The Lyzohubs' Stone House is a manor in

Sedniv Sedniv (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Седнів, Yiddish language, Yiddish: סעדניוו) is a Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlement in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. Located in Chernihiv Raion, Sedniv is the seat of t ...

, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. It is the oldest stone residential building on

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. It was built for Yakiv Lyzohub of

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, member of the

Lyzohub family The Lyzohub family (; Russian: ''Лизогубы''; also spelled as ''Lizohub, Lisohub, Lizogub'') was a Ukrainian family of the Cossack Hetmanate. For years many members of the family held high offices in the Ukrainian government. Origins The ...

. Constructed in the 17th century, the building is a Ukrainian architectural monument.

History

The building was constructed in 1690 on the territory of the estate of the Chernihiv colonel

Yakiv Lyzohub Yakiv Yukhymovych Lyzohub () was a military and political figure of the Cossack Hetmanate and a member of a well known Cossack family of Lyzohub. He was born in a family of Chernihiv Colonel Yukhym Yakovych Lyzohub and Lyubov Petrivna Doroshenko ...

by his order by the same artisan team that was building the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Sedniv at the same time. The roof was originally covered with shingles. In the second quarter of the nineteenth century, instead of a porch, a tower with Gothic windows, fortified by

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es, was built on the main façade, crowned with a band of decorative mashikuls and merlon teeth. The house was painted in 1846 by

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (; ; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood o ...

, who was visiting the then owner of the estate, Andriy Lyzohub. In September 1930, the monument was examined and measured in detail by the monumentologist Stefan Taranushenko. The house was partially destroyed in 1941–1943 during the

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. The restoration was completed in 1967. After the restoration (1967), a beer bar was opened in the building, which angered the public. After a while, the bar was closed and the building was left without an owner, which led to its impoverishment: windows were smashed, the floor and doors were torn off. In 2001, the building was restored by the Chernihivoblenergo Electricity Company to mark the tenth anniversary of Ukraine's independence.

References

Residential buildings in Ukraine Buildings and structures in Chernihiv Oblast {{Ukraine-struct-stub