Pl. Rynok, 10 – former Lubomirski Palace/ Prosvita building ID: 138

Lubomirski Palace (presently a branch of Lviv Ethnography and Crafts Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) is an example of the architecture of the Baroque magnate palace incorporated in the contruction complex of the late medieval and early Modern periods. It was constructed in the seventeenth century, significantly rebuilt in and refinished over the course of 1744-1763 (by the architects Jan de Witte, Bernard Meretyn and Marcin Urbanik, and by the sculptors Sebastian Fesinger and Stefan Kodecki).

Architecture

The building is located on a corner plot of Rynok Square. Its side façade faces Ruska Street and its rear façade is on Fedorova Street. It is elongated from west to east. In the seventeenth century the building was erected on the site of five old houses over the Gothic foundations and pubs. In the eighteenth century it was significantly reconstructed.

This plastered brick building has three floors topped off with an attic. The front façade is segmented with pilasters; the first floor and the attic are separated with wide cornices. The portals of the main and rear (1695) facades have semicircular tops. The windows have relief moldings. The attic and the corner of the building are adorned with decorative sculpture depicting armor and military symbolic. The pilasters are crowned with Baroque capitals. Stucco fireplaces (by the sculptor Jan Obrocki) are set up in the interior.

People

Mykhaylo Rudnytskyi (1889–1975) – Ukrainian literary scholar, critic, essayist, journalist, writer, translator, and teacher.

Antonina Denisiuc – Artist, curator, author of paintings, and performances. Lives and works in between Lviv, Berlin, and Zurich.

Organizations

Ukrainian National Democratic Party

The Ukrainian National Democratic Party (1899-1919) was the leading Ukrainian political party of Galicia in the early 20th century. It was formed as a result of a merger of two important political movements, namely, the national-radical wing of the Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party (RURP) and the so-called populists (or narodovtsi), members of the Narodna Rada (People's Council). After the 1907 elections, the party had the largest parliamentary representation in Vienna. The UNDP also played a leading role in the preparation and proclamation of the West Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR) on 1 November 1918. The party's main board and press were invariably located on the Rynok square 10 in Lviv. The only exception was the period of Russian occupation in 1914-1915.
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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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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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