Letychiv

Letychiv stands in Podolia near the meeting of the Southern Bug and the Vovk. Its fortress and Dominican sanctuary recall the contested history of a town on the Commonwealth's southeastern frontier. The stone castle was built under Jan Potocki in 1598, and a Dominican church followed in 1605. The town suffered in the wars of the seventeenth century and came under Ottoman rule from 1672 to 1699. An icon venerated at the Dominican church, removed during the fighting, returned in 1723. With the second partition of Poland in 1793, Letychiv became part of the Russian Empire.