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The new fashion for "Viva" (Latin "vivat" means "glory") - large conical cups - came in the second half of the XVII century. They were used at events, celebrations. It is decorated with various emblems showing us who are the owners of Viva. Here is exhibited viva, which once belonged to the Sobieski family. The best known representative of this family is King Jan III Sobieski. He was born in 1629 in Oles'ko (Lviv region now) and his royal residence in was Zhovkva (Lviv region now). The King was owned also a building on a Market sq. in Lviv (Market sq., 6 now), where the "Eternal Peace" between the Polish State and Muscovy was signed in 1686. According to the document Ukrainian lands were shared along the Dnipro river: the left coast and the city of Kyiv went under Muscovy, right – to the Polish State. On one of the exposed Viva we can see the inscription King Augustus the II of Poland, AD 1710. Obviously this viva belonged to the Polish King Augustus the II, who took the throne after Jan III Sobieski.