The ruins of the Jesuit monastery
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The ruins of the Jesuit monastery town of Zhitomir - is preserved architectural monument of national importance. The historic building, built in 1724, located in the central part of the city, between the River Kamenka and the Castle hill, in the beginning of the street Chernyakhovsky, 12.

Jesuit Eurydice was founded after the Polish King August II of its privilege to give these lands to the Order of the Jesuits, who founded the monastery and college here. Juridical - administrative and independent, separate part of the city, which are not covered administrative and judicial powers of local government. There is an appropriate spiritual places, the first in the city schools, homes for students and teachers, as well as butchery, bakery, shops, candle factory. Besides juridiko before it had its own court. In 1789, the magistrate of Zhytomyr asked the Polish crown court that he ordered the Jesuits to pay taxes to the city budget, explaining that there is a massacre and sold various items, and all this without any remuneration city.

After a while the land began to rent out to urban residents. Eurydice tightly and quickly but chaotically built up. In 1792, after joining the Russian Empire Volyn lands some right juridiko were canceled. In 1893 Catherine II issued a decree on liquidation of the Jesuit monastery, and in the buildings of legal accommodate provincial government offices.

During the military operation of liberation from Nazi invaders, most survivors of legal structures were completely destroyed. In 1960-1980 gg. in their place was built a complex of houses and buildings for a number of organizations. To date, all the old buildings of the monastery complex there are only a dilapidated two-story building housing privately.

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