The text describes the village of Mizocz in Volhynia, which was owned by the Dunin-Karwicki family from 1747. The history of the manor is briefly recalled, and the buildings are described in detail. Also mentioned is the erection of a plaque commemorating Krzysztof Dunin-Karwicki in the Catholic church in 1913 (Source: 'Ziemia. Tygodnik Krajoznawczy Ilustrowany' Warsaw 1914, no. 16, pp. 8-11, after: Wielkopolska Biblioteka Cyfrowa).

A modernised reading of the text.

Mansions, castles and palaces in Mizocz.

The name of this village was supposedly derived from its location among a thicket of fruit trees: "Zocz mnie" - "me zocz" - the village of Mizocz, located in the central part of Volhynia, between Dubno, Ostrog and Rivne.

Until the mid-18th century, it was a village that was part of the huge Ostrog Ordinance. In 1747, it passed into the ownership of the Dunin-Karwicki family, in whose hands it has remained to this day. The first of this surname to move and settle here from his family nest of Karwie in Radomskie was Dunin-Karwicki, Regent of the Crown, and later Castellan of Zawichy. He and his wife, Helena of the Szembek family, castellan of Nakło, acquired the key of Mizocz from the last Ordynat of Ostrog, Janusz Prince Sanguszko, first on a life lease and then on purchase. At that time, Mizoch was a miserable village, still deserted from the Khmelnytsky wars.

Crown Regent Karwicki energetically set about raising it. First of all, he brought in Polish settlers, mainly skilled craftsmen, who were completely lacking in Russia at the time. He used them to raise, build and beautify Mizoč, for which he then received a charter from King August III for a town.

In the large manor house that he built for himself and his family, although it was repeatedly destroyed by fire, an extensive archive has been preserved. In one of his old sumarii, in a large leather-bound book, written in 1778 under the heading: "Message Posteritati o Dobrach Mizoczu". - we find the following historical data about this village, quoted verbatim here.

In the year from the creation of the world 6830 Judiciel the seventh, from the Nativity of Christ 1322 on the 20th day of the month of Decembra Lubart Gedyminovich, the Duke of Lutsk Vladimirovsk, gives to the Lutsk Lordship the lands near Lutsk as a fund: Rozyszcze and Teremne, and the villages of Borshch with the manor of Barszczew, Mizoch Wielki, Mizoch Mały, Buderaz, Piwcze and Tocheviki to the Ostrogski district near Ostrog, which fund was approved by Alexander the Great, Duke of Lithuania, etc., in Grodno in 1498. This fund was entered into the records of the Crown Metrics in 1629, on 31 March, in Warsaw, and then in 1738, on 19 February, it was entered and accepted in the Luck county registers per oblatam.

How the lord of Ostrog fell away from the church in Ostrog, which had been costly built, and by whom this cathedral church was founded, is not clear from documents or writing, only from human tradition, that schismatics attacked one princess of Ostrog and wanted to kill her, she was barely defended from her courtiers. Whether after this impious action schismatics were expelled from this church, that is of another time, of this there is no certainty, only constat, that the ruler of Lutsk 1553 die 5 aug. in Lutsk testified the donation for this fund property to lir. Pavlovich - Which donation and rights to Pavlovich Sigismund III, King of Poland, 1594 die 5 maii, ur. Pavlovich approved.

From whose successors the Duke of Ostrogski bought the Mizocz estate and other estates, expressed in a fund, and Duke Janusz Ostrogski attached them to the estates, separated into an ordination together with the Ostrogski key. Cyril Terlecki, Lord of Lutsk, with Konstantin Ostrogski, Voivode of Kyiv, started a lawsuit about which property, but after various tergiversions satisfied this attack of Lutsk rulers about property of Mizoch and others, which were bought from Pavlovich's successors, Konstantin, Duke of Ostrog, in 1645, on 23 March, at a general assembly between Reverend Athanasius Puzina, Lord of Lutsk, and the chapter - plaintiffs, and lir. Władysław Dominik of Ostrog and Zasław, Duke of Zasław, Crown Prince, Defendant and Crown Instigator ab indictio nec lord of Lutsk in perpetuum from the Mizocz estate with attys cum in positione perpetui silentii, a parliamentary decree during the reign of Wladyslaw the Fourth, from which estates the same decree ordered to pay annually to the bishop and the chapter of Lutsk 700 zlotys each, and this sum was paid annually by the heirs of Mizocz, as these staturated receipts until the revolution of Khmelnytsky. Everyone knows that the Khmelnytsky's revolution abolished this property, as did the whole country.

After the Khmelnitsky revolution was over, the Prince Zaslavsky, the heir, gave the right for life to lir. Radlinski to settle Mizocha. This lir. Radlinski, the ordinate colonel, piled the ramparts with slaves, erected the intramural court and settled the village pro posse. After the death of this colonel Radliñski and his son, who later had the right to Mizocz and Piwcze, Duke Aleksander Dominik Lubomirski, starost of Sandomierz and Zator, unicus successor bereś after the Zas³awskis, gave the right to these estates of Mizocz and Piwcze to W. Baranowski, his colonel, and after W. Baranowski's death to JW. Karol Wytycki, at that time the Prince of V. X. Lit. Lithuania, and then Castellan of Volhynia, which rights, after the death of the Duke of Lubomirski, Prefect of Sandomierz, were granted to the Duchess Maryanna née Lubomirska Sanguszkowa, sister of the Prefect of Sandomierz to the heirless Duke Paweł Sanguszko, Marshal of the Holy Trinity. Lithuania, wife, she approved, together with her husband, both for Karol Wytycki and his wife Barbara, née Węgorzewska. After her death, Duke Janusz Aleksander Sanguszko, at that time Grand Marshal of Lithuania, unicus successor e bereś, gave the right for life to W. Józef Konwicki, Crown Regent, his wife Helena Szembekówna, and Jan Nepomucen, his son, as we can read and inform in the documents below, which note for further information about these estates is presented here. The Holy Regent of the Crown, having taken the right for these estates, and having pledged desertam arabla, as there were no arrears of several hundred zlotys in these estates, there were few peasants, no coupling, he did not regret the considerable cost, having taken a consensus from the Prince Heir that all these estates will be equal to the successors, in such a situation everyone can see the smallness, such benefits, read in the inventories.".

In addition to the farm, town and manor buildings, the inventory of which has been preserved in the Mizok archives, the Crown Regent left behind a Uniate church, built at his own expense, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. This house of God broke away from the authority of Rome as a result of national storms, but the erection of its dependence on the Apostolic See still exists in the archives of the Karwicki family, and the church of the Mother of God, founded by Jozef Karwicki, gathers the Ruthenian population of Misoch within its walls.

The Catholic population, both local and from the surrounding area, gather here in the brick Catholic church, built in Mizoč by the son of the regent, Kryštof Karwicki, and finished by his grandson, Kazimierz, already after 1830. In 1913 a marble plaque was placed in this church with the following inscription:

"Ś. P. Krzysztof Dunin-Karwicki, head of the First Regiment of the advance guard named after Queen Jadwiga - general-lieutenant of the former Polish army, born in 1737, died in 1757, died in Mizocz on 24 January 1815. A great merit before God of love, because she held the cross, the sabre, the plough. To the founder of this church on the centenary of his death."

During the reign of this Krzysztof Karwicki, a Kościuszko soldier, and his wife, Franciszka, Chancelloress Małachowska, Mizocz was known in Volhynia not only as a social centre, but also as a cultural focus.

The great Tadeusz Czacki, the cousin of the lady of the house and the host's warmest friend, was a frequent guest here, and on the list of patrons of the Krzemieniec Lyceum, the Karwicki couple are prominent, with their son Kazimierz enrolled there. The patroness of poetry and art, Princess Czartoryska, General of the Podolia lands, was also a frequent guest of Mizocz. A memento of one of her stays with the Karwicki family is still preserved. It is a stone grotto she erected in the park above the spring, with marble plaques on both sides. An inscription on one of them reads:

"This stone put in by Princess Izabella of Fleming Czartoryska. In the year 1805, on 15 August, gratitude and friendship founded its memorial".