Taras Dyshkant

BUSK (Lviv oblast) After launching a crackdown on the Zaporozhian Sich and the Ukrainian people, the “extraordinarily talented”, to quote Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Russian-language work Istoriia Rusov (History of the Rus’ People) appeared in the Russian Empire. Present-day Lviv historians note that...

Years ending in the number 6 are significant not only for Ivan Franko but another native of Halychyna — Ilarion Svientsitsky. He was born in the ancient princely town of Buzhsk (now Busk) on April 7, 1876, in what was then known as the suburb of Dovha Storona (now Markian Shashkevych Street) and...