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Old House
of the Theological Seminary (1789-1790). Preservation #1650 | Foto
11 Pyatnyts'ka St.
It was
built in the place of the houses and fence with a pediment existed before, maybe
��������, partly used. Simultaneously with the main building the annexes to
the eastern side were made. In 1796, because of the adaptation to the hall the
internal partitions were disassembled and instead of ten (10) rooms a two-storied
hall was built.
The main building is rectangular in plan, two-storied with arched basement in
the north-western part. The foundations and walls are made of limestone on mortar.
The walls are plastered. The planning is sectional. There are the memorial plates
to A.P. Svydnyts'kyi and S.V. Rudans'kyi in the western elevation.
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BUILDING OF PODIL'S'KA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
WHERE S.V. RUDANS'KYI, A.P. SVYDNYTS'KYI, K.V. SHEYKOVS'KYI HAVE STUDIED, AND
THERE WERE OTHER CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
PYATNYTS'KA ST.
It is situated in the eastern part of Soviets'ka Square of the Old Town, in
the yard of former Ioanno-Predtechyns'ka Church and buildings of Russian Town
Council. It was built in 1627 as an educational institution. It is stone, two-storied,
two-chambered, the roof is tiled, the building is in the style of Russian classicism.
On April 21, 1793, the Decree of the Empress, Catherina II on joining Podillia
to Russian Empire was read to the citizens of the town from the balcony of the
front of the house. There had been the nobility assembly in the house till 1798;
from 1799 to 1801, the theatre of Anton Zmiyevs'kyi had been there; from 1805
to 1865, Podil's'ka Theological Seminary had been there. In 1849 - 1855, Stepan
Vasyliovych Rudans'kyi (1834 - 1873) studied at the seminary; he was a famous
Ukrainian poet and democrat, specialist in folklore, who continued a civic position
of T.H.Shevchenko in his work. During his studies he began writing down folk
songs, legends, anecdotes, proverbs. Collected materials underlied two hand-written
collections "Narodnyie malorossiyskiye pesni, sobrannyie v Podol'skoy guberniyi
S. V. R." ("The Folk Songs, Collected in Podil's'ka Guberniya(province)")(1852).
In Kamyanets' he has written six ballads and the poems "Dva trupa"
("Two Corpses")(1851), "Syrotyna ya bezrodnyi" ("I
Am an Orphan"), "Upyr"("Vampire") (1853), "Liuba"("Darling")
(1854), "Ty ne moya"("You Are Not Mine"), "Mene zabud'"("Forget
Me") and others, in which he exposed the serfdom and parasitism of the
officials. Famous Ukrainian writer and democrat, ethnographer Anatoliy Patrykeyevych
Svydnyts'kyi (1834-1871) was a colleague of the poet at the seminary in 1851
- 1856. In his novel "Liuborats'ki" (1886) he satirically describes
life of the provincial clergy, a lot of plots depict way of life of the inhabitants
of Podillia and Kamyanets' and show a severe reality of life of the seminarists.
In September, 1870 the writer visit the city of his youth for the last time
and wrote about it in the sketch"Tuda i obratno" ("There And
Back"). Kalenyk Vasyliovych Sheykovs'kyi (1835 - 1903), Ukrainian linguist,
scientist, teacher, enlightener and publisher, who also studied at the seminary
in 1852-1858, collaborated with Rudans'kyi and Svydnyts'kyi. He published the
first printed book on ethnography of the country - "Byt Podolian"("Life
of Podolians") (edition �-��, kyiv, 1859, 1860). He assembled and published
"Opyt yujno-russkogo slovaria" ("Experience of the South-Russian
Dictionary") (1861), popular textbook "Domashniaya nauka" ("Home
Study") and opened Ukrainian schools in Kyiv.
Because of the passage of the seminary to a specially built house in New City
in 1865, a district Orthodox theological school was located in the house till
the beginning of the XX century. From 1914 to 1919 the house was given to the
historical-archeographic department of Ancient Depository (historical museum).
Y.I. Sitsyns'kyi (1859 - 1927), a scolar, researcher of the history of Podillia
has worked there. Olexandr Ivanovych Prusevych (1878 - 1944) - a Polish historian
of Podillia, geologist, founder of Podillian society of naturalists, editor
of its works was the main keeper of the library of the museum. In 1915 he published
the book "Kamyanets'-Podil's'kyi, Historical Sketch" (in Polish),
he is also an author of "Materials on Bibliography of Podillia" (editions
�-�, 1914). He left for L'viv because of the Civil War (1919).
In 1928-1932, the building was turned into the Pioneers' House. Today, the picture-gallery
of the historical museum is located there (from 1982).
Sources and Literature:
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"���������� ������������ ���������". 1888. - � 38
��������� �. �������-����������. - K. - 1895. - �.200.
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- �., 1984. - �. 5-23.
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XIX ��. //�������� ������ ��������� ��������-���������. �����������. - ����
- 1970. - �.181-185.
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1986. - �.185-186.
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Translated
by Yana Anufriyeva
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