Ruthenian sobor, or Ruthenian Congress () was a

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Political Committee, based in Lviv and created on May 23, 1848 by

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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. Ruthenian sobor was opposite of the

Supreme Ruthenian Council Supreme Ruthenian Council () 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), Austrian Empire as the result of the 1848 Spring of Nations and in ...

. It operated during the

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

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, 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 the ...

, and J. and L. Jabłonowski.

External links

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

References

19th century in Lviv 1848 establishments in Europe 1848 disestablishments in Europe History of Ruthenia {{Ukraine-hist-stub