Pohrebysche is a town in Vinnytsia Oblast

Vinnytsia Oblast

Vinnytsia Oblast is an oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Vinnytsia.-Geography:The area of the region is 26,500 km²; its population is 1.7 million....

, Ukraine

Ukraine

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. It is the administrative center of the Pohrebyschensky Raion (district

Raion

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) in western Ukraine. Pohrebysche is situated near the sources of the Ros River.

Names

Pohrebysche is also known as , ,

History

The town is very old and origin of its name is not clear. Pogreb means a big cellar

Basement

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in Ukrainian. On another hand Pogrebaty can be interpreted as to perform a burial. According to a legend, put down by Ukrainian ethnographer Pokhilevich, before Mongol invasion of Rus

Mongol invasion of Rus

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, during the times of Kyiv the town was called Rokitnya. Mongols level the town leaving only the cellars.

People

Countess Ewelina Hańska

Ewelina Hańska

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 (Rzewuska

Rzewuski family

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) a Polish noblewoman (szlachcianka) was born January 6, 1801 in Pohrebysche. Ewelina was the sister of Henryk Rzewuski

Henryk Rzewuski

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. She was married to Wacław Hański

Wacław Hański

Wacław Hański was a Polish noble, landowner, marszałek of the nobility in the Volhynian Governorate. First husband of Ewelina Hańska.-References:...

, a landowning noble, who was about twenty years older than she was. After his death she became wife of the French novelist Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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 in 1850.

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