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Pałac w wołyńskim Romanowie i jego rzeźby

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Mikocka-Rachubowa K.

Biuletyn Historii Sztuki

2013

vol. 75

issue 1

37-69

The palace in Volhynia’s Romanów (Ukraine), raised starting from the 1790s until the first decades of the 19 th century, was the largest Neo-Classicist residence in the former eastern territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was built by Count Józef August Iliński (1766-1844), owner of vast estates, a Polish and Russian general, a senator. In December 1876, a fire broke out in the palace, thoroughly devastating the huge building together with the furnishing never to be rebuilt. There are three prints and several contemporary descriptions that allow to recreate the looks and furnishing of this building unpreserved for almost 140 years now. The sculptures decorating the palace were in their majority Italian, some of them may have been purchased by Senator Iliński during his trip to Italy, however most interesting is the provenance of the most exquisite marble statues and groups exposed in the main palace drawing-room, as they reached Romanów from Italy indirectly, via the Tsar’s court in St. Petersburg. According to Jan Duklan Ochocki, the four marble groups and fifteen statues showing mythological figures displayed in the ‘Crimson’ drawing-room came from the St. Petersburg St. Michael’s Castle and were works of contemporary sculptors.

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Pałac w wołyńskim Romanowie i jego rzeźby