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68 PETER A. ROLLANDknowledge of contemporary Neo-Latin and Polish literature and culture firstduring his studies at the Kievan Mohyla Collegium during the latter part ofthe 1640s and then at a Jesuit-run institution in Vilnius or Połack. The educationhe obtained enabled Polacki to become one of the most influentialpropagators of Western literature and culture in Moscow during the period1663-1680. 2Among the genres of Western verse that Polacki introduced into earlymodern Russian literature were the inscription and the emblem—genreswith which he had become familiar during his course of study. 3Verse2The two works, Ierofej Tatarskij, Simeon Polockij (ego îizri dejateïnost'): Opyt issledovanijaiz istorii prosveScenija i vnutrennoj cerkovnoj íizni vo vtoruju polovinu XVII veka (Moscow,1886), and L. N. Majkov, "Simeon Polockij," in Oöerki iz istorii russkoj literaturyXVH-XVHI vekov (St. Petersburg, 1889), pp. 1 -162, remain the only comprehensive accountsof Polacki's life and activities. Peter A. Rolland "Three Early Satires by Simeon Polotsky,"Slavonic And East European Review 63, no. 1 (January 1985): 1 -20, fn. 1, and idem, " 'Dulceest et fumos videre Patriae'—Four Letters by Simiaon Polacki," Harvard Ukrainian Studies 9,no. 1/2 (June 1985): 166-81, fn. 1, list the most important studies of Polacki's life and creativeactivity published before 1980. Subsequent literature relevant to the subject of this article willbe given in the footnotes below. Since Polacki was Belorussian by birth, it seems only fitting touse this as the basic rendering of his name. Variants reflecting the usage in the scholarly literatureare given in the standard transliteration of the language of the source.There is no agreement in the scholarly literature as to Polacki's educational career. Tatarskij,Simeon Polockij, pp. 30-33, and Majkov, "Simeon Polockij," p. 2, agree that the youngBelorussian studied in the late 1640s at the Mohyla Collegium and then went on to higher studiesat a Jesuit institution. S. T. Golubev, "Otzyv o socınenii V. O. Èingorna, Oferki iz istoriiMalorossii ν XVII v. I. SnoSenija malorossijskogo duxovenstva z moskovskim pravitel'stvom νcarstvovanie Alekseja Mixajlovifa," Zapiski Imp. akademii nauk po Istoriko-filologićeskomuotdeleniju 6, no. 2 (1902): 113, and K. V. Xarlampovií, Malorossijskoe vlijanie na velikorusskujucerkovnuju ïizri (Kazan, 1914; reprinted, 1968), p. 380, point to the "Academia" inVilnius. The matter remains to be resolved.3The program of studies at the Mohyla Collegium has been discussed by such historians asV. Askocenskij, Kiev, s drevneßim ego иіНШет Akademieju, 2 vols. (Kiev, 1856; reprinted,1976); Aleksander Jabłonowski, Akademia Kijowsko-Mohylańska: Zarys historyczny na tlerozwoju ogólnego cywilizacji zachodniej na Rusi (Cracow, 1899-1900); and AlexanderSydorenko, The Kievan Academy in the Seventeenth Century, University of Ottawa UkrainianStudies, 1 (Ottawa, 1977).N. I. Petrov, "O slovesnyx пайках і literatumyx zanjatijax ν Kievskoj Akademii ot naćalaее do preobrazovanija ν 1819," Trudy Kievskoj duxovnoj akademii 3, no. 7 (July1866):305-30; 3, no. 11 (November 1866): 343-88; 3, no. 12 (December 1866):552-69; and4, no. 1 (January 1867): 82-118; H. M. Syvokin', Davni ukrajins'ki poetyky (Xarkiv, 1960);Ryszard Łużny, Pisarze kręgu Akademii Kijowsko-Mohylańskiej a literatura polska: Z dziejówzwiąków kulturalnych polsko-wschodnioslowiańskich XVII-XVIII wieku, Kraków UniwersytetJagielloński, Prace historyczno-literackie, 11 (Cracow, 1966); and V. P. Masljuk, Latynomovnipoetyky XVII-perSoji polovyny XVIII st. ta jix rol' y rozvytku teorii literatury na Ukrajini(Kiev, 1983), devote special attention to poetical and rhetorical theory taught in the Kiev Collegiumand similar institutions in Ukraine.Masljuk, Latynomovni poetyky, pp. 177-80, briefly notes that the composition of emblemsand related genres was discussed as part of the course on poetics. Askocenski, Kiev, vol. 1, p.332, fn. 191, gives the headings of the earliest known course in poetics at the collegium from a