The building of the Church of the Assumption was also financed by Hetman Saghaidachny and the Moldavian noblemen Pavel, Jeremiah and Simon Mogila. This accounts for its second name – Voloshskaya (from the word Valakhia, meaning Moldavia).
Work was often interrupted due to lack of finances. In 1592 the Fraternity dispatched envoys to Fyodor Ioanovich, King [...]
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As I wrote before the Church of the Assumption was ruled by the Stauropegia Fraternity, one of the strongest and most influencial Orthodox communities. It emerged on the basis of guilds and had many merchants and craftsmen among its members. First mentioned in 1439, in the 16th and 17th centuries this Fraternity was already given [...] Contemporaries used to say that Lvov had “few Russians but much of Russia.” All this imbued the Renaissance in Lvov with unique local features. Church of the Assumption (Uspenskaya Tserkov) ensemble a few steps from the Arsenal, which is a masterpiece of 16th century Ukrainian architecture and one of Lvov’s earliest and best monuments of the Renaissance. Of the same “age” as Powder Tower is the Town Arsenal (Gorodshoi Arsenal) – it was built in 1554-1556. Town Arsenal is Situated further along the podvalnaya street. Arsenal Town is a long one-store building shaped in the form of an irregular rectangle with a beveled corner. During the Swedish attack in 1704 the Arsenal was [...] Lvov grew rapidly. The outskirts merged with Lvov proper, the nearby villages were turned into suburbs. Following the partition of Poland in 1772 Eastern Galicia fell to the Austrian Empire. The medieval walls and ramparts were – destroyed in the direuct and figurative meaning of the word. Numerous ancient churches and fortifications were either torn [...] Like most medieval towns Lvov was heavily fortified. The internal wall with four corner towers was followed by an outer wall which had seventeen towers and was surrounded by a moat filled with water. Then came the ramparts and bastions along Valovaya Street, Square of Daniil Galitsky (Ploshchad Daniila Galitsga) . The town had two [...] In the 14th and 15th centuries the shortspelled decline gave way to a new economic revival. Once again Lvov gained fame as an important commercial centre on the great trade routes to the North, East and South from the markets of the West and became a serious rival of merchant Krakow (sometimes also written as [...] Following Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street back to the foot of the High Castle and turning left one comes upon a broad boulevard overgrown with trees and shrubbery. On the right is Podvalnaya Street (”Ulitsa Podualnaya”) crossed by Valovaya Street (”Ulitsa Valovaya”) at the far end. The names Podvalnaya (”Under the rampart”) and Valovaya (”Rampart”) are reminiscent of [...] Saint Paraskevi church is particularly known for its remarkable iconostasis consisting of more than seventy individual fragments. This church is a true masterpiece of Ukrainian part of the 16th-17th centuries. Painters whose names are unknown managed to achieve an intriguing combination of vivid national co louring coupled with western influence. In Lviv one often comes [...] |
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