Zabiely Collection
The Zabiely Collection are a group of manuscripts that were written between 1787 and 1791 in the Belarusian, Polish, and Latin languages. They were created by the teachers of the to be performed in their school theatre. The college operated from 1716 to 1811 on the Zabiely estate, which was near the village of . The collections are preserved in the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in Vilnius.
Selected works
The collection includes a variety of dramatic and poetic works including:- Works by : the Polish tragedy Freedom in Bondage and the comic Belarusian-Polish .
- Works by Michał Ciecierski: the Polish tragedies Saphar and Themistocles, and the comedies Doctor by Force, Comedy, and Marriage Turned Upside Down.
- Works by Ignacy Jurewicz: the tragedy Croesus and the comedy of manners Pysznogolski.
- Elegies, orations, and odes by M. Kossow and H. Pawłowicz.
- The comic opera Apollo the Legislator, or Reformed Parnassus, with text by Michał Ciecierski and music by Rafał Wardocki.