VELYKA BURIMKA PARK – MONUMENT OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF PARK CONSTRUCTION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Landscape complexes of the eighteenth–nineteenth centuries occupy an important place in the historical and cultural heritage of our nation. They are remarkable monuments of the historical era and carriers of the stylistic features of the national park art of the investigated period. The “goldenˮ period in the development of landscape gardening in Ukraine was the eighteenth century. The construction of gardens and parks at palaces in urban and country aristocratic estates gained the greatest scope at this time and at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
It is during this period that the history of the Velykoburimka manor begins, which has become a home for several generations of its owners for many years. It, like many other estates of that time, became a kind of economic, architectural-park and cultural complex. The building of this generic noble estate was typical for this type of possessions. For decades, it has evolved from a feudal economy to an agricultural “economyˮ. Several generations of owners, representatives of the noble family of Kantakuzin-Speransky built the estate, perfected, transformed it into a cozy family nest. One of the main sources of study of the palace and park complex in Velyka Burimka was the memoirs of Mikhail Speransky’s “Saga of the Kantakusin-Speranskyˮ.
Key words: garden complexes, estates, aristocratic estates, Velyka Burimka park-a monument of landscape gardening art, M. Speransky’s book ‘The Saga of the Kantakusin-Speransky’