On one of the streets of old Lviv there is a beautiful two-story house, which is more than a hundred years old. Now nobody lives in it. Since 1940, the Ivan Franko Memorial Museum has been opened in this house. It was in this house that the great Ukrainian poet, prose writer and thinker Ivan Yakovlevich Franko lived and worked since 1902. Despite the fact that the poet worked very hard, he could not save money for his own house. The well-known writer in those years was helped by the Lviv youth, who collected a certain amount and his wife, who received the inheritance. Construction of a house has begun on a small plot of land purchased on the outskirts of Lviv.
Construction was not easy due to moving soil and a lack of funds. Ivan Franko had to take a loan from the bank for 37 years. The house was completed and the family moved into a new home. The house, although new, was very cold, windy and damp. The sun hardly penetrated into Ivan Yakovlevich's office. This house, so long-awaited, did not bring happiness to the Franco family. Here Ivan Yakovlevich, as before, works colossally a lot, here he writes his famous poem "Moses". Here, perhaps due to the constant cold, paralysis of the hands occurs, the son Andrei dies tragically, and the wife, who could not bear the death of her son, is mentally disturbed. In this house, Ivan Franko himself goes into another world, practically alone and in terrible poverty.
There is an opinion that in all these misfortunes, the place in which the house is built is to blame. The mansion is located in a geopathogenic zone.