Collegium, Kremenets
A baroque Jesuit collegium of the 18th century — later the Volhynian Lyceum.
The collegium for the Jesuits was built at the expense of the Vyshnevetsky princes to a design by Pawel Gizycki (according to “Istorychna Volyn”, together with Paolo Fontana). It was built in 1731–1743 (according to the VUE) or 1731–1753 (according to the academy's website). The two- and three-storey U-shaped wings and the twin-towered church stand on a terrace with a ceremonial square. After the order was suppressed in 1773 a district school operated here, and in 1805, on the initiative of Tadeusz Czacki and Hugo Kollataj, the Volhynian Gymnasium opened, bringing the town fame as the “Volhynian Athens”; it became a lyceum in 1819 (according to “Istorychna Volyn”, in 1818). Because lyceum students took part in the Polish uprising of 1831, the school was closed in 1833, and its library and collections were confiscated for St Volodymyr's University in Kyiv. Since 1840 the former Catholic church has been the Orthodox Transfiguration Cathedral, now of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine; the wings house the Taras Shevchenko Kremenets Regional Academy of Humanities and Pedagogy.
A working school: the courtyard is open, the buildings by permission.