Qualla: Radomysl Castle

Radomysl Castle: Introduction

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Юрий Рудницкий, CC BY-SA 3.0. One exhibit at Radomysl Castle stops visitors cold: a small box, assembled from the wooden panels of icons whose painted faces were deliberately cut away. The saints were beheaded, the images ruined beyond any hope of repair, and what remained was pieced into a container. It is a quiet, devastating relic of the Soviet campaign against religion, and it sits amid thousands of icons that survived. This is the strange power of Radomysl Castle, a place built not by ancient lords but by a single modern woman, to shelter the sacred art of Ukrainian homes, the holy and the wounded together.

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Radomysl Castle: A Mill Made Into a Castle

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Юрий Рудницкий, CC BY-SA 3.0. The castle is younger than it looks. Between 2007 and 2011, the Ukrainian doctor and public activist Olha Bohomolets transformed a derelict building on the water in the town of Radomyshl, in Zhytomyr Oblast, into a historical and cultural complex. At its heart is an old flour mil...

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Radomysl Castle: The Icons of the Home

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Olga Bohomolec press-office, CC BY-SA 3.0. The castle's soul is its Museum of Ukrainian Home Icons, built on a private collection Bohomolets began gathering in 1996. It is perhaps the only museum of its kind anywhere. More than 5,000 icons and sculptures fill it, Orthodox, Catholic, and Greek-Catholic works created across...

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Radomysl Castle: Music, Maps, and a Spring

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Olga Bohomolec press-office, CC BY-SA 3.0. Radomysl Castle is more than a gallery. Its interior blends the feel of the late medieval and early modern worlds, and its rooms are made to be used. A Ceremonial Hall hosts special occasions, weddings above all. A concert hall seating 150 has welcomed classical, chamber, folk, a...

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Radomysl Castle: A Living Landscape

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Юрий Рудницкий, CC BY-SA 3.0. Around the castle stretches a landscape park designed to disturb nature as little as possible. Fresh springs bubble up here too, offering a cold drink to anyone who walks the grounds. Most of the trees and flowers are rare species, among them iris, pink and white lilies, English ...

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