Khutir Nadiia, Mykolaivka
The Tobilevych homestead of 1871, where Karpenko-Karyi wrote eleven plays.
The homestead was founded in 1871 by Karpo Tobilevych, the playwright's father; its name was given by Ivan Karpenko-Karyi's wife, Nadiia Tarkovska. In 1887, having returned from exile, Karpenko-Karyi settled on the farmstead and wrote here eleven plays of the golden fund of Ukrainian drama. Mykola Sadovsky and Panas Saksahansky lived here, and Mariia Zankovetska, Marko Kropyvnytsky and Mykhailo Starytsky were guests. In 1956 the farmstead became a state museum reserve: the parental house, the memorial house restored in 1982, a literary museum and an 11-hectare park with a pond, an avenue of guelder roses and oaks planted by the coryphaei of the theatre. Since 1970 the festival "September Gems" has been held here.
The Tobilevych homestead in Mykolaivka near Kropyvnytskyi operates as a branch of the Central Ukrainian Regional Museum of Local History (Ukrinform, 12.09.2026); events of the “September Gems” festival were scheduled here for 25 and 29 September 2026 (Suspilne Kropyvnytskyi, 13.09.2026). Check the opening hours with the museum before the trip. Kropyvnytskyi is under strikes: on 16.09.2026 drones hit the city centre, 4 people were hurt (Hromadske Radio, 16.09.2026), so during an alert — to a shelter.