Mikołaj Bazyli Potocki (ab. 1712 – 13 April 1782) was a
Polish nobleman,
starost
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of
Kaniv
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,
Bohuslav
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It is ...
, benefactor of the
Buchach townhall,
Pochayiv Lavra
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,
Dominican Church in
Lviv
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, deputy to
Sejm
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and owner of the
Buchach castle.
Mikołaj's father,
Stefan Aleksander Potocki
Stefan Aleksander Potocki (born ; died 1726 or 1727), was a Polish nobleman, the voivode of Belz. With his second wife Joanna Sieniawska, he founded a UGCC Basilian monastery in Buchach in Lublin, on December 7, 1712. Owner of Buchach Castle.
...
,
Governor
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of
Bełz
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, with his second wife, Joanna Sieniawska, were the founders of
Basilian 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
cooper
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's daughter, whom he murdered when she refused to live with him).
Jacek Komuda
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, ''Warchoły i pijanice'', Fabryka Słów, 2004, Zygmunt Krasiński
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, in his ''
Nieboska Komedia
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'', 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 ]partition of Poland
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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 harem
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.Lviv
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File:Ukraina (89).jpg, Pochayiv Lavra
File:Ua butschatsch rathaus.jpg, Buchach townhall (1750–1751)
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(former Roman Catholic Church) in Horodenka
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File:Buchach-Monastyr-14098737.jpg, Church of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross, Buchach
File:ChurchOfAssumptionHorodenka.jpg, Greek Catholic Church in Horodenka
File:Buchach-ts-Pokrovy-8606.jpg, St. Pokrova church, Buchach
References
Sources
* ''Sadok Barącz
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''
Pamiątki buczackie
— Lwów: Drukarnia «Gazety narodowej», 1882.— 168 p.
* ''Zofia Zielińska.'' Potocki Mikołaj Basyli / Polski Słownik Biograficzny
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.— 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
1710s births
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