Knowing the unpretentiousness and self-confidence of Varlaam Vanatovich, seeing that the petition places special emphasis on the desire of the clergy under jurisdiction, we can confidently believe that the initiative of this petition does not belong to Varlaam. The absence of signatures on the copy of the petition that was in our possession deprives us of the opportunity to indicate the more ardent participants in the unsuccessful restoration of the metropolitanate in Kyiv at that time. Whether this petition was submitted to the highest name or not, we do not know; What is certain is that it remains without consequences. In all likelihood regarding this petition, the following correspondence was initiated between the office of the Supreme Privy Council and the office of St. synod, stored in the synodal archive. This correspondence begins with a demand from the Supreme Privy Council, which has the tone of a superior resolution.
No. 188. Submit a statement from the synod to the Supreme Privy Council immediately: under the Kyiv throne, whether there was a metropolis, and whether there was one, according to which year and why it was not ordered, and by what decree and in which year. Secretary Ivan Bogdanov.
This requirement bears the following note, apparently made in the synodal office:
Having written it down in the book, report it to the general public and write it down strictly about the above, and upon completion of the statement, submit it to the Supreme Privy Council.
What follows is a more detailed order, indicating the further clerical course of the matter:
Office of St. ed. Synod, the protocolist, registrar and clerks, having managed to authentically sign this, about the Kyiv metropolis, so as not to be in future, the exact E.I.V. decree has been and will be available, which year, month and day, since this is now required from the Supreme Privy Council Gazette.
Sub-office clerk Ivan Artemyev.
Then follow the handwritten paintings of persons who served in the synodal office:
Regarding the above-mentioned Kyiv metropolitanate, so that it will no longer exist, there is no exact decree in the protocolist howl. Signed by protocol keeper Ermolai Pastorov.
There is no exact decree about the above-mentioned Kyiv metropolitanate, so as not to exist, but there is a decree of 1722 about the appointment of archimandrite to that diocese. Varlaam as archbishop. Signed by the registrar Dmitry Prokofiev.
Clerk Pyotr Lodygin does not have the aforementioned decree.