[DUCHIŃSKI Franciszek Henryk] - The story of the killing of the Bazilians in the Polotsk church by the Moscow Czar,...

[DUCHIŃSKI Franciszek Henryk] - Historia o pozabiianiu Bazilianów w połockiey cerkwi przez czar moscowskiy, etc. w roku 1705-tym dnia 30 junia stare. Paris [!] 1863. printing and lithography PP. Renou et Maulde. 8, p. 22. broch.
Wraps slightly rubbed, local browning of paper. Stamp. "According to sources cited by Duchinsky, a drunken Tsar Peter I forced his way with soldiers into the Uniate Cathedral of Divine Wisdom in Polotsk, where the relics of Saint Josaphat Kuncevich were kept. Peter I demanded from the superior of the monastery the keys to the tabernacle, and when he refused, he murdered the prior with his own hands; he ordered the four remaining monks to be drowned in the currents of the Dvina River [...]. This event reverberated among the population of the eastern lands of the Republic, and the Uniate clergy, fearing the approaching Russian army, were forced to leave Polotsk" (Wikipedia).