Qualla: Sumy https://qualla.com/sumy en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Sumy https://qualla.com/sumy Sumy: Introduction https://qualla.com/sumy/ "Abbazia and the Adriatic Sea are wonderful," Anton Chekhov wrote from Italy in 1894, "but Luka and Psiol are better." The Luka he missed was a wooded estate on the edge of Sumy, and the Psiol he preferred to the Adriatic was the river that curls through this northeastern Ukrainian city. Chekhov spent two summers here, in 1888 and 1889, writing and daydreaming about settling for good. It is a telling endorsement. Sumy is not a place that announces itself with a single famous monument. It reveals itself the way a river does, in bends and quiet reaches, in the cluster of green domes above the trees and the willows leaning over the water that a homesick writer could not stop thinking about.

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/c/0/9/sumy-wp/uc09-sumy-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sumy: Cossacks at the River's Bend https://qualla.com/sumy/ Sumy was born in the middle of the seventeenth century, raised by Cossacks in the frontier land known as Sloboda Ukraine. Its founder was Herasym Kondratyev, a Cossack from Stavyshche who led settlers to the banks of the Psel, a tributary of the great Dnieper. Whether the town to...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/c/0/9/sumy-wp/uc09-sumy-a-skyline-of-domes.mp3 0:06 3 full Sumy: The Art of a Merchant City https://qualla.com/sumy/ Prosperity left Sumy a legacy of collections. The Sumy Regional Art Museum opened in 1920 in a former bank building, gathering nationalized private holdings, and its walls now carry works by Taras Shevchenko, Arkhip Kuindzhi, and Tetyana Yablonska, alongside a Dutch landscape fro...

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]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/c/0/9/sumy-wp/uc09-sumy-the-art-of-a-merchant-city.mp3 0:06 4 full Sumy: War and Remembrance https://qualla.com/sumy/ Sumy carries harder memories as well. During the German occupation of 1941 to 1943, the city suffered terribly. In February 1942, roughly a thousand Jews were murdered here in two mass killings, and in the months after, dozens more Jews and some thirty Roma were killed, followed ...

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