Vul. Teatralna, 22 – The House of Officers (former Peoples' House) ID: 2345
The Peoples' House was constructed in the years 1851–1864 under a project drawn up by Wilhelm Schmidt; a slight echo of the Romanticism and Biedermeier can be seen in the Neo-Classicist architecture of the building. The society of Halytsko-Ruska Matytsia and its editorial office were located there, as well as some other public organizations; later the building was occupied by the Rozmaitości theatre. According to the resolution of the Lviv regional executive committee number 381 dated 5 July 1985, the building of the Peoples' House was entered into the register of local monuments under protection number 295. As for today, the building houses the District House of Officers for the Western Operational Command, the Cinema Palace, a few cafés and a dancing studio.
Story
1703–1727 — the Trinitarian monastery building is erected.1783 — the monastery is abolished.
1784 — Lviv university and the academic gymnasium are located in the former monastery.
2 November 1848 — the university building is destroyed by fire.
1851-1864 — the Peoples' House is constructed under a project drawn up by architect Wilhelm Schmidt.
1928 — the building's interior is reconstructed (architect Aleksandr Kapłoński).
1930 — the ballrooms are reconstructed for the purposes of the Rozmaitości city theatre (architect Adam Opolski).
Architecture
The building of the Peoples' House is situated on Teatralna street, its side façades facing Virmenska and Lesi Ukrainky streets. The architect partly used some fragments of the Trinitarian monastery building constructed in the eighteenth century, having preserved even the curvature of the façade facing Teatralna street. As for the style features, a slight echo of the Romanticism in architecture as well as that of the Biedermeier can be seen in this monument. Among the three façades of the four-floor building, the façade from the side of Korniakta street is richest in plastic art. The two-floor theatre hall location can be recognized on this façade due to the wall projection and big arched windows.People
Sylvestr Havryshkewych (1833–1911) — a Lviv architect.
Yakiv Holovatskyi (1814–1888) — a Ukrainian linguist, ethnographer, student of folklore, historian, poet, Greek-Catholic priest, educator, public figure.
Aleksandr Kapłoński — an architect.
Teofil Kopystynskyi (1844–1916) — a Ukrainian painter.
Wilhelm Leopolski (1828–1892) — a painter and art critic.
Oleksandr Lushpynskyi (1876–1943) — a Ukrainian architect.
Tadeusz Obmiński (1874–1932) — a Lviv architect.
Adam Opolski — an architect.
Anton Petrushevych (1821–1913) — a Ukrainian historian and linguist, a priest.
Anton Rubinshtein (1829–1894) — a Russian composer and pianist.
Wilhelm Schmidt (19th c.) — a Lviv architect.
Markian Shashkevych (1811–1843) — a priest, budytel (the one who awakes), Ukrainian poet and public figure.
Lev Treshchakivskyi (1810–1874) — a priest, public figure and member of the Supreme Ruthenian Council.
Kornylo Ustyianovych (1839–1903) — a Ukrainian painter.
Organizations
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Habsburg University
The University, founded in 1784 by Joseph II on the basis of the abolished Jesuit academy, was to become the main source of professional officials for the capital of the Galician province. Stress was laid not on research, but chiefly on the training of managers. After numerous changes, in particular, the demotion of the institution status to that of a lyceum, in 1817 the university was refounded by Emperor Francis II. The institution existed in this condition till the end of 1918.
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Petro Mohyla Society for Ukrainian Scientific Lectures
The union was aimed at the popularization of science in the Ukrainian language. From 1909 it regularly organized lectures on various scientific topics in Lviv. The main seat of the Society was Lviv, branches were also established in other cities and towns. It participated in the foundation of the "Ukrainian University in Lviv."
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Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party (RURP)
The first modern Ukrainian political party, which had mass registered membership, a structure, and a program. It was founded on 4 October 1890 on the initiative of Ivan Franko, Mykhaylo Pavlyk, Vyacheslav Budzynovskyi, Yevhen Levytskyi, Kyrylo Tryliovskyi and others on the basis of the Drahomanov followers' circles, which existed in Lviv in the late 19th century. The party split into three parts in 1899. The main political forces of Ukrainians in Galicia thus emerged: national democrats, radicals, social democrats.
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Supreme Ruthenian Council
The Council was the first political representative body of Galicia's Ruthenians. It functioned in Lviv in 1848-1851. The Council proclaimed unity of the Galician Ruthenians with the Ukrainians of the Russian Empire and their disctinction from the Polish and Russian peoples. It demanded that Galicia be divided into Ruthenian and Polish provinces and aimed to secure equal rights for the Ruthenian language in education and public sphere. It launched the a political national movement of the Ruthenians in Galicia. This publication is a part of the Spring of Nations in Lviv project.
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Russophilism (Moscophilism)
Russophilism was one of the two (along with Ukrainophilism) main socio-political and cultural currents of the Ukrainian movement that existed in Galicia from the 1830s till the interwar period. Russophiles promoted the religious, cultural, and historical affiliation of the Galician Ruthenians to the "great Russian space", which was, in their view, common to the Russians (Great Russians), Belarusians and Ukrainians (Little Russians). In extreme cases, there were conversions from Greek Catholicism to Orthodoxy, as well as declarations of national unity with the Russian people.
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Shevchenko Scientific Society
From 1873, it functioned as the administrative body of the union printing house. In 1892 the NTSh became a scientific society that quickly integrated into Western and Central European scientific space and was formed as a regional and national scintific center under the leadership of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi. During the interwar period, the Society functioned at the regional level, while remaining the key factor in the development of Ukrainian culture in Lviv and the center around which scholars of the all-Ukrainian caliber gathered. In 1939, after the Soviet occupation of Lviv, the Society ceased its activities, though it resumed its work for some time during the German occupation.
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Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Lviv (Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych we Lwowie)
The Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Lviv (Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych we Lwowie) was the first art organization in Lviv to operate from 1868 until the outbreak of the Second World War. The Society brought together artists and art connoisseurs, organized exhibitions, sold works of art and provided material support to artists.
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