The text recalls a castle in Volhynia, which belonged to various Ruthenian princes, and in the first half of the 18th century passed into the hands of the Lubomirski family. According to the text, at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, the castle was remodelled into a modern building, and what remained of the old fortifications was a large bastion, a huge gate with a turret and a moat (Source: Tygodnik Illustrowany, Warsaw 1876, Series 3, T:1, pp. 8-9, after: Digital Library of the University of Łódź).

A modernised reading of the text

Dubna Castle.

Among the many castles of old Volhynia, the eternal seat under the name of Duben is mentioned in chronicles as early as the end of the 11th century, as a property granted to Prince David Igorovich. Subsequently, it was ruled by various Ruthenian princes, and in the 13th century it belonged to Prince Mstislav Danilevich, son of the historically famous Daniel, King of Halych. It was a fortified town at the time, but it must have been built of wood, as in the following century Tartar attacks and civil wars destroyed it so badly that it fell into a rural settlement. In this condition, it was granted by Wladyslaw Jagiello to Teodor Danilovich, Prince of Ostrog, in whose family it remained until the latter's death and was later incorporated into the Ostrog Ordinance.

Konstantin, the famous Prince of Ostrog, restored Dubno to its importance as a town, surrounded it with a wall between 1489 and 1507 and, according to legend, lifted or rather rebuilt the ancient castle. Since then, counted among the country's stronger strongholds, the castle managed to withstand the severe wars of 1577, 1645 and 1660, remaining intact in them. It was not until the first half of the 18th century, when the Ordynat became the property of the Sanguszkos by marriage and the last Ordynat died in the local castle in 1775, that Dubno passed to the Lubomirskis. Prince Michał, son of Stanislaw, Voivode of Warsaw, one of the richest lords in Rus, who died in 1793, converted the castle into a modern building. At that time, the old building was turned into an annexe, and all that was left of the once mighty fortress was a beautiful, spacious bastion, a huge entrance gate with a turret added later, and a magnificent moat, overlooked by the small river Ikwa.