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In Lviv love stories, of course, there is also a story about love at first sight. In the 17th century, Jadvishka Lushkovska, the daughter of an impoverished merchant, lived in a tenement at 30 Rynok Square. In 1684, the Polish king Wladyslaw the Fourth came to Lviv. While driving through Rynok Square, he happened to see Jadvishka, who greeted her monarch from the window, and fell in love for the rest of his life.

Polish king Władysław IV Vasa (1595–1648).

The king took the beautiful Lviv woman to Warsaw and settled in his palace. The love of the king caused concern and indignation in the highest circles. The papal nuncio and the archbishop believed that Jadwiška simply bewitched the king, and tried to eradicate this feeling with holy water and asceticism. But these means did not help, and then it was decided to marry Vladyslav.

The Polish king soon married the Austrian princess Cecilia Renata, a very serious and pious girl. After the new queen asked what kind of person it was that laughed so merrily, Jadvishka was moved to another palace. This also did not help, the king constantly visited her. Then Jadwiška Lushkowska was married to a nobleman who had good estates in Lithuania. There was excellent hunting in these places, and the king was a passionate hunter and often visited there, where he lived for several months.

Tsicilia Renata - Vladislava IV squad. Bl. 1642

Vladislav the Fourth was widowed, married a second time, but did not leave his love and died in the arms of Jadwishka in the spring of 1648. She was left alone, surrounded by general hatred, and her further fate is unknown.

Author Ilko LEMKO (Lemko I. Legends of old Lviv. - Lviv: "Apriori", 2008)

Source: https://lviv1256.com/