Three shots in church: the nun she loved
Żółkiew, now Zhovkva, 1929. Nineteen-year-old trainee teacher Olga Redkówna falls in love with a young Felician nun, Sister Prudencja. The story culminates in three shots in a crowded church and one of interwar Galicia’s most unusual criminal cases.
Drawing on contemporary newspapers, I reconstruct the lives of the two young women and the world of the Felician sisters. I also examine how psychiatry in the 1920s viewed love between women, and the legal questions raised by the case.
Sources
Діло 24.11.1929, 26.11.1929.
Gazeta Poranna, 24.11.1929.
Wiek Nowy, 23.11.1929.
Das Freie Wort = Wolne Słowo, 08.12.1929.
Gazeta Lwowska, 12.03.1930.
Dziennik Lwowski, 11.07.1928.
Wojciech Szot, Panna doktór Sadowska.
Юрій Винничук. Лесбійське кохання і смерть у Жовкві, Збруч.
Drawing on contemporary newspapers, I reconstruct the lives of the two young women and the world of the Felician sisters. I also examine how psychiatry in the 1920s viewed love between women, and the legal questions raised by the case.
Sources
Діло 24.11.1929, 26.11.1929.
Gazeta Poranna, 24.11.1929.
Wiek Nowy, 23.11.1929.
Das Freie Wort = Wolne Słowo, 08.12.1929.
Gazeta Lwowska, 12.03.1930.
Dziennik Lwowski, 11.07.1928.
Wojciech Szot, Panna doktór Sadowska.
Юрій Винничук. Лесбійське кохання і смерть у Жовкві, Збруч.