Ruthenian sobor, or Ruthenian Congress ( uk, Руський cобор) was a Polonophile Political Committee, based in Lviv and created on May 23, 1848 by

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...

nobleman of Ukrainian origin "in the name of supporting harmony and unity in peace Motherland". Ruthenian sobor had 64 members strongly opposed the Polish-Ukrainian administrative partition of Galicia (Eastern and Western Galicia) and collaborated with the

Polish People's Council Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

. Ruthenian sobor was opposite of the

Supreme Ruthenian Council Supreme Ruthenian Council ( uk, Головна Руська Рада, Holovna Ruska Rada) was the first legal Ruthenian political organization that existed from May 1848 to June 1851. It was founded on 2 May 1848 in Lemberg (today Lviv), Austri ...

. It operated during the

Spring of Nations The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Springtime of Nations, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe starting in 1848. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in Europea ...

time, and was dissolved with the reestablishment of the government control by fall that year. Its leaders was Leon Sapieha, A., J., and

Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki Count Włodzimierz Ksawery Tadeusz Dzieduszycki (; 22 June 1825 – 18 September 1899) was a Polish noble, landowner, naturalist, political activist, collector and patron of arts of Ruthenian heritage. Włodzimierz became the first Ordynat of t ...

, and J. and L. Jabłonowski.

External links

Ruthenian Congress in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993)

References

History of Lviv 1848 establishments in Europe 1848 disestablishments in Europe History of Ruthenia {{Ukraine-hist-stub