In the Capital of Halych Ruthenia (a Historical and Archeological Survey of Lviv)

The text is a translation of the article by Grigory Aleksandrovich Vorobyev Въ столице Галицкой Руси published in 1901 in the 86th volume of “Istorichesky Vestnik”, a historical and literary periodical published in Sankt Petersburg. Vorobyev (1860-1907), collegial councillor in the Płock Governorate, the president of the Military and Police Division of the Łomża Governorate, court councillor and justice of the peace in Ostrołęka, and also a passionate historian and amateur ethnologue, manifested kindness towards the Poles, rarely expressed by Russian officials, and showed interest in Polish history and culture, evident in his numerous publications in Polish and Russian periodicals. In early June 1900 he presumably visited Lviv on the occasion of his participation in the Third Convention of Polish Historians in Kraków. The monuments of Jan III Sobieski and Jan Kiliński, the Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic and Armenian Catholic cathedrals, the chapel of the Boim family, the Jesuit Church and the Dominican Church, the Wallachian Church, the Church of St. Nicholas, the Church of St. Onuphrius, The Orthodox Church of St. Paraskeva, the Monastery of the Order of Saint Basil the Great, the Golden Rose Synagogue, The Market Square, the Stauropegial Institute, the National Ossoliński Institute, The Dzieduszycki Museum, Lychakiv Cemetery, archives and libraries are the monuments which he described in the present article, enhanced by a brief historical note and his impressions of the life of the city.