Pohrebyshche

Pohrebyshche (Ukrainian: Погребище, IPA: [poɦreˈbɪʃtʃe] ⓘ) is a small city in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.

[1] Pohrebyshche has many names in other languages: Polish: Pohrebyszcze, Russian: Погребище Pogrebischtsche or Pogrebishchye or Pogrebishche, Yiddish: פרהאבישטא Prhobisht.

According to Imperial Russian ethnographer Lavrentii Pokhylevych in his work "Tales of inhabited areas of the Kyiv province" in 1884, before the Mongol invasion of Rus, during the times of Kyiv the town was called Rokitnya.

The exact ethnic composition was as follows:[4] Countess Ewelina Hańska (Rzewuska) a Polish noblewoman (szlachcianka) was born 6 January 1805, in Pohrebyshche.

She was married to Wacław Hański, a landowning noble, who was about twenty years older than she was.

Synagogue and parochial church (Pohrebyszcze) by Napoleon Orda