Kozelets is an urban-type village located on the banks of the Oster River.
Known since the 17th century. as a fortified city that was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under the name Kozlograd. The name, apparently, comes from the favorite food of domestic animals – wildflowers gooseberry.
Since 1649, it has been the center of the Kozeletska Hundred of the Kyiv Regiment. In 1662, a Cossack council of elders was held in Kozelka, at which Yakov Somko was elected Hetman of Ukraine. In 1708, the regimental headquarters of the Kyiv regiment was transferred to Kozelets – a colonel and another Cossack foreman lived here, the city remained the administrative center of the regiment until 1781.
In 1752, the Kozelets hospital was founded, and since 1765, a horse post office has been operating. In the spring of 1846, T. G. Shevchenko visited Kozelka, when he traveled on behalf of the Archaeological Commission to sketch the historical architectural and historical monuments of Chernihiv Oblast. In the story “The Princess” he described Kozelets and its architectural monument the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin.
The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin in Kozeletsʹ
architectural monument of national significance of the 18th century.
The Cathedral was built in 1752-63 by order of Countess Nataliya Razumovsky (Rozumikha, mother of Oleksiy and Kyril Razumovsky) by architects Ivan Hryhorovych-Barsky and Andriy Kvasov as a sign of gratitude to God for the happy fate of the client’s sons.
The main church of Kozelets is conditionally divided into two parts – the upper and lower churches, each of which has equal sanctity. The upper part of the cathedral is the central one, named after the Nativity of the Mother of God. The central extension of this church bears the name of the Nativity of the Mother of God.
In the middle of the temple, the wealth of architectural details, the iconostasis impresses not only with its size, but also with its framing and artistic perfection.
During the Second World War, the Cathedral housed a camp for prisoners of war and a stable.
In the interior, there is a multi-tiered iconostasis carved from linden of the 18th century (it is believed that it was created with the participation of the architect Rastrelli). The images (1753) in the iconostasis are painted in the Baroque style. It consists of 50, although from the very beginning there were 80 authentic icons. The icons were painted by Hryhoriy Stetsenko, the carving was done by Sysoy Shalmatov.
Belfry
(1766-1770) The belfry is crowned with a baroque top. The height of the bell tower with a cross is 50 m.
Ascension Church
built in 1866-1874. Restoration work was carried out in 1975. The church is a unique example of the traditional for Left Bank Ukraine of the 17th and 18th centuries. of the cross five-bay temple in the period of historicism.
House of the regimental office
Kyiv Regiment in Kozelka is an architectural monument of the 18th century, one of the two surviving administrative buildings of Cossack regiment offices.
It was built between 1756 and 1765 (parallel with the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary) in the Ukrainian Baroque style by architects Andriy Kvasov and Ivan Hryhorovych-Barsky on the order of Kyiv colonel Yukhym Daragan to accommodate the office of the Kyiv regiment.
St. Nicholas Church
located on the southern border of the ancient fortress, on the site of a wooden church. It was built in 1781-1784 in the late Baroque style at the expense of priest K. Tarlovsky and parishioners.
Pokorshchyna
Pokorshchyna is the estate of a Cossack elder of the 18th century in the former village of the same name (now within the Kozelets settlement). A unique monument of Ukrainian Baroque wooden manor architecture. It belonged to the Razumovskys, Daragans and Galagans.
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