We know most about Andriolli’s stay in exile in Vyatka from the account by the Polish woman Koziczowa, then living there, published in the artist’s first biography by Henryk Dobrzycki (pp. 90-91). We quote this account in its entirety.

Andriolli’s situation in Vyatka at the beginning was very bad for him, because the local inhabitants looked with great mistrust at arriving Poles, as a result of which the newcomers could find almost no way to sustain themselves. Andriolli began to paint small pictures, which were more and more successfully sold on the streets of Vyatka. These pictures were fabulously cheap and easy to buy by the inhabitants. However, it was very difficult for Andriolli to sustain himself with this; but painting a portrait of one of the merchants put him back on his feet. He began to work seriously on portraits and soon it became well known that he was an excellent portraitist. The local archpriest commissioned Andriolli to paint a portrait of his beloved granddaughter. The portrayed girl was a living image peeking out a window with roses and ivy, smiling at the bird in the window. The archpriest was delighted and entrusted Andriolli with the painting of the iconostasis in the Vyatka’s church. Then, he had more and more commissions and, apart from portraits for which he took a lot of money, he renovated almost all the churches in Vyatka and in the district. In this way, in the two years he spent in the city, he painted a lot and left an indelible memory as a man of great work. In the homes of all the rich merchants of Vyatka there are portraits painted by Andriolli, which he draped very beautifully, and which was very much appreciated. He made up to 30 rubles per day. After the manifesto of 1871 he was freed completely and went to Warsaw. From Warsaw, he came to Vyatka once again, where he was summoned to paint paintings in the churches of the Vyatka guberniya. Andriolli was a very amiable man in a company, liked by everyone, and his extraordinary cheerfulness and wit made him always desired by both Polish and Russian parties. Where there was Andriolli, everyone had to remain silent because he was able to occupy everyone the flood of his words. As a man who read a lot and visited much of the world he always had something to tell. In Vyatka he became, one could say, a legendary man, about whom, many years after his departure, people talked. He had great luck with people, and was idolised in the circles of the Russian aristocracy of Vyatka.

His biographers also established that in addition to the works for the church in Vyatka, Andriolli also made a series of icons for the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Kukarka. Andriolli’s works also include numerous portraits of local Vyatka personages, which are privately owned by their heirs.