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House of
the Seminary (Roman-Catholic), 1782. Preservation #1634 | Foto
18 Pol's'kyi Rynok Sq.
It is
built in the place of former buildings. In the second half of the XIX century,
over the north-western part of the building the third floor was built on, a
shingle roofing was replaced by an iron one, the window aprons and window sashes
on the eastern elevation are partly changed. In the 1950's, the third floor
was built on over the eastern part of the building, some window opennings and
pilasters were cut on the eastern elevation.
The building is stone, three-storied with a basement, plastered, U-shaped in
plan. Originally, it had a Baroque decor (pilasters, "big-eared" window
aprons, different stone busts, placed at the edge of the roof from the northern
part along the axes of the pilasters; the principal profiled cornice remained
partly. The coverings of the basement and of the first floor are vaults, another
are flat. There is a three-chambered basement under the north-eastern part of
the building. Planning is corridor with one- and two-side arrangement of the
lodgements. The roof is hipped on the wooden rafters, the roofing is iron and
slate.
The monument is a typical example of an educational institution in one building.
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Translated
by Yana Anufriyeva
mail to: [email protected]
Building
of the Roman-Catholic Theological
Seminary, of Podil's'ka guberns'ka (government) Lenin
printing-house
18
Tsentral'na Sq.(Pol's'kyi Rynok Sq.)
It is situated in the central part of the Old Town. It is stone, two-storied
with shingle roof, three-chambered, U-shaped, the front of the building (the
eastern side) faced Rynkova (Central'na) square. It was built in 1782. The building
was decorated with pilasters and window aprons in baroque taste. 7 busts of
the bishops (in the XIX c. they were replaced on the counterforts of the close
by Cathedral) were placed at the edge of the roof in the northern part of the
building. In the second half of the XIX century, in the north-western part,
and in 1950 - in the eastern - the third floor was built on, the windows were
altered, the roof was covered with tin. As a result, the outward appearance
of the building was changed, the Baroque decor dissapeared.
From 1792 to 1793, the Roman Catholic Theological Seminary was situated there.
Because of including Podillia under Russian power the seminary was closed and
from 1796 the departments of the government of architecture administration and
the surveying committee had been there. In 1807, one of the ancient Ukrainian
printing-houses of Podillian government began to work, till the end of the XIX
century, it occupied almost the whole building. From 1838 till the beginning
of the XX century, it published "Podol'skiye Gubernskiye Vedomosti"
("Podillian Government Bulletin"), "Podol'skiye Yeparhial'nyie
Vedomosti"("Podillian Diocesan Bulletin"), in 1881-1882, the
first mass democratic newspaper "Podil's'kyi Lystok" ("Podillian
List")(editor V.Storozhevs'kyi), from 1906 to 1920, the newspaper "Podillia",
annual "Adres-Kalendar Podol'skoy Gubernii" ("Address-Calendar
of Podillian Government"), "Spravochnyi Listok Podol'skogo Obshchestva
Sel'skogo Hoziaystva i Promyshlennosti"("The Information List of Podillian
Society of Agriculture and Industry"), "Telegraphnyi Bulleten' Torgovo-Telegraphnogo
Agenstva Ministerstva Finansiv" ("The Telegraph Bulletin of Trade
and Teleraph Agency of the Ministry of Finance") and others.
At the beginning of the XX century, the printing-house was a great enterprise.
Its workers took an active part in strikes, meetings and demonstrations of 1905.
The printing-house was smashed up by police in July,1906 because of printing
the revolutionary lists. Mychaylo Mykolayovych Kushelev (1888-1971) was working
there as a printer from 1904 to 1917. He was the first leader of the city Council
of workers' and soldiers' deputies (1917), then he became a freeman of Kamyanets'-Podil's'kyi.
Grygoriy Adamovych Golovanevs'kyi-Bars'kyi (1896-1966), a worker of the printing-house,
was his brother-in-arms in the Council. 'The Appeal of Petrograd Military-Revolutionary
Committee to the Citizens of Russia" (1917) was printed in the printing-house,
during Ukrainian liberation movement the printing-house published mass editions.
During the the soviet rule in the printing-house the newspapers "Visti"
("News") (1920, 1921), "Chervona Pravda" ("Red Truth")(1921-1922),
literary miscellany "Buyannia" (1922-1923) had been printed there,
the department of Gospolitizdat (State Publishing House) of Ukraine had been
quartered there (from 1922). In 1924, the printing-house was named in honour
of V.I. Lenin, and began to publish oblast's newspaper "Chervonyi Kordon"
("Red Border") (till 1941). In the 20-30's, such gifted Ukrainian
writers and poets as I.Y.Kulyk, I.D.Dniprovs'kyi, M.A.Dray-Khmara, L.D.Dmyterko,
T.G.Masenko, N.P.Godovanets', Ostap Vyshnia, V.L.Polishchuk, V.Y.Svidzyns'kyi,
Myroslav Irchan, I.P.Bagrianyi, S.Z.Bozhko, O.L.Kundzych, V.P.Beliayev cooperated
with the editorial staffs of the newspapers and literary miscellanies printed
in the printing-house.
Nowadays the printing-house is still working in the building.
The memorial plate with the imprint of V.I.Lenin's bas-relief and dedicatory
text was placed on the front of the building in 1970. (artist Z.K. Chaykha).
Sources and Literature:
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313-314.
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166, 238-239.
������� �. � ������ �����. // ��������� ������. - 1987. - 28 ����.
���������� �. ��������� �� �����. // ������ ������. - ���'�����-����������,
1982. - 5 ���.
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APPENDIX
�. The text on the memorial plate: "In February, 1924 the printing-house
was named after foundator of Communist Party and Soviet State Volodymyr Illich
Lenin".
Translated
by Yana Anufriyeva
mail to: [email protected]