Mikołaj Bazyli Potocki (ab. 1712 – 13 April 1782) was a Polish nobleman, starost of

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, benefactor of the Buchach townhall,

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, Dominican Church in

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, deputy to

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and owner of the Buchach castle. Mikołaj's father, Stefan Aleksander Potocki,

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of Bełz, with his second wife, Joanna Sieniawska, were the founders of

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monastery of the UGCC in Buchach.

Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski (1645–1683) was a Polish noble (szlachcic), military leader and politician. Early life and family He was the son of the starost of Lwów Adam Hieronim Sieniawski and Wiktoria Elżbieta Potocka, the daughter ...

was his grandfather. Infamous for his many excesses and habits, he was immortalized in many Polish and Ukrainian stories and legends (especially those of the 19th century), notably in the Ukrainian ballad ''Bondarivna'' (about a

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's daughter, whom he murdered when she refused to live with him).

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, ''Warchoły i pijanice'', Fabryka Słów, 2004,

Zygmunt Krasiński Napoleon Stanisław Adam Feliks Zygmunt Krasiński (; 19 February 1812 – 23 February 1859) was a Polish poet traditionally ranked after Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of Poland's Three Bards – the Romantic poets who influence ...

, in his '' Nieboska Komedia'', referred to him as a "governor, who shot women on the trees and baked Jews alive" ("Ów, starosta, baby strzelał po drzewach i Żydów piekł żywcem"). Near the end of his life, after the first

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, when many of his lands passed under Austrian rule, he was ordered to disband his private army. He then attempted to create an image of a pious and almost saintly person, moving to a monastery and sponsoring many religious buildings and organisations – nonetheless, even until his last years, he retained a

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. Buried in Ławra Poczajowska (Pochayiv Lavra). File:MikolayPotocki LvivArtGallery.jpg, Portrait of Potocki held in

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(former Roman Catholic Church) in

Horodenka Horodenka ( uk, Городе́нка, pl, Horodenka, occasionally ''Horodence'', yi, האראדענקע ''Horodenke'') is a city located in Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in Western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Horodenka u ...

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— Lwów: Drukarnia «Gazety narodowej», 1882.— 168 p. * ''Zofia Zielińska.'' Potocki Mikołaj Basyli /

Polski Słownik Biograficzny ''Polski Słownik Biograficzny'' (''PSB''; Polish Biographical Dictionary) is a Polish-language biographical dictionary, comprising an alphabetically arranged compilation of authoritative biographies of some 25,000 notable Poles and of foreigner ...

.— Wrocław — Warszawa — Kraków — Gdańsk — Łódź, Zakład Narodowy Imienia Ossolińskich, Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1984.— t. XXVIII/1, zeszyt 116.— 178 p.— P. 113–115. 1782 deaths Ruthenian nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Mikolaj Bazyli Potocki People from Buchach 1712 births {{Poland-noble-stub