But Rev. Pavel did not live to see this last extreme measure applied to himself in Tobolsk. On April 2, 1768, he arrived in Moscow and, in the knowledge that his hierarchical career was already over, he sent him to St. Synod the following handwritten, humble denunciation. "According to the messages sent to me from the Holy Synod of the last June 1767 on the 26th and October 10th of Her Imperial Majesty, I was ordered by decree to be in Moscow. Why, acting on duty and with my health, which was very weak, having recovered, I had the absolute intention of setting off on the road in the last days of December of that year, only due to a continuing illness until On January 11 of this year, 1768, it was impossible to leave. And from then on, I set off as quickly as possible and tried to arrive in Moscow and appear to Your Holiness only because of the illnesses that had increased in me on the road, for which I was forced to live in Yekaterinburg for three weeks and five days and, having not yet fully used it, traveled on the road. He had various seizures. And on April 2, Nina arrived in Moscow and, according to the order issued to me by the office of the Holy Synod, on April 7 he appeared in that office, where a decree was announced to me in Moscow from your Holiness.
And how do I feel the weakness of my health every day due to the growing illnesses in me, and due to my old age
F. A. TERNOVSYUY,
I have little hope in using them, but in the management of diocesan affairs I find myself unable to do so.
For this reason, your Holiness most humbly asks for my old age and the weakness of my health from the diocese and from the administration of the diocesan affairs to the Vievopechers Lavra for a promise of dismissal. And regarding this washing request, a merciful consideration will be given.”
Your Holiness’s humble novice Pagel, Metropolitan of Tobolsk.
1766 April 8
Moscow.
M. Paul's petition made a favorable impression in the synod. The Holy Synod was pleased that a way was opening up for a quiet end to a complex and unpleasant matter and decided: “It is most respectful to imagine whether Her Imperial Majesty would deign to make this Tobolsk Metropolitan Paul to put an end to the disturbances occurring in that diocese from her and from the administration of diocesan affairs,” as he himself asks, “to promise dismiss the Vievopechers Lavra; and if, after examining the rest of the cases, the Metropolitan is found guilty of something, then the Holy Synod must inflict appropriate punishment in accordance with the laws while he was in his Vievopechers Lavra.”
The Empress approved the report of the synod in the following expressions: “Metropolitan Paul from the Tobolsk diocese on the promise to dismiss him at his request, and in matters, if in future the plaintiffs will be repaired, the Synod has the law to proceed.”
Ekatvrina.
June 4 days 1768 Sarskoe village.
But it is not clear that after the plaintiffs retired to Pavel’s monastery, the plaintiffs continued their complaints against him, and he could live out his life in the monastery in peace. His life, however, was not long.
On July 11, 1768, the Vievopechersky Archimandrite Zosima reported to St. synod about the determination of a decent cell for Met. Paul's stay, and on November 6, 1770, the same archimandrite already reported to the Holy Synod about the death of Met. Paul in the following expressions:
“Arrived last August 768, 31 days in Vievopechersva
F THE Kyiv EIARCHY IN THE 18TH CENTURY.
Lavra for a promise by decree of St. Ave. of the Synod, by virtue of the Ea I.V. decree passed by the Rev. Metropolitan Pavel of Tobolsk, from a long-term illness of this November 4 days at five o'clock from noon, reposed with all Christian order, who, after the funeral service of his pannikhida, was placed in the chapel of Archdeacon Stephen in the crypt until received from St. etc. of the synod - how and who will conduct the burial service - in the resolution of the decree. I report to St. Ave. Synod; what kind of will he left about his property, I am informing you of it, after leaving a reference copy in the Lavra.”
M. Paul's will reads as follows:
In the name of the Father and the Son and St. Spirit. Amen.
1770 October 26 days.
“I, the undersigned, who is in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra on the promise of Metropolitan Paul, being in poor health and so that no one after the death of my holy Lavra could turbate, by this testament of mine to everyone and to whom it is necessary to know about this, I declare that my property, money and various things, in good memory and from my own will, before my death, everything was distributed. I affirm the assurance of which and this will of mine with my own handwritten signature.”
Humble Metropolitan Pavel.