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Cossack cemetery Kremenets

Cossack cemetery Kremenets

Cemetery with Cossack graves - one of the oldest in Kremenets . Here rest the soul of the Ukrainian Cossacks, who fought in the battles for the liberation of the city from the patronage of the Polish (1648). Initially, this necropolis was placed around the church named Martyr Paraskeva. Later the temple was moved to a different location, but the cemetery, which used to be called the Cossack, from that time is also called Pyatnitsky. Memorable place is located at the foot of Cerci.

The story goes that the graves of the Cossacks, who fought together with M. Krivonos for Kremenets Castle . There are more than 100 headstones in a low cross, the inscription on a few of which can still be read.

In 1995, in memory of the victims was erected a large monument in the shape of a cross. Pyatnickoe Cemetery is a historic landmark.

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