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Cemetery in Rivne

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Cemetery in Rivne

The city cemetery in Rivne with Polish gravestones is located on Dubienska Street in the western part of the city and is adjacent to the Ukrainian military cemetery. The fairly well-maintained cemetery is a burial place for Catholics and Orthodox Christians. The oldest gravestones are from the early 20th century. The gravestone monuments are quite diverse in form and material. On some of them photographs of the deceased have been preserved.

According to Zbigniew Hauser, most of the most interesting tombstones are located on the right side of the main avenue and in the depth of the cemetery. The gravestone of Maria Margulies Blachowicz, who died in 1927, by the Warsaw stonemason Roman S. Lubowiecki, founder of the workshop at 68 Dzika Street (the signature given by Hauser is not accurate). The workshop, run by descendants, still exists today http://www.kamieniarstwo-lubowiecki.pl/historia-zakladu . The gravestone monument consists of a cross on a plinth entwined with a floral garland and a full-figure sculpture of a young woman holding a bunch of flowers with both hands. The whole is complemented by an elaborate inscription. The content of the inscription is repeated on another unnamed gravestone. Also impressive is the monument on the grave of Leonia Szyczewska, née Wierzyńska, who died in 1904, with a sculpture of an agonised woman slipping by a cross. The tombstone of Edmund Jablonowski, who died in 1909, bears the signature of H.Oleshkevich of Zhytomyr, found in other cemeteries in Volhynia. Apart from the above-mentioned, there are many other impressive tombstones: topped with a stone and iron cross, a statue, a column, also in the form of rocks, knotty wood, tombstones.

In the cemetery there is a renovated section of Polish Army soldiers killed in battles against the Bolsheviks. This place is taken care of by the "Volyn" Scouting Troop of the Polish Scouting in Ukraine http://https://polonika.pl/co-nowego-/wojna-polsko-bolszewicka-1919-1920-miejsca-pamieci-narodowej-na-wolyniu- . More graves are still being discovered in the cemetery on the occasion of cleaning works https://monitorwolynski.com/pl/news/504-na-polskim-cmentarzu-w-r-wnem-znaleziono-nieznany-dot-d-poch-wek .

The former cemetery chapel has survived, but according to Hauser, in the 1990s it was used as a tool shop and shop. Two other Roman Catholic cemeteries have not existed since the 1950s and 1960s https://deomeo.pl/rowne-parafia-swietych-apostolow-piotra-i-pawla/ .

Documentation has been made for the cemetery (6 cards stored in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage). Information about the cemetery published (see bibliography).

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. 125-134.

Author:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, Alicja Czuber-Filonik
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