Vul. Lysenka, 15 – military building (former Dzieduszycki's palace)

Before 1849 – the Winiarz’s villa is built.
1856-1860 – Neoclassicist-style utility buildings are constructed under a project designed by architect Wincenty Rawski Sr.
1871 – a small caretaker’s room is added to the palace’s western wing.
1873 – a great reconstruction and development of the palace under a project designed by architect Józef Engel: the palace’s main part is enlarged by adding two wings on the west and on the east; the façades are designed in the Neoclassicist style.
1878 – alabaster portals are made (sculptor Leonard Marconi).
1892 – the palace is connected to the city service lines (engineer Robert Goeber).
1880s-1890s – a park is laid out with ornamental and rare species of trees.
1893-1894 – a single-storied utility building with a stable, a cart shed, toilets, and an ice-house is built.
1902 – the palace is developed and extended under a project designed by architect Władysław Halicki: the third floor is added, a new roof with lucarnes is made, an additional staircase is arranged; the façades between the second and third floors are decorated with bas-relief portraits of the Dzieduszycki family members.
1903 – the single-storied office building is dismantled; a reconstruction of the western wing, which was extended and raised, is carried out under a project designed by Władysław Halicki.
1910 – a hydraulic lift is arranged in the palace.

The former palace is situated on the southern slope of the Zamkova (Castle) mountain, within the old Halytske suburb. It was commissioned by the Dzieduszycki family. This noble family of Ukrainian origin (the Sas coat of arms) comes from the villages of Velyki Didushytsi and Mali Didushytsi located not far from the town of Stryi; their line of descent is drawn from the time of the Galician-Volhynian principality. The oldest documents concerning the Dzieduszycki family are dated to 1263 and 1274; till the mid-15^th century they were written exclusively in Ukrainian. Members of this family are known as statesmen, maecenases, scientists and scholars, as well as artists. In the mid-18^th century the Dzieduszyckis were polonized and became Roman Catholics instead of Greek Catholics. After Galicia was annexed by Austria in the late 18^th century the Dzieduszycki were granted a count title. One of the Dzieduszycki family’s branches, that of Potorytsya, was founded by Józef Kalasanty (1772-1847), the son of Tadeusz Gerwazy (1724-1777). It was Józef Kalasanty who formed the renowned Potorytsya library. The other two branches of the Dzieduszycki family were founded by Józef’s elder brothers: Antoni Bazyli (1757-1817) and Walerian Wiktoryn (1754-1832); Maurycy Ignacy (1813-1877), a well-known Lviv historian, was the latter’s grandson. Włodzimierz Ksawery Tadeusz (1825-1899), the son of the Potorytsya branch founder, was a renowned maecenas who created and owned one of the best natural museums of Galicia situated in Lviv on Teatralna street 18.

In 1853 Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki and his wife, Alfonsyna Dzieduszycka, nee Miączyńska, bought from E. Winiarz a villa with a large plot located at the foot of the Vysoky Zamok mountain. The Winiarz’s villa was built before 1849 in the depth of the plot and was designated on the 1849 cadastral map of Lviv (conscription no. 45 4/4, topographic no. 3087).

Already in 1853 the Dzieduszyckis moved the family collection and library from the village of Potorytsya near Sokal to the newly purchased villa. The Potorytsya library numbered 55 thousand volumes, including 230 manuscripts and parchments. Apart from books, the Dzieduszyckis also brought there a large collection of works of art: 2000 engravings, 400 geographical maps, over 1000 portraits etc.

The Dzieduszyckis reconstructed their villa as a palace in 1856 under a project designed by architect Wincenty Rawski Sr. It was also under his projects that several Neoclassicist-style utility buildings were constructed on the palace territory in 1860.

In 1870 countess Alfonsyna purchased a piece of the slope situated between the palace and the shooting gallery. In 1871 a small caretaker’s room was added to the western wing’s northern end. In 1873 a great reconstruction and development of the palace started under a project designed by architect Józef Engel. The palace’s main part was enlarged by adding two wings on the west and on the east; the façades were designed in the Neoclassicist style. In 1878 countess Alfonsyna commissioned Leonard Marconi, a well-known sculptor, to make alabaster portals in the building. In the 1880s-1890s a park was laid out where ornamental and rare species of trees were planted.

In 1893-1894 a single-storied utility building with a stable, a cart shed, toilets, and an ice-house was built on the grounds situated on the neighbouring slopes and purchased by the Dziduszyckis. Their office was located in a big single-storied building standing to the northwest of the palace.

The palace was most significantly developed and extended in 1902. It was then that, under a project designed by architect Władysław Halicki, the third floor was added, an additional staircase was arranged and a new roof with lucarnes was made. It was also at that time that the palace’s façades between the second and third floors were decorated with bas-relief portraits of the Dzieduszycki family members placed in garlanded oval niches; the portraits may have been created by Antoni Popiel, a noted sculptor. In 1903 the single-storied office building was dismantled, and a reconstruction of the western wing was carried out under a project designed by Władysław Halicki; the wing was extended and raised. Apart from the roof, it is in this condition that we can see this part of the palace today. In 1910 Alfonsyna Dzieduszycka, after the death of her husband, count Włodzimierz, had a hydraulic lift arranged which was made by the Z. Rudakowski’s technical bureau. In the interwar period an art gallery was organized in the palace which was given the name of the Dzieduszyckis. The collection consisted of paintings and graphic works as well as archeological findings. In 1940 the gallery was closed by the new authorities; its collection was divided between different new city museums (Arts Gallery, Lviv Historical Museum, Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts). A part of exhibits disappeared, including the world known Mykhalkiv gold treasure from the 8^th-7^th centuries B.C. with a total weight of 7 kg.  

The palace and administrative building were owned by the descendants of the Dzieduszycki family till 1939. After the World War II a department of the Soviet security service was located in the palace and in a part of the building no. 17; since 1991 these premises have been occupied by the Military Counterintelligence Department of the Security Service of Ukraine in the West region. The stable premises were turned into apartments.