Houses with orchards and sizeable yards, where one can hear both Czech and Ukrainian languages. Concrete footpaths, and a well looked after church. These are the typical sights of the Bohemka village in Prychornomoria. The village was founded in the early 20th century by Czech Evangelicals who were fleeing oppression of the Catholic church. Several families settled in the steppes of what was then the Kherson province of the Russian Empire, where they built a village and formed a linguistic and cultural centre with their own school, church, and a cultural hall. Today about half of the village population are ethnic Czechs. Local women have taken the development of the Bohemka village traditions into their own hands, and now they hope to be able to pass the traditions and customs of Bohemka’s Czechs on to their children.
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17 окт 2020
