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Reviews 555and Voulismas's subsequent visit ends in disaster, apparently involving the hospodar,whom it seems he also petitioned to relieve conditions of poverty and evenhunger at Neamts. Voulismas intends to go to Russia next, and Paisius asks forcopies of the ukazes of Peter I concerning the reception of the heterodox into theOrthodox church. Paisius is uncertain of the validity of the earlier reception in Moldaviaof certain Uniates from Hungary by chrismation alone. Voulismas replieswith a longish discourse concerning the necessity of rebaptism, insisting on themystical significance of the three immersions that the heterodox no longer practice.This lively and engaging correspondence also contains rather curious details aboutthe various monks with whom Paisius and Voulismas dispatched their letters, aswell as about the books and even remedies they exchanged with each other.The editor ends the work with a helpful index. The only omission we mustlament is that of the English translations of the texts, which were left in their beginningstages by the late Anne Pennington.J. FeatherstoneHarvard UniversityPOTOC'KYJ I BOBZYNS'KYJ: CISARS'KI NAMISNYKYHALYCYNY 1903-1913. By Myxajlo Demkovyc-Dobrjans'kyj.Rome: St. Clement the Pope Ukrainian Catholic University, 1987.132 pp.At the outset of his book, Myxajlo Demkovyc-Dobrjans'kyj notes that on the seventiethanniversary of the assassination of Andrzej Potocki, the viceroy of Galicia, hepublished an article on the topic in a Ukrainian newspaper which met with exceptionallylively reader reaction. Recently a remarkable obituary of the same AndrzejPotocki, who was murdered on 12 April 1908 in Lviv, was published in the Cracowperiodical Tygodnik Powszechny. There the grandsons of the viceroy announced amass in his memory, noting: "He died forgiving his assassin, a Ukrainian terrorist."1Evidently this event from the past, which might seem to have been whollyovershadowed by later events, has retained some importance to both the Ukrainianand Polish nations. The new work by Demkovyc-Dobrjans'kyj, author of aninteresting outline of Polish-Ukrainian relations in the nineteenth century, 2 attemptsa new analysis of the causes, circumstances, and consequences of the "April 12act."1Tygodnik Powszechny (Cracow), 42, no. 16 (1988): 7. The son of viceroy Potocki, AndrzejPotocki, also died at Ukrainian hands near Velyki Oci during the 1939 campaign.2Myxajlo Demkovyc-Dobrjans'kyj, Ukrajins'ko-pol's'ki stosunky v XIX storicci (Munich,1969).