 She wanted to become a nun, and even joined a Franciscan monastery in Riga, but her non-believer father would not allow it.Narratives tell that she jumped out of the second floor of the manor to escape her father's wrath, and died of injuries.In a document from 1876, vice-governor Vasily Ryzhkov of Kovno Governorate first recorded the claim that Barbora died escaping her father's lust and thus remained a virgin.