Zapovit Museum, Pereiaslav
The house where, on the night of 25 December 1845, the "Zapovit" was written.
The house at 8 Shevchenka Street was built in 1820 by Archpriest Osyp Kozachkovsky, rector of the Pereiaslav theological schools; his son lived here — the town doctor Andrii Kozachkovsky, whom Shevchenko had met in St Petersburg in 1841. In the autumn of 1845 the poet stayed with him as a guest and was treated by him; at that time, in Pereiaslav and Viunyshche, he wrote “Naimychka”, “Kavkaz”, “Kholodnyi Yar” and “Davydovi psalmy”, and here, on the night of 24 to 25 December, “Zapovit”. In 1859 the poet came here twice more — according to the Kyiv region portal, in June and August. In 1946 a museum of history and local lore opened in three rooms, which became a history museum from 1954. In 2004–2005 the house was restored, recreating its earlier layout, and on 18 April 2008 the Zapovit Museum opened. Today it has a memorial drawing room, the guest room where the poet lived, a library and the doctor's study, as well as halls on the history of Ukraine from the 15th to the early 19th century through the prism of Shevchenko's work.
The Zapovit Museum (8 Shevchenka Street) is open daily 9:00–17:00, with no days off (2026) — part of the Pereiaslav reserve.