Among lovers of travel in the Western Ukrainian outback there is a comic rule of "Three K", with the help of which the degree of tourist attractiveness of a particular settlement is determined. Decoding is simple - Fortress, Church, Cemetery. If all three components are present, you need to go. If at least one - you might think. The second "K", we note, means all sacred buildings - churches, temples of the Eastern rite and synagogues.
In the village of Mikulintsy with all the "three K" - a complete openwork. Moreover, each of the local tourist attractions is unique in itself. Take a castle, for example. It is not only one of the largest and most preserved, but the only INHABITED in Ukraine! Only in Mikulintsy can you see frivolous curtains and blooming geraniums in the window of the austere fortress tower. Back in the 1920s, Countess Jozefa Rey settled here her beloved servant Anna. Today her daughter Stephanie lives here.
And also a ghost lives here. According to legends, at the end of the 19th century, a local blacksmith lived in the castle with a beautiful daughter who once gave birth to an illegitimate child. Despite the fact that the times were already milder than those described by Shevchenko, and the fate of Keterina, the girl with the baby, had passed, but the ridicule of the neighbors and the sidelong glances of her parents brought the beauty to the grave. The girl, as unmarried, was buried in a wedding dress. Soon a translucent maiden figure in white began to appear among the castle walls.