High up, from the observatory of Dapia, Ypsipyli can follow all the troop movements, watch every maneuver of the ships, hope for the liberation of the island. She experiences the anguish of the locals, places her hopes in the Orlovs, but is disappointed once again. On the opposite hill from the Castle stands Dapia, a small fortress built in 1824, as its surviving inscription reveals. The same location had been used half a century earlier, in 1770, by the Russians, as an observation post and an artillery base. The Orlovs’ victory at the Battle of Chesme had boosted their morale. Thus, despite the failure of the revolution they instigated in the Peloponnese, they blocked the Dardanelles Straits and tried to take Lemnos, rousing the locals and besieging the Ottomans at Myrina Castle. The Orlovs eventually depart for Italy, leaving Lemnos in the hands of “Kapudan Pasha” (the chief admiral) Hassan Haji Tzezairli, who lands on the island. 72 Russians lose their lives. Looting and massacres ensue and 100 of the island’s prelates, Metropolitan Joachim and the Hierodeacon Kosmas the Lemnian are killed in an exemplary manner in front of the Metropolitan Church of Myrina