Одесские костелы в мемуарах и литературе ХІХ–ХХ веков

Abstract

The article contains information about three churches of Odessa: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1805), St. Clement (1906) and the Church of St. Peter. The description of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral is often found in memoirs and fiction. The first who describe it was Prince Ivan Dolgorukiy in 1810; the church is mentioned in the descriptions of Odessa in the 1830-s made by P. Morozov and P. Svinyin. The church is described in detail in the book of Jozef Kraszewski Remembering Odessa, Edisan and Budzhak 1843. The guides of V. Kokhansky (1892) and G. Moskvich (1904) describe the exterior and interior of the church. It is mentioned in the story Dreams of Chang by I. Bunin (1916); a detailed description was left by Yuriy Olesha in his memoir Book of Farewell. The church of St. Clement was blown up in 1936. It is mentioned in the diary of the poet P. Tychyna, who was in Odessa in 1920, the exterior and doors of the church are described in the novel The Golden Calf by I. Ilf and E. Petrov, the Gothic belfry is mentioned in the story of L. Panteleev The Hotel Londonskaya. The third church is the only one that has been in operation since its foundation, but it is not described in literature.