Yahotyn Historical Museum. The Repnin estate, Shevchenko’s guesthouse and the most complete collection of Kateryna Bilokur

The Yahotyn History Museum building
A wing of the Repnin estate in Yahotyn
A museum building with a flower garden in Yahotyn
A colonnaded wing of the Repnin estate
The rotunda of a wing of the Repnin estate in Yahotyn
The Yahotyn History Museum buildingA wing of the Repnin estate in YahotynA museum building with a flower garden in YahotynA colonnaded wing of the Repnin estateThe rotunda of a wing of the Repnin estate in Yahotyn

A museum complex in the former estate of Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovsky and the Repnin princes on the shore of Lake Supii. The picture gallery holds the most complete collection of Kateryna Bilokur’s works, and the rebuilt guesthouse is home to a museum of Taras Shevchenko, who stayed here in the 1840s. Yahotyn is about 100 km from Kyiv, so the estate makes an easy day trip.

Why visit

  • The estate of Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovsky and the Repnin princes, with a park on the shore of Lake Supii
  • The most complete collection of Kateryna Bilokur – more than 70 works by the folk artist in the picture gallery
  • The guesthouse where Taras Shevchenko stayed, with furniture and paintings from the Repnins’ Yahotyn estate
  • Mammoth bones and stone tools from the Late Paleolithic Dobranychivka site in the historical museum
  • Places linked to Shevchenko, Gogol and Hrebinka, who were guests at the Yahotyn estate
  • About 100 km from Kyiv – an easy day trip along the Kyiv–Kharkiv highway

Good to know

Ticket prices
Adult – UAH 60, child – UAH 20. Guided tour – UAH 200.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday from 08:30 to 17:15, Saturday from 08:30 to 16:00. Sunday – by prior arrangement. The historical museum at 114 Nezalezhnosti St receives visitors on Saturday and Sunday by prior arrangement.
Museums of the complex
Picture gallery – 65-B Nezalezhnosti St, “Taras Shevchenko’s Guesthouse” museum – 69 Nezalezhnosti St, historical museum – 114 Nezalezhnosti St.
Kateryna Bilokur
The gallery holds more than 70 works by the artist: paintings, watercolors, graphic works, sketches, studies, early and unfinished canvases.
Guided tours
Tours of the estate and the museums of the complex are booked by phone at (045) 755-56-03.

The Yahotyn palace and park complex on the shore of Lake Supii was founded in the 18th century by the last hetman, Kyrylo Rozumovsky, and expanded and laid out by his son Andrii. Later the estate belonged to the Repnin princes: the hetman’s granddaughter Varvara Repnina-Volkonska welcomed Yevhen Hrebinka, Nikolai Gogol and Taras Shevchenko here. The picture gallery occupies the surviving part of the former Rozumovsky-Repnin palace from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Its 14 rooms display paintings, sculpture, graphic art and decorative art, and the gallery’s pride is more than 70 works by folk artist Kateryna Bilokur – the most complete collection of her work. Nearby is the “Taras Shevchenko’s Guesthouse” museum in the rebuilt guest house of the estate, where the poet stayed in the 1840s. It was here that the poem “Tryzna” and the famous self-portrait with a quill, both dedicated to Varvara Repnina, were created, and the rooms recreate the setting of the time with furniture and paintings from the Yahotyn estate. The historical museum in the town center tells the story of the Yahotyn area from ancient times: mammoth bones and stone tools from the Late Paleolithic Dobranychivka site, the Cossack era, Hetman Rozumovsky and several generations of the Repnin princes. Yahotyn is on the Kyiv–Kharkiv highway, so the drive from Kyiv takes about an hour and a half.