The fate of Sigismund

Did the king really turn to magic to win back his love?

When Sigismund Augustus lost Barbara after just a few short years together, he was utterly destroyed. He took numerous lovers in a search for comfort yet found no happiness, particularly with his third and final wife. Desperate to be reunited with Barbara, he allowed grief to claim him and, clad in black, passed long hours sitting in the room where she had died, gazing at the gowns she once wore. Bereft, alone and tormented by the memories of the woman he lost, the king eventually travelled to Nesvizh Castle, Barbara’s ancestral home. Here he was joined by Pan Twardowski, a Polish sorcerer famed throughout his homeland for supposedly making a pact with the devil. Legend has it that the two men summoned the spirit of Barbara from a magic mirror…

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