have returned to teach at the Kyiv Academy. By leaving the monastery before his training was completed, Vedel may have angered Hierotheus, the Metropolitan bishop. When the monastery authorities discovered a book containing handwritten insults about the royal family, the Metropolitan accused Vedel of writing in the book. He dismissed Vedel's servants, and personally detained him. On 25 May 1799, Hierotheus declared that Vedel was mentally ill. Imprisonment and death According to Kuk, the official documents relating to Vedel's case show that he was never formally arrested or charged, and that he was never questioned by the authorities or given the opportunity to defend himself. Vedel's case was referred in turn from the governor of Kyiv to the governor of Ukraine , the Attorney General of Russia, and to the tsar. While the case was being dealt with in St. Petersburg, Vedel, then seriously ill, was placed under his father's care in Kyiv. He was found guilty, and was incarcerated at the asylum of St. Cyril's Monastery, Kyiv, for an indefinite period. In the asylum, he was forbidden to write or compose. When the asylum was closed in 1803, the patients were moved to a new hospital in Kyiv. After the death of Paul I in 1801, the new tsar, Alexander I, proclaimed an amnesty for unjustly imprisoned convicts, and many prisoners were released. Alexander ordered that Vedel's case should be re-examined, but Vedel was again declared insane and remained an inmate. The tsar wrote of Vedel on 15 May 1802: "... leave in the present captivity". In 1808, after nine years' imprisonment, and by now mortally ill, Vedel was allowed to return home to his father's house in Kyiv. Shortly before his death there on 14 July 1808, he is said to have stood and prayed in the garden. There was uncertainty about exactly when Vedel died, until his death certificate was found in 1910. The cause of his death was never revealed by the authorities. His friend (the archpriest of Kyiv Cathedral and a well-known preacher) obtained permission for a decent funeral, an indication that Vedel was considered by the government "to be untrustworthy for the rest of his life". Many mourners attended Vedel's funeral, including students from the Academy. He was buried in the Shchekavytsia cemetery. When the area was redeveloped in the 1930s, the cemetery was destroyed. The location of Vedel's grave is now lost. Appearance