page_title: Basil de Weryha-Wysoczański
section_title: Philanthropy
hierarchical_section_title: Basil de Weryha-Wysoczański / Philanthropy
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Церква Святого Миколая (Верхнє Висоцьке)
context_page_description: Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz was a Polish wholesale merchant, landowner, town property owner and philanthropist from Odessa.
  He came from an old noble family of Walachian boyar stock and was the 4th son of Jan, 2nd Chevalier Wysoczański de Pietrusiewicz. He had one daughter, Wilhelmine, who married a Swiss rentier and died at age 19 in Cannes, as well a favoured place of her father and of the international nobility in general. The son of his niece Anna was composer Yaroslav Yaroslavenko, for whom de Weryha-Wysoczański stood sponsor.
context_section_description: De Weryha-Wysoczański donated £2.340.000 for scholarships, for the education of children. After the death of his only daughter, he gave in Odessa, in February 1885, £900.000 for orphaned girls who would be paid dowries. He founded the Saint Nicholas Church in Wysocko Wyżne, Austro-Hungarian Empire, the consecration of which took place on 13 October 1891. Its architect was Jan Lewiński and its polychromy was carried out by Teofil Kopystyński. It is a large church with both neoclassical and neobyzantine elements.
caption: St. Nicholas Church in Wysocko Wyżne donated by Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, built by Jan Lewiński
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