First there was Yablunka...

The village of Yablunka, which was part of Bucha, was first mentioned in written sources in 1630. At that time, it belonged to the nobleman Y. Lyasota, who received this land from Count Potocki for heroism in military service.
The city itself emerged as a Bucha settlement during the construction of the Kyiv-Kovel railway in 1901 and quickly developed.
The dacha of the famous Kyiv lawyer Nemetti and his wife, actress Insarova, was very elegant: in the middle of the luxurious garden there was a lake where white and black swans swam gracefully.
The wonderful nature of Bucha and the healing air contributed to the development of the work of the outstanding Ukrainian artist, critic and teacher, founder and head of the Kyiv School of Painting Mykola Murashko (1844-1909). While living in Bucha, he created wonderful paintings of Ukrainian landscapes, including a painting depicting the picturesque lake of the landowner Sokolovsky.
On the large veranda of the Murashko family's summer house, which was located on the site of the current boarding school, theater performances were organized in the summer, in which young Mykhailo Bulgakov took part as an actor as a gymnasium student and later as a director in his student years.

The Bulgakov and Murashko families were friends. Their dachas were located not far from each other. Bulgakov's father, Opanas Ivanovych, an associate professor of the Department of History and Analysis of Western Beliefs at the Kyiv Theological Academy, simultaneously served as a separate censor of works written in French, English, and German. In 1900, he bought two acres of land from the landowner Krasovsky and built a solid five-room dacha with two large verandas. The following year, the Bulgakovs laid out a large orchard and flower beds.
After V.B. Kaminsky's death, his works became known all over the world, but they did not receive proper recognition in our country. His main work "Friend of Health" was published only in recent years thanks to the persistence and painstaking research work of local local historians and enthusiasts N.I. and M.V. Tyumentsev-Khvyly.
In 1904, academician Yevhen Oskarovych Paton, who had moved from St. Petersburg to Kyiv to work, bought a summer house in Bucha. The academician tended the garden himself. There was also a small vegetable garden where he grew vegetables, including asparagus beans, which were very popular with the owners. E.O. Paton enjoyed spending all his free time at the dacha, resting his body and soul from his daily scientific work.
Bucha is sung in poems and songs, depicted in paintings by artists. It is a place where a person's desire for creativity and self-realization is born not by order, but at the call of the soul.