The text describes Lisianka, founded by the Ruthenian voivode and starosta of Kors, Jan Danilowicz, who received a privilege from Sigismund III in 1622. Lisianka was granted in perpetuity by August II Sas to Aleksander Jan Jablonowski. It was he who rebuilt and fortified the previously destroyed castle. The text also mentions the church of the Franciscan Fathers of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, which was founded by Teofilia Jabłonowska (Source: Tygodnik Illustrowany, Warsaw 1883, Series 4, T:2, pp. 283, 286, 288, after: Digital Library of the University of Łódź).

A modernised reading of the text

Lisianka

Today's tiny town was founded by Yan Danilevich, Ruthenian voivode and starosta of Korsun, on a place called "Lisianka" after receiving a privilege from Sigismund III in 1622. Lisianka is located on the left side of Rotten Tykych, at the mouth of a river also called Lisianka to Tykych, on the post road from Kyiv to Odesa, 35 versts from the town of Bialocerkiv, 30 from Olshany, and from the towns of Byzhanovka, Vinograd and Boyarka by 20 wiorsts. The nearest railway station is Olszanica Fastowska. Lisianka has a population of over 3,000 landowners, 2,000 Jews, and 130 other free residents. The parish in general consists of 900 heads, a third of which are minor nobility. With the granting of numerous liberties to its inhabitants, Lisianka grew so rich and prosperous that it already had 30,000 inhabitants and several churches, as we see from the visits of Kyiv and Korsunsky deans, before its rebellion and subsequent conquest in 1654 by Stefan Czarniecki.

The Ukrainian hosvaks, generously privileged from the Polish Sejm and kings, dissatisfied with these endowments, wished to create an independent Ukrainian principality, which from 1647 resulted in long and deadly wars with Poland, led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. When, in 1650, with Jan Mikolaj Danilewicz, treasurer of the Crown, nephew of the Voivode of Ruthenia, this illustrious Red-Ruthenian family in its main branch died out, the 1659 Seym passed a privilege "authoritate", which granted the town of Lisianka, located in the Kyiv district, with all the "adjacentiis" by hereditary right of birth. To Konstantin Wyhowsky of the Abdank coat of arms, for his faithfulness and bravery to the Republic of Poland, for his "merita debita ad seram posteritatem".

Disregarding this, Augustus II of Saxony, King of Poland, granted to Aleksander Jan Jabłonowski, ensign in the crown, son of Stanislaus Jan, Castellan of Krakow and Great Hetman of the Crown, as a reward for the Hetman's support and upholding of his election, a perpetual Lisianka r. 1737 and on it appointed him count. Aleksander Jablonowski, having become the owner of Lisianka, reconstructed the castle, which had been destroyed, and strongly fortified it. In 1768 Klyuchevsky, commissioner of Duke Jozef Jablonowski, arrived from Volhynia to inspect the estate.

The nobles of the Haidamakovites and their unruly people broke into Lisianka, but being unable to capture the castle, they resorted to treachery and committed unheard-of atrocities when they seized it. The church in Lisianka for the Franciscan Fathers, under the emblem of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph the Bridegroom, was founded in 1733, and funded by Rev. Teofila Jablonowska, Great Chamberlain, of the Sieniawski family, sister of Mikolaj, Great Hetman of the Crown, who died in 1726, the last male descendant of this family. In the year 1758 d. 2 July, Duke Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski, Voivode of Novgorod, approving his mother's foundation, built a monastery for the Franciscans and donated ten thousand zlotys for its upkeep. When the church and the monastery were demolished in 1768 during the so-called Kolishchyna, a new wooden church was built thanks to the efforts of the Franciscans in 1772. Also thanks to the efforts of the Franciscans, and with the help of the parishioners, a new church was built in 1820, completed and consecrated in 1828.

Finally, in 1860, at the expense of Rev. Wilhelm Radziwiłł, owner of Lisianka, Count Adam Potocki, Count Władysław Branicki and Count Bieszyński, and thanks to the efforts of the present parish priest, the zealous and universally loved Rev. Julian Kniazi, two towers were added to the church. The church under the former emblem has five altars, and there are two monuments worthy of mention. A marble plaque was hung by grateful parishioners to Fr John Pajaczkowski, the last Franciscan, who was parish priest here from the suppression of the monastery until his death, active, driven and loving his faith and country with all his heart. The second monument is also a marble plaque, with the following inscription: "Here rests the late Emilia of Horejka Hołowińska, once Herman Hołowiński's wife, during her life a model of Christian, family and domestic virtues.

With heartfelt sorrow, and the unrestrained weeping of her siblings, the poor, household and numerous friends, she gave up her spirit to her Creator on 10 January 1841 in the 47th year of her virtuous life... Passer-by! Sigh to God that He may reward her virtues with eternal blissful life. She is poor in her grave, for in her lifetime she was rich to the poor". For this venerable Pole, our immortal bard Adam Mickiewicz, while staying in Steblov for a fortnight in 1825, on his departure for Odesa, wrote down in his namesake the well-known improvisation "To those wandering among the narrowness of our days in the skies", etc. There was also a fund at the local church for a district school, which existed here for some time.

Lisianka was given to Rev. Jozefa Jablonowska, the eldest daughter of Jozef Moszkowski, president of the notorious Zhytomyr Chamber of Commerce. Józefa Jabłonowska, who lived in St Petersburg, died there with her son in 1830. After her, the Lisianka key passed to her sister Cecilia, and from her to Aniela, wife of Aleksander Radziwiłł, who brought a priest Jacotin from Paris to join her son Wilhelm, and in 1830 Duchiński, a young man already renowned for his research of history. It was here that Duchiński learned about many things from Father Jacotin, and benefited most from Father Aniela herself, a Polish woman of higher education and understanding.

Rev. Aniela, living with her son in Moscow to complete his education, died there in 1848, and her son, having completed his university studies, returned to Poland in 1852 and took possession of the town of Lisianka with its key and three villages in Volhynia. Forced to leave the country, Duke Wilhelm, having sold his estate in the district of Skvirsk for next to nothing and having used his considerable capital for charity, left for Galicia, to the estate of his grandmother Dulska. In addition to the town itself, the estate of Lysia was donated by Emperor Alexander II in 1863 to the wife of Kyiv's governor, Kaznakov.