The former Lublin Province School located at Narutowicza street number 12 (currently the Faculty of Pedagogy of Psychology of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University) was erected between 1857-59 thanks to the efforts of its principal – Józef Skłodowski (1804-1882). He was an esteemed teacher and a grandfather of the Nobel prize winner Marie Curie-Skłodowska (the patron of the local university - see: stop 19).
Among the school’s graduates were the outstanding characters:
- Aleksander Głowacki (known as Boleslaw Prus) - writer, the author of the "Notes from Lublin" (a chronicles of the cultural and social life) or "The Doll" novel, were the reader can also find Lublin inspirations;
- Tadeusz Gałecki (known as Andrzej Strug) - famous writer and journalist;
- Julian Ochorowicz - a philosopher and psychologist, also a poet known as Julian Mohort, the inspiration for the character of Ochocki in "The Doll".
- Aleksander Jaworowski - Lublin doctor and social-worker.
All of the aforementioned graduated in 1866 - the last year when teaching was in Polish language, before it was prohibited by the Russian invader. When the institution functioned as a Russian gymnasium, one of its students was also Tadeusz Gałecki (1871-1937), zesłaniec syberyjski, a member of the Polish Socialist Party, legionary, novelist and publicist known as under the pen name Andrzej Strug. His birthplace is the building at Krakowskie Przedmieście street number 25, and the family manor is located in the Konstantynów district.
