Pototsky Sofia biography

In the year of life, it was sold by the mother of the Polish ambassador to Boskalmpu Lyasopolsky for the Polish king. On the way to Warsaw, the son of the commandant Kamenetz-Podolsk, Major Joseph Witt, bought her for 1 thousand Chervonsev and married her. They went to Sofia with her husband to travel around Europe. In it was represented by Stanislav Augustus.

After several years of life in Paris, Witt, together with his wife, returned to Kamenetz-Podolsky, where he became a commandant. Then, without returning to her husband, during the Russo-Turkish war she settled in the Russian camp: first near Khotin, Count I. Saltykov, and later near Ochakov, where she was surrounded by the city of Witt, who followed his wife, lost his commandant’s place in Poland and was appointed commandant of Kherson.

His wife remained with Potemkin, who, evaluating her mind, gave her various instructions of a political nature, she was supposed to achieve from Count Stanislav Pototsky r. The relations of Sophia and Pototsky were quite strong, Witt lost his wife for a great reward, but this marriage was able to take place only in, after the death of Pototsky’s wife, who did not agree to divorce.

Having settled in Uman, Pototsky founded in the park in honor of his wife officially married Pototsky in, called Sofievka and donated to her on her name day in May the first architect of Sofievka was a talented Polish military engineer Ludwig Metzel. The creators of the park were serfs of Pototsky. We worked in the park daily near the person. However, Sophia was carried away by her young and beautiful stepson Count Yuri Pototsky.

In Pototsky died, the connection of Sofia and Yuri Pototsky lasted another 4 years. When the latter lost all his fortune, Sofya agreed to pay his debts, provided that he would leave Russia. Sophia herself took up the device of her upset state. Thanks to M. Speransky, she received the same share with children from her husband’s estate. From a marriage with Witt, she had two sons, and from marriage with Pototsky - three sons and a daughter.

The materials of the book were used: Sukhareva O. I affirm this as a person who studied this topic. From and in G. in his free time he was fond of the history of the region and enthusiastically worked as a guide in the Sofievsky Park. Naturally, I continue to be interested in the history of Pototsky and Sofia to the present, I am tracking all the literature available to me.

The story of Sofia was quite mysterious, confused and contradictory. And not without the help of I. Rolle and their followers, she became overgrown with incorrect information: about the alleged sale for 1 thousand chervonians, and about the presence of a sister, about their supposedly arrival in Kamenetz-Podolsk together in Boskamp-Lasopolsky, and besides almost in the form of baggage he returned to Poland much earlier, and other mystification.

The acquaintance of our family, a teacher of music and Polka by birth, back in those distant years, specially for me, translated the history of Sofia into Russian. The Polish explorer Irji Jerzy Lawks operates with a large actual material, and practically quotes the history of Sofia, according to the memoirs of its first patron - Boskampa -Lasopolsky. The book was reprinted in, and it seems once again, and there is its publication in Ukrainian.

At the moment, about Sofia Potocetskaya, a very accurate and compressed material based on the book of Loke on the Wikipedia website. The origin of Sofia Pototskaya exists two versions of the origin of Sofia. According to one Boskamp-Lasopolski, she was born in the city of Sofia's family moved to Istanbul. Approximately in the city, during a large fire in Istanbul, their house burned down.

Left without means of existence, Mary, following the example of her younger sister, the former wife of the merchant Grayni, became the Istanbul courtesan and vault, who earned in the area of ​​the peer, where there were foreign embassies. The unusual beauty of Sofia was so struck by the ambassador that he settled her in his palace and even hired a French teacher for her.

In the Polish mission, Sofia was a great success. Boskamp visited her at semi -official diplomatic techniques, in the circle of diplomats and their families, on suburban walks in the outskirts of Istanbul. Boskamp left for Warsaw. Before leaving, he hired an apartment at the Turkish translator for Sofia, provided money and put in the bank in her name of piasters as a dowry in case of marriage.

Grateful Sofia wrote ardent letters to Warsaw, and already in December G. In January, Sofia left, accompanied by guardians appointed by Boskamp, ​​through Bulgaria to Poland, but did not reach Warsaw. Since April, Sofia arrived in the Kamyanets, where she met with the summer son of the commandant of the Kamyanets fortress, Major Jozef Witt. She assured him of another version of Sofia, what comes from the noble family of Pantalis Mavroordato, who belonged to the royal Greek family, affiliated with the owners of Byzantium, and is the daughter of the great -granddaughter of Pantalis and the Greek Magnat Chelich, and now, as the newlywed Boskampa, is sent to Warsaw.

The ardent major madly fell in love with a beautiful Greek woman, and already on June 14, Sofia and Jozef secretly from his parents got married in the church with. Zelenkivtsi near the Kamianza.Old Witt became furious of this behavior of his son, but, thanks to the charm of Sofia and her Molbe, he agreed to admit this marriage. The general's family was interested in spreading the version of the aristocratic origin of Sofia.

The merchant of the leader, the ex -husband of the Istanbul Aunt Sofia, who arrived in the Kamyanets, also helped this to take advantage of the success of Dudu in commercial affairs. Soon Sofia sent him to Warsaw, where, with the help of Boskamn, he got a job as a translator of the oriental languages ​​in the representative of the king. In the very beginning, they visited Warsaw, where Sofia was visiting the king.

In early March, she was represented by Stanislav Augustus. This visit opened her path to the tops of the public hierarchy, and from that moment Major Jozef Witt became just the husband of glorious Sofia. For almost two months, Sofia had fun in Warsaw. Where she appeared, everyone went crazy with admiration. Further the path of the spouses Wittov ran through Berlin, where Sofia met the king of Prusia Friedrich II; Then, in the spa resort city, she spent time with the Austrian emperor Joseph II, who was so charming that he was in one of his letters to his sister, the French Queen of Maria Antoinette, recommended that Sofia were accepting.

Sofia took advantage of this recommendation and was indeed adopted by Queen France Maria Antoinette in her city residence in Mal Trianon, who at that time was rebuilt in the landscape park, and perhaps here for the first time in Sofia the idea originated to build a similar park on its lands in Ukraine. The poor major was shocked by the brilliance and glory of his wife. When on November 17, Sofia with a group of Polish magnates visited Istanbul.

Among the tourists was the daughter of the king, the wife of the crown Marshal Ursula Mnishek. Sofia in Konstantinopoli was greeted as a queen, the success was huge, the most outstanding Greek aristocrats harassed to visit the countrywoman. Every day in Istanbul was a new and exquisite holiday for Sofia, but only his reflections fell on her noble travel comrades. This could not but affect the Ursula of the Mnishek, and then the group of gentlemen traveled without Sofia; It is likely that in Istanbul they became aware of some details of her former life.

That very year in Warsaw, Sofia was greeted coolly. In May, Sofia went with the Duke Charles Joseph de Linem, who was in military service in Russia, in Khotin, then besieged by Russian troops, then often spent time in the Russian camp among the military. Contacts of Sofia with the Russians caused the dissatisfaction of the Poles by the commandant of the Kamyanz. In the river.

Witt arrived with Sofia in Warsaw and began to seek permission to sell the commandant’s position, but he was refused. This led to his break with Poland. There is no exact information when Sofia met the commander in chief of the Russian army in the Russo-Turkish war General Field Marshal Potemkim, but very soon she was under the Yassy, ​​and her husband Potemkin appointed Kherson commandant with the title of General of the Russian Army.

After the capture of the Turkish fortress Izmail, which was believed in the Turkish fortress of Izmail, Potemkin went to St. Petersburg and took care of the invitation of the Witt spouses. Sofia was introduced to Catherine II. At the request of Potemkin, the queen accepted her very affectionately and gave precious diamond earrings, and in addition, probably, the estate in Belarus. On the way back, Potemkin saw in Ukraine with the commander of the Polish Army, Jozef Ponatovsky, through which Sofia handed over hello to the king.

In response, the king wrote to his nephew: “When you are able to be, tell Vittova that I am infinitely grateful to her for everything that she told you to me and that I always count on her affection for me“ A letter from VIII. On the way to Yassi, Potemkin fell ill and died on October 5. So Sofia was left without its omnipotent patron. Returning to the Yassy, ​​Sofia drew attention to S.

Roll Rolle, claimed that Sofia, as an agent of G. Potemkin, bowed S. Pototsky to the struggle against the new Polish constitution, but there is not a single evidence, and the facts testify to something else. When the king realized that S. Pototsky, S. Rzhevsky and K. Branitsky decided not to obey the new Constitution, Stanislav Kostost Pototsky was sent to the Yass to persuade the Magnatov to come to Warsaw and recognize the constitution.

The latter wrote to the king: "I am sure that without this malicious villain is implied by the Rzhevsky, I would have forced the general to listen to the voice of the mind with Vittova, not only that, she in this matter provided me with comprehensive help and brought to the Rzhevu troubles." Without waiting for the return of the messenger from Yass, the Polish Sejm on January 27 BC.

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