Annichka House Museum, Verkhovyna

In September 2016, Verkhovyna hosted a film festival called Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, following in the footsteps of the movie Annichka. The opening of the museum took place at this festival.

The Annichka House Museum is the only house that has survived in Verkhovyna, where important scenes of the movie Annichka were filmed. When the directors and screenwriters of the Dovzhenko Film Studio came to this house in 1968, they said that the very phenomenon of this hut-citizen was completely suitable for them to shoot this film. It is a hut with gates and outbuildings and is a pearl of Hutsul culture and architecture. This house is more than 100 years old. It was built in 1913.

There were many huts where movies were also filmed, but they have not been preserved or rebuilt in a modern way. It so happened that our house has been preserved, and many other things from the movie have been preserved, which can be seen in our museum. Our house is in the center of attention in the movie because it was the home of Kmet, Annychka's uncle and the main character of the movie, Annychka. You can learn more about the movie or even watch it in the museum.

Here you can take pictures in Hutsul clothes. The museum also keeps a horse. It is known that Ivan Mykolaychuk once gave a horse to a little boy named Ivan, the owner of this house, who played the role of the boy who broke the bowl in front of the newlyweds. Of course, that horse is no longer there, but there is a similar one that you can ride.

We sincerely invite you to our museum for a two-part tour!

One part will be held in the yard, and the other part in the house. In these parts you will learn what you should know and listen to. The Hutsul Capital in the Carpathians has many more secrets, each of which is revealed in different places in Verkhovyna.

Initially, the Boychuk (Pavliuk) family lived in this house. Later, Anna was a relative of Petro Shekeriak-Donikov, a prominent Hutsul writer, who married Ivan Boichuk. In 1961, he died, and Anna married her second husband, Mykola Laskuriychuk, with whom she lived at the time when the film Annichka was being shot.

In the film Annichka, we see a romantic story about the love of a young Hutsul girl, Annichka, and a partisan, Andriy. She saved his life and healed his wounds. She sacrificed herself by deliberately cutting her hand to get the ointment and give it to Andriy.

The film shows the life of the Hutsuls of those years-their hazdivka, music, songs, dances, and clothes. We see how people lived, what they did, how they worked, the film takes us back to the past, so to speak, to the difficult past during the Great Patriotic War.

The film has a lot of footage that was shot in the house and in the yard near the house, from all sides, around the entire farmstead and even in the stables. There are wonderful shots of Ivan Havryliuk and Ivan Mykolaychuk performing the Hutsul dance Arkan in our yard. There is also a Hutsul wedding that was filmed near the house.

In addition to the fact that this movie was filmed here, all the residents of this house took part in it. There are shots where you can clearly see the hosts Anna and Mykola Laskuriychuk and even a little boy, Ivan. A lot of our fellow Hutsuls were also filmed. These are Petro Soruk, who has a museum called Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors in his house, as well as his daughters Maria Khimchak and Maria Iliychuk. Our fellow villager Hanna Garadzhuk played a wonderful role of the healer, to whom Annychka went to get ointment to save the partisan Andriy.

TheAnnichka Museum, where the movie Annichka of the same name was filmed, is located in Verkhovyna in a village that is popularly called the paradise of Verkhovyna-the village of Zhabievsky Potik. The stream, from which the name comes, flows from under the Krynta mountain and runs through our entire street and into the Black Cheremosh river.

Zhabievsky Stream is called a paradise because it is calm, cozy, and there is no big wind or snowstorms like those high in the mountains. And all because we are protected by mountains on all sides.

When you enter our village, on the right side is the Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors museum, to the east of our museum is Mount Hlyfa, and a little further south is Mount Magura. If you go up to this mountain on a nice sunny day, you can see the Chornohora ridge, the whole Verkhovyna, and our street where the museum is located.

Nearby are other museums such as the Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Museum, the Hata Staya Museum, the Hutsul Magic Museum, and the Scarecrow House Museum.