The Museum of the History of the Lutsk Brotherhood is the only museum in Ukraine dedicated to a specific brotherhood organization. It opened on September 27, 2011, on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, in the building of the former Brotherhood Exaltation of the Cross Monastery in Staryi Lutsk, on Yova Kondzelevych Street. The museum was established by the Volyn Regional Brotherhood of Saint Andrew the First-Called Apostle and the Volyn Local History Museum.
Lutsk Brotherhood
The Lutsk Exaltation of the Cross Brotherhood of laity and clergy began to take shape in 1617 as a center of the Orthodox nobility of the Volyn Voivodeship. After the Union of Brest, the brothers set out to revive the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and in a short time, the brotherhood became a powerful social, educational, and financial corporation of Volyn. In the 1720s, the brotherhood monks joined the Union, and from the 1740s until 1833, a Uniate brotherhood existed at the monastery. At the end of the 19th century and during the interwar years, there were attempts to revive the Orthodox brotherhood at the Exaltation of the Cross Church, which was saved after the fire of 1803.
Notable Brothers
The Lutsk Brotherhood included the monk from Athos Isakii Boryskovych, archimandrite Ioan Kurtsevych, playwright Ioanikii Volkovych, hetman Ivan Vyhovskyi, bishops Afanasii Puzyna and Hedeon Sviatopolk-Chetvertynskyi, metropolitan Dionisii Balaban, patron Halshka Hulevychivna, poet Danylo Bratkovskyi, icon painter Yov Kondzelevych, lawyer Petro Kosach, and historians Orest Levytskyi and Ivan Vlasovskyi.
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Nearby
Lutsk, Lesina Vitalnya — in the Old Town.
