Vul. Fedorova, 08 – residential building

16^th c. – the “Yustkovychivska” and, later, “Nestorovychivska” townhouses are built.
1610s – the “Lyskovychivska” house is built by Paolo Romanus, a well-known Lviv architect.
Late 17^th c. – murals on religious themes (the Mother of God Incarnate) are made by Oleksandr Lianytsky, a Lviv painter.
2^nd half of the 18^th c. – a substantial reconstruction and merger of two houses, the “Kryve Kolo” one and the “Yustkovychivska” one, by Michał Rzewuski; a fourth floor is added.
Early 19^th c. – minor repairs and reconstructions of the house.
1884 – the wooden shingle roof is replaced by a tin one.
1889 – repair and construction works are conducted.
1910 – the ground floor premises are substantially reconstructed to adapt them for the imperial and royal post office (architect and constructor Ludwik Veltze). A lot of artistic decorative elements dated to the 17^th century are discovered, including a beamed ceiling, stone window transoms with a dividing column without decorative carving, a carved white stone column, murals on religious themes in the staircase window transoms.
1931 – a wing is constructed.
1934 – a part of the second floor premises is reconstructed into two apartments with bathrooms.
1960s – the house’s façades are repaired by the Lviv Interregional Restoration Workshops.
2005 – restoration and adaptation works are carried out in the ground floor premises to the left of the gate (architect Yuriy Dubyk). A stone carved interfenestral column and Renaissance beamed ceilings (16^th-17^th cc.) are discovered, as well as an arcature consisting of three semicircular arches with carved white stone Gothic toes and some other things.

The building on Fedorova street 8 is located at the rear of the eastern Rynok (Market square) quarter. It was built in the place of two old townhouses which in the 17^th-18^th centuries were known after the names of their owners. The one on the right was called “Lyskovychivska” or “Kryve Kolo” (“The Curved Circle”); the one on the left was called “Yustkovychivska” and “Nestorovychivska”. The first one was owned by the Armenian family of Toros Lyskovych (Lyskoviat); the second one belonged to the Ukrainian family of Krasovsky. The “Lyskovychivska” house was built in the 1610s by Paolo Romanus, a well-known Lviv architect, who was constructing the Bernardine church and monastery and the Benedictine church and convent at the same time. Later the house owned by Hryhoriy Lyskovych got the name of “Kryve Kolo” (“The Curved Circle”) from a curved street near the Dominican church, in front of which it stood. The owners of this townhouse were merchants dealing in wax candles and roots. The second, “Yustkovychivska”, house passed in the possession of Stefan Nestorovych Krasovsky in the 17^th century; it was from his name that the house eventually became known as “Nestorovychivska”. Stefan Nestorovych, a Ukrainian, was one of the richest citizens of Lviv. His fortune was estimated at 100 000 guldens. Apart from money in cash, this amount included also the cost of three townhouses in what is now Lviv’s historic center. In 1676, at the coronation sejm of king Jan III Sobieski, Stefan Krasovsky was ennobled and exempted from taxes. After Stefan’s death the house passed to his son, Mykola Krasovsky, who was the clerk and later the senior of the Stauropegial Brotherhood. After he died in 1697, the house was inherited by his sister. In 1725 she sold it to Adam Rzewuski, the then castellan of Podlachia, who was the possessor of the “Royal Townhouse” (or the Korniakt palace) situated on the Rynok square 6. The latter’s son, Michał Rzewuski, bought also the “Kryve Kolo” townhouse, merged it with the “Yustkovychivska” one and reconstructed them in the Empire style. This substantial reconstruction took place in the second half of the 18^th century. It was then that a fourth floor was also added.

In the early 19^th century this merged townhouse changed several owners. In the mid-19^th century it was owned by Kazimierz Dendor, a well-known Lviv citizen. In 1861 Julian Papara, an owner, applied to the Magistrate for permission to arrange a door in place of a window opening. In 1866 the Magistrate obliged Julian and Stanisław Papara to repair the house as it was in an unsatisfactory condition: the chimney had rotten through and the third floor ceilings had sagged. From 1870 the house was owned by Marianna Papara. According to the archival records, in 1872 Chaim Kramarowicz, a tenant, restored a supporting pillar in the wing. In 1877 Marianna Papara wanted to replace the old wooden shingle roof with a new one but in 1880 the Magistrate obliged her to cover the roof with a fireproof material. A new tin roof was made only in 1884. Some repair and construction works were conducted in 1889 by Franciszek Mozer, a new owner.

In 1910 the townhouse was bought by Józef Chmieliński, a Lviv theatre actor. In the same year the ground floor premises were substantially reconstructed to adapt them for the imperial and royal post office. The project was drawn up by Ludwik Veltze, an architect and constructor. In the course of the repair works a lot of artistic decorative elements dated to the 17^th century were discovered. Thus, a larch beamed ceiling with traces of red paint was discovered under a layer of plaster in a large ground floor room situated to the left of the entryway. A similar ceiling was also discovered in a small room on the second floor. Apart from painting, the beams were decorated with carved rosettes. Stone niche with two windows and a dividing column without decorative carving were concealed beneath a thick layer of plaster in the same large ground floor room. In another ground floor room, a carved white stone column was found in a niche which had been closed by a timber frame wall filled with brick. The most interesting thing found in this house were murals discovered under a layer of plaster in the staircase window transoms. These murals on religious themes (the Mother of God Incarnate) may have been made by Oleksandr Lianytsky, a Lviv painter, in the late 17^th century. Before the restoration works started, the Magistrate consulted the so-called Grono Konserwatorskie (Restoration Society). By a letter dated 4 February 1910 the Grono endorsed the planned adaptation, under the stipulation that all ornamented parts would remain intact after being cleared, as well as the disclosed beam ceiling in the large ground floor room. In 1928 the building was estimated at 56,000 zloty.

In 1931 Abraham Hruber, an owner, constructed a wing. In 1934 a part of the second floor premises was reconstructed into two apartments with bathrooms. In the 1960s the house’s façades were repaired by the Lviv Interregional Restoration Workshops.

In 2005 some restoration and adaptation works were carried out in the ground floor premises to the left of the gate (architect Yuriy Dubyk). A stone carved interfenestral column and Renaissance beamed ceilings were discovered. All beams are carved which was typical of the Lviv Renaissance townhouses of the 16^th-17^th centuries. An arcature consisting of three semicircular arches with carved white stone Gothic imposts was discovered on the southern wall. A partially ruined portal with a meander ornament was disclosed in the wall between the rooms. A fragment of a Gothic arch was disclosed on the northern wall in the smaller room.