Vasyl Stus Museum, Rakhnivka

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The poet's birthplace: the school that bears his name, his cradle, his father's well.

Vasyl Stus was born in Rakhnivka on 6 January 1938 and spent his first years here — the museum stands beside the peasant homestead where that happened. It opened in 1995 in the village school that bears the poet's name: the first room is about his life and verse, the second is arranged as a prison cell. More than five hundred exhibits, among them Stus's embroidered shirt, his childhood cradle and the family's gramophone. In the schoolyard stands the well dug by the poet's father; the monument to Stus was raised here in 2006.

Routes through this landmark

• Haisyn country: Rakhnivka and Batih