The text recalls the history of the Kisiel family and the issue of Adam Kisiel's tomb, which is located in the village of Nieskienicze in the local cemetery (Source: Tygodnik Illustrowany, Warsaw 1869, Series 2, T:3, p. 200, after: Digital Library of the University of Łódź).

A modernised reading of the text.

Tomb of Adam Kisiel

This monument (to which we attach a drawing made from nature) has already been described many times. In the St. Petersburg Weekly of 1843 (no. 39), there is a description of the tomb and its long inscription. The same inscription is also found in Ancient Poland (volume 2). In 1860, the Tygodnik Ilustrowana published an extensive biography of Adam Kisiel and a drawing of part of his tomb. Not wishing to repeat ourselves, we refer you to the aforementioned sources, adding only a few words about this monument - if not distinguished by its age, then certainly by its historical significance.

The Kisiel family, now probably extinct, was one of the oldest Ruthenian families and produced several eminent figures. Their ancestral nest was the town of Kisielin (called Kisielgrod in old records), located in Volyn Governorate, Vladimir District. The Kisiels had long remained committed to the Greek rite - the faith of their ancestors. Adam Kisiel was also buried in a Ruthenian Orthodox church.

At the beginning of the 17th century, at a time of religious innovations and the development of Arianism, the Kisiels also adopted this faith. The main church and a well-known Arian school were located in Kisielin. Adam Ostafi Kisiel, a contemporary of Adam (the protagonist of this description), a man of great knowledge, was around 1625 the administrator of this school, taught there and zealously spread his denomination. The Germans, prone to appropriating prominent figures, tried to 'Germanise' Kisiel - Sandius called him Eustachius Gisel, and this is how he came to be portrayed.

After Ostafi Kisiel's death, the school was run in turn by Arian scholars Ludwik Holleisen, Piotr Stegman and Theodor Simones, and the pastor of the church was for some time Jędrzej Viszowaty, well-known in the history of Arianism. In 1684, however, he was expelled from Kisielin by a ruling of the Lublin tribunal. The school was dissolved and the church was transformed into the Catholic church that still exists today. Kisielin's heir, Jerzy Czaplic, also fell victim to persecution. After the collapse of the school, the town itself, once flourishing thanks to education, industry and trade, completely declined and today barely deserves to be called a town.

The village of Nieskienicze, whose local church contains the magnificent marble tomb of Adam Kisiello, lies only a few miles from Kisiello, also in the Vladimir district, in a sad, sandy area. It must have been Kisiel's favourite seat, since his wife, Anastasia Pokuchewiczówna, laid his body there and honoured her husband's memory with a moving gravestone inscription. However, no traces of the governor's residence have survived. It is possible, however, that Nieskienicze was the oldest residence of the Kisiel family.

Aleksander Kisiel, son of Duchess Czetwertyńska, was killed in King Jagiełło's army during an expedition against Svidrigiello. As a reward for his father's merits, Jogaila granted his son the estates of Niskinice and Dorohinicze (the latter in Kyiv governorate). In the deed of grant, these villages appear under the names "Niskinice" and "Dorohinice". From then on, the Kisiel family divided into two lines: the Volyn and Kyiv lines - the latter were sometimes referred to as 'Dorohinice'.

Adam Kisiel also owned estates near Kyiv, including the town of Brusilov. He often stayed there and signed his name "na Brusilov", which is mentioned on his tombstone.

Nieskienicze later passed to the Czaplic family, who took over the entire fortune from the Kisiels, and then to the Cyryn family. The local church has preserved a "presenta" (former church privilege), granted in 1733 by the heir of Francis of Lyszkovo Cyrin, a municipal judge of Vladimir.

At present, the property is in the possession of Mr Leon Modzelewski, who takes great care to preserve both the monument and the Orthodox church where this eminent man rests.