Matryona Vasilievna Kochubey ( Ukrainian Motrya Kochubey ) is the daughter of the general judge V. L. Kochubey , the goddaughter and the mistress of the hetman Mazepa [1] . Derived by Pushkin in the poem " Poltava " under the name of Mary.
In 1704, aged widower Mazepa fell in love with his sixteen-year-old goddaughter, Matryona, and wanted to marry her, but met with the disagreement of her parents, especially Mother Matryona. Having fallen in love with old Mazepa, Matryona ran to him; Mazepa subsequently sent Motru back; but, in the words of her parents, “enchanted” her so that she did not want to live with them. Mazepa managed to persuade Matryn to break with the parental home and move to live with him.
After that, Matryona’s parents did not visit Mazepa for some time and wrote indignant letters to him, to which he replied, accusing them of disagreeing to marry his daughter (Explanation: being the godfather of Matryona Mazepa, she could not marry the marriage was equated with incest) and pointing out his generous attitude towards them, since he endured for sixteen years their "acts of death fit." The Kochubeis began to continue their previous relations with Mazepa, but, holding their anger, they began to send denunciations of the hetman to Moscow. Shortly thereafter, on the orders of the king Kochubey, he was executed on charges of "false denunciation", which subsequently received historical confirmation.
The further fate of Matryona is unknown [2] , although in some recent sources she is called the daughter-in-law of the general judge Chuykevich or the Mother Superior of the Nizhinsky monastery, obviously confusing her with her sister Catherine [3] . NI Kostomarov saw in her "a very limited female being" [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Love Mazepa to the daughter of Kochubey , the newspaper Today // № 145 (897) 07/04/2001.
- ↑ Lazarevsky A. Sketches of Little Russian Surnames. Materials for the history of society in the XVII-XVIII centuries. // Russian archive . - 1876. - T. 3. - p. 438-455.
- ↑ V. S. Krainov. Matryna V. Kochubey: Myths and Reality. Saransk, 2004.
- ↑ N. I. Kostomarov. Mazepa M .: Republic, 1992. S. 208.
Literature
- Kochubey, Matryona (or Motrya) Vasilievna // Russian biographical dictionary : 25 tons / under the supervision of A. A. Polovtsova. 1896-1918.