa: wołyńskie, podolskie, bracławskie i kijowskie”, Kraków 2009, s. 415-418.
Author:
Bartłomiej Gutowski, Alicja Czuber-Filonik
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