Polish history Archives - Forgotten Galicia

‘Czerwony Pas’ & ‘Verkhovyno’: The Story of a Polish and Ukrainian ‘Folk’ Song

Areta — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:31:45 +0000

Today, both the Poles and Ukrainians have a beloved song about the Hutsul Carpathian highlanders, sung in their own languages to a similar melody. How did this come to be? The Polish Story Karpaccy Górale We must first look back at the first half of the nineteenth century. This is […]

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Galicia’s Sokolnie: The Architectural Heritage of the Polish Sokół Society

Areta — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 10:12:00 +0000

The former buildings of the Sokół Polish Gymnastic Society stand today in the center of almost every Galician town on both sides of the Polish-Ukrainian border. Serving as sports and cultural centers, these were once significant buildings in the town space and often outstanding architectural masterpieces. Although today few of […]

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Engineer Słowik and His Enduring Mark on Lviv

Areta — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 12:03:02 +0000

The Recovered Story of a Prewar Metalworks Owner Countless people contributed to the urban development of Lviv and left their enduring mark on the city. It is thanks to these architects, urban planners, engineers, entrepreneurs, craftsmen, construction workers, and factory workers that we have the beautiful architecture, cobblestone roads, infrastructure, […]

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Abandoned Roman Catholic Churches in the Galician Countryside

Areta — Sat, 18 May 2019 11:35:22 +0000

The Eastern Galician countryside — most of which today is located in western Ukraine — is dotted with abandoned Roman Catholic churches (kościoły) that today stand as reminders of the centuries-old Polish communities that once lived there. Before the war, Roman Catholic Poles made up 21% of the population of […]

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Traces of Zakopane Style Architecture in Lviv

Areta — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:26:45 +0000

At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Art Nouveau spread across Europe and the United States. In the Austrian Empire the new art movement was called the Secession Style. The transition from historicism to modernism—which took place during this period as part of the struggle against academic art—chronologically […]

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Lviv’s First Monument: Stanisław Jabłonowski’s Missing Shadow

Areta — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 17:20:54 +0000

By Chris Wilkinson At the intersection of Shevska and Teatralna Streets in Lviv’s Old Town is Stefana Yavorskoho Square. It does not strike a visitor as a particularly historic place. The square has a couple of cafes, eating establishments and a boutique store. Across the street is the St. Peter […]

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A Transcendent Vision – Lwów’s Ossolineum: Triumph of the Intellect

Areta — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 09:45:33 +0000

By Chris Wilkinson The cultural destruction wrought upon Eastern Europe by war and revolution is not well publicized in the west. Hundreds of thousands of books, manuscripts, maps and artifacts have been stolen or destroyed as a direct result of conflict. Consider for instance, the successive Soviet, Nazi and Soviet […]

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Zofia Batycka: The Lvivian Who Became Miss Polonia and a Famous Film Actress

Areta — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 08:29:26 +0000

Zofia Batycka (1907–1989) was born into the wealthy family of Eugeniusz Batycki, a Lviv attorney. Her family owned the Palace of Turkull-Comello, where the Zofia Batycka spent her charming youth. She would later become Miss Polonia in 1930, Vice Miss Europe, Miss Paramount, and a theater and movie actress. The […]

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Greatness that Cannot Be Ignored – The Potocki Palace: Lviv’s Grandest Residence

Areta — Mon, 14 May 2018 08:51:15 +0000

By Chris Wilkinson A jarring spectacle awaits those unsuspecting pedestrians strolling along Kopernyka Street in Lviv. Past the first floor shops and multi-storied apartment buildings piled one atop another there suddenly appears a fence of forged iron. Behind this stands the Potocki Palace. Here, set back rather incongruously, looks to […]

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‘Only in Lviv’: How One Song Became the Anthem for a Nation

Areta — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:20:14 +0000

By Juliette Bretan ‘Where else do people feel as good as here? Only in Lviv! Where else they lull you to sleep and wake you up with a song? Only in Lviv!’ (‘Tylko We Lwowie’, 1939) In the region straddling the border between Poland and Ukraine, there is a single […]

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