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Stavyshchensky Park

The information plaque at the central entrance to the park states: «Park-monument of regional significance in landscape art, founded in 1785 by botanist Andzheyevsky (Detyuk). Protected by law». In reality, the naturalist Antoni Andrzejowski was born in 1785. The correct date of the park’s foundation is 1857, which was engraved on the plaque in June 2019 on the order of Volodymyr Koshynsky, the former head of Stavyshche town.

 

What did Andrzejowski do in Stavyshche?

 

Antoni Andrzejowski arrived in Stavyshche in 1856 at the age of 70, already retired for 15 years. He was invited here by the nature-loving Count Aleksander Branicki (1821-1877). In 1857, Andrzejowski founded a «botanical garden for the cultivation of Ukrainian plants» in Stavyshche. However, there is another version that this information refers to another place called «Ogrud», a garden created at the beginning of Stavyshche, where the stadium is located today.

Alongside gardening, Andrzejowski worked on his work «Flora of Ukraine». Its first volume was published posthumously in Warsaw in 1869 under the title «Flora Ukrainy, czyli opisanie roślin dziko rosnących w Ukrainie przed-Dnieprowej i sąsiednich okolicach Wołynia i Podola» (Flora of Ukraine, or the Description of Wild Plants Growing in Ukraine, Pre-Dnieper Region, and the Surrounding Areas of Volhynia and Podolia). This publication is recognized as the third of its kind in the history of botany, and Andrzejowski’s printed works and herbariums became part of the main scientific fund for the study of the flora of the Ukrainian SSR.

The second volume of «Flora...» is believed to have been lost somewhere in the Branicki Palace.

Andrzejowski corresponded with the French botanist Joseph Decaisne (1807-1882), the president of the French Academy of Sciences. The last letter is dated November 20, 1868, in which Andrzejowski informed Decaisne that it had been three years since he sent seeds of several plants from Ukraine to Paris, and since then, his garden had grown. That was just the first batch, and there will be more sent to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Andrzejowski identified the herbarium samples sent to Joseph Decaisne as «all the rare plants of Ukraine» and asked for help in identifying them and giving them names.

Andrzejowski died on December 12, 1868, and was buried in Stavyshche. The monument ordered by the Count bears the inscription: «Antonius Andrzejowski, profesor emeritus, natus anno domini 1785, obiit anno 1868 die 12 Decembris».

He was a student of Willibald Besser (doctor of medicine, full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and the Leopoldina Academy of Naturalists), a full member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists (1823), and a corresponding member of St. Petersburg's Russian Mineralogical Society (1837), Odesa's Free Economic Society (1839), and the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1844).

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OFFICIAL INFORMATION

The Stavyshchensky Park, a park-monument of local significance in landscape art, was declared:

  • By the decision of the Executive Committee of the Kyiv Regional Council on February 28, 1972, No. 118 "On the categorization of local natural landmarks according to the new classification and approval of newly discovered nature reserves and natural sites in the region."

  • By the decision of the Kyiv Regional Council of People's Deputies on December 18, 1984, No. 441 "On the classification and network of territories and objects of the natural reserve fund of the region."

  • By the decision of the sixth convocation of the Kyiv Regional Council on June 21, 2012, No. 365-19-ІУ "On the declaration of newly discovered territories and objects of local significance in the natural reserve fund of the Kyiv region and certain issues of objects of local significance in the natural reserve fund."

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The protective obligations for the Stavyshchensky Park, a park-monument of local significance in landscape art, are registered at the State Environmental Protection Administration in the Kyiv region under No. ПСМЗД 5-563 dated February 23, 1999.

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Park information:

  • Area: 11.0547 hectares

  • Established in 1785

  • It is an example of landscape architectural park design

  • Adjacent to a picturesque pond

  • Land user: Stavyshche Municipal Enterprise

  • It has national significance.

 

PROHIBITED activities within the park:

  • Land cultivation, except for fire prevention measures

  • Allocation of land for construction purposes

  • Disturbance of soil cover and hydrological regime

  • Drainage activities and wetland drying

  • Logging of main and passage trees

  • Extraction of mineral resources

  • Disturbance of bird nesting conditions and animal habitats

  • Setting up fires

  • Water abstraction for irrigation and flooding

  • Use and storage of toxic chemicals

  • Littering and pollution of the area, establishment of landfills

  • Construction of structures, roads, linear, and other transport and communication facilities

  • Passage of all types of vehicles outside public roads, except for the official vehicles of the State Forestry Agency and fire-fighting equipment

  • Hunting and dog training

  • Organization of vehicle parking

  • Other economic activities that may lead to the loss of the park's natural and scientific value.

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