Note 119 — Chapter 31 My Father’s Death—My Heritage—The Partition—Two Nephews

In the Time of Trouble at the beginning of the seventeenth century the famous Troitse-Sergievsky Monastery made an heroic resistance against the Poles. Avraamy Palitsyn, the Father Superintendent, together with the Abbot, issued manifestoes calling on the people to drive out the Poles and elect a Tsar.—(Translator’s Note.)