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Church cemetery in Lutsk

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Church cemetery in Lutsk

Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Documentation was made for the cemetery (1 card stored in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage). Information about the cemetery published (see bibliography).

In the courtyard of the former Bernardian church (now Holy Trinity Cathedral), which after the liquidation of the monastery served as a parish church before being renamed an Orthodox church in 1867 https://web.archive.org/web/20111113154012/http://www.pravoslavja.lutsk.ua/svjatyni/khramy/trijtsja_lutsk , there is an Orthodox cemetery. According to Zbigniew Hauser, it was a Catholic cemetery until 1832. At the beginning of the 19th century, due to plans to develop the area, some of the graves and monuments were moved to another Roman Catholic cemetery in Lutsk https://monitorwolynski.com/pl/news/31-gdzie-umarli-patrz-na-niebo-wierzc-w-mdro-yjcych . However, this one has not survived to the present day (only the neo-classical cemetery chapel has survived), as it was decommissioned in the late 1960s and early 1970s so that a rest park with Soviet monuments could be built on its site.

In the Orthodox church cemetery, tombstones of people with Polish surnames have been preserved - according to Zbigniew Hauser, these may be the surnames of Russified Poles: Podczaszyński, Brodowicz, Leśnickij and Ryżkowskij (inscriptions in Russian), and a stone tombstone topped with a cross of a Polish notary, Jan Ilnicki, with an inscription in Polish; unfortunately, the date of death has been removed (unmarked). Two tombstones bear a signature with the name Oleszkiewicz from Zhytomyr - tombstones signed in this way can also be found in other cemeteries in Volhynia (cf. the Catholic cemetery in Korc). .

Bibliography:

  • „Cmentarze polskie poza granicami kraju” , raport, oprac. B. Gutowski, Warszawa 2022 (maszynopis).
  • Hauser Zbigniew, „Podróże po cmentarzach Ukrainy”, t. IV, „Województwa: wołyńskie, podolskie, bracławskie i kijowskie”, Kraków 2009, s. 87-89.

Author:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, Alicja Czuber-Filonik
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