Vul. Lysenka, 17 – residential building

1877 – a plot, built up on perimeter and with a caretaker’s house, is purchased by the Dzieduszyckis.
1898 – a three-storied residential building (no. 17) having three wings: a back one and a western one, both having two floors, and a three-storied eastern one; also, a project of a greenhouse located on a slope behind the rear wing is designed. In the course of the construction, portals from the dismantled old townhouses are embedded in the building’s western wall.
1940s-1950s – a department of the Soviet security service is located in the palace and in a part of the building no. 17.

The building no. 17 stands to the east of the Dzieduszyckis’s palace. It is located on the southern slope of the Zamkova (Castle) mountain, within the old Halytske suburb. On the 1849 cadastral map this plot is marked with conscription number 47 4/4 and is built up on three sides. In the mid-19^th century the plot was owned by Hoffman. In late 1869 the parcel became the property of Henriette Grossek. It is known from archival documents that she had a caretaker’s house constructed in the rear part of the yard under a project designed by architect Wojciech Haar. In 1877 a plot under topographical no. 3086 was purchased by the Dzieduszyckis, and a big building (no. 17) was constructed there eventually. Already in the mid-19^th century Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki and his wife Alfonsyna Dzieduszycka, nee Miączyńska, bought a villa in Lviv (Lysenka street 15) and in 1853 brought there their family collection of art and a library from the village of Potorytsya near Sokal. In 1895 a project of a three-storied residential building (no. 17) was commissioned by countess Alfonsyna Dzieduszycka which should be designed by an architectural company owned by Jakób Bałaban and Włodzimierz Podhorodecki. The building was to have three wings: a back one and a western one, which both were to have two floors, and a three-storied eastern one. Also, a project of a greenhouse located on a slope behind the rear wing was to be designed. With minor modifications, the Włodzimierz Podhorodecki’s project was realized in 1898. The new building’s western wing was connected with the palace by a staircase. There was a stable for four horses and a cart shed on the wing’s ground floor. Another cart shed was located in the back wing. The library and art collection were moved to a wing of the new house. The Potorytsya library was moved by the Dzieduszyckis to the second floor of the western wing.

In the course of the construction, portals from the dismantled old townhouses were embedded in the building’s western wall.

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 noble family of Dzieduszycki is of Ukrainian origin (the Sas coat of arms) and 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.