The picture shows one of the oldest and most famous Lviv boulevards, built on the site of the moats and ramparts of the western side of the outer defensive wall of the Lviv city center. At the beginning of the 19th century at the initiative of the provincial councilor Wilhelm Reitzenheim, the surface of the excavated embankment was filled with earth and leveled. The park was filled with trees and ornamental shrubs typical of that time: chestnuts, maples, lindens, sedges, ash trees, acacias, birches, cherries, spruces, honeysuckle, viburnum, elderberry, acacia, lilac, and currants. The perimeter of the park was framed by pyramidal poplars and clipped shrubs. The long shady alleys immediately became a popular place for walks for the townspeople. The new boulevard received the unofficial name Reitzenheimivka, and then it was called the Governor's Ramparts. On the left is the facade of the Catholic seminary church, in the center - the bell tower of Kornyakt, the dome of the Dominican Church, the towers of the cathedral and the town hall. The urban landscape depicted by the artist is a characteristic image of the urban environment of the 1830s: a green lace of trees and bushes, slender Italian poplars, figures of Lviv residents

Oleh Vvedenskyi