Near the St. Peter and Paul cathedral still stand two-storey building of the late 18th century. During the 1890-1891 it was home of the brilliant Kosach family. A memorial museum “Lesya’s Living Room” was opened in honor of the poetess. On the basis of the exhibited materials, you can imagine the everyday life of a big family, which has left a significant mark on the life of Ukraine. Lutsk is closely related to Lesya Ukrainka’s name. Here in her early childhood Larysa Kosach wrote her first poem called “Nadiya” (“Hope”).
The rooms contain old furniture and 100-year-old piano. You will be able to see porcelain dishes, an old kerosene lamp, an ink pen, masterfully reproduced copies of Lesya’s autographs and books that Lesya loved to read.
Daily
winter time
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
summer time
10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Tour reservations can be made at the castle ticket office.
Tickets
30 UAH for adults
20 UAH for children, students, pensioners
Address: Lutsk, Drahomanova street, 23.
Phone number: +38 (0332) 72-53-71; +38 066 552 0091
We invite you to visit the main tourist site of Lutsk – a medieval castle of the XIV century. It won first place in the category “castles” of the All-Ukrainian competition “Seven Wonders of Ukraine: castles, palaces, fortresses”.
Mision of the museum is to create museum institution of the highest level that changes past, reflects present and creates future to develop the nation spirituality and promote Ukrainian art in the world. Here you can see the largest painting in the world – “Cosmogony”, covering an area of over 2000 square meters.
The Chortoryiski princes Tower is the only one of the 8 towers of the Lutsk Lower (Okolnyi) Castle that has survived to this day. The Museum space «Okolnyi Castle» is a modern historical part of the defensive structure of Lutsk from the 14th – 17th centuries. The Upper Lutsk Castle was rebuilt from wooden fortifications to stone ones between the late 14th and 15th centuries. The first line of defensive of the Upper Castle, the Okolnyi Castle, began its transformation in the early 16th century, when wooden towers were gradually replaced with stone structures.
In addition to the above-ground city, Lutsk has an extensive network of underground tunnels. The two levels of the underground city housed sacred objects, a refectory, a prison, and tombs. There are many legends about the unique two-level underground complex, the entrance to which is located beneath the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul. Their height is particularly impressive, reaching almost 8 meters in some places.
Lutheran church (now Baptist) in Lutsk an architectural monument, located on Karaimska Street, 1 in the State Historical and Cultural Reserve “Old Lutsk”.
The Museum Space «Okolnyi Castle» is a new tourist attraction created on the basis of restored architectural monuments of national importance: the Chortoryiski princes tower with part of the defensive wall and the Jesuit Monastery with its dungeons.
