This section needs expansion. You can help. ( August 2013) The most significant landmarks of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi are: • Museum of Folk Architecture and Household Traditions in Middle Naddnipryanschina, presenting the architecture and traditions of from ancient times up to the 19th century, which includes submuseums: Museum of Bread, Museum of Land Transportation, Museum of (Ukrainian Decorative Towels),, Museum of Services, Museum of, Museum of Applied and Decorative Arts, Museum of Ukrainian Traditional Rituals, Museum of, Museum of the Glory, Museum of Trypillya Culture, Museum of Ukrainian Traditional Dress, etc. • Excavated ruins of buildings from the 10–11th centuries. Michael's church (1646–66) • Ascension monastery (with cathedral built in 1695–1700).

Jewish Community [ ] The first mention of the Jewish community of Pereiaslav dates to 1620, when the townspeople complained to King Sigismund of the growing number and influence of Jews in Pereiaslav. Denying Jews the right to keep breweries, malt-houses and distilleries, having already prohibited them to engage in farming, the King ordered his commissioners to consider the other rights of Jews. Three years later, an agreement was signed allowing the Jews to enjoy all of the rights and liberties of urban citizens. This agreement was confirmed by King Sigismund.

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[ ] Pereyaslav Jews were among the first to be killed during the first. Chronicler Nathan Hannover writes: «And a lot of holy communities, based not far from the place of battle and unable to flee, like the holy communities of Pereiaslav, Baryshivka, Pyryatin, Borispil, Lubny, Lokhvitsa and the surrounding communities, died as martyrs of various cruel and heinous kinds of slaughter.» («Yeven metsula», p. 94). Another chronicler, Rabbi Meir of Schebrzheschina, provides a detailed story: «The sacred community of Pereiaslav had drunk from the cup of bitterness several times; perplexed Jews fled to the sacred community of Borisovka (NB.

Probably Baryshivka). But the rebels also came there and slaughtered many Jews including infants.

The local non-Jews pitied those who survived and brought them back to Pereiaslav, where they remained locked up like prisoners in their homes, because they were afraid to be seen by the rebels. At night they did not know what the morning would bring, and in the morning - what the evening promised». Famous Yiddish author was born in Pereiaslav in 1859. He spent his childhood in the town of Voronkiv, but when the family became impoverished he returned to Pereiaslav, where he studied at the Russian gymnasium until 1876. In 1879, after a (temporarily) unsuccessful attempt to court Olga Loeva, he again returned to Pereiaslav for several years.

The town is described in detail in his autobiographical prose. In the town's 'ethnographic reserve', there is a museum dedicated to him. Additional Comments.After the 1654 Pereyaslav Council, the remnants of the Pereyaslav Jewish community fell under the patronage of Russia.