“...During the time of Catherine II, the Poles had a desire for rapprochement with Russia; at least there were signs of this in the religious sphere of Latin western Russia. The Roman Catholic College in St. Petersburg and the activities of the Latin Metropolitan Sestrentsevich serve as a faint reminder of the then emerging desire of the Russian Latins to loosen the chains that bound them to the pope and strengthen the connection with their new fatherland - Russia. But what came out of this in the near future? Latin mockery of the Western Russian Uniates, the twelfth year and the list of priests who participated in the unrest of 1831 and 1862–63 serve as blatant evidence of the ever-present predominance of a fanatical, ultramontane trend among the Poles...”