On June 30, 1705, emerging from a nocturnal orgy at dawn, he visited the monastery of the Ruthenian Basilian Fathers in Polotsk, planted himself in front of the statue of the blessed Jehoshaphat, who was represented with an ax driven into his skull, and demanded in a thick voice: "Who put this holy man in such a sad state?" "It was the schismatics
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