the lacroix palace seems to be the most ambitious 18th -c. bestate/b in ukraine. it is a two-floor palace, with its wings forming a courtyard the size of a football pitch. in 1796, the russian field marshal alexander suvorov, chose tulchyn ...
it extends from the dnieper river in the northeast across the rolling hills of the dnieper upland to the basin of the southern (bpivdennyy/b) buh river in the southwest. the oblast's natural vegetation of grass steppe on fertile soils has ...