Kachanivka (Chernihiv region)

The village of Kachanivka is located on the left bank of the nameless river, which flows into the Smosh river after 5 km, the village of Petrushovka is located upstream at a distance of 0.5 km, the village of Ivanitsa is located 5 km downstream, and the village of Vlasovka is on the opposite bank .

Several dams were made on the river and its tributaries. The road T-2515 passes to the village.

The distance from Chernihiv is about 150 km (by roads - 181 km ^[2] ), to Ichni - 21 km (by roads - about 26 km ^[2] ). The nearest railway station is Ichnia on the Bakhmach - Priluki line of the Poltava railway directorate is 25 km away (there is also a Kachanovka station in the town of Parafievka ).

Height above sea level - 160 meters ^[3] .

For the first time, the settlement was mentioned in the Rumyantsev inventory of Little Russia, as a water “mlyn” ^[4] , located on the Smosh river “seven miles from Parafievka ” and previously owned by clerk Vladislavich Rodionov and a Cossack from Ivanitsa Prochay, who later sold it to the Nezhin Greek living in Ivanitsa Fedor Bulgaria. The latter founded a farm on this site, which, in turn, in 1742 sold “the court of His Imperial Majesty the singer Fedor Ivanovich Kachenovsky” for 890 rubles. ^[5]

Located next to the Smosh River, another farm owned by another Nezhin Greek Foma Machemach and transferred to his five daughters after his death, was also sold in 1744 to Fyodor Ivanovich Kachenovsky, a nobleman and gentry for 1690 rubles. The farm was named Kachanovka by the name of this owner. ^[5]

In 1749, when Fyodor Kachenovsky was granted richer “sweeps,” he sold Kachanovka to his brother, second-major Mikhail Kachenovsky, obliging him to give a tenth of the grinding from the water mills to St. Nicholas Paraffius Church, and the other to the hospital for the poor. ^[5]

In 1771, on behalf of Empress Catherine II , the farmsteads Parafievka and Kachanovka were bought into the treasury and in December of the same year donated to the Russian commander Count Peter Alksandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaysky ^[6] who decided to create one of the residences of the president of the Little Russian College and his new estate Governor-General of Little Russia . ^[7]

From that moment began the history of the Kachanovsky estate , which for one and a half centuries was owned by the Rumyantsev , Tarnovsky and Kharitonenko families and which became one of the cultural centers in the Chernihiv region.

During the Soviet era, the estate housed an orphanage, a sanatorium and other medical institutions (resort area), a museum.

Kachanovka is a climatic forest resort (in the Chernihiv region), located 5 km from the railway station. Kachanovka (settlement Parafievka ) of the Southern Railway, in a picturesque area. Indications: active forms of pulmonary tuberculosis. Season is a whole year.
The estate, located on the outskirts of the village, has two levels. On the upper plateau there was a palace (engineer M. Moscipanov, designed by K. Blanca , 1771–1780), two wings and a water tower (1866–1898), which form the main courtyard, an arbor of N. Glinka, two service buildings, Georgievskaya church ( empire , 1817-1826) and a beautiful park. The lower level is a landscape park with a cascade of twelve ponds, park sculptures, bridges and an amphitheater.
The Tarnowski gathered in Kachanivka an extensive library and a collection of highly artistic works of art. At different times (in the 19th century), their guests were K. Bryullov , I. Repin , N. Gogol , T. Shevchenko , Marko Vovchok , V. Zhukovsky , P. Kulish , M at the Tarnovsky estate in Kachanovka (now the main base of the resort) Maksimovich , M. Glinka , S. Gulak-Artemovsky and other figures of Ukrainian and Russian culture.

• Historical and Cultural Reserve "Kachanivka" .