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The author, a native of Horodok, a well-known writer, scholar of French studies, and winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, Roman Horak, tells about the difficult fate of the town of Horodok in Lviv from the first chronicle references to the proclamation of Ukrainian statehood. When the enemy grinded their swords against the walls of Lviv but failed to capture it, they took brutal revenge on this small town, 28 kilometres west of it, and often levelled it to the ground. Destroyed to the ground, it would rise from the ruins like the Phoenix and prepare for the next battle with the enemy. Events that had a fateful impact on our history took place here. Here, persecuted by fate, Ukrainian cultural and scientific figures found refuge, which is why it was called not only the City of Jagiellonian, because the great King Władysław Jagiełło, the hero of the Battle of Grunwald, died here, but also the Athens of Podlawsk. It was the cradle of prominent figures of not only Ukrainian but also Polish, German, and Jewish cultures.