«ТЕКИ ШНАЙДЕРА» ЯК ДЖЕРЕЛО ДО ІСТОРІЇ СЕЛА ПІДГІРЦІ НА ЛЬВІВЩИНІ (1790–1870).

This article examines one of Schneider’s files dedicated to the village of Pidhirtsi (located now Zolochiv district, Lviv region). The materials collected in this separate «Folder» are pretty diverse and correspond to the idea of Antoni Schneider (1825–1880) – to use them to create an encyclopedic article on the history of the settlement. This article was part of the researcher’s ambitious plan to publish a multi-volume «Encyclopedia of Galicia», describing every settlement, even the smallest ones. The materials in the folder include original documents from the 1790s to the 1870s (in Polish, German, and Latin), lists of rural residents and, accordingly, voters to the Galician Regional Sejm for 1867–1870, handwritten notes and a hand-drawn map of the area, as well as newspaper clippings, individual pages from books with publications about Pidhirtsi (Pidhirtsi Castle, Pidhirtsi Monastery, Plisnesko, etc.). The researcher’s bibliographic notes accompany all these materials on publications, where you can find more information on a specific topic. Quite interesting are fragments of estimates of the Pidhirtsi Monastery for 1823–1824, which, in addition to financial information, contain references to residents, as well as residents of the city of Zolochiv (in particular, Jews), where goods were purchased. The researcher also paid much attention to information about the natural resources of the settlement (forests, reservoirs and springs, deposits of minerals (brown coal) and rocks (clay)). He also drew attention to various interesting facts about local life, particularly the existence of a post office in the first third of the 19th century and a printing house at the castle in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This miscellany of materials from the «Teka» does not provide a comprehensive picture of everyday life in the period under study in the context of a single village. However, it does highlight events that would have gone unnoticed without Schneider’s meticulousness.