TheStauropegion Institutewas one of the most important cultural and educational institutions inGalicia(todaywestern Ukraine) from the end of the 18th century untilWorld War II.For much of its history it was controlled byGalician Russophiles.
History
editThe Stauropegion Institute was founded inLvivin 1788 on the orders ofJoseph II,Emperor of Austria soon after Austria annexedEastern Galicia,now western Ukraine, from Poland during theFirst Partition of Poland.It was based on theLviv Dormition Brotherhood,aUkrainian Catholicreligious brotherhood.[1]
Until the mid-19th century the Stauropegion Institute was the only large educational and cultural institution in western Ukraine. It operated a printing press, bound and sold books, maintained a scholarship fund, and published textbooks and spelling primers. In the mid-19th century the Institute was taken over byGalician Russophilesand controlled by them until 1915. It was then controlled by the Ukrainophiles until 1922, when thePolishgovernment restored Russophile control over the Institute. From the late 19th century its publications were written inIazychie(a Western Ukrainian academic language that combined Russian, Church Slavonic, western Ukrainian and Polish speech) before switching to the Russian language in the 20th century. The Stauropegion Institute was liquidated by theSovietauthorities when theyannexed western Ukraine in 1939and its collection was transferred to the Lviv's branch of the Central State Historical Archives of theUkrainian SSR.[1]
Collection
editThe Stauropegion Institute had a large endowment and owned several parcels of land and buildings throughout Lviv. It housed numerous important historical and cultural documents. The Institute's collection included the 12th century Horodyshche Apostolos, the 13th century Horodyshche Gospel,The Book of the Soul Named Goldwritten byPeter Mogila,17th centuryMetropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Ruthenia', the Lviv Chronicles, various royal Polish patents, grants, and charters from the years 1522–1767, 16th and 17th century documents from Moldavian princes and from the Patriarch of Constantinople, printed books from the 15th century and onward, and religious art.[1]
See also
editNotes
edit- ^abcStauropegion InstituteEncyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5. (1993). Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies,University of TorontoPress.
External links
edit- Stauropegion Institute website (Ukrainian)
- Orlevych, I.Stauropegion Institute.Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.