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Culture of Lviv


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to:

�    Adam Mickiewicz

�    Ivan Franko

�    King Danylo

�    Taras Shevchenko

�    Ivan Fedorov

�    Solomiya Krushelnytska

�    Ivan Pidkova

�    Mykhailo Hrushevskyi

�    Pope John Paul II    �    Jan Kili?ski

�    Ivan Trush

�    Saint George

�    Bartosz G?owacki

�    Monument to the Virgin Mary

�    Nikifor

�    The Good Soldier �vejk

�    Stepan Bandera

�    Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

During the interbellum period there were monuments commemorated to important figures of the history of Poland. Some of these were moved to the Polish Recovered Territories, like the monument of Aleksander Fredro which now is in Wroc?aw, the monument of King Jan III Sobieski which after 1945 was moved to Gda?sk, and the monument of Kornel Ujejski which now is in Szczecin.

Books

Every day a book market takes place around the monument to Ivan F?dorovych. He was a typographer in the 16th century who fled Moscow and found a new home in Lviv. New ideas came to Lviv during the Austro�Hungarian Empire. In the 19th century many publishing houses, newspapers and magazines were established. Among these was the Ossolineum which was one of the most important Polish scientific libraries. Most Polish-language books and publications of the Ossolineum library are still kept in a local Jesuit church. In 1997 the Polish government asked the Ukrainian government to hand over these documents and in 2003 Ukraine allowed access to the publications. In 2006 an office of the Ossolineum (which now is located in Wroc?aw) was opened in Lviv and began a process to scan all its
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