Arboretum "Sophiivka well known far beyond Ukraine as one of the most outstanding works of world landscape gardening art of the late XVIII - early XIX century. and stands in one row with such masterpieces parkostroitelstva Europe as Balbi Garden in Florence (Italy), Park Sanssouci in Potsdam (Germany) and Castle Park in Versailles (France). As conceived by its creators Sofiyivka an embodiment illustrated poems, Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey, where each track or small architectural form contains a specific plan, expresses the idea of myth, or some event.