Vul. Zolota – monument to Teofil Wisniowski and Josef Kapuscinski
A marble obelisk under a project designed by Julian Markowski was set up
in 1895 to commemorate Teofil Wisńiowski and Józef Kapusciński, participants of the November uprising of
1830-1831 in the Russian-administered Kingdom of Poland, as well as of
movements directed against the Austrian Empire, who were executed there in 1847.
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Personalities
Teofil Wiktor Mikołaj
Wiśniowski, count Prus I (1806-1847) — a Polish revolutionary
who fought against the Russian and Austrian Empires.
Józef Kapuściński (1818-1847) — a Polish revolutionary who struggled against the Russian
and Austrian Empires.
Julian Markowski (1846-1903) — a famous Lviv sculptor, the author of the memorial.
Michał Michalski (1846-1907) — a blacksmith master, a member of the City Council of Lviv
from 1880, who initiated the establishment of a memorial to the rebels, then
(1895) the vice-president of Lviv.
Arnold Röhring — the then city gardener, the author of the project of the Wiśniowskiego Park (1897).
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