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UDK 730.032.025.4-047.24]:728.82(477.83-22)

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

The date the article was first submitted to the publication 4.01.2026

The date the article was accepted for publication after review 23.01.2026

The date of publication (publication)

SAVING SCULPTURES FROM THE PALACE IN OLD ROZDOL. ACCORDING TO THE STORY OF A PARTICIPANT OF THOSE EVENTS

HORBAL Маrіa

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Abstract. The article is a tribute to the outstanding associate of national culture, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize, Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Hero of Ukraine Borys Voznytsky. As the General Director of the Lviv National Gallery of Arts, he saved priceless rarities from oblivion, collected them everywhere: in abandoned castles, in closed cathedrals — antique figures or wooden figures of saints — from the fragments that lay crushed, restored them and exhibited them both in Ukraine and around the world. One of such objects of search for rarities — antique sculptures — for B. Voznytsky was the Lantskoronsky castle in Stary Rozdol.

Back in the early 20th century the Lantskoronsky castle had a luxurious collection of works of art, weapons, tapestries, and a library. Cultural experts compared it to the Louvre or the British Museum. In 1884, Carlo Anton Lantskoronsky organized a scientific expedition to Asia Minor to search for and study Greek antiquity. …Apparently, it was then that samples of ancient sculpture were brought to Stary Rozdol.

The relevance of the topic is determined by the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the scientist’s birth. The purpose of the article is to describe in detail the course of the expedition in the fall of 2002 to the Lantskoronsky Castle in Stary Rozdol in order to save and preserve ancient sculptures for the Ukrainian people. The object of the study is the Lantskoronsky Castle in Stary Rozdol, and the subject of the study is the process of finding ancient sculptures that were in the castle as a result of a search expedition in the fall of 2002 with the participation of Zenovia Horbal, the driver of the KamAZ-5320 truck, who provides detailed evidence of this expedition.

The methodological basis of the study was the methods of field ethnographic research, in particular interviewing the respondent, typological and structural-functional methods.

Keywords: Borys Voznytskyi, Stary Rozdil, Lyanskoronsky Castle, search expedition, ancient sculptures, Zenoviy Horbal, driver of the KamAZ-5320.

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  • Voznytskyi, Boris. (2008). All great discoveries are made by chance. However, they take decades to complete. Antique sculpture in the collection of the Lviv Art Gallery. Sensational discovery. Lviv [in Ukrainian].
  • Treasures of the palace in Rozdoli. Where did the luxurious collection from the Lyanskoronsky estate in the Lviv region go? Retrieved from: https://news.blog.net.ua/2023/11/skarby-palatsu-u-rozdoli-kudy-podilasia-rozkishna-kolektsiia-z-maietku-liantskoronskykh-na-lviv [in Ukrainian].
  • Shiyan, Orysia. Treasures of the palace in Rozdoli. Retrieved from: https://zaxid.net/skarbi_palatsu_u_rozdoli_kudy_podilasia_colektsiya_z_mayetku_lyantskoronskih_n1574808 [in Ukrainian].
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