“The most valuable monument is a house that is destroyed”: which exhibits of the Roman Shukhevych museum could not be saved
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Most of the exhibits are from the museum of the UPA corporal general destroyed by the Russians Roman Shukhevich is safe. However, according to museum workers, the most valuable monument was the building itself in Lviv.
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This was reported by Radio Svoboda.
Even at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, about 600 of the most valuable museum exhibits were moved to a safe place.
“The most valuable monument is a house that has been destroyed. Most of the main collection was taken from the museum at the beginning of the war and it survived. There were some things in the museum that were oversized“, said the deputy of the Lviv Historical Museum Petro Slobodian.
Roman Shukhevych’s house burned down along with the furniture due to the impact of the “Shakhed” debris. Among the things were chairs, a table, a piano and an armchair. It was not possible to evacuate the bust of Shukhevych, created by a Ukrainian sculptor-monumentalist Mykhailo Chereshniovskyi.
| Ruins on the site of Shukhevych’s museum. Photo: Andriy Sadovy |
The Lviv Military Administration estimated the value of the house at 2 million 258 thousand hryvnias, but the greater value was in the history of this house. In addition to the usual living quarters, the headquarters of the UPA commander was also located there.
About the house-museum of Roman Shukhevich
The Museum of UPA Corporal Roman Shukhevich worked as a department of the Lviv Historical Museum. It was located in Lviv at the address of st. Belogorshcha, 76A.
This is a memorial-type museum, located in the two-story building where Shukhevych died.
On the first floor of the building there was a historical exposition of 5 halls, which tells about the life of Roman Shukhevich. Each hall was dedicated to a separate topic: the history of the Shukhevych family, the family’s struggle for the national idea, documents and records of the corporal general, the birth of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
The second showed the activities of the UPA headquarters. In particular, there is a hiding place that was located at the entrance to the attic and separated it from the room by a double board wall. During the restoration of the building, a bullet from a “Walter” pistol was found in a wooden wall, opposite the entrance to the hideout.
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